February 21, 2005
The TURTLE HILL PRODUCTIONS Catalog
February 21, 2005
If you want to buy Sugar Mama UK and Richard Hunter's new CD of live, jammin' acoustic blues, British style, All You Good People, Richard Hunter's first ground-breaking CD of solo acoustic harmonica, The Act of Being Free in One Act, or The Second Act of Free Being, a powerful record with even more original works for solo harmonica, plus terrific duets with guitar and vocal, here's how to order.
Jazz Harp(Oak Publications, 1980) (THPB01) $14.95 plus $3.50 S/H
This book, now in its sixth printing, is widely considered to be the best book ever written for intermediate to advanced level harmonica players. Includes transcriptions of solos by Toots Thielemans, Stevie Wonder, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Charlie Christian, King Curtis, the Harmonicats, Tom Scott, Mike Turk, and Richard Hunter, exercises for chromatic and diatonic harmonicas, discussion of advanced harmonica techniques (including overblowing), and more! Includes a 45 RPM instructional recording. "An absolutely outstanding book." (Norm Dobson, National Harmonica League)
Play With Me b/w Put The Lever Down (THPS01) $3.00 plus $2.50 S/H
The B side of this 45 RPM single, Put The Lever Down, is one of the most extraordinary electric harmonica recordings ever made: an instrumental featuring multiple overdubbed harmonicas (including specially tuned diatonics and Chordomonica) on top of a funky groove, with some of the wildest blowing you've ever heard. "Over a funky groove, Hunter simply shows off. And man, he can do it. I've never heard anything like this in my life." (Richard Cromonic, Sweet Potato ) The A side, Play With Me, is a pop song with a layered harmonica arrangement that bears repeated listening. (But we'll bet it's the B side you keep coming back to!) Terrific cover art too.
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No Regrets b/w Pure Beat (THPS02) $3.00 plus $2.50 S/H
This 45 RPM single's A side, No Regrets, is a solid Motown-ish number with great lyrics and terrific Stevie-Wonderish chromatic harp from Richard Hunter. The B side, Pure Beat, is heavier, wierder stuff, and ends with an amplified harmonica solo that owes as much to Stravinsky as Little Walter.