Video of the Day 11 May 2011: Hazmat Modine, “Yesterday Morning”
Hazmat Modine is a very cool band, world music/blues/early jazz with a big beat and two harmonicas up front. This video is a live performance of one of my favorite Hazmat Modine tunes. (Check out the big sound of a POG (Polyphonic Octave Generator) on…
Video of the day 3 May 2011: Crystal Bowersox with John Popper at SXSW, “Kiss Ya”
Crystal Bowersox playing with accompaniment from John Popper. Bowersox sings nice and strong, don’t she? Popper’s playing on this piece is very interesting stuff, plenty of colorful accompaniment, and a solo that seems more like free jazz than R&B. He pulls it together by the…
RIP Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Snow, a great singer and reportedly an admirable person as well, has died. She was not a friend of mine, nor even an acquaintance. But her music was wonderful, and I’m sad to see her go. Rob Paparozzi, one of the elite harp player/singers…
Fixin’ to Live
Here’s a rough mix of a tough instrumental blues, “Fixin’ to Live,” by myself and my brother Mark Hunter. This piece began life as a solo slide guitar recording by my brother. I added bass, drums, and harmonica. The harmonica is recorded through an Audix…
A coupla new clips with 3 amp modelers
I’ve been trying various configuration of multiple amp modelers lately. In these clips, I’m using a Digitech RP355 and a Zoom G2NU for the main sound generators, with a Digitech RP255 at the end of the FX chain. I’ve been using Digitech amp modelers for…
Video of the Day 15 April 2011: Vincent Bucher with Tao Ravao and Jean-Noel Godard
Vincent Bucher has been one of my favorite harmonica players since I played with him at a jam session at Utopia, a club in Paris, France (as opposed to Paris, Texas) five or so years ago. He plays frequently with African musicians like Tao Ravao…
Wim Dijkgraaf has some cool stuff in the works
I’m listening to the pre-master recordings by the Dumee and Dijkgraaf Quinteto, based in Brazil. The harmonica player is Wim Dijkgraaf, who also runs the Effortless Harmonica blog that you can find in my list of links. This is amazing music, definitely Brazilian and definitely…
Richard Hunter: Widow’s Walk
Video of the Day #1 March 27 2011: Richard Hunter/Billy the Kid
Recorded live at the Virigina Harmonicafest on March 18 2011. A little grainy in both sound and image, but a good performance overall. I’m using a Fireball V mic with a Digitech RP255; the RP255 is set up to do a short slapback delay plus…
Video of the Day March 25 2011: Peter (Madcat) Ruth with Dave Brubeck
Brubeck’s tune “Circadian Dysrhythmia” recorded live in 1974 with Peter “Madcat” Ruth on harmonica. That is SOME fancy rhythm harp work goin’ on there.
