Video of the week Nov 15 2010: Boris Plotnikov Does Russian Rap with Vinnebago
Here’s one of my favorite harmonica players worldwide, Boris Plotnikov from Yekaterinburg with his killer band Vinnebago. I don’t speak Russian, let alone Russian rap, but you can tell there’s a lot going on in this performance.
Check Out Clint Hoover on “East Side”
I acquired a copy of the latest CD featuring Clint Hoover, Reynold D. Philipsek’s “East Side”, at SPAH in August 2010, and had the chance to listen to it all the way through on a long drive last night. Here’s a quick summary of the…
Video of the week Oct 20 2010: Charlie Musselwhite’s HO
Here’s a video tour of Charlie Musselwhite’s home office. Charlie is my original inspiration, and it’s nice to see where he works and plays.
Heavy Metal harp for sure
As people who’ve been visiting this site regularly know, I’ve been working on some heavy metal sounds for harp, sometimes using multiple Digitech RP devices running in series and/or parallel. I made a couple of brief recordings that show where the new sounds are going….
Video of the Day October 2 2010
Pretty close in on the last one, but I couldn’t resist when I saw this. Howard Levy at the 2010 SPAH convention playing “Nuages” (clouds for you non-French speakers) on diatonic harmonica and piano–all at once. Like, wow.
Video of the Week October 1 2010
And now for something completely different from the rock, blues, and jazz we usually choose for the Vid of the Week… Here’s the Fresco Harmonica Ensemble, a harmonica quartet based in Malaysia, performing the piece that won them the 2009 World Harmonica Championship in the…
Lowlands “Gypsy Child” released
I’ve just learned that the Pavia, Italy-based Americana band Lowlands has just released their second album, “Gypsy Child”. I’m playing diatonic harp on one cut, “Gotta Be”. It’s a ripper. The album can be heard and purchased here. The songs are great and the playing…
Video of the Week Sep. 18 2010
Here’s one of my favorite players, Steve Baker, with Dave Goodman (guitar) and Martin Roettger (cajon) playing Goodman’s song “Tiger by the Tail,” recorded in performance in Alsace, France on Aug. 7 2010. Killer. Check out Steve’s Youtube channel for more great harp.
In Praise of Jeff Newsom
Jeff Newsom is a fine harmonica player based in Driggs, Idaho. I met Jeff in August 2001 at the Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival, where he offered (with no prompting from me) to introduce me to Tony Furtado, with whose band Jeff and I ended up…
Video of the Week Aug 31 2010: Butterfield Oct. 1979
Paul Butterfield with Blondie Chaplin and Rick Danko on a smoking one chord groove. Great great great.
