Great blues radio and internet broadcast coming Monday
Our friend Tom Ball just sent the following email:****************************************Dear music
pals,
Live recordings from the Lowlands gig 19 June 2010
Ed Abbiatti of the Milan-based band Lowlands has given me permission to post a few of the pieces I recorded live on my Zoom H4, with a mono feed from the mixer, at the gig at The Windmill in Brixton on June 19 2010. Unfortunately,…
Playing Alpine Wines in Driggs on Wed. August 4
I’m playing a solo harmonica show at Alpine Wines on Main Street in Driggs ID from 7-9 PM local time on Wednesday August 4. Admission is free. This will be the first solo show I’ve done in a while. I plan to start out acoustic and then bring on t…
"delayed" won’t work…
Can’t name the harp power trio “delayed” because it’s already taken. Anybody got any ideas for naming a brand-new-never-heard-before-harmonica-power-trio?
Pull of the Moon July 20 2010
Take a listen to this piece from WhyNow’s latest rehearsal, July 20 2010: “Pull of the Moon” . Richard Hunter/harmonica, Lexi Bodick/bass, Tracey Kroll/drums. It’s a rough mix, of course, and it sounds cool to me… I’m using my regular stage rig: Digitech RP250, RP355,…
Rehearsal with WhyNow July 20 2010
Rehearsed with the band tonight, great stuff! Recorded our arrangement of my piece “Pull of the Moon,” stay tuned for the mp3.Thinking of changing the band’s name to “Delayed”. What do you think?We’ll spend the next month writing new material. St…
Jamming with Michael Batdorf at Pendl’s in Driggs ID
Had a good time this morning playing with Michael Batdorf at Pendl’s in Driggs. Nice mix of classics like “The Weight” and “Friend of the Devil” plus originals in a similar vein. Batdorf’s got a great, gruff voice, and he plays solid guitar. Grea…
Music on Main series Victor ID July 15 2010–Calle Mambo
I saw the Teton Valley-based Latin Jazz band Calle Mambo tonight at the Music on Main concert in Victor, Idaho, the first of a six week series of weekly concerts. Nice big park for the venue, weather was great, plenty of room and plenty of people fro…
Playing In Driggs Idaho this Sunday
I stopped by Pendl’s in Driggs–my favorite local coffee and pastry shop–the other day and discovered that they’re running a regular Sunday morning music series. I talked to the guy who runs it, and I’m playing this Sunday, July 18 from 9 AM to noon…
My favorite harp video(s) week of July 11 2010
…is Ian Anderson with Jethro Tull, doing the same song–“New Day Yesterday,” from the first Tull album–in performances spaced 40 years apart. Love it–love the simple harp part, so direct and blue, and the cool lyric and changes. Here’s the 1970 version from the Fillmore…
