Topic: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips

[Stuart]

Hi Parlor Picker: I didn't mean to imply that Roger hadn't gone beyond what he recorded on "Brighton Belle Blues," just that his top-shelf talent was evident, and in many ways fully formed, way back when. My apologies for any confusion.

[Parlor Picker]

Hi Parlor Picker: I didn't mean to imply that Roger hadn't gone beyond what he recorded on "Brighton Belle Blues," just that his top-shelf talent was evident, and in many ways fully formed, way back when. My apologies for any confusion.

I didn't read it like that Stuart, so worry ye not!

[Johnm]

Hi all,
This performance by L. C. Ulmer just came up on my YouTube feed. He's a new name to me, but I sure like everything about this. I wonder if he's related to the Jazz guitarist, James "Blood" Ulmer. Probably.



All best,
Johnm

[Parlor Picker]

Somebody gave me a CD of L.C. Ulmer a few years ago and it is certainly very enjoyable. On that recording he plays electric guitar.

[JRO]

I guess this hasn't been here. Bill Williams: at Mountain Heritage Folk Festival 1970.

[daddystovepipe]

Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup • Interview / “That’s All Right Mama” • 1972 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]
Nice thumbwork

[Blues Vintage]

Great, Carl. I realized I'd never seen footage of Crudup.

[Blues Vintage]

Money Man - Pony Blues





Money Man - From Four Until Late

[lindy]

A friend from the PT Workshop just sent me this link, sorry but I don't know how to embed vids from facebook. It's worth watching, especially if you have small hands . . .

https://www.facebook.com/JoeBonamassa/videos/898296931367996/

[Johnm]

Hi all,
From Doctor Ross, Tonus Maximus for harp off a rack:



All best,
Johnm

[blueshome]

Met him back in the 90's. Very intelligent and gentle guy.
Today's best harp rack man:

[waxwing]

Dr Ross really does sound like he is playing the harp "cupped" to the mic, as most electric band harmonica players do. I remember at PT, back in the mid to late aughts, there was an elderly piano player, can't remember his name, who had a harp and mic, with some sort of housing including a lot of duct tape, on a rack, and he certainly got that electric tone. Perhaps, despite the photo displayed, Dr Ross utilized a similar rig for this recording session?

Wax

[Johnm]

You make a good point, waxwing. It is hard to imagine someone getting that kind of tonal presence with a harp on a conventional rack just being pointed at a microphone. However he did it, I'm thankful he did--that tone when he first comes in just kills me!

[iantonionni]

I think that Dr, Ross is using an 'amplified' approach, you wouldn't get that crunchy tone from the rack set up in the photo. I can't find any early photos of Dr. Ross, but photos of his Sun contemporary, Joe Hill Louis, show a variety of rack set ups for amplifying the harmonica. You can see them in this video.I wonder if Dr. Ross dropped the amplified approach when playing for more folky audiences in the 60s

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I thought you might find this interesting, about working with Lightnin' Hopkins:



All best,
Johnm