If this isn't the forum to place this hopefully it will be moved, but I thought folk might like to see Stefan's latest addition to his web site:
http://www.wirz.de/music/harmffrm.htm
http://www.wirz.de/music/harmffrm.htm
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One of my regrets is I never did get to record Scrapper and Shirley playing together, and they played very, very well together - Art Rosenbaum talks about Scrapper Blackwell and Shirley Griffith, Big Road Blues radio show, January 2010
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0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. If this isn't the forum to place this hopefully it will be moved, but I thought folk might like to see Stefan's latest addition to his web site:
http://www.wirz.de/music/harmffrm.htm This deserves to be in here, too. Thanks to JRO for posting it in the Youtube thread.
That has to be the maddest harmonica technique I've ever seen. I always thought he had some secret tuning going on but it looks like standard. I first discovered Harmonica Frank when I bought the Puritan LP, in the early '70's. I became obsessed. For my money, Rockabilly officially starts with him. What a wildman! To this day, I've tried to play Harp, Harmonica Frank style, with it stuck in my mouth like a cigar and have no idea how it's done. I've seen others do it. I'm a practitioner of "tongue blocking" and yet, after all these years, it remains an elusive magic trick oddenda
That is the same technique used by the great Henry Johnson of SC. Rice Miller (SBW II) did it on occasion, too.
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