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Harmonica Blues | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Yazoo
Category: Music
Buy New: $17.98
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 96346
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 016351015327
EAN: 0016351015327
ASIN: B000000G7S
Release Date: April 8, 1991
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Tracks:
| • | Railroad Blues - Stowers, F. | | • | Crazy About You Baby | | • | Wang Wang Harmonica Blues | | • | My Driving Wheel | | • | Bay Rum Blues | | • | I'm Going to Write and Tell Mother - Hill, R. | | • | Blowin' the Blues | | • | Harmonica Rag - Darling, C. | | • | Man Trouble Blues - Coleman, Jaybird | | • | I Want You by My Side - Gillum, Jazz | | • | Friday Moan Blues - Lewis, A.J. | | • | House Snake Blues | | • | Need More Blues - Cooksey, Robert | | • | Davidson County Blues - Bailey, DeFord |
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Essential for harp players July 10, 2004
Flattop-Tomm (Oklahoma)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This cd is essential for all acoustic harp players, and even for electric harp players. These are the dudes that influenced Sonny Boy Willaimson II, Junior Wells, Little Walter, Big Walter, Kid Thomas, and other great electric blues harp players from the 50's on. This cd concentrates on the 20's and 30's, which is essentially the pre war blues period. Not all the songs are strictly blues there's some hillbilly, and jug style tunes too. However the main stars here are the harp players, and thier amazing solos. Jaybird Coleman might very well be the most well known of the harp players here, but they are all great and so is the sound quality. I am a harp player myself, and I recomend this to all harp players as well as anything by the logn forgotten Harmonica Fats.
Essential for Harmonicists July 30, 2003
Andre M. (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a very good collection of prewar (WW2, that is) harmonica blues. "The Train" was once essential for anyone who was serious about learning the harmonica, and Freeman Stowers gives a classic example of this in "Railroad Blues." Chuck Darling's "Blowing the Blues" is a rather sweet and whimsicla little tune that is no less enjoyable than it would have been back in 1930 when it was first released. Excellent Harp-guitar interplay. Jaybird Coleman, known today only to harcore blues fans, gets a few licks in. But the real treat for harmonicists is the legendary DeFord Bailey, who was probably the first harmonicist who was a bonafide recording star (via his appearances on the Grand Ole Opry). His "Davidson County Blues" (from 1928) shows the standard that was set for the likes of the Sonny Boy Williamsons, Stevie Wonder, Little Walter Jacobs, and all that were to follow. In either case, if you think you're hot stuff with the harmonica, listen to these masters and go back to your room and practice.
Harmonica Blues: the Original Masters November 27, 2000
Richard Malone (Bloomington, IN USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a "must-have" CD for those interested in early harmonica technique. It begins with a mind-blowing harmonica "train" by Freeman Stowers. This is unlike anything commonly found on post-war recordings. What follows is a wide-ranging sampling of virtuostic harmonica playing by artists both obscure, Chuck Darling, and famous, De Ford Bailey. This CD highlights harmonica techniques might otherwise have been lost. This would make a fine addition to the collection of any serious blues harmonica player.
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