aussie, juzzie is awesome.. john is too, but juzz is sweet... maybe he isnt the best harmonica player but he is a bad ass one man band! i wanna buy one of his cds, but they cost 25+ here in the states...
i like these too!! i have posted these here before, but they are good enough to go again :)
Gwood . Yeah agree Juzz is good. Have often seen him busking & playing markets always with a huge audience.
If you like the sound of Juzz you should seek out some of the vids of another incredible multi instrumentalist called Matt James. Whilst not being up there as a harp player he does use it to good effect. Awesome on didgeridoo.
Buddha> agree ie Tommy Emmanuel is great but hell he's a lot older. Tommy did influence Joe.
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juzzie is my favorite harp hippie. He perfected the technique of playing solo. All I wished is that he'd stretch his songs. The YT ones are mostly around 5 mins but they could be 15-20 mins easy, and the crowd would go ecstatic (even more so...).
Thats why I like the jam. The guitarist guides a nice and "long" jam and the harp and beatbox tread lightly (courteous). You feel satisfied at the end. And btw. how often do you see musicians actually smiling at each ohter while they enjoy their music - and I mean "real" smiles - rockin'. Very cool jam.
I don't think it's fair to autmotically assume he's not going to make it based on this one video. Clearly there's a heavy influence of Tommy, especially in this performance. But Tommy Emmanuel was heavily influenced by Chet Atkins growing up. I went to youtube and looked up some of Joe's other videos and I was more impressed by some of his own compositions that he had posted. They show a much broader range of his influences, from players like Merle Travis, Chet, Jerry Reed and other great fingerstyle players, & I think he seems to be developing some of his own unique style. Personally I was impressed with his composing & arranging abiltities, and it's sure to get better as he continues to learn. As far as "making it" it looks like he's touring all over the world performing constantly to large crowds, he's also been performing with and opening for Tommy Emmanuel on occasion. Maybe you're right and all this won't last, but right now he's "making it" more than most pro musicians out there. I don't a whole lot about him, only what I looked up just now, but I don't think it's fair to make such a snap judgement.
I agree 100% with you Ryan. In fact he seems to have already done what most muso's could only dream of. I think we will hear a lot lot more about Smokin Joe.
people thought LD Miller would "make it" he won a talent show, played to large crowds but where is he now? Most harp players don't even know who he is.
All I can say is, I could be wrong but I doubt it. When I was one of the executive producers for the Minneapolis Jazz Festival, I listened to 1000s of submission and countless high profile "name acts" There is a certain "it" quality to them that Tommy Emmanuel has but his 16yr old protege doesn't.
I heard of Tommy through another great guitarist Pat Donohue, a musician that I used to play with when I lived in MN. Pat has that "it" thing. I met Chet Atkins through Pat as well and he also had that "it" thing. I never heard him play music live, but was invited to Pat's house for breakfast, you could tell he had "it" just sitting there being an old man who was eating pancakes and drinking OJ. Every word and movement had meaning. To me the energy at the table was literally like being among the gods of the cosmos.
There is just something that comes through energy wise and for me, it the mark of greatness. I have yet to come across an "exceptional" person in any arena ie sport, music, art, business that didn't have it.
I've spoken about it before... the whole connection with the universe thing... and the people who scoff at the notion are the ones that will NEVER have it. There is more to your world than the earth and the flesh you live in.
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Pat Donohue is a guy who deserves to be classed with the best blues guitarists who've ever lived, and you've convinced me that Tommy Emmanuel does too.
Here's a YouTube video of the two of them together, just having fun. Pat is off-camera, unfortunately, but TE's playing on camera is matchless. This, my friends, is how it is done.
