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Carey Bell and the All-Time Harp Greats List
Carey Bell and the All-Time Harp Greats List
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smwoerner
208 posts
Aug 13, 2013
11:54 AM
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If we're going to talk Miles and Blues I must throw this in the mix...Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker, Bank Robbery, from the Hot Spot Soundtrack (I recommend the entire soundtrack.
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wolfkristiansen
199 posts
Aug 13, 2013
11:57 AM
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This thread has shifted around a bit. Let me shift it a bit more.
Carey bell is a great third position chromatic harp player. I saw him live around 1975, with Willie Dixon, Buster Benton and Clifton James (great drummer).
He played chromatic for about half the songs that night. Most were major key, not minor key songs. His timing, his creativity, his power-- I'll never forget it.
I remember one more thing-- he was definitely a "wet player". Every once in a while, between songs, he'd tip the chromatic vertically, button up, and a huge amount of saliva would drip out.
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wolf kristiansen
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The Iceman
1093 posts
Aug 13, 2013
12:01 PM
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1847...
Of course I like artists like Carey Bell.
Some of the best music is simple. That's why I like to suggest the Miles recording ... this is also mostly very simple playing.
It's already been mentioned to listen to the Hot Spot movie soundtrack as well.
Nothing wrong with studying Neil Young's guitar solo on Cinnamon Girl for simplicity and effectiveness, either.
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atty1chgo
683 posts
Aug 13, 2013
12:52 PM
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First, I have to say - I can't be the only one on this forum who loves the way Adam Gussow can put words together. He is a great writer, no doubt.
I am guessing that in his last few posts on this string, Adam faced off DeFord Bailey and Sonny Terry, James Cotton and Carey Bell, and Paul Butterfield/Charlie Musselwhite because of their similarities - Bailey and Terry being early, more acoustic country blues players; Cotton and Bell were African American Chicago (up from Mississippi) contemporaries, and Paul Butterfield and Charlie Musselwhite were white Chicago influenced contemporaries.
That's all well and good, these were natural pairings for comparison, as are Sugar Blue-Jason Ricci-Carlos Del Junco. But when comparing players of different styles and eras, it's not so easy.
Realistically I guess when looking at the criteria, Jason falls a bit short in the Influence and Recorded Evidence categories as opposed to Carey Bell, who is pretty solid across all five criteria.
Nevertheless, on the strength of Soulfulness, Technical Mastery, and Originality, Jason Ricci has huge strength. It's a crap shoot, really.
In the end, it's just a couple of lists. We are always going to have our favorites and our influences. One of the reasons I posted about Carey Bell was because he is my main influence in blues harp along with Billy Branch. If the great players can be so lucky as to have other players pick up their styles and carry them on, this is what keeps the tradition alive.
Last Edited by atty1chgo on Aug 13, 2013 1:02 PM
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