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From: Dale Ott <00020127~CIMAIL.COM>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 96 20:08 EST
Subject: Bluegrass

There's a few more bluegrass harmonica players I don't think anybody
mentioned, but I get the digest version and I might have missed
some posts. Jimmy Fadden (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) plays some nice
stuff on _Will the Circle..._ I & II. I read a review of a guy
named George Thacker who put an album out on Pinecastle called
_Blazing a New Trail_. Doc Watson plays some harp, at least he
has at MerleFest (so they tell me). If you're willing to stretch
to old-timey, check out Mark Graham with the Chicken Chokers,
Open House or on his solo album _Natural Selection_. I like
playing bluegrass for fun. I usually play 1st or 2nd position but some
of the minor key pieces play very nicely in 3rd, 4th or 5th.
If there's a fiddle player around, you can have lots of fun
trading licks. Bluegrass festivals are the best - there are
usually jams going on everywhere, all day and night. You can
wander from group to group. Most of them will nod for you to
take a solo after they hear you chugging along if you stay out
the vocals, add a tasty lick here & there and generally act like
you're for 'em, not against 'em (hear that Gus?)
There's also a book/tape called _Fiddle Tunes for Harmonica_
by Glenn Weiser (ISBN 0 931759-10-2) that has lots of traditional,
Irish, French Canadian, Scottish and Southern tunes. There's
100 or so tunes in the book, fewer on the tape. Most people
would probably recognize a lot of them.
-Dale
daleo~cimail.com