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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mojo Red
Subject: Re: Richard Hunter in Denver/Paul Davies

Richard,

So glad you were able to hang out with Paul during
your brief stay here in Denver! If I wasn't chained
to my desk-job I would have loved to join you!

Paul is indeed an outstanding and innovative
player. A true chordal madman with a great love of
exploiting multiple harps in one song to achieve
his musical goals. Not to mention, he's a heck of a
nice guy!

Harpin' in Colorado,
- --Ken M.

- --- turtlehi~arthlink.net wrote:
>
> I did the promo tour for my book "World Without
> Secrets" in Denver
> yesterday, and when I walked out of KHOW-AM radio
> at 8:30 AM, I saw Paul
> Davies standing near the entrance, waiting for
> me.
>
> As it happened, my next appointment had been
> rescheduled, so Paul, two
> promo people on the tour, and I went to breakfast
> together. Paul took
> the opportunity to show me two 13-hole SBS-tuned
> harps he'd recently
> acquired from Brendan Power; very nice
> instruments. Paul also
> demonstrated some of his recent discoveries in
> bluegrass accompaniment
> and solo work, using combinations of the
> SBS-tuned harps and a Lee Oskar
> Melody Maker in D, played in the key of E minor
> (tonic = blow 3). It
> was great stuff, a thoroughly original approach
> to bluegrass on the
> harmonica that takes advantage of the harmonica's
> unique strengths (e.g.
> chording and tongued rhythms, a wide range of
> chord types and voicings
> via special tunings), as opposed to simply
> emulating a fiddle.
>
> Paul advised me that he's releasing a recording
> of this stuff soon, and
> I advise everyone on this list to stay tuned for
> more news from Paul on
> the availability of this music.
>
> Paul mentioned SPAH during breakfast. When my
> colleagues and I got back
> on the road, I explained to them what SPAH was
> about. When I told them
> that it was like going to a guitar player's
> convention and hanging out
> with Eric Clapton, they got the point. One of my
> colleagues is from
> Memphis, and she knew exactly who Jelly Roll
> Johnson is. I didn't have
> to tell her that it's a big deal to go to a place
> where you can hang out
> with people who've reached that level of
> professional and artistic
> achievement.
>
> Thanks to Paul for injecting some great harmonica
> into my tour.
>
> I'll also take this opportunity to note that I'll
> be releasing the
> second in my series of one-per-month FREE MP3
> downloads of electric
> harmonica music to subscribers on June 1. The
> piece is called "Sade
> Tekno," it's very deep and monstrously
> groovacious, and you can hear a
> 30-second sample at
> http://www.hunterharp.com/freemus.html.
>
> Thanks, Richard Hunter
> --
> http://www.hunterharp.com
> Turtle Hill Productions
> turtlehi~arthlink.net

===="When you speak of Walter Horton, the first thing you think of is his tone,
that big, fat tone."
- ---Li'l Ronnie Owens

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