Comments on: Our First-Ever Blues Harp Albums (Part 1)

By: Wilf

Wilf — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:01:31 +0000

Hi Stuart,
Pretty sure it was John Foggerty. Same deal with Run Through The Jungle. Cuts in around 1:28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbI0cMyyw_M

By: Murray

Murray — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:54:01 +0000

I don’t know the song but I do know John Fogerty played serviceable harp. Well, serviceable for a guy who grabs a harp in the right key and turns a song into a 12-minute live chug-fest.

By: The Captain

The Captain — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:33:45 +0000

Wikipedia has it as John Fogerty himself. I don’t know for sure, but it’s likely due to his multi-instrumentalism (Blue Ridge Rangers, Centerfield etc), isn’t it?

By: Stuart Brewer

Stuart Brewer — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:41:19 +0000

Does any one know who plays Harp on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Graveyard Train” off their Bayou Country album? I think this might be my new projct.

By: JohnWilliamKing

JohnWilliamKing — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:09:08 +0000

It was not any one album it was a sound, Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne. It was a backwards journey, what/were did his sound come from, which led backwards to SonnyBoy, Little Walter and sidewards to Tony Little Sun Glover and then on to Mark Feltham, Jason Ricci and Adam Gussow.Taking up the harp at 50 is a bit daunting but a one man harp band seems a real blast its a little bit of theory plenty of listening and a whole lot of blowing. No such proposition as cannot do that but an awful lot of how do i work out how to do that again. Of the later listening the albums that have pushed me on are The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Nine Below Zero`s On The Road Again. for the future I cannot wait for Adam Gussows One Man Band offering

By: Stuart Brewer

Stuart Brewer — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:28:36 +0000

Being as I dont own a CD player and rely upon MP3s its rare that I get to listen to whole Albums these days. I tend to hunt down tracks with good Harp licks. Started by listening to Zep ( Nobodys fool, When the Levee breaks etc) I know this makes some of you shudder but it works for me. I then found Muddy Waters live – Mannish Boy, Champagne and Reefer just blows me away. Then I hear The guy who plays with Joe Bonamassa on “Burning Hell”. Lots of good stuff out there. Ive only been playing this last 16 months so still getting started and setting my references really but I do find that Im hearing Harp for the first time in songs Ive listened to for years -decades. I watched that film “Control” about Ian Curtis from Joy Division the other night. There was a scene where he was listening to Jean Jeanie – Id never heard the harp in that before – but there it was loud and clear!