[Harp-L] Re: re: pathetic

["Haka Harri" <harri.haka@xxxxxxxx>]

With all due respect to classical, country, soul, funk, folk etc. harp players the only genre where harp has played a really important role is the blues. From its earliest beginnings up until today blues harp has been the driving force for soloists, duos and bands. Both acoustic and amplified. From that perspective you might justify naming substantially more blues harp players as being most influential to the instrument compared with all other genres put together.

Among the all time greats is Sam Myers who I was sorry to hear passed away.

Harri


From: Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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In deference to fjm, let's leave the specific Wikipedia out of this  
and just think about which players should be in a general-knowledge  
encyclopedia under the harmonica header.