[Harp-L] Re: Overblows in the Blues - Check This Out




Brendan wrote:


"Music speaks louder than words. To all you Blues traditionalists who hate
overblows, go to 3:52 in this clip and LISTEN:

SLOW BLUES IN C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MtRHq8ERCE
All those sexy 'bends' are overblows on a C harp, middle octave, 1st
Position..."
A lot of brilliant harp playing on all these clips, no question about it. But none of them was actually blues, not even "Slow Blues In C". Same goes the other way around. If a good blues musician does a rhumba or a cha cha cha (as Junior Wells did) in blues style, it makes it blues. From a technical point, yes, you could say that Howard Levy did play blues on that clip, but not with a blues approach. Blues includes a feeling that most often differs from technicality. Nothing taken away from Howard, he has his own virtual style.

Here is one example of how a slow blues is played Blues Style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBeuco0PgJs

Harri



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