Word: harpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early recordings. For the last six years, every concert something else--a musical manifestation of a unique juncture in time and space, with thematic relevance to all others. Not only were they creative, but each (with Pigpen standing at the side guzzling beer or reaching for his harp) a technical virtuoso. And just exactly why can't one be considered a virtuoso on the electric guitar or bass? (Just check out any of Jimi Hendrix's last albums for the word on encompassing the creative possibilities of a particular instrument). They made it up as they went along...
...tell his own story. He wastes little time attempting to describe a musician's style, instead concentrating on tracing the man's influences. One begins to sense the intimacy of the circles in which bluesmen travel: young Johnny Shines journeying off with Robert Johnson: Howling Wolf learning to play harp from his brother-in-law Sonny Boy Williamson and later being discovered by Ike Turner; or the list of musicians who've passed through Muddy Waters' band, which includes Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Earl Hooker, Otis Spann and Buddy Guy. The names and anecdotes...
...sixties, the album is about half blues, and half old pop tunes, with only two new songs (which comprise two-thirds of Bonnie's song-writing output). One of the originals, "Finest Lovin' Man" is a straight blues, featuring exciting instrumental work by Bonnie, Junior Wells on harp, and Danny Freebo on Bass. "Thank You" is a pretty ballad in the Curtis Mayfield vein, with Bonnie on piano and Willie Murphy playing a beautiful soft lead guitar...
...Israeli musical, To Live Another Summer-To Pass Another Winter, a lighthearted treatment of the generation gap as well as the struggle with the Arabs. The forthcoming F. Jasmine Addams is Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding set to music, and Truman Capote's The Grass Harp will come twanging back on the scene with Barbara Cook as the star. Still another musical revival is Candide, of 1956 vintage, with music by Leonard Bernstein and the totally ingenuous hero courtesy of Voltaire...
...existence permits few to reach old age, and they seem to find little joy in life. Yet the Tasaday like to stand in the rain and let the water course down their bodies. And they enjoy the music of the kúbing, a kind of jew's-harp made from bamboo and carried from place to place in a bamboo...