Hi Everyone, I am a professional harmonica customizer and I specialize in playing bluegrass on the harmonica. Because of my hard and fast attack of playing ...
Bob Meehan
yeehaw@...
Aug 1, 2006 1:51 pm
3734
So you're playing with a group that likes to change keys. The first website is one person's promotion of using diminished tuned harmonicas to accomplish this...
Went to PT's site and my brand new, up-dated, high-speed, super deluxe, computer wouldn't play the music! So I guess I'll just have to order the CD if I'm...
Steven, Buy PT's CD Pace Yourself and I guarantee you will never regret it. Any bluegrass harp lover that doesn't have it should get excommunicated and...
Steve, this morning,I was listening to JP's course and found an interesting piece of information that seemed to me out of place but what do I know about...
From: "David A. Lovatto" <slipindave@...> ... Read page 35 of the book that accompanies the CDs. He is well aware of the circle of 5ths way of naming the...
On Portnoy's circle of fiths , there is a mistake. I memtioned it in an earlier post but didn't have enough faith in myself to say to much. I couldn't hold...
Dave, not having the book, explains why I didn't get the example as you explained. David ... but ... on ... having ... F# ... much of ... my ... aware of the ...
... won't teach ... "Think for yourself",....hmmm,this morning I was reading a book called "What To Say When You Talk To Yourself" by Shad Helmstetter. ...
Steven, Now that you know who E.T. is and have ordered from P.T. I'm sure you'll never be excommunicated from Texas or the bluegrassers. You'll enjoy the CD. ...
Yes, along with Hank Thompson, Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Johnny and Jack, Bill Monroe, Mac Wiseman, etc. (We even have a Audie Murphy tune.) Our lead singers...
... Have any of you all heard PT's newest CD 'Swingin' Easy & Hittin' Hard' IMHO it should get a reward or recognizition for album of the year or something....
Hank Snow ... I thought he was one of those Northern type guys or do you Texans just claim everybody that wanders through? When I was a young guy I thought I...
Hi Everyone, I am a professional harmonica customizer, and I specialize in playing bluegrass on the harmonica. I have deleloped a way to "set up" and customise...
Bob Meehan
yeehaw@...
Aug 7, 2006 6:30 pm
3750
Well, I got my CD today, so I put the ol' headphones on and sat back and gave a listen. Wow. There are guys like me and then there are guys like PT and Gang. I...
We don't have to claim him. But his music still lives here. Killer is, you didn't notice that I left out Bob Wills. (Hah!) As Hank said it, "In Texas, Bob...
Oops. I cannot spell, either. The link should be www.texannarecords.com. (The attack of the typos!) Cara ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
A little while back I listed the folks that appear to have recorded "Red Haired Boy", but I left someone out -- me. I recorded "Red Haired Boy" with a fiddler...
P. T. Gazell's CD's are certainly worth adding to your music collection. He does a fine job on them. Cara ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
As I recall, our attacks are not that different -- somewhat necessary for the genre. Some day I may have to try one of your customized instruments -- to see...
Someone else noted that Hank Snow was from the north, and they're right, he was from Nova Scotia - a place more likely to be associated with pure celtic music...
Bluegrass and country were originally just country music, or the music from the Grand Ol' Opry (as some called it). Bluegrass did not get its name until much...
Guys, I may be way off track but for some reason I had always understood that the greatest influence on the bluegrass as we know it was from the Scotch/Irish...
Doyle - You're right that the string band tradition of the Appalachians did come from the Scotch/Irish settlers. This music is still around and is often called...
Doyle, I think you are right on. Then, Davie Crockett and a whole slew of other good hill folks went to Texas. After they got to Texas they became Texans....
One could argue until the cows come home. I live right here in the Applachian foothills. Each year there's festivals of every kind,except for blues or old...
