Harry had a post on Instagram about these guys.
Hard to choose what I wanted to share.
Magma -
https://youtube.com/watch?v=a8mQBXtY21U

Paul ("northwoods_hill_farmers" on Instagram - not much music there, more a diary of our latest chapter)

as done by Danny & The Fat Boys (that's Danny as in Gatton)

Peter

Thanks for the Danny Gatton; nice version if Harlem Nocturne.

I haven't listened to Danny in awhile; almost forgot how great he was...his sun medley on Cruising deuces has the most amazing solo that floors me every time I hear it; I'll have to take it down to the workshop tomorrow...

Hey, that bass player looks familiar!

Peter

So let's do this.

For some time now the main thing playing in my playlist was Vulfpeck. And right now I am listening to the song I want to play soon, **1 for 1, DiMaggio** so that is on my playlist now.

Got lost on YouTube again and stumbled upon this, haven't listened to it in ages and here it is live - Tubular Bells:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l7MY_cdUL1E

in an unexpected pairing.


And The Nighhawks; I've always said (well, if not always, at least since '81 when I worked a show with them the first time) that harmonicists fall into 3 groups - John Popper, Mark Wenner, and Everyone Else. And of course Jimmy Thackery does pick a little.


Peter

I saw the Nighthawks open for George Thorogood once a long time ago.  I thought the Nighthawks were far better, and Thackery as well.

I've never been a fan of harmonica; maybe one song, but not a whole show.  I guess my ears just always found that sound a bit harsh.

The B.B. King and Jerry Reed was nice.

Part of why I like Mark's harp playing so much is his tone, Dave; he doesn't (or didn't in '80-'84 when they shared a couple of bills with acts* I worked for) have that harshness.  Part of that may be that he was running his Shure Dispatcher "Green Bullet" mic into a daisy-chained series of (IIRC)  tweed Twin, brownface Twin, and blackface Twin Reverb.  But he also has a smooth soulfulness that sets him apart, as well.


*The guys in one of said acts - Big Twist & The Mellow Fellows, who I posted a little while ago - invariably referred to that other guy as "That non-playin', non-singin' mother-F***-er George Thorogood!"

Peter (who does like a good harp - but none as much as Mark's)

Warning the link below has been known to cause Spastic Chicken type "dancing" in older white guys...

The Temptations - Shaky Ground
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W_UxlayuJpk

Some sources claim there are three bass tracks, I can certainly hear two at the beginning.

Enjoy!

Jazzyvee's new video

I have the vague recollection of Shakey Ground being in the set list of some band or other I was in ages ago; however, it would have been the .

Awesome version, David!