Post songs with great harmonica

[pokerfan]

Love Me Do - Beatles

Midnight Rambler - Rolling Stones

Easy Wind - Grateful Dead

Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan

Bring it on Home - Led Zepplin

Hangman Jury - Aerosmith

Middle of the Road - The Pretenders

[Swede]

1. SuperTramp - School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpUF1QP4jA

[pokerfan]

3. Oh yeah, that intro kicks ass

[greenbriar]

2. supertramp

Long way home

[EndersDame]

4. Woody Guthrie - Going Down this Road Feelin Bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3QjWIQV1e0

[abq e streeter]

27. and just for you , my young DU musical compadre...sitting in with friends this summer in Taos

your pal, abq...disclaimer--the band was already warmed up from having played a set, but I happened to be in Taos that night and they asked me to come up and do a song with em....here it be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQdqfLi1kn8

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. The only song with harmonica in it that came to mind was Aerosmith's cover of

"Baby Please Don't Go" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL_JdOCDkQA

[RushIsRot]

6. Peg O' My Heart

OK, so I'm an old goat...

[flvegan]

7. Bruce Springsteen - "The River"

[Swede]

8. The Romantics - What I Like About You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvHKjDKY_O8

[Swede]

9. Black Sabbath - The Wizard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB9GArnoLl0

[madrchsod]

10. the masters....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUGXOxs6p0&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgsyWjS_6lQ&feature=related

[abq e streeter]

22. they certainly were...here's Sugar Blue doing a Sonny Boy song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peNzo3Fv9MA

Some harp afficionados think he plays too many notes, a la Popper, but he's the best I've ever seen in person ( although Jerry Portnoy, and Big Walter Horton are right up there too ( too young to have seen Sonny Boy, Little Walter etc)......and I was supposed to see Musselwhite tonight, but the show was already sold out.

[abq e streeter]

23. p.s. --most people know his playing from this : Miss You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygpJirw5Yv

[madrchsod]

35. i did get to see howl`n wolf....

he started at 10 and ended at 3 in the morning. we were about 10 ft from the stage.

[abq e streeter]

37. Wow--was that at Eddie Shaw's by any chance?

here's a lesson about not putting stuff off....I am originally from Chicago, and most recently lived there parts of '78 and '79. But also lived there for a year from mid'75-to mid'76.... I saw lots and lots of blues those years but never saw Wolf or Hound Dog Taylor for some reason. Made myself a New Year's resolution that I'd see both in the next couple of months. Well, Wolf died January 10th, and Hound Dog died 10 days later...And yeah, those guys used to play LATE...I remember the night before my brother's wedding in '82, going to see Junior Wells at Minstrel's ( just about under the Loyola "L" stop). He started about 10 too...Me and my buddy were there from the start of the show and when we staggered out of there at about 3:30, the drummer looked at us and shouted, "where you guys goin'? We got another set to go".

[nolabear]

11. Runaround. Popper wears me out but that was a great intro to his style.

[nolabear]

12. Stevie Wonder's I Was Made to Love Her

[Swede]

13. Neil Young - Pocahontas

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

[sakabatou]

14. "Run Around" Blues Traveller

[ornotna]

15. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Born in Chicago

Live at The Newport Folk Festival July 26 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyLh7-MDJZU

[Dystopian]

16. John Mayall - Room To Move

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4koAK8CBxY

Just the first one I thought of....
Somebody had to... :-)

Those were the days...

peace~

[Kat45]

34. First one I thought of too.

Then I saw that you posted it already. There's some great blues harp in that song.

[Dystopian]

39. : )

:loveya:
It is awesome....
I never thought that song would get a reply...
Cool that it was your first, too...

peace~

[Doc_Technical]

17. "Man with a harmonica"

from "Once Upon a Time in the West"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIgNCD3nzOg

[Zomby Woof]

18. "Train Train" by Blackfoot

Played by Shorty Medlock himself, the author of the song.

His grandson is Rickey Medlock, the guitarist and vocalist for Blackfoot.

[Capn Sunshine]

19. Leavin Trunk- Taj Mahal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-JsFOuy_E4
Inspired me to start a blues band in 1966.

[Zomby Woof]

20. "Lost John" by Sonny Terry

Anything by Sonny Terry, but that's a good start.

[Zomby Woof]

21. Anything by James Cotton

Especially when he played with Muddy Waters.

On edit: I had PIANO on the brain (and obviously not much else!)

[Adams Wulff]

25. And here he is playing at the Greely Blues Festival...

In 2007

[Zomby Woof]

29. Great pic!

Although I had to edit, because this is a harmonica thread, and not piano, LOL. :dunce: One of my better moments tonight.

[pokerfan]

24. Chrissie Hynde

Cued to the harmonica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPankJ0TytY#t=3m30s

[abq e streeter]

26. another protege of Sonny Boy-Jr. Wells...and the King of em all,Little Walter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbYFn5RkX0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiGpv-UeiDI

[abq e streeter]

28. one more, just one more--in the pop category--Karma Chameleon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw

real sweet playing, and an E-flat harp, which you don't hear a lot of

[shawmut]

30. Canned Heat - On The Road Again

[bluesbassman]

31. Wammer Jammer - J. Geils Band

Magic Dick and his lickin' stick baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WwB4bLwbWE

[Art_from_Ark]

32. Laugh, Laugh, by the Beau Brummels

[Ron Green]

33. "Alfie" - Stevie Wonder

[old mark]

36. Not a tour de force, but a great performance by the band: Lookin' For Love - J Geils,

with harp by Magic Dick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRezwP_znTc&feature=related
A lot of fun from Germany in '79.

Richard Salwitz - Magic Dick - is one of the greatest harp players living now. Might want to try this, too:

http://vodpod.com/watch/1104546-whammer-jammer-j-geils-band

Whammer Jammer, another J Geils live performance,and a classic Magic Dick harp piece. He really is amazing - he makes me want to put my harps away and forget about them.

mark

[Dulcinea]

38. Billy Joel, "Piano Man." eom

[cbdo2007]

40. Bob Dylan

Desolation Row
Mr. Tamborine Man
Visions Of Johanna
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Sometimes I'm In The Mood For You
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Most Like You'll Go Your Way and I'll Got Mine
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met)

and that's just quickly off the top of my head. It's not that the harmonica is all that intense/groundbreaking but the way he uses it as an extension of his voice/soul just turns my head inside out! (in a good way)

[martymar64]

41. Give it to Me - J Geils Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtcjjQ6UN4

Magic Dick's solo starts at around 2:50

[velvet]

42. when I think of harmonica

I think of Chris Wilson. Love him with a passion.

Check him out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ2SLTajOvc&NR=1

and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HekbVgoyO3M&NR=1

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

43. Here Carlos del Junco

Saw him in concert, amazing player..............

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

[peekaloo]

44. Toots Thielemans 'What A Wonderful World'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXfW3r5wFEQ&feature=related

[bif]

45. Stevie Wonder "Fingertips"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5joLPsHhqc

[Brother Buzz]

46. DeFord Bailey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_9unv9Gv0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f6KodXFRYk&feature=related


With a special thanks to Robert Crumb

[mitchum]

47. Sonny Boy Williamson once told Bob Dylan that he played too many notes...

I think Williamson was just being nice; Bob Dylan plays too many wrong notes

[mitchum]

48. I really like the reversed harp on "When The Levee Breaks"