This CD contains solo acoustic and electric harmonica.
It travels through time from the train "hollers" of the
30's' till the present Chicago Blues sound ..With Special
guest Eddie Clark on drums and also Tom Holland on guitar
A must for Harmonica Blues Fans""
The Band
Deak Harp Harmonica Vocals
Eddie Clark Drums
Tom Holland Guitar
T Bone Tom on Bass
Eddie Clark toured for many year with the late great William clarke, and to me he is the best Blues drummer out there today ....
Tom Holland toured all around the world with Eddie Clearwater. And now he is playing with James Cotton.. when he aint playing with his own band the Shuffel Kings....... he realy can play the blues on his Guit ........
T Bone tom what can i say,He got the bottom right where i wanted it.
Deak Started playing harmonica at age 12 when he heard a schoolmate
playing
blues on a harmonica.deak listened to British blues untill his brother
Bob told him
about a harp master named James Cotton . he went out and bought all the
cotton material he could
find. He looked in the local blues news for a live cotton show for 2
years. Finally he found a show listed at a blues club in Stanhope, New
Jersey.
by that time he had accumulated a suitcase full of harmonicas. he showed
it to cotton and cotton asked Deak if he could have it for his
harmonicas, because his case was damaged at the airport. Deak was glad to
trade cases with his mentor and it started a long-lasting friendship to
this day.
February of 1992 Asbury park press Writer Robert Santelli Reviewed a
show at the Berkeley Carteret Hotel in Asbury Park,New Jersey where Deak
and Cotton were two of the Featured harp players. Santelli wrote "Deak
jumped into the Audience and ran down the main aisles at lease twice ,
playing his harmonica like a man possessed".
In 1993 Deak had a the good fortune and Opportunity to drive for the
James Cotton Band from Chicago to Miami, Florida and back. Deak later
drove for the james cotton special acoustic trio featuring james cotton
,dave Maxwell and Luther Tucker; who was little walter's guitar player
back in the 60s on the tour Deak learned directly from cotton; who helped
him with his tone on the harp and taught him how to be a band leader
Deak was mentioned by Aquarian writer Robert Makin in a late june 1993
issue as a "Smokin' Harmonica player". Makin also honored Deak again in a
march 1994 article on the sixth Annual making waves Awards" as best
instrumentalist. Makin writes" it was actually a harp solo on the
self-titled and produced B.B. and the stringers CD that turned me on to
this guy ...SMOKIN'!!!"
I would like to Thank my Mom and Dad, Ann Canning and James Cotton.............and Johny Lightning from Lightning Studios for letting me record my refrence tapes ... Right from those tapes this Cd came together .......Thanks Johnny''
this CD was Recorded at
Twist Turners House of Sound Chicago IL on Feb 2, 2002. Produced by Twist
Turner & Deak Harp. Executive Producer Karl Keppler . And this CD and the
rest of my CD's in the future will all be Dedicated to Karl Keppler .. We
lost Karl shortly after the Cd's were pressed. He never let on to us that
he was sick ........We will surely miss Karl ........Im sure he is
listening to Art Tatum right now in the Big Band in the sky ...he gave me
a cd of his and wanted me to learn Mapel leaf Rag ...i told him i need a
lifetime to learn that one on harp.......
All Recordings were recorded onto 2"x16 track Anolog tape. All tube Gear
was used in this Vintage Tube Recording Studio we got the warmest Tones
there ...Im talking" Wow "the sound speaks for itself when you listen to
this on yur home Stereo. A Blues Mans dream to not have to use Digital
Efects.
Harmonica was recorded Acoustic to a Ribon Microphone and i also uses a
Magnitone Melodier 45 Watt tube amp was used with a Denis Gruling Mojo
Mic ..serial # 1 Astatic Mic with a Shure 50" element 1949 to be excact
.Also used is a Gi Joe Comunitator Helmet with a Cheerleader Megaphone
duct-taped to it . I call it a Cone-A-Phone...it runs on a 9 volt
battery..it got such a cool crunchy sound ..i let Bob Margolin hear it 3
weekends ago . at Pinetop Perkins 92 th Birthday party Blues Bash At
Hobsons Plantation on the frunt porch in Clarksdale Mississippy ...He said
"Man That Sound's Great and dirty all in one" i gave him a copie of my Cd
.....
Everything was recorded to Anolog mixed to 1/2" tape, then Digitaly
Remasterd . All songs were written and arranged and produced by Deak Harp
except , Blues with a Feeling tten by Marion Walter Jacobs) . Aka Little
Walter . John Henry ( Trad) and Davidson Co Blues first done by Deford
Bailey in 1929 (Trad) rearranged by Deak Harp ..
I use only Hohner Marine band Harmonicas. i also use a Big C 364 and the
Super 64 Cromatic ...Deak Harp.'
Check out the artist's website:
http://members.tripod.com/deakharp
Track List:
1. Riding the Rails
2. John Henry
3. Davidson County Blues
4. Little Embarras
5. Cattle Car Blues
6. Lazy River
7. Old Soul
8. Old Dodie
9. Gateway To The Blues
10. Yea My Baby
11. Brocton Straight
12. Up All Night Blues
13. Moving Soon
14. Blues With a Feeling
15. Cone-A-Phone-A-Boogie
16. Midnight Blues
17. Big Fat Mama
18. Mad Dog 20/20
Other Genres:
It travels through time from the train "hollers" of the
30's' till the present Chicago Blues sound ..With Special
guest Eddie Clark on drums and also Tom Holland on guitar
A must for Harmonica Blues Fans""
The Band
Deak Harp Harmonica Vocals
Eddie Clark Drums
Tom Holland Guitar
T Bone Tom on Bass
Eddie Clark toured for many year with the late great William clarke, and to me he is the best Blues drummer out there today ....
Tom Holland toured all around the world with Eddie Clearwater. And now he is playing with James Cotton.. when he aint playing with his own band the Shuffel Kings....... he realy can play the blues on his Guit ........
T Bone tom what can i say,He got the bottom right where i wanted it.
Deak Started playing harmonica at age 12 when he heard a schoolmate
playing
blues on a harmonica.deak listened to British blues untill his brother
Bob told him
about a harp master named James Cotton . he went out and bought all the
cotton material he could
find. He looked in the local blues news for a live cotton show for 2
years. Finally he found a show listed at a blues club in Stanhope, New
Jersey.
by that time he had accumulated a suitcase full of harmonicas. he showed
it to cotton and cotton asked Deak if he could have it for his
harmonicas, because his case was damaged at the airport. Deak was glad to
trade cases with his mentor and it started a long-lasting friendship to
this day.
February of 1992 Asbury park press Writer Robert Santelli Reviewed a
show at the Berkeley Carteret Hotel in Asbury Park,New Jersey where Deak
and Cotton were two of the Featured harp players. Santelli wrote "Deak
jumped into the Audience and ran down the main aisles at lease twice ,
playing his harmonica like a man possessed".
In 1993 Deak had a the good fortune and Opportunity to drive for the
James Cotton Band from Chicago to Miami, Florida and back. Deak later
drove for the james cotton special acoustic trio featuring james cotton
,dave Maxwell and Luther Tucker; who was little walter's guitar player
back in the 60s on the tour Deak learned directly from cotton; who helped
him with his tone on the harp and taught him how to be a band leader
Deak was mentioned by Aquarian writer Robert Makin in a late june 1993
issue as a "Smokin' Harmonica player". Makin also honored Deak again in a
march 1994 article on the sixth Annual making waves Awards" as best
instrumentalist. Makin writes" it was actually a harp solo on the
self-titled and produced B.B. and the stringers CD that turned me on to
this guy ...SMOKIN'!!!"
I would like to Thank my Mom and Dad, Ann Canning and James Cotton.............and Johny Lightning from Lightning Studios for letting me record my refrence tapes ... Right from those tapes this Cd came together .......Thanks Johnny''
this CD was Recorded at
Twist Turners House of Sound Chicago IL on Feb 2, 2002. Produced by Twist
Turner & Deak Harp. Executive Producer Karl Keppler . And this CD and the
rest of my CD's in the future will all be Dedicated to Karl Keppler .. We
lost Karl shortly after the Cd's were pressed. He never let on to us that
he was sick ........We will surely miss Karl ........Im sure he is
listening to Art Tatum right now in the Big Band in the sky ...he gave me
a cd of his and wanted me to learn Mapel leaf Rag ...i told him i need a
lifetime to learn that one on harp.......
All Recordings were recorded onto 2"x16 track Anolog tape. All tube Gear
was used in this Vintage Tube Recording Studio we got the warmest Tones
there ...Im talking" Wow "the sound speaks for itself when you listen to
this on yur home Stereo. A Blues Mans dream to not have to use Digital
Efects.
Harmonica was recorded Acoustic to a Ribon Microphone and i also uses a
Magnitone Melodier 45 Watt tube amp was used with a Denis Gruling Mojo
Mic ..serial # 1 Astatic Mic with a Shure 50" element 1949 to be excact
.Also used is a Gi Joe Comunitator Helmet with a Cheerleader Megaphone
duct-taped to it . I call it a Cone-A-Phone...it runs on a 9 volt
battery..it got such a cool crunchy sound ..i let Bob Margolin hear it 3
weekends ago . at Pinetop Perkins 92 th Birthday party Blues Bash At
Hobsons Plantation on the frunt porch in Clarksdale Mississippy ...He said
"Man That Sound's Great and dirty all in one" i gave him a copie of my Cd
.....
Everything was recorded to Anolog mixed to 1/2" tape, then Digitaly
Remasterd . All songs were written and arranged and produced by Deak Harp
except , Blues with a Feeling tten by Marion Walter Jacobs) . Aka Little
Walter . John Henry ( Trad) and Davidson Co Blues first done by Deford
Bailey in 1929 (Trad) rearranged by Deak Harp ..
I use only Hohner Marine band Harmonicas. i also use a Big C 364 and the
Super 64 Cromatic ...Deak Harp.'
Check out the artist's website:
http://members.tripod.com/deakharp
Track List:
1. Riding the Rails
2. John Henry
3. Davidson County Blues
4. Little Embarras
5. Cattle Car Blues
6. Lazy River
7. Old Soul
8. Old Dodie
9. Gateway To The Blues
10. Yea My Baby
11. Brocton Straight
12. Up All Night Blues
13. Moving Soon
14. Blues With a Feeling
15. Cone-A-Phone-A-Boogie
16. Midnight Blues
17. Big Fat Mama
18. Mad Dog 20/20
Other Genres:
- BLUES: Chicago Style
- BLUES: Delta Style
- TYPE: ACOUSTIC