Comments on: Music and Lit of a Sunday http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/music-and-lit-of-a-sunday/ Facts, Thoughts, and Commentary Sat, 25 May 2013 00:42:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: RW http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/music-and-lit-of-a-sunday/#comment-92532 RW Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:50:24 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=3613#comment-92532 Paul Butterfield occasionally used a chromatic harmonica but probably used his usual (diatonic) Hoener Marine on Fathers and Sons. It was Jeff Carp playing chromatic harp on “All Aboard,” the only tune on the record he appears in according to the album credits.

NB: Muddy Waters ‘comeback’ album, Hard Again, is also a masterpiece but the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album altered my musical universe and I can still listen to it any time, anywhere with vast pleasure.

]]> By: Jared Bernstein http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/music-and-lit-of-a-sunday/#comment-92151 Jared Bernstein Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:17:06 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=3613#comment-92151 Just thought it was interesting for them both to show up in the same post–Chicago blues giant; Yiddish novelist–the connection being that they’ve both got deep reservoirs of soul.

]]> By: Jean http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/music-and-lit-of-a-sunday/#comment-92079 Jean Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:50:35 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=3613#comment-92079 A chromatic harmonica has all 12 tones instead of just those tones in a particular key. So it has C-C#-D-Eb-E-F-F#-G-Ab-A-Bb-B-C, instead of C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C. [In other words, both the white and black keys on the piano, instead of just the white keys.] To play the blues on a C harmonica, you play in the key of G [mixolydian].

But I don’t get the Isaac Singer/Muddy Waters connection?

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