Do you appreciate mouth organ music?

[Graham Orm]

I was browsing YT last night and came across this girl. She is amazing. I would buy her music. Note perfect and so much feeling.

Christelle Berthon

Sunny Bob https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYUTQSUfVZU

House of the Risning Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6si7u5tUH4

You Raise Me Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rpsh5bg2ME

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Mouth organ music - an oxymoron, surely?

 

[Bm101]

She's ridiculously good Graham. Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN3IijZICBQ Woody Guthrie. Railroad Blues. 8)

The homepage of Tim Eriksen. Bit of a legend if you've not heard of him. Might interest you. You can fall down the rabbit hole here.

https://www.youtube.com/user/batfancy

If you've seen Cold Mountain or O' Brother where art thou? and liked the music you've already heard him singing. He's at the forefront of the Americana 'revival', a Professor of Music I think. Won't be everyone's cuppa. It's music after all. :wink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFpU3zs ... OCZ85Bpk9O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCwaf9 ... 9O&index=3

 

[NazNomad]

Needs more cowbell.

 

[skelph]

Thanks for the links Graham. =D>

I watched/listened to the first one, then another, and another and suddenly I had spent a very enjoyable 45 minutes on YouTube listening to what must be one of the best harmonica players around.

One to watch out for I think.

 

[Eric The Viking]

I played chromatic (really badly) as a teenager: it's not until you try that you realise the skill involved.

Nice stuff, thanks for posting.

BTW: there are a few Larry Adler & Tommy Reilly clips on YouTube. Adler was a magician on the thing - listen to his (own) "Genevieve" and compare it to others' versions: worthy, but just not Adler.

 

[bugbear]

Mouth organ music - an oxymoron, surely?

Better than bagpipes, banjo, or a room full of school kids on recorders, so certainly not the worst.

Mark Twain — 'A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.'

BugBear

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Perfect pitch - a banjo hitting an accordion in a skip from 30yds.

 

[Graham Orm]

Heathens! :mrgreen:

 

[Graham Orm]

I was originally watching this guy. I could watch this over and over. just wish my dad could have seen this stuff, he could play and raved about Larry Adler in the days when access to old stuff wasn't easy.

Buddy Green: Some Bach then stick with it for the William Tell Overture, incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoauBe465qQ

 

[AES]

And +1 for your previous post - they ARE heathens (or at least unappreciative lumps)

AES

 

[Eric The Viking]

"The definition of a gentleman is a man who knows how to play a saxophone... but doesn't."

Attributed to Tommy Beecham.*

The argument as to artistic merit of certain instruments is timeless, and never fails to entertain

E.

*My personal favourite was when Beecham was asked by a foolhardy journalist if he'd ever conducted any Stockhausen...

"No, but I once trod in some."

 

[CHJ]

Thanks Graham, now got to shift myself and do what I was supposed to be doing 40+ mins ago.

Just finished off with this :- https://youtu.be/5LG_8lt9Ljc will be back for more.

 

[Graham Orm]

Thanks Graham, now got to shift myself and do what I was supposed to be doing 40+ mins ago.

Just finished off with this :- https://youtu.be/5LG_8lt9Ljc will be back for more.

I could listen all night. I'd certainly buy her CD. I'll do some digging and see if there's one out there.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Well ... that's six minutes of my life I'll never get back. God, it was excruciating. Just as well we're not all the same.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

"The definition of a gentleman is a man who knows how to play a saxophone... but doesn't."

Attributed to Tommy Beecham.*

The argument as to artistic merit of certain instruments is timeless, and never fails to entertain

E.

*My personal favourite was when Beecham was asked by a foolhardy journalist if he'd ever conducted any Stockhausen...

"No, but I once trod in some."

Or the harpsichord sounding like skeletons copulating (fornicating) on a tin roof in the rain? Or to the female cellist - "you have something between your legs that gives pleasure to thousands of men, and all you can do is scratch it."
The gentleman thing I usually read as bagpipes.

 

[Graham Orm]

Well ... that's six minutes of my life I'll never get back. God, it was excruciating. Just as well we're not all the same.

I suppose you like cricket as well do you? :mrgreen:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

No. I loathe cricket, football and golf.

 

[AES]

Well thank goodness you have at least a LITTLE good sense and SOME good taste phil.p!

Like EtV said a post or 2 back, it's really fascinating the differences in taste that pop up in such discussions - I always say to myself "How on earth can he/she NOT like that?" whereas those "on the other side" will simultaneously be saying to themselves "How on earth can he/she LIKE that?".

Vive le difference!

But just to be serious for one moment, have you/anyone ever wondered what it must be like to be someone who does not/genuinely cannot appreciate any type of music at all? I knew someone like that once, lovely chap, but that must have led to a bleak leisure life.

AES

 

[stuartpaul]

Has to be on a par with stuff made of pallet wood!