Return to Vinyls
Return To Vinyls Podcast focuses on what makes the great music that we love from Jazz and R&B artists and the stories behind the creation and the creators.
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EP: 31 There Are Two Kinds of Harmonicas and Two Kinds of Players—Toots Thielemans and Peter "Madcat" Ruth. (opens the original)
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When you think of a harmonica you might think of some lonesome cowpoke entertaining the other cowboys with "Home On The Range" sitting around the campfire in a cowboy movie. Or you might think of the blues greats bending notes on a harmonica, or what is also called a “blues harp.” The most common is the Hohrner Marine Band harmonica. It is known as a Diatonic harmonica. Ten notes in and ten notes out. The other kind of harmonica is a Chromatic. It has 48 notes— it can play sharps and flats like
EP 30: Ray Charles: That Cat Has Nine Lives. (opens the original)
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If you know anything about popular music you most certainly have heard of Ray Charles. If you are a fan of jazz, R&B and the blues you probably know his R&B recordings. But during the 1960s he succeeded as a cross over artist and placed over a dozen albums and over sixty singles on the Billboard popular music and R&B charts. From there he became a master of Country Western music, expanding the genera and proving the mass appeal of Country music. Ray Charles is experiencing a resurgence again in
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