Roger, there have been many great harp players, but c'mon, if it was down to one, just one, someone who could flat out SCARE ya, wouldn't it be Sonny Boy #2?

Okay, I'm going to tell the truth, and forgive me for being a folk snob, but I hated the Blues Brothers! I though Ackroyd and Belushi were fine, funny men, and I don't begrudge them indulging their hobby, but keerist folks it was a comedy skit that got out of hand! I know the movie gave work to some of the blues pioneers, but it just seemed like a silly waste of time to me.

Back to harp players (see, you got me goin') for a moment. Little Walter! Sonny Terry! James Cotton! Junior Wells! Oh boy, could I go on. How 'bout the tone of Mel Lyman (I know he was a lunatic) or John Sebastian, or My God, Woody, with a rack yet!! Wildman Mike Turk, Toronto's Chris Whitely (I got him for two songs on the new album!!) or how 'bout another white kid who could tell the story with his harp..guy named Zimmerman! Even the chromatic...Listen to Larry Adler, and tell me he didn't sit in on the odd blues jam session over 60 years of playing. He'd have gotten respect from Rice Miller even though their music was so different. Shit, I'm totally rambling now. Yank and Hammie!! I got to see them before they passed.....etc. etc. etc.

Sorry about that Roger...oh Ackroyd, I forgot. Pretty decent harp player.