Mark Hummel - Harmonica Party: Vintage Mark - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Recorded in the early eighties and nineties these tracks capture blues legends on the road with Hummel's band the Blues Survivor's featuring Rusty Zinn. Real blues from the icons who invented the tradition of today's blues music including Luther Tucker, Mississippi Johnny Waters, Jimmy Rogers and Eddie Taylor.

This is an album featuring seven works for string orchestra by Philadelphia-Area composers; all are new commissions. These would be major composers, wherever they were based. This is absolutely first-rate new music for string orchestra.

Most of the tunes on InchTrue BelieverInch are Hummel originals that, in the best blues tradition, offer some pungent commentary on today's world, from the cold impersonality of technology (InchGhostedInch) to the current state of humanity (InchHigh Time for the DevilInch) to the lowlife who steals your parking spot (InchMr. Two ThirdsInch). We also get a feel for Mark's wide-ranging musical influences as he puts his own stamp on tunes by Elvin Bishop, Otis Rush, BB King, Fleetwood Mac, and Little Walter. Hummel's brilliant harp work is featured throughout InchTrue Believer,Inch with his searing amplified playing on InchHigh Time for the Devil,Inch his third-position mastery on InchGhosted,Inch and his beautiful chromatic work on InchYou're Breaking My HeartInch being particularly impressive. Junior Watson demonstrates once again why he is one of the most exciting guitarists anywhere with his playing on InchDouble TroubleInch and InchStop Messin' Around,Inch and Bob Welch's piano makes InchHeaded for a HeartacheInch a special cut. No blues band goes anywhere without a first-class rhythm section, and Roy Bermudes and drummer Wes Starr are all that and more.