Blues na Suécia

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From: Richard Hunter <>
Date: May 4, 2006 12:26 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Brief report from Stockholm
To: harp-l

I was in Stockholm last Friday night, and looked up the local blues
society web page. I found to my delight that the Mercury Blues Band
featuring Joakim Barcheus on harmonica was playing within a 15 minute
walk of my hotel.

I dropped by the bar and introduced myself. Joakim asked me to sit in.
I listened to the band's first set of solid Chicago-style blues.
Joakim uses his own customized Marines Bands mostly, played into an
apparently ancient brown-and-tan Premier amp (the amp section is in a
box that sits on the floor in front of the speaker -- you don't see a
lot of that anymore, if you ever did before) through an Astatic JT-30 --
in other words, a very traditional Chicago blues setup. His sound was
strong, and the crowd had a great time, me included. The crowd was a
lot more mixed than one usually finds in a nightclub in the USA --
people ranging from their teens to the sixties -- and everyone seemed
relaxed and into the music.

I started off the second set with the band, and played two instrumentals
-- "Comin Home Baby" on an A Natural Minor Lee Oskar in 2nd position,
followed by Walter Horton's "Have Mercy" on a CX12 chromatic. It was a
lot of fun, and the big tube amp combined with the Astatic produced a
VERY large sound with the chromatic harp. There's a reason why people
use those rigs...

Anyway, the blues has an audience in Sweden, and it's fun to hang out
with them. The Mercury Blues Band seems to play regularly -- if you're
in Sweden, check out their web page at
http://web.comhem.se/~u83406314/index2.htm.

thanks and regards,
Richard Hunter
hunterharp.com

Engraçado que quando ele fala que The crowd was a
lot more mixed than one usually finds in a nightclub in the USA --
people ranging from their teens to the sixties -- and everyone seemed
relaxed and into the music., eu imediatamente me lembrei do público de blues que o Nix e eu encontramos em Londres, que é diferente do público do Brazil e da Alemanha. Com o extra positivo de que a presença feminina em Londres é relativamente grande e interessante.
Abraços, (beijos para o público brasileiro feminino de blues)
Bresslau