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From: rock~ve.telalink.net
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 13:13:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Ricky and the CoolRays

Wow. I'm so flattered that I'm embarrassed. My tongue is tied in disbelief
and don't know what to say besides Jon ought to stop drinking so much and
that I don't have any money.

Thanks Jon. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about my music.

r

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At 2:12 PM 9/1/96, JfGindi~ol.com wrote:
>Rocket sent me a demo that he has developed with his group,
>Ricky and the CoolRays. Rocket writes the songs, sings and plays harp. It is
>his project, the offspring of a long period of musical development that
>started with him as a harp player, and evolved into singing, songwriting, and
>bandleading. He is an astounding musician. The entire package is very tasty,
>and, to my ears, very unusual within the rock/blues idiom. More specifically,
> his harp playing is brilliant, with great tone, clean, supple moves, total
>mastery of all the major techniques, plus a few that were new to me. He has
>the most wonderful way of slowly, slyly bending the high notes up from their
>bent positions. There's a humor in the way he does it. In fact, like many of
>my favorite musicians, there's a sense of humor to all of Rocket's music. The
>songs are witty. His voice, kind of a Satchmo growl that hits every note
>perfectly and actually goes all over the scale, is, in its own way, humorous.
>This is great, great stuff, colorful as hell, filled with personality, and
>so good, it sounds effortless. Rick has described to me part of his process,
>what he's comitted and risked to pursue his music. Any success he receives
>will be richly deserved. He's an original. Jon