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From: David Fairweather
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:34:00 -0700
Subject: Alan Wilson

>As Winslow rightly pointed out earlier in the thread, LW's contribution to
the
>Harmonica was largly not in technique, but in musical sensablity. (And in
>amplification...) There is nothing technically astounding about his
Technique,
>But his musicality is astonishing. This is an illusive thing, and it is hard
>to duplicate a sensibility. This is why all the confusion about technique
>often arises, it is easier to look for the "secret of the old masters"
then it
>is to learn a sensibility.

I'd say the same thing about Alan Wilson. Although he does have an amazing
vibrato technique, and although he did experiment with altered tunings, for
me its his musicality that makes him one of the masters. I think of him as
the Miles Davis of the harmonica. He never relied on flash. He was always
in complete control, knowing exactly what he wanted to say and giving the
impression that he COULD play a whole lot more than he CHOSE to play.


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