Harry Manx - West Eats Meet

Greg Simmons · From: where the buffalo (used to) roam AND the Mojave

...Yes, that's the title of Harry's soon to be released CD (due out in March); my gal and I saw him last night in a soft-seater with his ensemble the "Urban Turban" - a keyboard player, Indian percussionist and a very talented young lady (forgot her name) from Boise, Idaho singing background vocals.

He indeed does of a fine job of "East Meets West" with his musical hybrid of classical Indian and Blues, both on his original songs and covers like Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" and Van Morrison's "Crazy Love" - last night his cover of "Long Black Veil" dedicated to Johnny Cash was Country and Eastern at it's finest

I guess the five years studying in India with VM Bhatt paid off as he sounds great on the Mohan Veena and a Martin dreadnought (bought from Randy Bachman) played lap style. The addition of a female vocalist was quite spectacular and did not detract at all from Harry's thing.

If you are into "slide" at all, do go and see him if you can, as it looks like he's off to Australia next month then back through the U.S. mid-west in May - check his website though for all the details. Bought a copy of his new live DVD of a concert in Australia - very cool

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Greg Simmons
Custodian of the Official Sho~Bud Pedal Steel Guitar Website

[This message was edited by Greg Simmons on 22 February 2004 at 03:34 PM.]

Ron Whitfield · From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA

Thanx for the info Greg! After last nites performance by Debash and Co., I'm quite interested in what Manx is doing. Sounds very interesting.

Jay Fagerlie · From: Lotus, California, USA

I downloaded some clips off of his site....sounds like a 'must have' for me.
Indian flavored blues, ya' gotta love it!

Jay

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Travis Bernhardt · From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I saw Harry Manx at the Vancouver Folk Festival last summer. I had never heard him before. For one set he was on stage with a bunch of other musicians who play in a blues idiom, and he was last to play. I was tempted to leave and check out something else, as the other musicians were pretty unspectacular, but I wanted to see him play.

When he finally came on, the whole feeling changed--he played with so much more soul than the other musicians on the stage that it must have been embarassing for them. And he was playing the song on his banjitar if you can believe that.

His style is very simple, and similar to Kelly Joe Phelps (with the exception of the Indian influence). Actually, his guitar playing is even less complex than KJP. But he sure can create a mood...

He's the real thing.

-Travis

Dwight Mark · From: Denver, Colorado, USA

I just watched Harry's new DVD. Now I understand how he strums the sympathetic strings. All I have to do is grow out my pinky nail about an inch or so...

Great dvd...

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