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RaZon
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Eddie Mapp's career is unfortunately rather typical of many blues players in the 1920s and 1930s - after making a few records, he was found dead in the street in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of twenty. This means that he was just seventeen or eighteen years old at the time of his only recording session in 1929, in the company of guitarists Guy Lumpkin and Slim Barton and harp player James Moore. Mapp's playing on these sides is very mature for such a young musician and covers a range of different styles. Rather than the fast, tight playing of then current hits such as "It's Tight Like That" and "Careless Love" I have transcribed his playing from the slow, field-holler style song "Wicked Treatin' Blues", which is performed with just Mapp's harp and Slim Barton's voice. The tune itself is a traditional one, the melody being related to such tunes as "Reuben", "500 Miles", DeFord Bailey's "Evening Prayer Blues" and a tune called "Stewball". The song is notated here for a C harp in first position and I have not used a time signature or bar lines, as the song is very free flowing. Many books will tell you that first position is rarely used by blues harmonica players, but the low octave straight harp used on this tune was a very popular style of playing on early blues recordings.
A CD that has all of Mapp's stuff is headed my way, a birthday gift. Also all of Fred McMullen's recordings, they were Georgia players, so ya need to add Blind Willie McTell, Barbecue Bob, Charlie Hicks (his brother) Buddy Moss, Ma Rainey, Emmett Miller who performed in black face, Curley Weaver, Kokomo Anold, Blind Blake.
The death of Eddie Mapp a blues mystery not unlike Blind Blake who just disappeared*****
***** the first Jack Reacher novel who was a blues fan is in Georgia seeing what he can find out about Blind Blake, Talking Killing Floor.
Eddie Mapp's career is unfortunately rather typical of many blues players in the 1920s and 1930s - after making a few records, he was found dead in the street in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of twenty. This means that he was just seventeen or eighteen years old at the time of his only recording session in 1929, in the company of guitarists Guy Lumpkin and Slim Barton and harp player James Moore. Mapp's playing on these sides is very mature for such a young musician and covers a range of different styles. Rather than the fast, tight playing of then current hits such as "It's Tight Like That" and "Careless Love" I have transcribed his playing from the slow, field-holler style song "Wicked Treatin' Blues", which is performed with just Mapp's harp and Slim Barton's voice. The tune itself is a traditional one, the melody being related to such tunes as "Reuben", "500 Miles", DeFord Bailey's "Evening Prayer Blues" and a tune called "Stewball". The song is notated here for a C harp in first position and I have not used a time signature or bar lines, as the song is very free flowing. Many books will tell you that first position is rarely used by blues harmonica players, but the low octave straight harp used on this tune was a very popular style of playing on early blues recordings.
A CD that has all of Mapp's stuff is headed my way, a birthday gift. Also all of Fred McMullen's recordings, they were Georgia players, so ya need to add Blind Willie McTell, Barbecue Bob, Charlie Hicks (his brother) Buddy Moss, Ma Rainey, Emmett Miller who performed in black face, Curley Weaver, Kokomo Anold, Blind Blake.
The death of Eddie Mapp a blues mystery not unlike Blind Blake who just disappeared*****
***** the first Jack Reacher novel who was a blues fan is in Georgia seeing what he can find out about Blind Blake, Talking Killing Floor.
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