It was the first song most baby boomers tried to learn on harmonica, along with “Room to Move”. Dick is one of the most famed harp blowers on earth, partially because “Whammer Jammer” was played on Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam all through the late’60’s until the war ended. Geils after the original band broke up, making two CDs for Rounder Records. Magic Dick went on to start ‘Bluestime’ with J. “Give It to Me” and Magic Dick’s own “Whammer Jammer” were in the Top Ten off and on for 20 years and made them one of the top bands (along with WAR) that featured harmonica prominently in the frontline. Chart-toppers like “Freeze Frame”, “Centerfold”, “First I Look at the Purse”, “Must A Got Lost”. Geils Band, whose many hits flooded the airwaves during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Killed by Illegal Abortion: May Burns, My Great Grandmother.MAGIC DICK, born in 1945 Richard Salwitz in New London, Connecticut, is the original harp man from the J.Lee Goldberg’s Movie Land Rocks–My Review.New Icelandic Thriller By Ragnar Jonasson - My Review.Don Winslow’s “City of Dreams.” - My Review.You can order any of the books in the series from independent or chain online bookstores by following this link. The novel has received rave reviews in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and a host of other publications. Then the twang of a blues guitar would fill the room, preaching that even in the darkest of times, the idea of light exists-and that the purpose of life is just to live it.”Ī Scourge of Vipers by Bruce DeSilva is the fourth in my Edgar Award-winning series of hardboiled crime novels featuring Liam Mulligan, an investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, R.I. Wondered, more than once, if something rotten was eating away at me, turning me into the very thing that I fear. My old job as an investigative reporter, like my new one as a detective, was to probe the dark hearts we pray against. Like him, I belonged to the downtrodden tribe that turns misery into music-the kind of music that warns us what the world is like and steels us against it. He’d come through the door, exhausted from another day of delivering milk, put a scratchy Son Seals album on the turntable, pull out his Comet harmonica, and play along. Just like my dad did before the cancer took him. At the end of most every day-even the ones that didn’t involve shaking a tail, tracking down thieves, or staring at a broken body-I’d lean back with a glass of something bitter and drown in Koko Taylor’s growl, Buddy Guy’s soulful riffs, or the vibing wire of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s guitar. “Why was I always drawn to music about hard times at the bottom of a shot glass? The music of the scorned and shattered. “Why the blues?” Mulligan asks himself in the next novel, The Dread Line, which will be published next fall. Liam Mulligan, the hero of my series of hardboiled crime novels, is a big blues fan too. You can learn more about Magic Dick and watch a video of a recent performance with Ng by clicking here. We both love books, with him having a surprising interest in book design. We both spent our formative years in Massachusetts. I first met Magic Dick on a blues cruise last fall, and we fell into a long conversation on the pool deck. These days, he’s touring and recording with Shun Ng, an astonishing young vocalist and blues guitarist. Later, he became a regular with the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue led by Tommy Castro, appearing regularly on blues cruises. Geils again in a band called Bluestime, which often toured as part of as part of B.B. His brilliant harmonica playing on unforgettable cuts like “Whammer Jammer” led The Rolling Stone Record Guide to proclaim him perhaps the finest white blues harmonica player ever (although Rick Estrin might have a thing or two to say about that.) Magic Dick, aka Richard Salwitz, is best known as one of the founding members of the J.
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