Backing a Blues Harmonica with Special Guest Big Al Dorn Lesson by Johnny Burgin

I just finished a show in Cudahy WI as a special guest of The Grill Kings featuring Reverend Raven and my guest in this video, Big Al Dorn. He's an up and coming guitarist and harp player who is gaining a strong local following in Wisconsin. He threw one of his tunes at me (Get It While It's Hot), and we play it at the top of the video. The lesson goes into the type of "lumps", or boogie patterns I'd play to back up a classic harp tune in this 'family of songs". Al took a familiar type of song (such as Muddy's "I Want to Be Loved" among many others) that we've all heard before if we're blues fans, and made it into his own cool instrumental. The point of analyzing his song in this way is to show you how simple the process to be to write your own blues song that people can pick up on right away on the bandstand or just enjoy listening to.
P.S./FYI: Big Al will be a special guest of my Third Annual Skokie Theatre Blues Revue this Sat 10.26-- Chicagoland peeps come on out!

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