RIP James Harman
In a time, where another musician/celeb’s passing is as commonplace as another mass shooting, dying in the shadow of B.J. Thomas, Gavin MacLeod, and Eric Carle, has to be tough on the best blues musician you never heard of James Harman , bluesman, storyteller. . .and harmonica player, passed away last week. And yes, I am prejudice, because he was my friend - but all you have to do is listen to know I’m right. The exact date ranging from the 19 th to 23 rd , depending on the source - quite fitting for a blues legend - with nary a word from anyone outside the blues community. Fitting, but unfair. Fitting because it is the blues community - already hit hard in the past months with the loss of Paul Oscher (Muddy Waters Band) and Gene Taylor (The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Blasters) - because it’s there the loss is unimaginable. Unfair, because Harman was the hardest working man in show biz, this side of James Brown his own damn-self, besides he had a fifty-seven-year career that