Adam Gussow and Charlie Hilbert – “Coffee Break” 2 (2000)

[Satan and Adam harpist continuing his lesson on the subtleties and challenges of the blues scale, working by analogy with muscling a fast, tautly-sprung sportscar around a curve: “Blues [harmonica]…

[http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/beginning_harmonica.html Satan and Adam harpist Adam Gussow offers an old-school front-seat-of-the-car-on-a-rainy-day blues harp lesson. Syncopated chord rhythms. Stories about crossing paths with Paul Butterfield in NYC… If you’d like to…

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Analysis of a song from Satan and Adam’s 1991 album HARLEM BLUES. Gussow plays the head, slows and dissects the second chorus, discusses the proximity effect, and notes the importance…

[Satan and Adam, the Harlem blues duo, in their prime. Mr. Satan (Sterling Magee) is the subject of Adam Gussow’s 1998 memoir, MISTER SATAN’S APPRENTICE. The duo opens with an…