David Barrett & John Garcia - Serious Fun

Size: 115,4 MB
Time: 49:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Serious Fun (7:41)
02. I Love You More Every Day (4:21)
03. Lick Train (2:49)
04. Pretty Girls Everywhere (5:45)
05. Quiet World (4:13)
06. Chicago Style (6:01)
07. Minor Attitude (3:15)
08. Don't Fight It (5:32)
09. A Real Romance (3:54)
10. Feelin' Good (5:52)

Personnel:
Vocals & Guitar - John Garcia
Harmonica - David Barrett
Organ - Steve Czarnecki
Piano - Steve Lucky
Bass - Randy Bermudes
Drums - Paul Revelli

Serious Fun is an exciting journey through the infectious grooves written by two blues musicians that shows pure mastery of their instruments. From straight ahead Chicago blues shuffles to swinging arrangements, David Barrett and John Garcia show how work can be fun, and how the serious work of creation and musical expression can be serious fun! Both artists show an astounding diversity in their playing, singing (John) and song writing skills, all very much true to the tradition of blues. With Harmonica, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Bass and Drums, nothing will stop your feet from wearing a hole through the ground you stand on!

Serious Fun

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David Barrett, Gary Smith & Aki Kumar - It Takes Three

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Blues
Time: 63:23
Size: 146,0 MB
Covers: Full

(6:43) 1. David Barrett, Gary Smith & Aki Kumar - It Takes Three
(3:36) 2. Gary Smith - Mojo Hand
(3:56) 3. Aki Kumar - Bombay Stroll
(8:49) 4. David Barrett - Dark Night
(3:34) 5. David Barrett & Gary Smith - Midnight at 7 Bamboo
(4:15) 6. David Barrett & Aki Kumar - Playin It Forward
(3:26) 7. David Barrett - Here We Go
(2:54) 8. Aki Kumar - I'm In Love With My Baby
(5:21) 9. Gary Smith - Up All Night With The Blues
(3:31) 10. David Barrett - Blow! Blow! Blow!
(3:19) 11. David Barrett - In Memory
(3:00) 12. Gary Smith - Alviso Rock
(4:24) 13. Gary Smith & Aki Kumar - A.G. Blues
(3:11) 14. Gary Smith - Tribute to Jr.
(3:18) 15. David Barrett, Gary Smith & Aki Kumar - Rocket Ride

An unprecedented collaboration between three generations of the San Francisco Bay Area's blues harp masters - Gary Smith, David Barrett and Aki Kumar.
David Barrett started playing the harmonica at age fourteen. At age sixteen Gary Smith took Barrett as a private student. Smith also introduced Barrett to the local blues jam scene and even invited him to participate is some of the local harmonica blowouts. At age eighteen Barrett was studying music theory in college (De Anza College in Cupertino, California) and started teaching private harmonica lessons at local music stores and institutes in the California Bay Area. Since 2002 he has been teaching at his own School of the Blues in San Jose.
Gary Smith started playing music when he was in junior high school; he played drums and Gary continued to play drums in little garage bands in San Jose multi-ethnic bands, some white guys and some Mexican guys. They played Richie Valens and Buddy Holly stuff and a Jimmy Reed kind of snuck in there too. Smith actually switched to the harmonica in 1968 because blues was having the "blues revival". He was actually playing in blues bands at that point, playing drums. There were no harp players around and Gary got more and more into it. The day he threw away the drumsticks and picked up the harmonica was when he went to see the Monterey Jazz Festival Blues Day in 1968. He saw Muddy and George Smith was the harmonica player. He also met Charlie Musselwhite and Paul Butterfield and this was a turning point in his life. For three decades, San Jose harmonica player Gary Smith has been an influential figure in the San Francisco Bay Area Blues scene. His band was the first to grace the stage at the inaugural San Francisco Blues Festival way back in 1973.
Dynamic frontman & harp player Aki Kumar is a rising star among the next generation of SF Bay Area bluesmen. A master of the amplified Chicago blues sound, Kumar inherits his style from the harp legends of the 1950s and 60s. Aki has a unique voice in the blues, blending elements of blues harmonica pioneers and with a signature sound of his own.

It Takes Three

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