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Bluesman James Harman Interviewed at AAJ

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James Harman
James Harman is a senior member of the first wave of white American musicians who entered the blues during the 1960s, starting when he was only sixteen. With a pasted-on mustache, he was slipped into black night clubs in Panama City, Florida, promoted as “That boy who sings like a man." Within a year, he started his own band. In the years to follow, he restarted several times by moving to Chicago, New York, Miami, New Orleans and, finally, California. He ran an ongoing business, recording and touring all the way through 2000, at which time he gave up carrying his own band everywhere and started taking only fly-in festival dates and being backed by different groups of players everywhere. Although he is today generally associated with the west coast sound, he has remained loyal to his Alabama roots. This can be heard in many of the lyrical tales he spins in his songs.

AAJ contributor and Cross Harp Chronicles website publisher David King spoke with Harman about his long career, and the challenges of recording and touring the blues in the new millenium.

Check out James Harman: Those Dangerous Gentlemens at AAJ today!

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