Ken Kraft on lead guitar and Jon Troutner as the Harpster, perform Lonesome Whistle Blues in Santa Cruz at the Catalyst.
Playing a wonderful version of Sarita with my Groovehounds, in June of 2023 for the Felton Library benefit.
Here's a tribute to Norton Buffalo with the Owls, Summer of 2023
Aptos BBQ 6-8pm every Monday night for Harpin's Corner! Blues, Brews, and BBQ! Featuring local artists, Bob O'Neill, Andy Fuhrman, Jamey DeMaria, Joe Vallaire. Ted Welty, Steve max Robertson, Bill Haines, Bill Sullivan, John Broadway Tucker, Peter Clark, and many more. You never know who will show up!
Fred Eaglesmith performs at Harpin' Jonny's outdoor concert
When the train comes. January 3rd, 2009
When the train comes. January 3rd, 2009
Larry Hosford does "long distance kisses"
--Rod and Honey Piazza
Contact me for a copy of my latest CD!
You'll enjoy all my latest cuts:
That's What Knocks Me Out
Solitary Man
Random Acts of Kindness
Django-Jericho
One More Jack Daniels
Midnight Again
Puerto De Azul
Sugarfoot Rag
Tumbleweed
Over the Rainbow
Pretty Little Lights of Town
Baby Please Don’t Go
Read more about the Cd release in these articles:
My first CD is available by contacting me on my home page. You'll enjoy:
When the Train Comes
Long Distance Call
Condition Crazy
Lonesome Whistle Blues
Southbound
Sunnytown
Jaguar and Thunderbird
I'll Be Long Gone
Walkin' Blues
Too Many Drivers
Street Walkin' Woman
Girl Can't Help It
Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat
---Charlie Musselwhite, famous versatile harmonica player:
Harpin Jonny Troutner - Harmonicas, Train Whistle, Background Vocal
Ken Kraft - Background Vocal, Lead, Slide, and Rhythm Guitars
Craig Owens - Lead Vocals, Bass, Background Vocals
Tiran Porter - Bass - Walkin' Blues, Sunnytown, Pill Box Hat -
Leslie - Sunnytown
Larry Hosford - Lead Vocal and Rhythm Guitar
Jim Roy - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Peter Clark - Lead Vocal, Rhythm Guitar - Sunnytown & Pill Box Hat ;
RhythmGuitar - I'll be Long Gone
Jim Norris - Drums
Gary Kehoe - Percussion
Tom Lawson - B-3 Organ
Chaz Alley - Sax - Sunnytown
Randy Rueter - Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Bob O'Neill - Backgound Vocal - Jaguar & T-Bird,
Lead Guitar - Too Many Drivers, Rhythm Guitar - Pill Box Hat
Lisa Troutner - Background Vocal - Train Comes & I'll Be Long
Gone
Lee Durley - Background Vocal - Girl Can't Help It, Jaguar & T-bird
David Ford - Background Vocal - Girl Can't Help It
Jim Lee -Songwriter
Tom Lawson- Blues at 11
B-Movie Kings- B Movie Kings www.bmoviekings.net
Randy Jones - Waitin on the Night
Larry Hosford Band -Wind Jammin
Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones-Now
Shelter for the Blues -Deja Blue
Undercover -Love is Blind
Santa Cruz Blues CD: Best of Santa Cruz
Studio E; Live with Larry Hosford and Nina Gerber
Jon Troutner, aka Harpin’ Jonny, is on a mission: to show that there’s more to playing the harmonica than the blues.
He can rock the blues, but like a small handful of players of the instrument (think the late Toots Thielemans, Blues Traveler frontman John Popper and Flecktones co-founder Howard Levy), Troutner seeks to expand the instrume
Jon Troutner, aka Harpin’ Jonny, is on a mission: to show that there’s more to playing the harmonica than the blues.
He can rock the blues, but like a small handful of players of the instrument (think the late Toots Thielemans, Blues Traveler frontman John Popper and Flecktones co-founder Howard Levy), Troutner seeks to expand the instrument’s possibilities far beyond the 12-bar tunes.
“I don’t see harmonica as being limited to any type of music,” Troutner says, “and I don’t think it is just a blues instrument. You can play any song on the harmonica.”
His current release, Harpster, proves the point, offering a sensitive reading of the Great American Songbook standard Over The Rainbow. Not exactly a blues tune.
Troutner lists Norton Buffalo as his harmonica hero. Buffalo’s name should be household. Yet it is hardly so, despite a three-decade stint in Steve Miller’s band. His solo on Bonnie Raitt’s 1977 retake of Del Shannon’s classic hit “Runaway” put him on the harp player’s map. In it, he deftly switches between four different harps in order to accommodate the song’s four -hord changes during the classic main verse.
Many blues harpists drill through tunes with little restraint, but Troutner understands that silence can be golden.
“Most harmonica players overplay,” Troutner says. “You’ve gotta learn to listen and play in the right places. Then people will know they can trust you to go in and not wreck the song.”
Not only does he not wreck songs, his tasteful, highly melodic licks are well-timed to embellish the tune’s structure.
Given his range – and patience – Troutner feels increasingly drawn to the jazz idiom.
“I’m playing the chromatic harmonica more and more these days,” he says. “I’m enjoying embellishing songs by creating melodies or adding percussion sounds through the harmonica itself. To make something interesting out of nothing is what I like to do most.”
Harpin’ Jonny appears in Monterey this weekend with longtime guitarist friend Peter Clark, whose intricate and eclectic Chet Atkins-, Doc Watson-, Tommy Emmanuel-style fingerpicking plays right into Troutner’s wheelhouse.
“We’re all over the map – jazz, blues, country, rock, even gypsy jazz,” Troutner says. “We rekindled four or five years ago when Peter retired and he started jonesing to play again after years of being consumed by his job.”
HARPIN’ JONNY and PETER CLARK perform at 6:30pm Saturday, May 5. Caffe Trieste 409 Alvarado St., Monterey. No cover. 241-6064, caffetriestemonterey.com
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