<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[ferocioussound]]></title><description><![CDATA[ferocioussound]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:58:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ferocioussound.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Album, part 2.5: At Big John's]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big John’s, located in the Old Town section of Chicago at 1638 North Wells St., was an interesting bar, not a natural venue for blues...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/the-album-at-big-john-s</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61cfbd547422fc0016d99dd9</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2022 02:37:43 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: And Now, Finally, Muddy]]></title><description><![CDATA[And Now, Finally: Muddy Muddy Waters, playing with his band for their usual dates at Smitty’s Corner blues club in the early 60s, noticed...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/and-now-finally-muddy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b18a00da2b2400167e1fb8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 04:47:32 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: Gussow on Butterfield]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gussow on Butterfield Here we are with Adam Gussow’s analysis of what separated Butterfield’s playing from that of others. And that is a...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/gussow-on-butterfield</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b188b3ba258b0016f36779</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 04:45:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp:  The Analysts &#38; the Critics]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Analysts and Critics Roly Platt, guesting on Tomlin’s online channel (https://www.tomlinharmonicalessons.com/free-harmonica-lessons/p...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/the-analysts-the-critics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b1874800d4c5001613b831</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 04:38:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: How Butterfield Played the Thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Butterfield Played the Thing And how did Butterfield learn these skills? We know that he was exposed to serious music by his parents,...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/how-butterfield-played-the-thing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b186adb143fe0017afac0e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 04:33:14 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: How to Play the Thing, Part 5]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to Play the Thing, Part 5 There they are: twelve skills and concepts to work on. The Twelve Commandments. Not a word about arpeggios,...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/how-to-play-the-thing-part-5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b1859fc1736f00162cde6e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 04:30:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: The Twelve Commandments]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Twelve Commandments Let’s be specific and concrete, then, about the techniques you will conceptualize and assimilate in order to be a...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/the-eleven-commandments-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b184a7189f06001631b244</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 04:25:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/391448_2ac12c6bae9349efbf2bdda41145a96e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_768,h_181,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: How to Play the Thing, Part 4, or Uh Oh, Bending]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to Play the Thing, Part 4, or Uh Oh, Bending OK, one more last thing: bending. A couple of pages ago I wrote that you shouldn’t...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/how-to-play-the-thing-part-4-or-uh-oh-bending</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b038b80c446a00161e8221</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:51:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/391448_6bc0555d5fbe41e6a8fa47c9280408c2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_898,h_441,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: How to Play the Thing, Part 3]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to Play the Thing, Part 3 You have been using the C harp, playing in 2nd position, cross-harp, while the band is G. You understand...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/how-to-play-the-thing-part-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b034144a84cb001682a360</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:30:37 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: How the Blues Met the Harmonica: The Blues Harp, Part 2.5]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the Blues Met the Harmonica: The Blues Harp Playing along with the blues is not that hard. First try it unaccompanied, without a...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/how-the-blues-met-the-harmonica-the-blues-harp</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b031d1ed953d0016fa43e4</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:25:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp: How to Play the Thing, Part 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to Play the Thing, Part 2 But let’s not obsess about bending now. Learning how to bend, and bend properly, is difficult, and is a...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/how-to-play-the-thing-part-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b03144bb84850016c53407</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:15:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp:  How to Play the Thing, Part 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to Play the Thing, Part 1 You can learn to play the harmonica like Paul Butterfield played it. Notice the “like” in that previous...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/how-to-play-the-thing-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b02f438fcde80016d4c680</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:14:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/391448_dce074daf72b4caa944111295ac0f9d6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_722,h_200,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Harp]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago the novelist Elmore Leonard wrote his “Ten Rules of Writing.” The  last of them advised, “Try to leave out the part that...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/the-harp</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61b02df83e7dc700170aea2f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:05:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/391448_ff38ad81513b4671babc2f003bdf169b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_430,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Album, Part VIII (last)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, Elektra was doing everything they could to generate sales for the album and get what Jac Holzman considered its most popular...]]></description><link>https://www.ferocioussound.com/post/the-album-part-viii-last</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61ad93a4c1913f00167908f2</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 04:40:21 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>hondlethetruth7</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Album, Part VII]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the release of the album and playing to sold-out crowds at clubs, colleges, and coffee-houses, the band was on a roll. 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