Harmonica Wizard Terry McMillan Plays the Blues
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Originally recorded in 1991 at the Playboy Jazz Festival.
I don't think many of y'all know this, but Terry McMillan is my biggest influence on the harmonica. I never grew up listening to blues, but McMillan's playing was the closest thing to hearing blues harmonica on country radio. I've always associated him with powerful, wailing tones like in "Ain't Goin' Down" and I feel like I wanted to share this performance. Rest in power, Terry.
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So this video actually caught the attention of Terry's family. I'd like to thank both Adam and Peggy McMillan for sharing this video and getting it more views. If I do find more footage of Terry Mc playing, I'll post it on here as well as some of my harp playing as well.
Wow thank you for sharing this . If you ever find anymore footage of my Dad please post it . It makes me so happy to see new footage become available of him doing what he loved ! I really can't thank you enough !
Sorry you lost your dad.
Terry is your dad? His dad Bobby was my moms cousin..
Have you seen the video with Dolly Parton and him?
Your dad was amazing and to see him playing and singing on stages with the cathedrals, what a legend.
I use to watch and record him on tbn or anywhere I saw him. He was amazing!! I recognized his playing on garth Brooks songs before i knew it as fact,only one man could play like that! He is missed!
I miss my friend. Terry was a talent unlike anything I’ve ever seen.
Oh man... this is exactly as I remember Terry. The master...
Terry is one of the best ever. If you’ve heard Garth brooks albums you’ve heard Terry ( it to mention thousands of other albums).
Gone too soon
One of the best and most passionate players ever.
The album "Renegade Gentleman" blew minds also here in Finland in the early 1990s. I still listen to the work of these two masters. Thank U, Terry and Larry. I miss that golden time
I like the final one
One of the very best.
Before the "Renegade Gentleman" album, Carlton and McMillan are the HOTTEST!
They had recorded half of it already here but then Larry recorded Kid Gloves before returning to finish RG in 1993
You can’t deny his contributions to most anything heard on the radio. His tone and note choices on hit records was significant from a cohesive musical perspective.
Though a lot of traditionalists would tell you otherwise, he had a powerful and bluesy sound on the harmonica that broke a lot of barriers in country music. I was once told by a traditionalist that I liked Terry because I am "inexperienced" and he was nothing more than a decent harp player. What about my friend, Todd? He's been playing for 33 years, makes his living as a harmonica teacher and session player, and he likes Terry about as much as I do. Does that make him inexperienced? Hell no! So why am I the one that traditionalists and elitists prefer attacking?
@@goldenteledy2002 the answer to your question is there are artists and technicians. A musicians musician tends to be very technically advanced.. but obviously music is subjective to the listener and Terry McMillan was able to add the perfect touch of harmonica to music without overpowering the song and being annoying to the song, artist, and producer. It was all about great tone and simplistic note choice that added the cherry on top. Charlie McCoy did the same but with less of a tough bluesy voice. Two of the best and most used studio harp players of all time. I’ll be the first one to love to listen to and learn licks from the super advanced harp players out there.. but although they sound great, on an instrumental album, they produce they wouldn’t always be a good fit to play on studio work for just anybody. Norton Buffalo and his harmonica playing for Del Shannon runaway is a perfect example of a killer harmonica player, laying down some complex tasty playing on a song without overpowering it.
@@MrFrenchHarp I've heard Todd play without any of his signature high notes during the many lessons that I had with him. Without them, he sounds just like Terry McMillan but with a sweeter tone compared to the raspiness of Terry's tone.
@@goldenteledy2002 Todd didn’t sound like Terry.. but that was many years ago since I heard him last. I’ve never heard anyone nail his tone perfectly although I can get very close myself by using a Golden Melody and focusing on the mouth cavity opening and crucial moments and also note attack. Even though mimicking his tone was never my goal. I go for a Terry/Charlie/Blues guy tone depending on the song or my mood at the time. If Todd is your teacher, you could not do much worse. Tell him Pete said hi.
@@MrFrenchHarp How long ago was that?
Amazing video... Love the energy.
So happy to hear this by Terry; there’s so little of his playing available out there. I’ve mostly only seen his solos in front of gospel crowds, which are amazing works of art, though it’s great to hear him play give and take alongside a great guitarist like this track. I hope to hear more of his work sometime!
He was my 2nd cousin I think... hard to remember the family tree. He was amazing!!!
BADASS!
This is magic!!! Loved Terry's playing on anything!!! Who is the guitar player/band?
His name is Larry Carlton. He and Terry worked on tour together and even made an album together, Renegade Gentlemen.
Does anyone know Terry’s cause of death?
Vein burst while playing?...
@@jmvm31 🤣🤣🤣🤣NO!
I know what was the cause of death but it wouldn’t be right to share it. If you hear badass harmonica on the radio from Elvis all the way to the early 2000’s… it was PROBABLY Terry. Charlie McCoy and Terry were two of the greatest influences on me about from about 35 years ago when I started harmonica. Would have been great to have met him… RIP
@@MrFrenchHarp I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be right to share it. Terry was very open about his past and life with his parents.
As far as I know from what I've been told, Terry McMillan's death has never been formally investigated. According to one of his sons, Adam, the medical examiner listed his cause of death as a drug overdose. Which, if true, was honestly very sad but also not surprising considering how open he was with his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction. However, there were some reported cases of him saying he died of heart issues like congestive heart failure. I'm not sure what he died from myself and it's a very sensitive topic for his family to bring up as they lost a very talented husband and father of 3 kids on Groundhog Day 2007.
I would've loved to meet Terry, but I just turned 5 when he died. I heard he was a really sweet and funny guy, despite what country harmonica elitists like to tell me and you. He is a huge inspiration for me as a musician and I've met so many people like my teacher and good friend Todd Parrott (look him up if you haven't heard him play, the McMillan influence runs through his blood), who also shares that same influence. I never got to meet Terry, but I have the next best thing, a few friends who were influenced by him.