Peter Madcat Ruth is a harmonica virtuoso living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Madcat also sings and plays ukulele, guitar, baritone guitar, jaw-harp, and kalimba.
Madcat plays Blues, Folk music, Jazz, Americana music, Country Music, American roots music, World music, and many other types of eclectic improvisational music.
In the 1970s, Madcat recorded with and toured with New Heavenly Blue, Sky King, and Dave Brubeck (Two Generations of Brubeck).
For 24 years, Madcat and Shari Kane played as a duo called Madcat & Kane.
Madcat recorded with, and toured in Brazil with the Big Joe Manfra Blues Band.
Madcat currently performs and records with the C.A.R.Ma. Quartet.
Happy birthday! I saw you live in Worcester Mass and got your autograph. Hope you had a good day! I got my first real harmonica recently. Marine Band! Awesome performance…. I liked the vocals a lot
Tinha quase certeza que conhecia você mas não me vinha logo a memória. Mas depois de um copo de vinho lembrei de um brother gaitista que foi entrevistado por Jô Soares,que na época usava uma camiseta tye dye,e pensei: É o cara. Tô inscrito no canal e ao lêr sobre sua carreira musical,'' Pimba'',eu estava ou melhor estou certíssimo. Você ' É o Cara'. Jô Soares infelizmente faleceu ano passado uma grande perda para a cultura ,ele era fã na veia de blues e muitos artistas internacionais do blues passaram em seu programa. Sua música faz minha cabeça e minha alma e espírito agradecem.❤
Muito bom esse arranjo para esse clássico do blues. O Coruja deve está dando um sorriso e abençoando vocês por manterem o legado. Canned Forever. Sucesso e forte abraço do frio Sul do Brasil! Acompanhado de um vinho, é tudo de bom.
Could you guys do the song "Huautla" by Canned Heat? I think you all would enjoy it, it involves harmonica, bongos and drums, and is one of my favorite jams they do.
thanks! So lemme get this straight - the "original" diatonics were done in richter, then the blues people made the "modern" tuning, and now for folk/celtic/irish/etc you need to go out of your way to find that fancy-shmancy richter tuning?
No, the Blues guys didn't invent another tuning; they just played it differently. Their scale begins on the 4th increment of the scale of the backing music. (Cross harp) Then, at the turn of the 90's a certain Brendon Power sharpened the reed of 3 blow up a whole tone to create Paddy Richter tuning. Optimal for reels and jigs.
I was stopping YT videos to copy riffs from James Cotton and Kim Wilson. I can’t get them like they play them, but I know what’s going on and I can get them one by one. Madcat though, there’s still a lot of mystery for me. His video New Harmonica Boogie confounds me.
I'll always remembering you playing this song at the 1980 SPAH convention... I actually recorded it with my cassette recorder. A great start to introducing blues diatonic players to SPAH !
