Kim Wilson-Fflat

[@yoannlardent9787]

Pffff sometimes we forget how strong this very man is... What a rythm flow, what a creativity and such a clean sound. The absolute boss of traditional US blues harp. 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[@BuddyBluesMan]

I've been a fan of Kim Wilson since the late 70's when I saw him with The Fabulous Thunderbirds at Rockefellers in Houston. But this performance could be my favorite. What taste and technique! Super.

[@epicoutdoorracin2010]

This sizzling hot harmonica boogie Kim Wilson is playin' is called "F Fat", check it out on I-Tunes, he's got the rest of his band backing him up on the I-Tunes version. Kim Wilson makes this look easy, but really, a person could drive themselves out of there mind trying to play as good as this. Keep on playin' man!

[@19522752]

Awesome playing from Kim set of lungs like a barrage balloon. met him on his U.K. tour this year, lovely guy. keep on rockin.

[@stratman1967]

He was actually holding a chord and playing a single note at the same time!Kim Wilson is a monster on the harp!

[@astragreen]

It's hard real hard to get it that's why your hardly ever to hear any real players getting it as perfect as kim I haven't even heard Charlie McCoy attempt it an he's the top session player well was since the late 60s Anyway!

[@norfolknwhey4787]

@@astragreenit greatly helps to have a customized harp so there’s zero air leakage, allowing the octave/bent note to be held. Kim was playing Filisko custom harps at this time.

[@Videowatcher76]

Got to meet Kim after his show with the Fabulous Thunderbirds at the Mt Wachussett blues Festival in Massachusetts in August this year , what a nice , nice guy.

[@bluesharp3515]

Can't stop watching this beautiful!!!!!

[@JoeyFiveandDimes]

Just heard Kim & Fab T-Birds at Avila Blues Fest ( FREE this year !) and Kim did this. Great as always !

[@RobeeMan]

Kim just summoned Big Walter's spirit!One of the greatest contemporary players!

[@DrDixonBhD]

Hi Kim Dr. Dxon Bh.D here. The last time we talked you said you had a picture of me from da 70's at Liberty Hall where another cat and myself open up for Muddy Waters. Always loved your playing baby from da first time we met at Rosa's Cantina 1977 you guys forgot your mike stand, it was at da Double Doors, I said "no worries brother we'll get one for you !" ThunderBirds set da place on fire that night ! You a "Bad Boy Kim ! ", and ya know it ! Blessings, Dr. Dixon Bh.D

[@bluesharp3515]

Kim is the ultimate in tongue blocking, even at the very top end !!!!!!!! Love it :-)

[@2696ize]

Probably the sweetest blues solo I've ever heard!..WOW!

[@steamrollinstan]

Well he's coming to Sydney on 7th April 2012, .......and we will welcome this champion with open arms.......amen.

[@sindejarnoscaer]

Sin Palabras!!! Kim Wilson!!!

[@Mr_Monkey_McNugget]

1:40 2:02 Kim is holding four draw while adding rhythm by tongueing 1,2,3. To practise this first learn your octaves. e.g 1 and 4 draw while blocking holes 2,3 with your tongue, try different combos inhaling, and exhaling up and down the harp. Once you've got this, hit an octave and then on only the bottom end start going ta-ta-ta all the while maintaining the 4draw

[@astragreen]

Not at all Easy in fact its Extremely hard to get right, so much so you hardly ever hear a player attempting it certainly not the like of mayal, Dylan, Jagger ect,and all the same crowd who 'play' harp!..

[@norfolknwhey4787]

4-hole split octaves work on the blow notes, but only the 1-4 on the draw. The 2-5 split is great to use for dissonance, but it’s not an octave. Have to do a 5-hole split on the draw octaves.

[@mediumWalter]

Ooops! I've just favourited this ten times! Fantastic!

[@herbster22]

This is GREATNESS!!!!!!

[@eskmetal]

Kim Wilson is Fabulous!

[@daviddragavon7555]

Falls into the category of: I wish I learned to play the Harp when I was a kid! Double wow and a half!

[@bluestako]

That thing he does at 2.58 is just amazing!

[@juanmartinrojo2676]

That's the intro of Walter's Boogie. A tribute to a player that has influenced Kim so much.

[@tmf714]

@surrealideal-Maybe here-in the studio it's in Eb-with an Ab harp in second position-

[@SUNNYRHOADES9]

A Master Player For Sure..Peace From Canada

[@vrcoolb]

great harp playing!!!

[@GetOutsideYourself]

Virtuoso! The best harpist ever. I think Muddy wore those same shoes.

[@astragreen]

Muddy Waters never Played harmonica he had guys playing in his band, However he didn't play at Least I haven't seen Any film footage of him playing harmonica, if you have I'd love to see it?.

[@NotThatRingo]

@evilpoptart18 tongue-blocking. He's playing the single note out of one side of his mouth, with his tongue resting on the harmonica. Pulls his tongue back to hit the rhythm, then slaps it back on to go back to the single note.

[@kinkajou777]

Kim kicks butt with the harmonica!

[@ironjawz61]

You all might know this already, Kim is also known as Goleta Slim. Goleta is just north of Santa Barbara, CA.

[@rizzo5138]

mon idole à l'harmo vu en concert à f"jus avec s fabulous trop cool vive austin la ville du blues écouté ausi lou anne barton

[@xxxxharp]

Fabulous player !!!!

[@thesuperlee]

awesome. especially liked part at roughly 1:10 and the nifty riff at the end.

[@stephenbouchelle7706]

I got some serious woodshed time coming up on that tongue blocking bit.

[@angrykoopa]

the latter, it's a music theory joke since f flat major uses the exact same notes as E major, which is the key he's jamming in :)

[@imaginess]

Great performance....does anyone know if its available on DVD?

[@ThomasToussaint90]

Friends don't let friends clap on the 1 and 3!

[@astragreen]

It that comment a code? 1 and 3, or have I missed something?.. Perhaps you been on the Brandy 1 and 3 i ask you!

[@coldlava101]

Some people can really play the harp. And then there’s Mr. Wilson

[@davidfriedman6224]

Saw him last night with his great band. He did this forever, and no one clapped on the one and three. On this video he cut it short because of the distraction. Those people are not worth it, if they don't get it.

[@jessupar]

@evilpoptart18 my guess is that he used his tongue to block the chord and released it in time to make a rythm part out of it while playing another note unblocked.

[@Averagekiddd]

@CaguamaTom Hey, Could i ask u a question? what's a tongue blocked octaves vibrato...?

[@imaginess]

I watched the video back to see if I could tell which harp he was using. The cover plates would lead me to believe he is using a Marine Band here. He is playing an A harp in the Key of E (2nd pos)

[@bluescruiser]

Haha, great! Just great!

[@MrTryphodemos]

Preach, brother!

[@fabtbirdsblues185]

Trop Fort Kim !

[@srrlIdl]

@tmf714 no, the song is in E, so he uses a A harp.

[@larrypalet]

he's getting there

[@RRijlart]

Good Job Dude.

[@tmf714]

The song is in Eb-Kim is using an Ab harp in second position.

[@AdvancedLawn]

This is on an A harp. I’m e. The studio version is on an Ab

[@clocktick123]

Pow fwesh !!

[@eskmetal]

I think he's using a A Major Lee Oscar harp and I think it's a Astatatic Jt30 mic as "harpampmatti" said" Kim Wilson is THE MAN!!!!!

[@paulburgess8296]

It's simply called " The Holy Spirit" I hope we can all recognize it when we see or hear it .

[@spec20]

I agree, but I think they moved it up to Sep 15th . Damn GQ mag!!!

[@banzaiHCH]

amazing

[@caracho1980]

@evilpoptart18 THAT`S THE WAY THE TONGUE BLOCKER IS GOING! :-)

[@tu1949]

On a piano keyboard or guitar fretboard there are no sharps/flats between E-F and B-C so they aren't catered for in music notation. However, some instruments can 'bend' between these notes, I don't know what they'd be referred to but not B#/ Cb nor E#/Fb as they don't officially exist. Can someone confirm this please or correct me if I'm wrong?

[@imaginess]

I dont know. I have his album and it is listed as F Fat

[@Tomlateralus3]

@Averagekiddd of course man, it doesnt mean a thing lol, I forgot the comas, is tongue blocked octaves, and vibrato, so for octaves you use the tongue and blowin harder in order to make the note go up, and vibrato well.. thats like jimmy hendrix guitar lol

[@adamsfunnyfilms]

What I meant was....AWSOME!!!

[@bluesharp3515]

yeh Hey man knows his stuff!!! Rock on Kim makes the sexiest music anyway its the best :-)

[@pinnetta]

how can 8 deafs dislike this? real blues !!!

[@MrJetplanemusic]

1:40 blows me away1

[@leeman21]

simple tongue blocking. lol

[@srrlIdl]

@evilpoptart18 not on top of that, more like at the same time: he does the rhythm with his tongue on the left, while inhaling everything.

[@mtunpleasant]

Monster!

[@meritcooper]

amazing flavor

[@adamsfunnyfilms]

nice jam man

[@AndreaValenti]

uahauahuahauhahauauaah!!! yeah!!!

[@tonylangmach9535]

Det tror jeg da Lige Min Mundharpe og jeg skal lytte intens til - Og Lære... ;o)))

[@ARTSAVA]

душевно зажигает! )

[@rabbitshirt]

Nice pointy ones.

[@centaurjf]

tongue slaps. Tongue block...lift off(to the chord)...place back...repeat =)

[@magicelliotth]

@jleer1 I'm not musical enough to know but there is a difference aparrently

[@CatPhil]

got that shit down

[@andrewmair7371]

Born Blue… 🤷🏻‍♂️👍💀✨

[@astragreen]

Unbelievable playing 90% of the population could take 60 years and couldn't get it Ask john mayal!..

[@jaggerkissmartinez1294]

Ese Kim es un monstruo

[@magicelliotth]

@jleer1 exactly. So in musical terms-Fb is E

[@rosedavila3547]

sounds cool steve venegas

[@akginganinja]

The song is called F Fat, not F Flat. It's on Looking For Trouble.

[@patcoughlin3104]

right F flat,,,,aka...E

[@danielvalentino]

dag gum boy!

[@SnatchSniffer12294]

preach

[@globe255]

@BlindTom61 Oh im sure you follow when speaking about fools.

[@atikoz1]

Это круто и ятак хочу уметь играть.

[@Kimberley255]

okay wow

[@12nites]

@evilpoptart18 with his tongue, actually is quite easy, and I'm not trying to show off

[@dan32113]

@sturryslim me to, lol...

[@DClynch]

damn ive been playing too much harp today.

[@natevance5832]

5k views are from me learning to play it

[@lowtuneduo]

cazzo!!!!!!!!!yeah

[@henrimatisse7481]

not a fan of the harmonica but I am a fan of Kim's excellent playing!

[@tmf714]

Kim uses nothing but Filisko marine bands.

[@lazur1]

@g: Negative comments,(especially unpopular ones), need perspective to have meaning: To claim a 30-years-plus internationally-acclaimed virtuoso, is "ordinary", makes it you're responsibility to name players you rank above him. I can only think of guys like Big Walter, Little Walter, & John Lee Williamson, and even they only get a higher rating for the foundational invention & influence that comes with seniority, not greater playing ability.

[@astragreen]

As I ask the clown 'do you play' perhaps he could show us how he plays this tune better! Alas no not a wimper!..

[@Hasselbladcm]

Awsome. Too bad Globe 255 can't appreciate the best when he hears it

[@BlindTom61]

@globe255 Fool...

[@joshusanders3127]

some say harmonicas not a real instrument some sadly dont feel it

[@cboyproductions]

u mean in E

[@jimday]

Sounds like James Day & the fish fry band.. Breathless !!

[@tblues9710]

no

[@sturryslim]

I wish I'd taught him all he knew. Sadly not.

[@scootersalih]

f fat or f flat? x)

[@RRijlart]

What is wrong with that?

[@Redvisorman]

8 people obviously don't play the harmonica.

[@AngelosLavkos]

globe255 What? You call this ORDINARY playing? Please upload something you play!

[@natevance5832]

How about that fkn guitarist though! It’s not easy following a improvising harp player

[@b2c095]

some people have no sense of humor...F flat is E major come on its a joke....lol