Sam Harris

Not to end up being confused with Broadway performers, Motown performers, or soccer tacklers from the same name, Sam Harris was an early on country blues tempo guitarist who followed bassist partner Marco Washington in to the ranks from the Dallas String Music group, an innovative dark string music group that was a big area of the Tx blues scene from the later ’20s. Harris’ history was about as blues-drenched as you could easily get, including a stint with the first combos of Sonny Guy Williamson I or John Lee Williamson. The Dallas String Music group was barely a directly blues music group, playing a multitude of ragtime and pop materials and having a dual mandolin lineup on slightly below a dozen edges trim for Columbia, aswell as a straight larger and even more uncommon instrumentation including violin, trumpet, and clarinet, that hardly ever made it in to the documenting studio. The 3rd founding person in the music group was Coley Jones, a bluesman who began playing electric guitar in minstrel displays before switching to mandolin. Blind Lemon Jefferson was thought to possess sat along with the music group every once in awhile, and Jones afterwards changed Harris with non-e apart from the renowned T-Bone Walker, either the nephew or stepson of playing partner Washington, based on who is informing the story. The group concocted many original numbers which have resided on through a number of cover versions, like the exciting “Dallas Blues,” a finger-picking feature for Stefan Grossman, yet others: the corny “Hokum Blues” as well as the wonderful “Chasin’ Rainbows,” that was included in Robert Crumb’s Cheap Fit Serenaders.