Paul Harrington, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (MBH.187)

Your host, Adam Gussow, previews a terrific new album by Texas harp ace Paul Harrington, focusing on "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," a soul-jazz classic by pianist Joe Zawinul.

If you're interested in ordering Harrington's album, HARMONICA SOUL SERENADE, you can purchase it directly from him. Contact paulharp (at) aol (dot) com.

Gussow also talks about the process of achieving mastery on the harp: "What you sweat for is what you earn and own."

If you'd like to learn this song, Gussow offers a video tutorial and tab sheet.

Video: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/5007515-mercy-mercy-mercy-mov

Tab: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/5007516-mercy-mercy-mercy-pdf

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• paul
• harrington
• harmonica
• soul
• serenade
• harp
• adam
• gussow

[camilo862]

Hey Adam. I would love (and I think others will do the same) if you did a lesson for Groovy People, one of your greater songs, at least for me. I can play the first part, but after mister Satan starts singing is very hard to understand what you are playing there, as the amplified tone is not very strong in that cut. Well i hope that you read this at least. Cheers, and thanks!

[KudzuRunner]

Thanks for the reqest. I'll try to do that.

[Timrose89]

Some band in the 60's put some lyrics to this! do you remember who?

[KudzuRunner]

Several jazz singers do that. Ernestine Anderson has a particularly nice version. Marlena Shaw may also have a version.

[DesertRatDan]

Thanks Adam. I'm struggling big time but I'm not going to give up. I didn't learn how to prepare taxes or do financial statements overnight either, but I'm damn good at it now.

[KudzuRunner]

Exactly. Have a one-month plan, a six-month plan, a one-year plan, and a five-year plan for improvement. Six months is basically the horizon. Then work on your stuff every day, record what you do, play it back in the evening or on the weekend, figure out what's working, what's new, what's lame, etc. Over time, you'll lift your game..

[aloliver331]

Nice lesson Adam, remember the 10,000 hour rule: 10,000 hours to mastery. That's an hour a day for 27 years. Surrendered patience to the process is the greatest lesson harmonica playing has ever taught me.

[hessonr]

Picked up your lessons on mercy mercy mercy tonight! Couldn't resist that song just gets me. So glad you had some non blues things out there! Hopefully I'll catch ya in Philly soon.

[awkent100]

i have seen paul many times, he is a master of changing harps in the middle of a song. he sometimes plays 2-4 harps on the same song, so its hard to tell what he is doing sometimes because of this.

[lynnwoodham]

good pep talk , the Buckinghams covered this tune they also had some more Hits around 1967or so "KIND OF A DRAG" Susan" and onemore called' Dont You Care'.im a guitar player and I have a friend named David Brown who grew up with Stevie Ray Vaughn In Oak Cliff he told me a story of how SRV would turn his back to them when he did a solo so they couldn't see what he was doing I thought that was really funny this was back when they both were in school .

[dressagegal]

thank you for the post, you are awesome

[camilo862]

That would be great! And thanks for the quick answer. Greetings from south America!!

[dmdevolder]

Bet you're thinking of The Buckinghams, 1967.

[lvman101]

Adam, as always your videos have words of wisdom. I think it was you or Jason in one of your videos that said,"It is not the years you have been playing, it's the hours." Adam, thank you again for all your help and I practice everyday because of you.

Oh, one more thing, love the Adam and Dave sound. Great music!!!!!!