Blisters

From the 1973 album Deliver The Word¹ by War² here’s the final track, “Blisters.”  A tune that inspires me to envision an old porch during the summer drought somewhere out on the delta as evening has settled in.

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“I had always wanted to record a whole section of just harmonicas, then have one other instrument play lead, so I told (saxophonist) Charles Miller, ‘I have an idea I want to try.’  First I laid down six harmonica parts.  Then I recorded my foot tapping and my fingers snapping.  And then I had Charles play sax on top of that, and that was it,” explained the song’s writer Lee Oskar. – from the CD liner notes written by Barry Alfonso

1. purchase Deliver The Word at CD Universe↩
2. Official War Website↩
3. About War – Wikipedia↩

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