Dog My Cat

Harry Manx | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 3, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Northern Blues
• ASIN: B00005LN0L
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #384,671 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Can't Be Satisfied

2. Bring That Thing

3. Good Morning Stranger

4. Reuben's Train

5. Lay Down My Worries

6. Rag Bihag (Dusk Rag)

7. Sunday Morning Ascension

8. Baby Please Don't Go

9. Brick and Stone

10. Song For William

11. Love Ain't No Game

12. Shame Shame Shame

13. Rag Jog (Evening Rag)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blues with depth and a touch of Indian soul, December 22, 2003

By 

Jeremy Hull (Winnipeg Manitoba (Canada)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dog My Cat (Audio CD)

I have owned this record for a couple of years now and it gives me a good feeling every time I play it. It is mainly a blues record, drawing on the "deep river" of the blues tradition but it also draws on Harry's experiences in India. He plays both a slide guitar and an instument called a Mohan veena, a cross between a guitar and a sitar. Most of the 13 tracks are either classic blues numbers or Harry's own blues compositions, but 3 tracks are very much in the Indian tradition - he calls them "rags" but they sound more like ragas. He uses the Mohan veena sparingly and effectively on the blues numbers in such a way that he never leaves the province of the blues but brings India along for the ride. It's great, understated music with a generally very mellow feel.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great feel, June 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Dog My Cat (Audio CD)

This guy rocks, although in a rather unconventional way. He is a master guitarist, and he seems to draw from old American traditional feels, but somehow blends it with an exquisite eastern vibe.. He might be a genius.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sultry Meditative Blues, December 31, 2003

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applewood (everywhere and nowhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dog My Cat (Audio CD)

This is Manx's first CD and is full of great deeply felt and played blues. He is a wonderful musician playing equally well on Lap Slide, Mohan Veena (the 20 stringed Indian slide), and Harmonica while singing in a mellow expressive way (a bit like Van Morrison on ASTRAL WEEKS). It is hard to believe he is playing alone sometimes (the liner notes say he is with only the occational overdub). I love this stuff and highly recommend it to anyone who appreciates great slide playing, especially for its transformative/meditiative quality.