Dog My Cat

Harry Manx

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 3, 2001)
• Original Release Date: July 3, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Northern Blues
• ASIN: B00005LN0L
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #219,266 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Harry Manx's music has been called an 'essential link' between the music of the East and the West. He studied in India for 5 years under VM Bhatt (who won a grammy award in 1994 with Ry Cooder for their CD, Meeting By The River) where he learned to play the Mohan Veena - a 20 string Indian slide guitar. On Dog My Cat, Harry plays the Mohan Veena on 4 songs, and also plays regular lap slide guitar, harmonica and combines them all with superb vocals. All blues, but with an Indian flavor.

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 (REAL NAME)

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 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

By	applewood (everywhere and nowhere) - See all my reviews

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.