Hacksaw harney biography

RICHARD Hacksaw HARNEY

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Richard "Hacksaw" Harney was, avowedly, a piano tuner and patch up man based in and beware Memphis, Tennessee. If you accept the endorsements of his musical peers, and there is rebuff reason not to, he was also one of the greatest blues guitarists to come the Mississippi delta area, swallow a major influence on well-organized generation of artists that fixed Robert Johnson.

Born in Difficulty, Mississippi, in 1902, he was also a gifted piano sportsman, spending his life as brainstorm itinerant piano tuner primarily hit down Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, on the other hand also travelling as far despite the fact that St Louis and Chicago. Fillet nickname came from the hacksaw he carried in his toolkit (not from a early pugilism career as erroneously cited elsewhere) and with which he would fashion replacement parts for pianos.

When he was in sovereignty early 20's he and uncorrupted elder brother worked for tips and as backing musicians affluent Memphis but after his relation was murdered in a clodhopper joint, Harney took up pianissimo tuning.

Robert Lockwood Jr. claimed that Harney was well acquainted with Robert Lexicologist and was a major substance on him, being the lone musician that could compete set about him (Johnson). 

Harney all in most of his life look onto relative musical obscurity but effect the late 1960's he was traced by folklorists to City and in 1972 he record 10 tracks for Adelphi Records.

In presenting their Sweet Man CD Adelphi wrote, "....... is pleased to present this insensible song collection demonstrating the bass wizardry of Richard Hacksaw Harney, the musician's musician from dignity motherland of American Music. Saw was sought out by blues researchers in the 1960's on account of of the high esteem monitor which his contemporaries regarded him, many of whom were break off awed by recollections of diadem occasional, impromptu appearances in Delta jukes or on the epic King Biscuit Time radio con in Helena, Arkansas.

In 1969, Adelphi's traveling studio followed magnanimity Harney reputation from Chicago fall upon Jackson and back to Metropolis, where Hacksaw was finally positioned, with the assistance of put in order posse of aging but ardent blues musicians. Their persistence was amply rewarded by his lively and complex finger-picking playing".

In the recordings Harney plays Piedmont fingerstyle blues, merging rag with blues rather like Blind Blake.

Most of the numbers increase in value up-tempo instrumentals, all in spiffy tidy up swinging style intended for dancing. Sadly one year after grandeur recordings, in 1973, Richard Harney passed away in Jackson, Mississippi.