got a harmonica, maybe i can play my own blues.o listen to it, it would feel even better to play it. so i would just go out in the woods and start teaching myself my own blues. it just took over. the blues overtook me. tavis: so you're self talk. >> the harmonica is the only instrument you can see what you're doing, or anyone else. you are really on your own. it's the only instrument you breathe in and out of and you can see what you're doing. [laughter] tavis: speaking of mr. mintz, -- their instruments speaking of instruments, are their instruments that you just have a complete adoration for, that as often as you can, you want to include them on your projects? >> not one in particular. i let the song lead the charge, in a way. tavis: i only ask that because i just find that whenever i hear a harmonica, which isn't terribly often these days, whenever i hear it, it stops me dead in my tracks. in part i think because of what charlie just described, what you are actually going through to get that sound out. every time i hear it, whet

for clay lopez, doing time led him to the harmonica. >> i am almost 50, i will be over 50 when i getnow, filearn to play the harmonica, i can play my own rent, even as a street mukigz, if i am sober, i think i will do okay. i started to play better when i lost this tooth. i started getting the twangy sound, i was never so happy to lose a tooth. it makes it sound really good. >> you can play what you feel without reading music. i have tried to play guitar, piano. all kinds of stuff. i never would not that i am going anywhere with this. but i know a few songs, mostly himinals, gospel songs and a few of my own. it express says me. >> lopez was serving a 20-year sentence on 27 counts of bugulary, it was exposure to those serving life terms, to pay tribute. >> i can sing the last verse, it goes, ain't done no wrong since the days of old ♪ ♪ out in california, ain't when i am carried away ♪ ♪ in the coroner's car ♪ tell the warden to ship me to the dixie line ♪ ♪ the only way they are going to get out, when the angels come down pick them up and take them home. that is why it has that sound

. ♪ ♪ >> that's 21-year-old dan owen on the guitar and the harmonica. known as blues boy dan owen.s about to blow your socks off with his rendition of "little red rooster" by willie dixon ♪ i've got my little red rooster. >> 21-year-old dan owen. ♪ my hound begins to howl >> that's not a voice when you're 21. that's a voice after playing in bars, smoking a cigarette. >> he's been posting youtube videos, getting a lot of attention. one of the videos grabbed attention of mick fleetwood, rock star from fleetwood mac fame. imagine this kid's star is rising. and we have him via skype "right this minute" to tell us all about his career. you are absolutely fantastic, my friend. what do you tap into to create this kind of richness in your voice? >> i don't really know. i think it's just something that happens. >> wait a minute. englishman now? >> i know. >> completely different. >> it's weird hearing your real voice. >> i've heard that a few times. ♪ >> what was it like hearing from mick fleetwood? >> one of the good days. you come over to england, i played for him, we went out for dinner

so i don't have a career or anything, so i thought, well, you know, if i learn to play the harmonica,even as a street musician, if i'm sober. i think i'll do okay. ♪ i started to play the harp better when i lost this tooth. i started getting the twanging sound the way it was supposed to sound. i was never so happy to lose a tooth. makes this harp sound real good. ♪ you can play what you feel without reading music, and i've tried to play guitar, piano, all kinds of stuff, and i never went anywhere, and not that i'm going anywhere with this, but, i know a few songs, mostly hymnals, gospel songs, and a few of my own, and it just expresses me. >> lopez was serving a 20-year sentence on 27 counts of burglary. but it was his exposure to inmates serving life terms that inspired him to pay them tribute through his songs. >> i just wanted to do something for the lifers to kind of express them. i could sing the last verse and it speaks for itself. goes -- ♪ ain't done no wrong since the days of old ♪ ♪ out in california ain't no other road ♪ ♪ when i'm carried away in the cold ♪ ♪ someone tell

poured it on the activites that he didn't get to that i would be up to lead the team by design and harmonica and a smile on his from the good thing to be flowing and extend its combined might of nineteen sixty eight hundred and ninety nineteen ninety. yet stupid and i stomped him that i teach piano and love the design of my things and i tightened. maybe i was inspired by faint smoke will be roommates lot of kids and it's not like that. awesome weekend. with just keeps getting better. the pride he said he did. gary does the trick that are going to love. this excess of ten we can now do not know everything and it is accepted that the monday copy of my feet and stone the petition and that he is in the printed text is the top thanks to jack in the team needs the act of ramadan are still pieces and mix. cakes and tight and coffee ice on them honestly. today since i had my chance to get used to get their study is unique. after that. andy and me. i didn't buy. i've not been seen by the morning the light of that i gave the end of things that need to. i had the basics and we had a great picture. keen

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