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"Vietnam Blues is a great recording featuring some hot harmonica playing and top-notch musicians. Sarge Lintecum, harmonica player and vocalist, musically recounts his Vietnam horror and its aftermath, while delivering a very healing message and a poignant one.

Sarge has turned his three torturous tours of Vietnam into something good... a fabulous recording. He has woven a musical tapestry of blues, using his Vietnam experience and the resultant crippling feelings and pain which affected him physically, mentally and emotionally. This is truely the BLUES!

Sarge's message is a very timely one, set to some great music, which all vets, America and the world needs to hear. My hat is off to this fabulous, talented man and his wonderful wife, Nan, for supporting him through his torment and anguish and encouraging him to share his music and poetry with others.

It is through his lyrics and the music that Sarge has at last found some measure of peace. His desire to share this "cure" with others has resulted in "Vietnam Blues". It is one man's powerful message and a positive catalyst for healing and change."

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There's no one in the pop music world quite like Lee Oskar. His unique role as a founding member and former lead harmonica player for the pioneer funk/jazz group, WAR, won him international renown for over two and a half decades (1969-1993). Oskar's signature harp solos helped define the WAR sound from the band's beginning in 1969, adding dashes of color to their R&B/Jazz/Rock and Latin influences. Oskar's position with WAR was a prominent one from their early days with Eric Burdon onwards. Audiences have marvelled at his improvisational wizardry, not to mention his animated stage presence.

A number of years ago Sarge bought his first Lee Oskar harmonica. Sarge was so impressed with the Lee Oskar harp that he sent a cassette of his "Vietnam Blues" to the address on the paper insert in the harp case. A few months later Lee called Sarge and told him that he loved Sarge's "Vietnam Blues", and he wanted to come to Phoenix and jam with Sarge and the players on Sarge's recording. Sarge told him that he did a lot of benefits for worthy causes (to help him heal from the war), and Lee loved the idea.

Now this is where, Leslie, Sarge's wife, comes in. Leslie makes it possible for Sarge to keep up with his vigorous schedule. She produces all of the benefits that she and Sarge put on. Working with the Rhythm Room Blues Bar in Phoenix, Leslie produced "Harmonicas Against Hunger" for St. Mary's Food Bank, starring Lee Oskar and Sarge, and featuring all four of the other harmonica players on Sarge's recording.

Between recording, performing and running his immensely successful harmonica company, Lee Oskar has still made the time to come to Phoenix and perform at Sarge and Leslie's benefits on four occasions to the date of this writing. We at Mr. & Mrs. Sarge Enterprises would like to thank Lee Oskar and his wife, (also named) Leslie, for their wonderful support and cherished friendship.

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