Can you be dead for more than ten years and still be called alive and kicking? Harry Muskee does. The blues legend passed away on September 26, 2011 from cancer. But the music and many other memories are still there.
Harry’s Blues is one of them. Until now. Because the Radio Drenthe program is ending. Even now, the music will always remain.
‘Let’s make something beautiful out of it’, sounds through the airwaves of Drenthe on October 1991. They are the first words Harry Muskee and Albert Haar say to each other during their blues adventure on the radio. Harry’s Blues is born.
Haar already thought long before the establishment of Radio Drenthe that there should be a blues program. “There had to and would be a program with Harry Muskee. As an icon of Drenthe. He has put Drenthe on the map, just like Daniël Lohues did later,” Her looks back.
When the first radio waves in Drenthe hit the airwaves, it is no problem to get Muskee warm for his own program. Blues should be heard on the radio, he believes. “Radio Drenthe was the vehicle that had to do that for him. He had nothing to do with everything that came from Hilversum,” said Haar.