downing lunch as Hill cradled his harmonica and wailed another chorus of "If I don't find my baby, I'm gonna get drunk and lose my mind."After singing the blues on Bartholemew Street, Hill grabbed ...

Here, then, is a list of five great blues-harmonica players who have applied their skills and their instrument to jazz songs. Charlie Musselwhite was raised on blues music. Born in Mississippi in ...

This year, his BLUES HARMONICA BLOWOUT features Charlie Musselwhite, Curtis Salgado, Billy Boy Arnold and Sugar Ray Norcia, gathered for an electric night of blues on Stage One. Mark Hummel'S ...

“Working harmonica player” can bring to mind such thoughts as, “No wonder you have the blues!” or, “What’s your day job?” But you can scratch that thinking when it comes to ...

A harmonica is a versatile, compact, light-weight, hand-held melody maker that’s been used from work songs to blues to jazz and rock ‘n’ roll since the instruments were mass produced in the ...

Mark Hummel didn’t set out to be an impresario. He had no burning ambition to corner the market on the world’s greatest blues harmonica players. But after getting a bracing shot of energy from ...

Each of these trends influenced folk, rock and soul players, from Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder to John Popper of Blues Traveler. The harmonica’s timeless sound continues to be as urgent as an ...

Phil Wiggins, a blues harmonica virtuoso who embraced the jaunty Piedmont style and toured the world as part of a duo celebrating a distinctive musical form that was revived in clubs and impromptu ...