Anyone can play a harmonica. You blow out, you draw in, attempt a chord. It sounds like something, but it’s probably not blues harp. Where guitar slingers dazzle and sting, harp players spend time in ...

Blues harmonica master Carey Bell died on May 6 of heart failure in his hometown of Chicago. He was 70. Bell – the 1998 winner of the Blues Music Award for Traditional Male Artist Of The Year – was a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This harmonica was made by M. Hohner ...

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

According to Professor Harp there has been a couple of "non-revolting developments" in his professional music career. The Boston-based blues harmonica player, who comes to Theodores’ on Worthington ...

A recent Friday, 10:21 a.m.: Sitting on a 5-gallon bucket in front of tourists waiting to get on the Powell Street cable car, Vincente "Blue" Blupriest belted out his version of the blues with a ...

Mississippi blues harp player James Cotton was certainly considered lucky for the break he got joining Muddy Waters’ band in the late 1950s, taking over a spot previously held by such venerated ...

My, my, how time does fly. Seems like it was just July and now August is slipping away in a sweat-slicked haze of heat, humidity and rain — and music. The musical doldrums didn’t seem to sap the life ...

ASPEN Several years ago, after meeting and jamming with DJ Logic at a San Francisco benefit concert, John Popper put together the John Popper Project. The quartet, a side gig from Popper’s day job as ...

No one know when the harmonica first got the blues, but WC Handy reported hearing train imitations being played on the instrument in the 1870s, and by the 1920s, after Mamie Smith hit with Crazy Blues ...