Alan Wilson, Essential link Co-founder of the blues band, Canned Heat, Alan Wilson had one of the crispest tones of any harmonica player in popular music. The musician sung with a high falsetto ...

This underrated harmonica player grew up in a sharecropper’s family in the Mississippi Delta, just like many of the blues legends he’d accompany throughout his career. Music making was a ...

As a young man, Jerry Portnoy certainly didn’t expect or plan to have a career as a blues harmonica player. He’d already been on a roulette wheel of life paths: failed college student ...

“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 ...

When COVID hit, there was no more touring — and no more getting clean. Living in a trailer in Lawrence, he did drugs — mostly ...

Hummel, a Grammy-nominated and Blues Music Award-winning Bay Area harmonica player and leader of the Blues Survivors, first became interested in the instrument after hearing it used by bands such ...

Phil Wiggins, a blues harmonica virtuoso who embraced the jaunty ... Mr. Wiggins met a guitar player who had emerged as a star from the city’s Piedmont blues scene, John Cephas.

Marty Kool is an avid fan of blues harmonica players. So, he’s pleased RJ Mischo & His Red Hot Blues Band are slated to perform at KXCI’s 11th annual House Rockin’ Blues Review.

Tucson blues fans might recognize a face or two among SoCal blues harmonica player R.J. Mischo’s Red Hot Blues Band at Friday’s 11th annual KXCI House Rockin’ Blues Review concert.

For the last two decades he has contributed his vocal and harmonica skills to the funk and rhythm-and-blues band War. “Mitch was only 19 when I first heard him, he was already good then ...