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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ... Telarc Blues culls their considerable holdings to provide a wholly satisfying collection of contemporary blues harmonica by contemporary and ...
If you ask James Montgomery if he remembers playing the Shaboo inn in Willimantic back in the day — the legendary local club that closed in 1982 — he’ll hem and haw and scratch his head and say “The ...
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 ...
Mark Hummel’s Harmonica Blowout celebrates 31 years of touring in 2024. The Blowout started on a Sunday night in 1991 at Ashkenaz in Berkeley with four harmonica players—Rick Estrin, Mark Hummel, Dave ...
The Blues Survivors will be joined for this show by Anson Funderburgh, who has won 10 W.C. Handy Blues Music Awards as a leader of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets.
Mark Hummel began playing the harmonica in 1970 and is regarded as one of the premier blues harmonica players of his generation. Thanks to over 30 recordings since 1985, including the Grammy ...
This harmonica was made by M. Hohner in Germany, undetermined date. It is a diatonic Blues Harp model in the key of E-flat major, with 10 holes and 20 reeds. It has a wooden comb, with metal cover ...
This Sunday, Nov. 6, Balding is putting on a free harmonica workshop from 1-2:30 p.m. called, “How to Get the Most Out of Your Amp.” A 30-year veteran of blues bands in Tallahassee and a ...
And yes, blues singer, harmonica master and songwriter Gary Primich wasn't raised in a shotgun shack in the Mississippi Delta or a tenement on the South Side of Chicago. Nor does he try to sound like ...
Harmonica great Jerry Portnoy relives Chicago’s blues heyday in new book “It was a wonderful time. It was the greatest gift of my life to be around all that. … ...
Blues harmonica great Mark Hummel, right, is bringing his all-star lineup including, from left, blues guitarists Junior Watson and Anson Funderburgh, to the 12th annual KXCI House Rockin’ Blues ...