September 2009
Satan and Adam
http://www.satanandadam.com/ Satan and Adam is an unlikely guitar and harmonica duo that built up a sound and an audience playing on the streets of New York in the 1980s. The duo’s unique sound came from electric guitarist Sterling (Satan) Magee’s propulsive, funky rhythm sound and the percussion instruments he played with his feet, combined with [...]
Junior Wells
Simply one of the greatest bluesmen in history. Listen to the classic Electric Blues sound he helped invent, along with Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, in Chicago in the 1940s. Wells’ work paved the way for everyone from Eric Clapton to Jimi Hendrix and beyond. His baritone shouts, moans, soars, growls, and pleads; his harmonica [...]
FREE Harmonica TABS ! For 1000′s of Songs!
Hey Blues Harp Players: For the newbies like me – here is a great website with thousands of FREE TABS to help you learn songs on your harmonica. A TAB is like sheet music for someone who can not read sheet music. It will show the notes for a song with numbers representing each [...]
Bill “Jazz” Gillum
Bill “Jazz” Gillum was an Early Blues harmonica player best known for his work with Big Bill Broonzy. He played in a Pre-War, pre-Sonny Boy(s) Williamson style largely constructed by himself — a high-ended, keening wail and he worked as a sideman on countless records of the era. Upon his return from WWII, his [...]
James Cotton
Within the realm of Chicago Blues, there were few harp-blowers more impassioned and soulful than James Cotton. His career began in Memphis where he recorded a few singles for Sam Phillips in the early 50s. When Muddy Waters and his band came to town, James Cotton ended up taking the place of Little Walter. [...]
William Clarke
Clarke was a master of the blues harmonica, particularly the chromatic harp, a type of harmonica with a much wider tonal range than a regular one. He was a protégé of the great Los Angeles blues artist and chromatic harp specialist George “Harmonica” Smith. Clarke thoroughly absorbed the Chicago Blues harmonica styles of folks [...]
Sonny Terry
Born into a musical family, the blind Sonny Terry learned how to play harmonica to earn his keep, and ended up creating a signature sound widely admired and perhaps even more widely imitated. Terry toured for years with Brownie McGhee, riding a wave of renewed interest in folk music that began in the late [...]
Billy Boy Arnold
After a short tutoring period from Sonny Boy Williamson, Billy Boy Arnold rose to prominence for his meaty and jagged blues harmonica work. Through a convincing mix of rural Mississippi blues and more modern Chicago electric style blues, Arnold produced solid pop-oriented blues records in the late ‘50s. He also performed on Bo Diddley’s [...]
Black Cat Bone
Black Cat Bone are very good at slipping in to a laid-back groove and driving it for all it’s worth. Swanky harmonica solos, funky chicken guitar and soulful blues wails. – Jessy Terry Harping The Blues! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harpingtheblues.com%2F108%2Fblack-cat-bone%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Black+Cat+Bone’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: Black Cat Bone, blues, harmonica, harp, swanky
Curtis Salgado
Hearty, soulful blues led by Salgado’s rich vocal belting and blues harp playing. Before embarking on his strong solo efforts, Salgado was also lead singer for the Robert Cray Band as well as Roomful of Blues. – Jessy Terry Harping The Blues! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harpingtheblues.com%2F106%2Fcurtis-salgado%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Curtis+Salgado’; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: blues, blues [...]