Tag Archives: Harmonica Blues

Within the large stable of blues talent that Crowley, LA, producer Jay Miller documented for the Nashville-based Excello label, no-one enjoyed even more mainstream success than Slim Harpo. Only a tone behind Lightnin’ Slim in regional popularity, Harpo performed both electric guitar and neck-rack harmonica in a far more down-home …

A Canadian blues musician who got his begin using the harmonica at age 12, Paul Reddick would ultimately form the music group the Sidemen in 1990 and be a mainstay from the Canadian blues picture. Using the Sidemen, Reddick released a few — three — of full-length albums, and toured …

For originality in modern blues having a capital “o,” one want search no further than Western Coast harmonica stylist, singer, and songwriter Paul hold off. Hold off may be the freshest songwriting tone of voice to arrive onto the Western Coast blues picture since Robert Cray increased to prominence within …

Paul Butterfield was the initial white harmonica participant to develop a method primary and powerful a sufficient amount of to put him within the pantheon of true blues greats. You can’t really overestimate the significance of the doorways Butterfield opened up: before he found prominence, white American music artists treated …

With a method honed within the gritty blues bars of Chicago’s south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a white audience within the mid-’60s, and even though the band wasn’t an especially huge commercial success, its influence continues to be …

British-born, Australian-raised musician Peter Harper — known simply as Harper — began touring the U.S. in the mid-’90s, supplying up an extremely distinctive undertake the blues. Currently a renowned songwriter and harmonica participant with many albums to his credit, Harper’s incorporation from the aboriginal didgeridoo and tribal rhythms provided his …

Fronted with the tall, low fat harp-blowin’ Missourian vocalist Daddy Prolonged Legs — from whom the group derives its name — this raw and energetic outfit’s lo-fi appear is certainly positively dripping using the blues. Completing the trio with Murat Aktürk (electric guitar/vocals) and Josh Designs (drums/percussion), Daddy Longer Legs …

John Long’s uncanny capability to appear to be a prewar country blues participant — even while he plays first blues items he wrote himself or along with his older brother Claude Long — makes his music sound both just like a facsimile from the 1920s and early-’30s blues 78s he …

Michael Erlewine was an integral number in the Southeastern Michigan rock and roll and blues picture in the past due ’60s. Michael was the first choice from the Primary Movers, and together with his sibling Dan, the Erlewines had been among the best-known & most well known musicians in the …