Tag Archives: James Cotton / Junior W – Harp Attack!

He was 1 poor dude, strutting over the stage just like a harp-toting gangster, mesmerizing the masses along with his tough-guy antics and rib-sticking Chicago blues assault. Amazingly, Junior Wells held at precisely this type of point for over 40 years; he was a dynamic performer from your dawn from …

In the ’70s, harmonica guy Billy Branch was among the young upstarts assisting to keep carefully the Chicago blues sound alive; in the 21st hundred years, he’s matured into among the Windy City’s many venerable blues abilities, so that as a musician and educator, Branch provides spread the term about …

His put on the honor move of Chicago blues harpists way back when assured, Carey Bell truly arrived to his own within the ’90s being a bandleader with terrific discs for Alligator and Blind Pig. He discovered his exclusive harmonica riffs through the Windy City’s absolute best (both Walters — …

At his high-energy, 1970s peak like a bandleader, James Cotton was a jumping, sweaty, whirling dervish of the bluesman, roaring his vocals and everything but sucking the reeds correct from his defenseless little harmonicas along with his prodigious lung power. Because of throat complications during his second option years, Cotton’s …