- Little Walter
Little Walter (born Marion Walter Jacobs) (May 1 1930 - February 15 1968) was a blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist. Born in Marksville, Louisiana, Jacobs is generally included among blues music greats: Ry Cooder's opinion is that Jacobs was the single greatest blues musician ever. His revolutionary harmonica technique has earned comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix in its impact: There were great musicians before and after, … - Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is an American blues-harp player and bandleader, one of the non-African-American bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. Though he has often been identified as a "white bluesman", he claims Native American heritage. - James Cotton
James "Jimmy" Cotton (born July 1, 1935 in Tunica, Mississippi), is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter who is the bandleader for the James Cotton Blues Band. He also writes songs alone, and his solo career continues to this day. His work includes the following genres: Blues, Delta Blues, Harmonica Blues, Electric Harmonica Blues. - Junior Wells
"Junior Wells", born Amos Blakemore, was a blues vocalist and harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Lonnie Brooks, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison. - Sonny Terry
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911, Greenboro, Georgia - 11 March 1986, Mineloa, New York) was a blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts. - Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and one of the earliest white exponents of the Chicago-originated electric blues style. Paul Butterfield, a lawyer’s son, was born and grew up in Chicago. After studying classical flute as a teen, he developed a love for the blues harmonica, and hooked up with white, blues-loving, University of Chicago physics student Elvin Bishop (later of “Fooled Around and Fell In Love” fame). - Carey Bell
Carey Bell (November 14, 1936 - May 6, 2007) was an American musician who played the harmonica in the musical style of Chicago blues. Bell played harp and bass for other blues icons for decades, including Earl Hooker, Robert Nighthawk, Lowell Fulson, Eddie Taylor and Jimmy Dawkins. - Big Walter Horton
Big Walter "Shakey" Horton was an American blues harmonica player. Born Walter Horton in Horn Lake, Mississippi, he was playing a harmonica by the time he was five years old. In his early teens, he lived in Memphis, Tennessee and claimed that his earliest recordings were done there in the late 1920s with the Memphis Jug Band, although there is no documentation, and many have since disputed this claim. - Sonny Boy Williamson II
Aleck "Rice" Miller, a.k.a. Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Williamson, Willie Miller, "Little Boy Blue", "The Goat" and "Footsie," was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. - Kim Wilson
Kim Wilson is a US blues singer and harmonica player. He is best known singing lead vocals with the The Fabulous Thunderbirds on two hit songs of the 1980s "Tuff Enuff" and "Wrap It Up". - Rod Piazza
Rod Piazza (born November 18, 1947 in Riverside, California) is a blues harmonica player, singer and band leader. He has been the driving force behind Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers since 1979, along with his wife Honey Piazza on piano and upright bass player Bill Stuvee, guitarists such as Alex Schultz and Rick Holmstrom and drummer Jimmy Bott. Their boogie sound combines the styles of Jump blues, west coast blues and Chicago blues. - David Miller
Dave was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in January 2006. As USi's most senior financial officer, he leads and manages all financial functions. Dave joined USi in June 1998 as Director, Merger Integration, and has played important roles in virtually every element of USi's financial operations. In his current capacity, Dave is responsible for USi's financial reporting, analysis, and planning, as well as all finance-related activities. - Sugar Blue
Sugar Blue (born James Whiting in 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning American blues harmonica player. Sugar Blue is best known for his harmonica work with the Rolling Stones, specifically on their hit single, "Miss You". Sugar Blue was raised in Harlem, New York, where his mother was a singer and dancer at the fabled Apollo Theater. He spent his childhood among the musicians and show people who knew his mother, including the great Billie Holiday, and decided that he wanted to be a performer. - Slim Harpo
Slim Harpo was a blues musician. Born James Moore in Lobdell, Louisiana, the eldest in an orphaned family, Moore worked as a longshoreman and building worker during the late 1930s and early 1940s. One of the foremost proponents of post-war rural blues, he began performing in Baton Rouge bars under the name Harmonica Slim. He later accompanied Lightnin' Slim, his brother-in-law, both live and in the studio, … - Snooky Pryor
James Edward "Snooky" Pryor was an American blues harp player. He pioneered the thicker, amplified sound of blues harmonica. Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi and developed a Delta blues style influenced by both Sonny Boy Williamson I and Sonny Boy Williamson II. He moved to Chicago around 1940. While serving in the Army he would blow bugle calls through the powerful PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. - Jerry Portnoy
Jerry Portnoy (born 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a harmonica musician. Portnoy was born in Chicago in 1943 and brought up in the vicinity of the Maxwell Street market, where his father owned a rug store. There, among the haggling customers and traders, many of the original blues players who had drifted to Chicago from the south would set up and play for whatever loose change was dropped at their feet. Even so, it was only at the age of 25, … - Delbert McClinton
Delbert McClinton (born 4 November 1940, in Lubbock, Texas) is a blues and country musician. - Adam Gussow
Adam Gussow (b. April 3, 1958, New York City, NY) is a scholar, memoirist, and blues harmonica player. Gussow is currently an assistant professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He spent twelve years (1986-1998) working the streets of Harlem and the international club and festival circuit with Mississippi-born bluesman Sterling Magee as a duo called Satan and Adam. According to a reviewer for American Harmonica Newsletter, … - Paul Jones
Paul Jones (born Paul Pond, 24 February 1942, in Portsmouth, England) is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, and radio and television presenter. In 1962, Jones became resident-singer with Alexis Korner's Bluesbreakers (alongside Long John Baldry, both towering out above a shorter third vocalist, aspiring Michael 'Mick' Jagger). Jones then went on to be the vocalist and harmonica player of the successful 1960s group, Manfred Mann. - Don Baker
Don Baker (born August 26, 1950 in Whitehall, Dublin) is an Irish blues musician. Baker is a singer-songwriter who plays the harmonica and the guitar. He appeared in several movies, his most notable appearance being in In the Name of the Father. He also published harmonica instruction books and videos. Don Baker is a survivor. - Sonny Boy Williamson I
Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee Curtis Williamson, 30 March 1914 - 1 June 1948) was an American blues harmonica player, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson. - Magic Dick
Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz (born May 13, 1945 in New London, Connecticut) was the harmonica player for The J. Geils Band. In addition to the harmonica, Salwitz plays the trumpet (the first instrument he learned) and saxophone. He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he met John "J" Geils and Danny Klein and became a founding member of the The J. Geils Band in 1968. After the J. Geils Band parted ways in 1985, … - Mike Tetrault
The Rev. Michael Edward Tetrault (born March 6, 1956) is a legendary local blues harmonica player in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has played with many local blues bands. Although he has not appeared on any albums, his work has appeared on various live bootlegs and collections. He has not played a gig since 2002, although as of August 13, 2005, he has hinted playing at Burbank's in Sharonville, a suburb of Cincinnati. - Annie Raines
Annie Raines, born near Boston, Massachusetts, July 3 1969, took up harmonica at age 17. As a freshman, she left Antioch College to pursue a musical career. Fascinated by the sounds of Muddy Waters, Little Walter Jacobs, Big Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson, she spent countless hours listening to and absorbing the music of the Chicago blues masters. She began to busk locally and played gigs at local Boston clubs, … - Sam Myers
Sam Myers (February 19 1936 - July 17 2006) was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was born in Laurel, Mississippi. Myers appeared as an accompanist on dozens of recordings for blues artists over the past five decades, and fronted one of the top blues bands in the world. He began his career as a drummer for legendary bands, but was most famous as a blues vocalist and blues harp player. Myers was in high demand for his authentic delta blues sound. - Lester Butler
Lester Butler (1959-May 10, 1998) was an American blues harmonica player and singer. He achieved fame as the singer/harp player for the Los Angeles-based blues-roots band The Red Devils, which released one album, 1992's "King King" (produced by Rick Rubin on his Def American label). The group featured several standout musicians, include drummer Bill Bateman (The Blasters), Paul "The Kid" Size on lead guitar and pianist Gene Taylor. - Hammie Nixon
Hammie Nixon was born in 1908, in Brownsville, Tennessee. He began his music career with jug bands in the 1920s and is best known as a country blues harmonica player, but also played the kazoo, guitar and jug. He played with guitarist Sleepy John Estes for half a century, first recording with Estes in 1929 for the Victor label. He also recorded with Little Buddy Doyle, Lee Green, Charlie Pickett and Son Bonds. - Jean-Jacques Milteau
Jean-Jacques Milteau (born 1950 in Paris) is a French blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. - King Biscuit Boy
King Biscuit Boy was the stage name of Richard Alfred Newell (9 March 1944 Hamilton, Ontario - 5 January 2003, Hamilton, Ontario) a Canadian blues musician. - Cyril Davies
<BR>Cyril Davies (23 January 1932 - January 7, 1964) was one of the first English blues harmonica players and blues musician. Born at St Mildred's, 15 Hawthorn Drive, Willowbank, Denham, Buckinghamshire, near London, Davies began his career in the early 1950s first within Steve Lane's Southern Stompers, then as part of an acoustic Skiffle and Blues group with Alexis Korner. - Big Daddy Kinsey
Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey (March 18, 1927 in Pleasant Grove, Mississippi - April 3, 2001 in Gary, Indiana) was an American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. His three sons Donald, Ralph and Kenneth formed contemporary blues band The Kinsey Report, along with Ron Prince, in 1984. The Kinsey Report recorded and toured as his backing band until his death in 2001. - Bob Hite
Bob "The Bear" Hite (February 26, 1945 (social security records list 1943) - April 5, 1981) was the lead singer of blues-rock band Canned Heat from 1965 to 1981. As a young man he acquired a job in a record store and amassed a huge collection of old Blues records, which were his inspiration for becoming a musician. He was introduced to Alan Wilson by Henry Vestine and the two of them helped convince legendary blues pianist, … - Lee McBee
Lee McBee (born March 23, 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American blues musician, singer and harmonica player. Though he is primarily a Regional Blues act in the Midwest, Lee McBee gained National attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his work with Mike Morgan and the Crawl and for his band "Lee McBee & The Passions." These bands toured the United States, Canada and Europe and recorded on major blues labels. - Alan Glen
Alan Glen (born 1951, Wupperthal, Germany) is a British blues harmonica player, best known for his work with The Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero, Little Axe, and his own bands, The Barcodes (with Bob Haddrell and Dino Coccia) and The Incredible Blues Puppies (with Dino Coccia, Jim Mercer and John O'Reilly). - Pfuri Baldenweg
Pfuri Eugen Baldenweg (born 1946 in Switzerland) is a Swiss/Australian blues musician, singer and harmonica player. He lives in Byron Bay, is married to artist Marie-Claire Baldenweg and father of 3 children. Pfuri has performed in many bands and formations since the early sixties. He gained wide success in Europe during the seventies with the band Pfuri Gorps & Kniri which played blues roots music on assorted trash instruments like plastic bags, mouse traps, trash cans, … - George "harmonica" Smith
George "Harmonica" Smith (22 April 1924 - 2 October 1983) (born Allen George Smith) was an American blues harmonica player. He was also known as 'the master of the chromatic blues harmonica'. - Matthew Kelly
Matthew Kelly, also known as Matt Kelly, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He plays guitar and harmonica. Kelly is best known for being the leader of the rock band Kingfish, and for his association with Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead. - Thom Doucette
Thom "Ace" Doucette is an American blues harmonica ("harp") player from the Sarasota, Florida region. He is most known for having played with The Allman Brothers Band from the 1970s through the 2000s, although was never a member. He played harmonica and tambourine on the albums Idlewild South and At Fillmore East. - Christopher Reynolds Hammond
Christopher Hammond (1958-?) A blues musician living in Schenectady NY. He is a computer scientist at the General Electric Global Research Center and is author of multiple patents in the area of computation and decision theory. He is also the owner and operator of Dogtired Studio located in Schenectady NY. - Richard Shaw Brown
Richard Shaw Brown (A.k.a. Rick Brown) was the lead singer, harmonica player, and song writer of the 1966 anti-war Psychedelic rock group, The Misunderstood. Brown's most well-known song, I Can Take You To The Sun, is considered a psychedelic music classic. While working successfully with the band in London, Brown was drafted by the US Army to go to Vietnam, but being opposed to the war, he escaped from boot camp and left the country for India
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