As the founder and blues-drenched harmonica master of the King Biscuit Blues Band for 20 years, Ken Schoppmeyer was known as a perfectionist. If a band member played a sour note, he’d sternly, and not ...

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

Austin, Texas, September 24-- Gary Primich, considered by many to be one of the greatest harmonica players in the world, passed away suddenly on September 23rd. Not only is this the loss of a ...

Brody Buster performs as a one-man band before a Royals game at Kauffman Stadium in June. It's been twenty years since Brody Buster's first round of glory days — when he was a 10-year-old blues ...

How band came together: I [Supra] finally found 3 guys, or I should say they found me, who are some of the finest musicians I have ever come across. Our best original song: We are still working on our ...

The gift Miles Guzman got for his 13th birthday would outline the trajectory of the rest of his life. A simple $10 harmonica. Guzman, who grew up in Loveland, says he decided he wanted to be a blues ...

At a young age, the soul of the blues grabbed Eric VonHerzen by the collar and shoved itself into his pocket. In Orange County during the early ‘70s, there probably weren’t too many kids who needed it ...

Harmonica Shah has been a fixture on the Detroit blues circuit for at least 20 years and has been featured on a number of recordings with other local blues artists such as Hastings Street Grease. Shaw ...

Hear Brandon Bailey perform two songs live in the NPR studio. The harmonica is a staple of American blues, beginning with the Memphis jug bands of the 1920s. In the 1960s, blues-influenced artists ...

Frank “Iron Jaw” Oakley, L.C. Gant, and Dawayne Gilley at the Grand Emporium LaBudde Special Collections One night in 1965 inside an old club at 12th and Vine, Frank “Iron Jaw” Oakley asked Kansas ...

For the past few months, the great Chicago blues harmonica player Sugar Blue has been on the run – from the coronavirus. His flight has taken him from Shanghai to Milan to the mountains of Italy to ...

Blues harmonica virtuoso and onetime Muddy Waters sideman James Cotton died on Thursday at a medical center in Austin of pneumonia. He was 81. A rep for the musician confirmed his death. Cotton, who ...