Browsing: Harmonica

Editor’s note: This is part two of our interview with the scholar, memoirist, and blues harmonica player. You can find…

The album will be available on CD exclusively to the Music Maker Listeners Circle on June 1 and will be available to the general public streaming July 1.

Singer-guitarist T-Model Ford digs into a perfect bit of pure, unpolished down-home blues on “Mean Old Frisco,” the new single from Bob Corritore & Friends!

“The way I play tends to be not with notes or phrases but with expression—little bursts of expression.” – Corky Siegel

The instrumentals on ‘Bad Man’ featuring Martin on harp are at times laconic, displaying a studied insouciance, an almost blasé casualness — a free and easy approach that actually isn’t casual at all

“I’m learning to play the style of music that they played back in the day and mixing it with mine.”

Charlie Sayles will be the first to tell you that he’s not a straight ahead Chicago blues player. He takes a more mongrelized approach.

Featuring four string instrumentalists, a tabla player, and Corky at the helm on harmonica, vocals and piano, this ensemble brings together chamber music with the blues. 

Today, Phil Wiggins is the only living player of the instrument to hold the prestigious honor of “Master of Traditional Arts.”

To not see his live performance would be cheating yourself of the opportunity to hear today’s soul of the blues.