Local blues harmonica player — and Rhythm Room owner — Bob Corritore could not have picked a better title for his latest release. That Taboo is an all-instrumental album is rare enough these days in ...
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 ...
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ... Telarc Blues culls their considerable holdings to provide a wholly satisfying collection of contemporary blues harmonica by contemporary and ...
“Classic Harmonica Blues,” out on May 21, features 20 tracks by the blues’ greatest harmonica players. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings In the early 20th-century, southern black ...
My, my, how time does fly. Seems like it was just July and now August is slipping away in a sweat-slicked haze of heat, humidity and rain — and music. The musical doldrums didn’t seem to sap the life ...
Doug Harris finds that the blues come in many hues. Over the course of the past 15 years and through the various incarnations of the bands that bear his name, he’s procured a sound that’s been ...
Rob Fletcher performs jazz, blues and vintage pop throughout New England. An exceptional vocalist, chromatic harmonica player and guitarist, he performed original music at Woodstock ’94 (350,000 ...
Ray Bonneville is an architect, of sorts. The Canadian-born traveling musician and self-styled "song and groove man" has also fought in Vietnam (as a Marine), worked as a taxi cab driver (who taught ...
THE Spikedrivers hammer home their infectious grooves at Blues at the Farm, Billericay, on Saturday afternoon. Ben Tyzak, guitar, vocals and harmonica, Constance Redgrave, bass and percussion, plus ...
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