If you ask James Montgomery if he remembers playing the Shaboo inn in Willimantic back in the day — the legendary local club that closed in 1982 — he’ll hem and haw and scratch his head and say “The ...

FARGO - Charlie Musselwhite grew up in the Mississippi Delta, where the land is so fertile it doesn’t just grow cotton, it grows music. “When you’re in the Delta, you can feel the blues coming up from ...

“Harmonica virtuoso” Mark Hummel and his blues allstars will appear at KXCI’s 12th annual house rockin’ blues review benefit concert. Credit: (Mark Hummel/ Submitted) Mark Hummel is one of the hardest ...

As a young man, Jerry Portnoy certainly didn’t expect or plan to have a career as a blues harmonica player. He’d already been on a roulette wheel of life paths: failed college student, ...

Host John Ydstie talks with harmonica player and Chicago native Jerry Portnoy. Portnoy's dad worked on Maxwell Street, where there was lots of action, including a place where blues musicians jammed.

Blues harmonica player Carey Bell, who performed with both Muddy Waters’ and Willie Dixon’s bands, died Sunday in a Chicago hospital of heart failure. He was 70. Mr. Bell’s trademark sound worked well ...

For a specific generation of Koreans, playing the harmonica is a reminder of their youth and their home -- whereas not playing the harmonica for decades reminds them of what they left behind to pursue ...

Tucson blues fans might recognize a face or two among SoCal blues harmonica player R.J. Mischo’s Red Hot Blues Band at Friday’s 11th annual KXCI House Rockin’ Blues Review concert. There’s Arizona ...

When the Mohawk Valley Blues Society brought legendary Hammond B3 player Bruce Katz in for one of their events, he made the following statement, apparently contrasting it to similar organizations: “I ...

Carey Bell, 70, a Mississippi-born blues harmonica player and singer whose clipped and growling style won him wide admiration during a five-decade career, died May 6 at Kindred Hospital in Chicago, ...

During those early days of the pandemic when clubs, bars and concert venues shuttered and musicians pivoted to virtual performances on YouTube or Zoom from their living rooms, Tom Walbank checked a ...