It was just another workaday gig for session musician Paul Harrington. He laid down a three-and-a-half minute harmonica line, never asking where it might end up. "So much of what you record never gets ...
“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 ...
SANTA CRUZ >> Harmonicas litter the table in Rio’s Santa Cruz Beach Flats studio — Hohners, blues harps, 16-hole chromatics, even giant bass harps. As Rio plays, the notes dance through the converted ...