Consider the harmonica: So simple an instrument in design, yet so complex to master. In the hands of amateurs it produces caterwauling mayhem, like a sonic hairball stuck in a vacuum cleaner. In the ...

I play a little folk and blues acoustic guitar, but since there are so many excellent guitarists in Pocatello with skills far beyond mine, I have recently pursued learning blues harmonica — usually ...

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 ...

Blues harmonica master Carey Bell died on May 6 of heart failure in his hometown of Chicago. He was 70. Bell – the 1998 winner of the Blues Music Award for Traditional Male Artist Of The Year – was a ...

ASPEN Several years ago, after meeting and jamming with DJ Logic at a San Francisco benefit concert, John Popper put together the John Popper Project. The quartet, a side gig from Popper’s day job as ...

Suzie Glantz pressed the slots of the harmonica between her lips and blew softly. Without much effort, a chord squirted out, joining the chorus of other notes in the room. Surprised with the ease, ...

A recent Friday, 10:21 a.m.: Sitting on a 5-gallon bucket in front of tourists waiting to get on the Powell Street cable car, Vincente "Blue" Blupriest belted out his version of the blues with a ...

ASPEN John Popper has two theories for how the harmonica came to be his instrument of choice.The first is that the harmonica was easy to play. Popper was detected, as a 3-year-old, harmonizing in the ...

When my music makes someone happy, helps them unwind, relax and have fun, it is a greater achievement and fulfillment than any award I can receive. Born and raised on the prairies in the small farm ...