LA MESALA MESA — Musicians, collectors, vendors and fans converged Saturday at Harry Griffen Park in La Mesa to celebrate a sometimes under-appreciated American art form, the blues harmonica. Hundreds ...

Mark Hummel’s 20th annual Blues Harmonica Blowout came blowing into town the other night at SOhO Restaurant and Music Club with Rod and Honey Piazza, Sugar Blue, and Billy Branch with Mitch Kashmar.

To broach his uncertain future, Johnny Sansone first had to relinquish his familiar past. Photo by Timothy WhiteJohnny Sansone's new CD is an early contender for one of the best local albums of the ...

Black-Eyed Sally’s is once again bringing back the popular “Northeast Blues Harmonica Showcase” on Saturday — a gathering of regional and national blues harmonica talent. Headlining will be harmonica ...

When it comes to music, you only need one instrument. Members of the Rubber Capital Harmonica Club believe that. In fact, they are so devoted to the music of that one instrument that have structured ...

Blues musician Harper's newest album isn't a Harper album in the strict sense. Called "Bare Bones," it's a collaborative album with Detroit-based bluesman Motor City Josh. What also makes the album ...

Fifty cents and a cereal box top. That, and whatever a stamp cost in 1949, sparked one of the most remarkable instrumental careers in music history, one that landed Charlie McCoy in the Country Music ...

As a teenager, he bought his first chromatic harmonica. The instrument, unlike the more familiar blues harmonica, plays all 12 intervals of the chromatic octave. A self-taught, natural talent, ...

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Blues harmonica virtuoso and onetime Muddy Waters sideman James Cotton died on Thursday at a medical center in Austin of pneumonia. He was 81. A rep for the musician confirmed his death. Cotton, who ...