Herbert Quelle joins me on episode 69. Herbert is a German who worked as a diplomat for 40 years. This included 10 years as the G…
Cheryl Arena joins me on episode 68. Cheryl is a blues player and singer from the Boston area. She integrated herself into the lo…
Erik Lekholm and Jason Keene join me on episode 67. Where we talk about the innovative DM48 midi chromatic harmonica, designed by…
Joel Andersson joins me on episode 66. Joel is an Irish harmonica player from Sweden, while also building one of the best reputat…
Joe Powers joins me on episode 65. Joe started out playing diatonic harmonica along with blues records as a teenager, before deci…
Paul Barry joins me on episode 64. Paul is our resident expert on William Clarke, and is currently writing a biography about him.…
Jens Bunge joins me on episode 63. Jens is a German chromatic player who started out playing the tremolo, before discovering Stev…
Tom Ellis joins me on episode 62 for something a little bit different as we do a retrospective of the legendary Paul Butterfield,…
Will Wilde joins me on episode 61. A sixteen year old Will stole his first harmonica while at a party and proceeded to put the ro…
Wade Schuman joins me on episode 60. Wade is the singer / songwriter and leader, and of course harmonica player, of the New York …
Gerhard Mueller joins me on episode 59. Gerhard is the Product Manager for Hohner harmonicas, a role he has held for 28 years. Hi…
Bertram Becher joins me on episode 58. Bertram is the Product Manager at Seydel harmonicas. He first landed this dream job when h…
Mathias Heise joins me on episode 57. Mathias is a chromatic player from Copenhagen in Denmark. He started out playing diatonic, …
RJ Mischo joins me on episode 56. RJ hails from the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul, where he developed his craft with a littl…
Jim Conway joins me on episode 55. Jim is an Australian harmonica player who rose to fame at the age of 19 in the jug band: The C…
Tom Ball joins me on episode 54. From Los Angeles, but long time resident of Santa Barbara, he started playing guitar in the popu…
Billy Boy Arnold joins me on episode 53. Today we have a little part of blues harmonica history, as Billy lived through the heyda…
Rick Estrin joins me on episode 52. Rick grew up in San Francisco and starting sitting in with bands in the city. He was friends…
Richard Gjems joins me on episode 51. Richard hails from Norway, with its many blues clubs demonstrating how popular the music is…
Magic Dick joins me on episode 50. Magic Dick created one of the all time classic harmonica instrumentals in Whammer Jammer. But …
Rory Mcleod joins me on episode 49. Rory is a modern day wandering minstrel . A multi-instrumentalist ‘folk singing’ troubadour, …
Cy Leo joins me on episode 48. Leo is from Hong Kong, where he started learning to play classical chromatic harmonica from age 6,…
Jason Rosenblatt joins me on episode 47. A native of Canada but now resident in Israel, Jason is best known for his band Shtreiml…
Greg Heumann joins me on episode 46. The focus of this episode is all about gear, as I talk to the founder of BlowsMeAway Product…
Tony Eyers joins me on episode 45. Tony is an Australian who first picked up the harmonica while studying at Yale in the US. Retu…
Adam Burney joins me on episode 44. Adam is a south London boy, from Croydon. A stint playing with the punk bands of this area ha…
David Naiditch joins me on episode 43. After starting out as a diatonic player, including having lessons with a touring Sonny Ter…
Hermine Deurloo joins me on episode 42. Hermine is a Dutch female chromatic harmonica player who grew up to the sound of master j…
Phil Wiggins joins me on episode 41. Phil was one half of one of the best known blues duos around, Cephas and Wiggins, playing w…
Bob Corritore joins me on episode 40. Bob grew up around Chicago and absorbed the best blues scene in the world, attending the bl…
Mat Walklate joins me on episode 39. Mat is based in Manchester and has worked as a professional musician throughout his life, pl…
Will Galison joins me on episode 38. Will first picked up the chromatic harmonica when studying guitar at the Berklee College of …
Rick Epping joins me on episode 37. Rick worked for Hohner USA for 18 years and played a pivotal role in improving the quality of…
Mark Hummel joins me on episode 36. Mark is a West Coast blues harp player who has put out some great harmonica songs in his cata…
Robert Bonfiglio shares with us the world of the concert chromatic harmonica player. After studying composition in New York, he s…
Steve Baker moved from his native London in his early 20s to become part of the vibrant music scene in Hamburg. His brand of punk…
Son of Dave is originally from Winnipeg, Canada, where he enjoyed pop chart success for ten years with folk-rock band Crash Test …
Filip can be described as the complete harmonica player, being adept on the diatonic, chromatic and bass harmonicas, as well as b…
Errol Linton is a south London boy, with roots in Jamaica. His brand of ‘Brixton Blues’ music merges his Caribbean heritage with …
Fata Morgana are a Dutch harmonica quartet, who first formed in 1980 after meeting at the Eindhoven Harmonica Club. Two of the or…
Greg Zlap hails from Poland, where he played along with black market blues records on his one harmonica. He moved to Paris in his…
Donald Black is predominantly a tremolo player, using the instrument to great effect across the range of traditional Scottish mus…
Charlie Musselwhite grew up in Memphis, rubbing shoulders with Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. Work took him north to Chicago were…
British Chromatic royalty Jim Hughes joins me on episode 26. Jim has been playing professionally for over 60 years. From his earl…
Sugar Blue has certainly pushed the boundaries of the harmonica, with his rapid fire licks, lots of high end runs and gorgeous to…
Grant Dermody first picked up the harp in Alaska, where he emulated the greats before developing his own acoustic sound playing A…
Chromatic player, Antonio Serrano, is the current SPAH harmonica player of the year. And with good reason. Antonio’s father was a…
Mark Feltham grew up with a love of country music and just knew he had to play harp when he heard Stone Fox Chase on the UK music…
Mickey Raphael started out playing on the Dallas folk scene before meeting with Willie Nelson at a jam session. Forty six years l…
Jerry Portnoy joins me on episode 20 of the podcast. Jerry grew up with the sounds of Maxwell street in his ears. It took him a f…