Los Angeles Times

Blues harmonica player James Cotton, Mr. Superharp, dies at 81

Blues harmonica player James Cotton, Mr. Superharp, dies at 81 Grammy-winning blues legend James Cotton performs with his harmonica in 2014 at the W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival in Henderson, ...
Westword

How Ronnie Shellist Made a Full-Time Living From the Harmonica Alone

Among the harmonica’s many wonderful and unique traits, there is this: You have to really suck to be good at it. As one of America’s finest and busiest harmonica players, Denver’s Ronnie Shellist ...
Jazz

Various Artists: In The Pocket: A Taste of Blues Harmonica

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ... Telarc Blues culls their considerable holdings to provide a wholly satisfying collection of contemporary blues harmonica by contemporary and ...
The New York Times

Phil Wiggins, Virtuoso of the Blues Harmonica, Is Dead at 69

First as half of the duo Cephas and Wiggins and later on his own, he was one of the best-known musicians playing the style known as the Piedmont blues. By Clay Risen Phil Wiggins, a harmonica player ...
Los Angeles Times

In Bruce Willis’ ‘impromptu’ harmonica session, there’s nothing sad about the blues

Months after his aphasia diagnosis, Bruce Willis found good company in a harmonica and musician Derek Richard Thomas. On Monday, wife Emma Heming Willis shared an Instagram video of the “Die Hard” ...