HARTFORD >> If you’re talking about blues harmonica, it really doesn’t come any better than Charlie Musselwhite – and he’s playing tonight for the first time at Infinity Hall in Hartford. Showtime is ...

I’m not an especially fervent advocate of blues harmonica, but I do love the greats—both the Sonny Boy Williamsons, Big Walter Horton, much of Charlie Musselwhite‘s innovative output. But for me no ...

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 ...

Rick Estrin grew up in the 1960s in the San Francisco area at the height of the hippie movement. But there was something else that affected him more than the rock music being played during the ...

No one is going to mistake San Francisco for Chicago, St. Louis or Clarksdale, Mississippi, but the Bay Area has a proud and legitimate blues scene and annually puts on a show that will wow blues fans ...

Some of the West Coast’s best blues harp players and a critically acclaimed bluesman make this an excellent weekend to head to the Rockfish Grill. Or, for something a little wilder, check out a band ...

No one know when the harmonica first got the blues, but WC Handy reported hearing train imitations being played on the instrument in the 1870s, and by the 1920s, after Mamie Smith hit with Crazy Blues ...

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 ...