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Harmonica News Blog

Harmonica Blog is a daily selection of news stories concerning harmonica, blues, and harp gear extracted from major newspapers and blogs.

03/09/2010

UberGizmo (blog)NES Harmonica
UberGizmo (blog)
Recycle your old NES carts by turning them into musical instruments that do more than just pump out 8-bit tunes - after all, we are talking about NES ...

Sentimentalist MagazineBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club – 'Beat the Devil's Tattoo'
Sentimentalist Magazine
Imagine if a harmonica-toting Dean Moriarty had a fetish for David Lynch and dug dirty-blues fuzz rock and you've got the sixth album by California trio ...

Lamont Cranston at Hayward's Park Theater
Duluth News Tribune
The group s founder, Pat "Lamont" Hayes, is considered one of the best harmonica players around by such blues artists as Bonnie Raitt and Dan Akroyd, ...

Big band, blues join hands
Victoria News
Blues harmonica wizard Gary Preston is part of the University of Victoria Jazz Orchestra's annual spring concert. Fans of big band and the blues are sure to ...

Old Nintendo NES carts turned into Harmonicas
Slippery Brick
If you grew up playing NES games back in the 80's, then you know that you had to blow on the NES cartridges to get it to recognize a game. Ahh memories. ...

Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
DOA
There's certainly a distinctive sound to admire when you can combine the twangy touch of an abrasive harmonica with swaying vocals on something like “Four ...

Senior hip enough to open Games
The Province
Daley, 75, plays the harmonica, performing "mostly for myself" and around the campfire on family camping trips. "I really enjoy playing "As Time Goes By," ...

Barking up the wrong sacred tree
TheDay.com
What's worse, Gumbo went out and bought a harmonica at Petco and is going on the road in July with Gordon Lightfoot! OK. Back to what the neighborhood ...

03/08/2010

Now you have a real reason to continuously blow those old NES/SNES cartridges ...
Gadgetsteria (blog)
This crafty fellow took a Hohner Pocket Pal harmonica and crammed it inside each of these cartridges giving the musical type and actual decent instrument in ...
Blues Legend “Deaf Willie” Johnson Dies
Glossy News (satire)
After Daddy bought him that harmonica, there was no looking back.” Loving tributes have cascaded in, the likes of which have not been seen since the death ...
Getting sauced at Turner Hall
UWM Post
One can always expect a solid background beat as G. Love hops back and forth between singing, rapping, and his signature, harmonica-playing. ...
Consequence of Sound
Muse brings a supermassive show to MSG (3/5)
Consequence of Sound
It started with a harmonica. Wolstenholme stood on stage alone, playing the classic “Man with the Harmonica” from Once Upon A Time In The West. ...
New York Times
A Bit Wry and Rough at the Edges
New York Times
As Mr. Snider strummed his guitar, played harmonica and told stories of his adventures, a scuffling live-by-your-wits world of brawling in country-music ...
Huffington Post (blog)
Oscars 2010 WORST-DRESSED: See Who Bombed The Red Carpet (PHOTOS, POLL)
Huffington Post (blog)
Where is Sarah Jessica Parker with her frizzy hair and her harmonica harness dress? Or Jennifer Lopez and that ugly growth she had growing out of her hip? ...
Stage set for Cape Town International Jazz Festival
The Bostwana Gazette
Although known for his harmonica work Toots Thielemans is a guitarist first and foremost. Other artists previously announced are: Amanda Tiffin (SA); ...
Consequence of Sound
Garotas Suecas bringing Brazilian dance grooves to the US
Consequence of Sound
With Brazil already under their spell, the six-piece comprised of Guilherme Saldanha (vocals and harmonica), Irina Bertolucci Chermont (organ), ...
CD Review: 'True Grit' by Ken Will Morton
Hartford Courant (blog)
Most of the songs are built around acoustic guitar, augmented with piano and electric guitar on "Muscadine Wine," lonesome harmonica on the title track and ...
'Is That...?' Fans Recall Their Celebrity Foodie Sightings
PopEater
Next thing I knew, he was singing a song with the bar's blues band and having a harmonica battle with the lead singer. A week later, Spike came in to get ...

03/07/2010

In China, Lafayette brothers play to millions of TV viewers
Journal and Courier
Cole sang and played acoustic guitar while LD played his patented harmonica and beat-boxed to fill out the sound. Originally, LD was to sing. ...
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
G. Love and Special Sauce to perform staples and more at the Intersection ...
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Dutton recently contributed harmonica on two tracks of surf-chill singer and friend Jack Johnson's new album, "To the Sea." Dutton, who helped kick start ...
Tampa Tribune
Sun shines down on Swamp Fest
Tampa Tribune
Clay Black plays his fruit cake tin banjo as Andy Maywalt accompanies him on the harmonica at the Hernando County Audubon Society booth Saturday at the 17th ...
Regional arts and entertainment events | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/07/2010
Philadelphia Inquirer
Neo-beatnik noir-folkie Phillips Saylor straps on his banjo and harmonica to perform as Stripmall Ballads at the Green Line Cafe, 4426 Locust St., ...
Steven M David, 57
Kitsap Sun
Other interests included Tae Kwon Do, mountain climbing, hiking, cross country skiing and more recently playing the guitar and harmonica and listening to ...
Marching to a jazzy beat
Asbury Park Press
Catch Rob Paparozzi, a harmonica player of extreme versatility who doesn't stray too far from the blues, along with the Grover Kemble Group at Shanghai Jazz ...
GO! Arts and Entertainment for March 7-13
North County Times
James Harman ---- Blues harmonica; 7:30 pm; New Village Arts Theatre, 2787 State St., Carlsbad; $20-$25; 760-433-3245 or newvillagearts.org. ...
Concert review: Avett Brothers melt with 'You'
Minneapolis Star Tribune
... guitar for showy effect, when he should have been focused on more basic matters like using the right harmonica or remembering to grab his guitar capo. ...
Muse Live at Madison Square Garden
SBIndependent
At the time, Matt (Guitar, Lead Vocals, Piano), Dom (Drums, Percussion) and Chris (Bass, Backing Vocals, Harmonica) were standing on top of these high ...
Old time music very much alive
Portales News-Tribune
... the dazzling fiddle of Arthur Smith and the scintillating blues moans of countless slide guitarists, harmonica men and jug-band songsters. ...

03/06/2010

Bonita Blues Fest reason to rejoice
The News-Press
"I literally opened the CD and looked at what harmonica John Popper was playing, and my mom and I went to the music store and got the same one," Santini ...
Filipino jazz celebrated in Bay Area
Golden Gate [X]Press
"We're very proud to be a part of the Filipino American Jazz Festival and we want to encourage everyone to go," Carlos Zialcita, singer and harmonica player ...
Column: Jail stories have always made good reading
Worthington Daily Globe
Stepp was a harmonica player. On the night in focus, a cold night in the first week of January, Stepp sat in the prisoners' common room playing his ...
Charles Pettee to perform bluegrass concert on March 16
Gaston Gazette
Folks who love down-home toe-tappin' music won't want to miss the upcoming bluegrass concert, a rollicking evening of mandolin, banjo, guitar, harmonica and ...
All About Jazz
Puppet Mischief
All About Jazz
... one ups the "serious fun" mentality by inviting a pair of guests—harmonica master Gregoire Maret and multifaceted trombonist Alan Ferber—to augment the ...
St Patrick's Day at Middleboro Council on Aging
Taunton Daily Gazette
The vocal harmonies are enhanced with many instruments, including guitar, bass, harmonica, penny whistle, and piano melodica. There is a $4.00 donation for ...
Watch: Elvis Costello and Ray LaMontagne - "Henry Nearly Killed Me"
TwentyFourBit (blog)
The best part, however, is when LaMontagne starts belting out the jam into his harmonica microphone. It's a seemingly-improvised moment that carries them to ...
Nicolas Meier: Journey
Financial Times
Gilad Atzmon's quavery clarinet and forceful alto sax is an ideal foil, Asaf Sirkis powers the rhythms and bassist Pat Bettison overdubs moody harmonica.
Lifelong fans pick their favorite Beatles songs
Springfield News Sun
“I Should Have Known Better” — The harmonica part in this song rocks, and the overall feel is fun and light. 7. “All You Need is Love” — Isn't this the ...
Submit details for Holy Week, Easter
Youngstown Vindicator
Musicians are Terry Clevenger, rhythm guitar; Kim Peters, bass, mandolin and steel guitar; Tim Peters, lead guitar; and Eric Clevenger, guitar and harmonica ...

03/05/2010

The West Wind: American Idol Season 9
my.hsj.org
She incorporates the guitar and harmonica into her performances, which the judges think is “refreshing.” Among the men, Andrew Garcia seems to be the ...
One Horse Shy releases 'Better Life'
Mail Tribune
"He worked as our sound man for more than a year, and he would occasionally pick up the mandolin, harmonica or bass to fill in at shows when Mysha couldn't ...
Ricci brings blues to Uncle Bo's
Topeka Capital Journal
Raised in Portland, Maine, Jason Ricci started playing music in punk bands at the age of 14, before turning his attention to harmonica and blues music. ...
John Becker dies; celebrated banjo player
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In recent years, Mr. Becker played at charitable events with a trio that included Stan Musial on harmonica. "He would rather play the harmonica than eat," ...
Legendary blues harpist coming to Cal Poly
Times Press Recorder
In 1954, when Muddy Waters needed a harmonica player, he found Cotton playing a club in Arkansas and took him to Chicago. Cotton remained with Waters for 12 ...
The Guardian
Nicolas Meier: Journey
The Guardian
Bettison's harmonica winds around a three-note clarinet motif and Atzmon's pitch-bends on the hypnotic title track; Atzmon's volcanic freebop playing is ...
Blues powered on KMSU
Mankato Free Press
A selection of blues harmonica tracks were chosen for a segment, which Halverson dedicated to his friend, local harmonica wizard and City Mouse founder ...
'Legends' Rock Main Street
KSC The Equinox
Then, with a sudden burst of noise, his harmonica exploded with upbeat notes of blues, followed by his guitarist and drummer. Throughout the next two hours, ...
Campus Crime
Technique
The subject was holding a harmonica when officers approached. After a search of the area, the officer found an opened harmonica packaging on the shelf. ...
TV Fodder
American Idol: Crystal Clear
TV Fodder
From the gray-haired and slightly kooky Lilly Scott to Crystal “Miss Harmonica” Bowersox to glass-blower Siobhan Magnus, it's hard to even classify what ...

03/04/2010

Distant connection
Stockton Record
He has, however, been a part of Northern California's fertile blues harmonica fraternity, crafting a career as a bandleader and sideman by playing gigs from ...
NorthernLife.ca
Harmonic player promises 'funky groove sound'
NorthernLife.ca
Toronto harmonica player Jerome Godboo will be playing the blues with Tommy Fyfe and the Whiskey River Blues Band, at the Beef N' Bird, March 13, at 9 pm. ...
'Idol' semifinalist Bowersox's future uncertain
The Associated Press
Bowersox also plays the guitar and harmonica. She was supposed to perform Tuesday with the nine other semifinalists, but she was hospitalized and unable to ...
JWCC Performance Series concert
ConnectTriStates.com powered by KHQA
LD has been called the world's greatest living harmonica player at just age 14 by both media and major artists.
GUITARIST-COMPOSER FABRIZIO SOTTI TO RELEASE
All About Jazz
After recording the basic trio tracks for Inner Dance, and others featuring Swiss harmonica great Gregoire Maret and Chilean vocalist Claudia Acua, ...
Crystal Bowersox hospital: Where is she right now?
Entertainment and Showbiz!
From the look of it, it does not look anything terribly serious and in all appearance, she will turn up, plus her guitar and harmonica, on the stage tonight ...
ESSENTIALS
San Francisco Chronicle
Tonight @ the Independent: By combining rich polyrhythmic grooves with throwback blues guitar and harmonica, San Francisco's Guns for San Sebastian is ...
Gomez, One eskimO
Isthmus Daily Page
... guitar), Tom Gray (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Paul Blackburn (bass, guitar), Olly Peacock (drums), and Ian Ball (vocals, guitar, harmonica). ...
The Ladies Burned the Stage on Tonight's Idol
Associated Content
She is 24, and last week she sang, played guitar, and the harmonica. This time she sang "Long As I Can See the Light" by Creedence Clearwater. ...

03/03/2010

Waseca County News
Science teacher gives lessons in harmonica
Waseca County News
He is offering a community education class on how to play the harmonica. The class is open to students in grades 4-12 and adults. Those interested will have ...
Youngsters enjoy tango tunes from harmonica
KCBY.com 11
KCBY caught up with harmonica player Joe Powers at the North Bay school over in Hauser Tuesday morning. Powers played a little bit of every thing for the ...
American Idol: Playing Favorites with Sick Star?
EZ-Tracks (blog)
24-year-old Crystal Bowersox (think harmonica, acoustic guitar, Alanis Morissette cover songs) fell ill this week, prompting the producers of American Idol ...
Fiddler tourney coming this month to Clarksville
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
The event, in its 36th year, will be held again at Rossview High School, and will also feature competitions in mandolin, banjo, harmonica, bluegrass band ...
The Blues are back: Harpdog Brown gives free show
BCLocalNews
This performance will feature Harpdog Brown blowing his blues harp with Graham Guest on the keyboard, up close and personal in a lounge setting. ...
Jeffrey Friedberg and Bossy Frog Band visit DCA
Darien Times
Jeffrey Friedberg sings and plays guitar, banjo and harmonica. He has recorded four CDs of music for children and families, two of which have won “Best ...
KHON2
Honolulu Hale Finalizing Mayor Fasi's Memorial Service; Share Your Memories
KHON2
... that he taught me how to dance listening to Glenn Miller albums together, him playing the harmonica, singing the Marine Corps song, playing gin rummy! ...
Spinner
SXSW 2010: Michael Monroe
Spinner
But Monroe, who plays harmonica and saxophone, also has a thriving solo career and has collaborated with artists like Guns N' Roses. ...
THE SCORE: Asylum Street Spankers to play at Plush Wednesday
California Chronicle
The Asylum Street Spankers have an incomparable blend of country- blues mixed with sophisticated arrangements of the harmonica, washboard, drums and fierce ...
Thin Mints and more: Girls Scouts are selling cookies
HeraldNet
Williams brought a harmonica and played “Oh! Susanna” and other tunes. “The girls had fun dancing around in between customers. When people hear a harmonica, ...

03/02/2010

Noteworthy: Music therapy provides relief, comfort to ailing patients
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
In one hand he held a silver harmonica. The other clutched a CD of classic songs the Waterloo man had recorded a decade earlier. "Time to start?," he asked, ...
Badass Blues Boys
Global Times
The singer starts growling to a soulful blues harmonica and some wild guitar licks. They're Black Cat Bone and they're around to mess with you. ...
American Idol's New Judge Ellen DeGeneres Speaks Her Mind
The Spoof (satire)
DeGeneres also added that Crystal needs to lose the harmonica and the silly looking harmonica wire holder because playing three notes on the Hohner ain't ...
Grandpa Elliott Small's Sugar Sweet To Hit Stores in April
antiMUSIC.com
... to lay down sturdy, elastic grooves is evident throughout the album, adding sympathetic backing to Elliott's soulful vocals and sinuous harmonica. ...
Times Online
Captain Kirk brings down curtain on Winter Olympics
Times Online
Anyway, soon after the arena had been cleared of its last beaver, Neil Young wandered into view, puffing into a harmonica to provide the soundtrack for the ...
Blues Jam
The Sacramento Press
I have seen many great players there, saxophone, drums, guitar, vocal, and harmonica. The beer is cheap and you can order tacos, chips and salsa, ...
The Bay Bridged (blog)
Noise Pop 2010: Atlas Sound, Geographer, Magic Wands, Nice Nice @ GAMH
The Bay Bridged (blog)
Donning a navy blue cable-knit sweater, vintage wool-flapped ski hat, and a harmonica entrapment around his neck, Cox seemed to emanate a recent Neil Young ...
Tampa's Nervous Turkey trotting to SXSW
Creative Loafing Tampa
"Christmas of '83, my dad got a harmonica in his stocking and he was like, 'I won't play this. Here you go.' So I just started playing it. ...
Theblues is blowing through town
BCLocalNews
By Dale Bass - Kamloops This Week The gigs Sherman Doucette used to have in Kamloops were awesome, the blues harmonica player said. ...
411 Music Hall Of Fame Class of 2010: Stevie Wonder
411mania.com
He spent years learning music in the church, building himself musically and learning to play drums, piano, bass, and the harmonica. ...

03/01/2010

MTV.com
Neil Young's 'Long May You Run': Behind The Olympic Closing Ceremony Song
MTV.com
Standing beneath the flickering lights of the Olympic torch with his guitar and harmonica, Young's mournful song capped 17 days of world-class competition ...
Robyn Hitchcock Covers Dylan, Velvets and Hendrix in New York
Spinner
Resplendent in a flowery, psychedelic button-down shirt, he strummed and played harmonica with the delicacy and zest of an old-school folkie. ...
NYU Washington Square News
Unique performances showcased at Ultra Violet Live 2010
NYU Washington Square News
by Shradda Anandpara It turns out knowing how to play the harmonica might just bank you a little more than you once thought. ...
Who Needs Labels When You Got ASCAP?
NPR
A musician who calls himself Porter steps up with a guitar and harmonica strapped around his neck. The small cafe is packed, though it's mostly packed with ...
Alpenland taenzer
New Britain Herald
Unlike a piano accordion, it's more like a harmonica. Have you ever played one? Every note on a harmonica makes a different noise, depending whether you ...
Musicians band together to save University icon through rally on campus
UT The Daily Texan
Accompanied by a guitar, fiddle and harmonica, the words of the crowd's half-song-half-chant were loud and clear. “Don't mess with Cactus — Cafe of Texas. ...
Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony Features Neil Young, Michael Buble
MTV.com
Later, Young took center stage with just his guitar and harmonica to croon "Long May You Run" as snow fell from above and the torch flicked overhead. ...
UM Maneater (blog)
Live Blog: UM system Board of Curators meeting
UM Maneater (blog)
Ryan Koenig of the Rum Drum Ramblers plays the harmonica during Buskers Last Stand on Sunday night at the Missouri Theatre. The Toughcats, Rum Drum Ramblers ...
The Virginian-Pilot
Moreland & Arbuckle - 'Flood'
The Virginian-Pilot
Arbuckle wails with train-honkin' harmonica while his partner occasionally wields, along with the standard guitars, a custom-made cigar box job that sports ...
Willie Nelson sells out the Majestic
San Antonio Express
Backed by his sister, pianist Bobbie Nelson, harmonica man Mickey Raphael, bassist Bee Spears and the percussion-playing English brothers, Paul and Billy, ...

02/28/2010

Inman: 'One in a Million' movie featured harmonica players
Alexandria Town Talk
Question: I saw a very old movie on TV several years ago with a harmonica-playing scene that was incredible. This harmonica ensemble played a very long ...
Harmonicas and Hezbollah
New Yorker (blog)
“Just forget the harmonica for a second,” Justice Breyer said during an oral argument before the Supreme Court earlier this week. ...
'Cheap but not Easy' at Foam
Merchantville Online
Bob plays harmonica and Tom plays guitar and sings. Their music is country folk and blues. If you like sweet melodies, fun and stories then come out and ...
SF Weekly (blog)
Last Night: Atlas Sound, Geographer, Magic Wands, and Nice Nice (Noise Pop)
SF Weekly (blog)
By Ian S. Port in Last Night Better than: What usually happens when a guy takes the stage alone with only an acoustic guitar and harmonica. ...
March Into Spring at the Dakota
Jazz Police
Bop meets hot club and more as harmonica, guitar, bass and percussion make beautiful and very interesting music together. Clint Hoover on harmonica with ...
Lamperetta: Saxophonist John Ellis, Double-Wide to play Albany's Red Square
The Saratogian
Boasting a sound that evokes the French Riviera more than the bluesy ruminations of someone like Sonny Boy Williamson, Maret's harmonica is the wild card. ...
President Obama honored Bob Dylan, Clint Eastwood, and others at a White House ...
NewsOXY
Dylan performs with guitar, piano and harmonica. Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been ...
Big Gig at college wraps up blues month
Monroe Evening News
Robert B. Jones on guitar and harmonica player Phil Wiggins opened the show together. They had the crowd plenty warmed up by the time bluesman Arthur Adams ...

02/27/2010

All About Jazz
Take Five With Yvonnick Prene
All About Jazz
Yvonnick is a freelance chromatic harmonica player based in New York. Since 2007 Yvonnick has obtained a Master degree in music from Sorbonne Paris IV ...
Mark Anthony Jarman
Telegraph-Journal
I'm also reading a biography of Little Walter, one of the best Chicago blues harmonica players. He inspired me to take up harmonica. a No iPod, ...
Jam, listen, dance and play at the senior center
Auburn Reporter
There are usually between eight and 12 musicians who play guitar, violin bass, harmonica and other instruments. In addition, the senior center is hosting ...
RIDGETOWN GETS THE BLUES
Chatham Daily News
The band includes Whaling on lead guitar, vocals and harmonica, bassist Andy Martin, Phil Caron on percussion and harmonica, and rhythm guitarist Darryl ...
MVBS presents Robert Jones for Blues in the Schools March 15-19
Quad-Cities Online
Blues guitarist, violinist, harmonica player, singer, and educator Rev. Robert B. Jones is the third artist selected by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society ...
Santa Barbara Independent
IV Wants the Funk
Santa Barbara Independent
It has elements of jazz, blues, and punk and is layered with many instruments — saxophone, piano, harmonica, even bongos. Good funk sounds like rosters ...
MTV.com
Shakira Scores Love With Tennis Pro Rafael Nadal In New Video
MTV.com
The video opens with Shakira's mouth on her harmonica and closes with her lips all over the shirtless Nadal. In between, the two get in some serious ...
Man builds life around woodworking talents
Clearfield Progress
He also plays the harmonica. "I do enjoy doing that," he said. He said he has always been able to look at something and know how it was built, ...
Why American Idol needs Haeley Vaughn
Macleans.ca
Crystal is a dreadlocked mum with one of those chin piercings who sang an Alanis Morrisette song while playing guitar and harmonica. ...

02/26/2010

Harmonica fans will be blown away
Comox Valley Record
Del Junco is one of the world's best harmonica players. By Paula Wild - Comox Valley Record Who would ever guess that one of the world's best harmonica ...
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Hugh Laurie's secret role on Meat Loaf album
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
... Cool Teddy Bear," which is due for release in April. Laurie also plays guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone and fronts the all-star group Band From TV.
Get loose with Dr. Seuss
The Olympian
A harmonica pocket – Keeth Monta Apgar's term for funny asymmetrical pockets on 1970s jackets – is just big enough for a harmonica. But the Harmonica Pocket ...
Rockin' Jake show to benefit
Cape Gazette
Premier blues harmonica player Rockin' Jake of New Orleans will appear at 9 pm, Friday, Feb. 26, at Bethany Blues-Lewes in a special fundraiser to benefit ...
Fine Prine
Syracuse New Times
He was flanked with suit-clad guitarist Jason Wilber and upright bassist Dave Jacques, who, between them, also handled harmonica, steel guitar and mandolin ...
Local "Idol" advances
Sandusky Register
... hurdle on American Idol on Thursday after singing a folksy version of Alanis Morissette's “Hand in my Pocket” with her harmonica and guitar Tuesday. ...
Rahul's musical talent
Times of India
On one such occasion while working on the movie, Rahul impressed his music director Lalit, by playing the Harmonica. So impressed was Lalit that he made his ...
Music Review: Downchild – I Need A Hat
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Walsh is a fine guitarist (including some seriously nasty slide on a pair) and plays a pretty mean harmonica. Lead vocalist Chuck Jackson, ...
Willie Nelson's distinctive sound
San Antonio Express
And, where other country bands have a fiddle or a pedal steel guitar, the Family band has a harmonica player. Also distinctive. ...
KTRU Corner: Classic Appalachian Blues
The Rice Thresher
The album features a great variety of blues expressions and instrumentation by harmonica, bass guitar, piano, fiddle, mandolin and, of course, guitar. ...

02/25/2010

Clutch shift down a few musical gears
The Age
The harmonica and Hammond are gone as the band find a stripped-back sound. By Patrick Donovan. THE last time Clutch toured Australia, in 2007, ...
Mohamed Atta and His Harmonica Quartet
Reason Online (blog)
... teaching these members [of the Kurdistan Workers' Party] to play the harmonica would be unlawful," Scalia observed that "Mohamed Atta and his harmonica ...
Harp master goes beyond riffing around
Edmonton Journal
"The bulk of the really good harmonica players live in California, so there's always been a healthy competition here," Hummel explains on the phone. ...
Billboard
'American Idol' Recap: Crystal Bowersox Shines
Billboard
Loved the guitar, loved the harmonica, loved the momma bear "I'm only doing this for my kid" attitude. And a perfect song for her. ...
Hip Hop And Harmonicas
See Magazine
Brown says started to play the blues harp during his downtime to relax. It was a habit that grew so quickly he eventually brought it on stage one night as a ...
Bike camping in the Bay Area
San Francisco Chronicle
Food, clothes, shelter, flashlight, harmonica, book, pen and paper - everyone's list is different. Just put it on your bicycle and ride somewhere nearby to ...
Blues for White
San Diego Reader
“It was cathartic because I was unsure whether I could do it without my voice and harmonica, or that it would work, and I was most happy to find out it did. ...
Laurie's secret role on Meat Loaf album
New Magazine
Laurie is a keen music man - also plays guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone and fronts all-star group Band From TV.
Opening the 'Flood' gates
Kansas.com
Composed of Aaron Moreland on guitar, Dustin Arbuckle on vocals and harmonica, and Brad Horner on drums, the trio has come a long way since its formation. ...
Washington Post
Prince George's County celebrates Black History Month
Washington Post
James Ealey, the vice mayor of Morningside, treated County Council members, local officials and residents to two rousing harmonica solos, including the 19th ...

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