Chicago blues great Billy Branch says a concert in Grant Park got him hooked on the music many decades ago. His latest album ...

Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

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 ...

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 ...

The harmonica just might be the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments, at least in the classical music world. It just doesn’t get any respect. But contrary to what you might think, it has some ...

Bill Tarsha and the Rocket 88s led the 18th annual blues harmonica blowout last week at the Rhythm Room. More than 35 blues harmonica players performed. Tarsha and his band opened with a couple tunes.

Iconic blues harmonica virtuoso Little Walter Jacobs died on Feb. 15, 1968, in Chicago. He was just 37 years old.