Rick Kogan

Bluesman Billy Branch on his career and present-day blues


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Blues harmonica player Billy Branch joins Rick Kogan to talk about his career and latest album, ‘The Blues is My Biography’. Billy discusses the state of the blues today, how he first started playing the harmonica, and the spread of the blues from the South Side to the North Side of Chicago.

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