MY Baby Plays the Harmonica

MY Baby Plays the Harmonica

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MY Baby Plays the Harmonica episodes

  • Kim Wilson

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    The leader of Austin's Fabulous Thunderbirds and the great inheritor of the great Little Walter

    26 min
  • William Clarke

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    The great chromatic and cross harp player, bandleader, and singer, mentored by George Smith, who died (maybe broke) in 1996.

    24 min
  • Rod Piazza

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    The great living player, protege of George Smith and perhaps the greatest master of double cross harp.

    28 min
  • Jerry Portnoy

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    The precision, the tone, and the underlying swing! Out of Chicago, also sitting that Muddy Waters harp chair.

    29 min
  • Magic Dick

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    Richard Salwitz of the J. Geils Band, the inventor of rock n roll harmonica. My all-time harpgod.

    30 min
  • Paul Butterfield

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    We have reached our rendezvous with blues harp racial destiny! 
    The two documentaries mentioned are "Horn from the Heart" and "Born in Chicago"

    28 min
  • George 'Harmonica' Smith and Big Mama Thornton

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    The great player and mentor of masters (Rod Piazza, William Clarke, James Harman) George 'Harmonica' Smith, never quite adequately recorded. And his astonishing friend the criminally underappreciated Big Mama Thornton. "Me and him have been scuffling a long time."
    Gunsmoke Blues
    https://youtu.be/_ATwmyuhmeY?si=-T_By5lQJvJKeqwB
    Big Mama Thornton and Big Walter! (and John Lee Hooker!)
    https://youtu.be/GX8f70FW3lU?si=_G--_fYYjF6yfSQa

    31 min
  • Carey Bell

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    The greatest of blues improvisers, as he showed on the London Muddy Waters Sessions.

    19 min

About MY Baby Plays the Harmonica

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A history of blues and country harmonica (harp) in 20-or-so profiles of the great players.