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The incredibly right player and maybe the greatest blues singer I ever experienced. 

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The fine rack players, born mid-1920s, with classic songs galore. Big Boss Man. Baby Scratch My Back. Sorry about audible incoming emails. I can do better.

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The great Big Walter Horton, also known as "Shaky" and "Mumbles". Perhaps Little and Big Walter are the two greatest "classic" blues harp players

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Rice or Alex or Alec Miller, Little Boy Blue, or SBW2: A real asshole, seemingly. But one of the handful of greatest music artists of the 20th century. Help me, baby!

I screwed up when I said that his band included Jimmy Rogers. Robert Junior Lockwood!

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Episode 4: The great Piedmont/country/acoustic/folk blues master Sonny Terry. 

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The very different but related country/blues styles of Opry star Deford Bailey (1899-1982), an incomparable virtuoso, and incomparable influence John Lee Williamson (1914-1948), known as Sonny Boy 1 (Rice Miller, Sonny Boy Williamson 2, swiped the name, but was an even better player).

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bonus episode on why the diatonic harp is ideal for blues. country and other folk or roots genres, and a bit about how i learned to play circa 1971.

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By acclamation, the greatest blues player ever to blow a harmonica. Here are likely future episodes:

Sonny Boy Williamson 1 and 2

James Cotton

Junior Wells

Sonny Terry

Magic Dick

Paul Butterfield

Carey Bell

Jason Ricci

Charlie McCoy

Mickey Raphael

Deford Bailey

George Smith

Rod Piazza

Kim Wilson

William Clarke

Charlie Musselwhite 

Jerry Portnoy

Lee Oskar