The Harmonica Lady

From my  CDS enjoy the Irish jigs,  ballads, and melodies 

Charlie McCoy https://www.charliemccoy.com

Tony Eyers https://harmonicatunes.com/about/

James Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Conway_(musician).

Nedra and Julio https://www.nedraruss.com

Song Book https://theharmonicasongbook.com

Steve Baker https://www.stevebaker.de/bio_en_10.html

The Harmonica Lady Podcast Feb 19 2023

Blue Bird Valise 

Razz My Berries

Kurt Crandall

www.Kurtcrandall.com 

Good Blues Tonight

Always Been Your Friend

When The Frisco Left The Shed

https://www.charliemusselwhite.com 

Curtly Dance

Telemann Canonic Sonata NO1

www.howardlevy.com

Sixth Sense

Solid Ground

Deep Well Deep Pocket’s

www.eriknodden.cm

Life's Railway To Heaven 

Peace int he Valley

Daddy Sang Bass

Wayfaring Stranger

I’ll Fly Away

Keep. On The Sunny Side

https://www.facebook.com/mike.caldwell.585/ 

End of the year Christmas show. Thank you for tuning in and loving the harmonica Heres to a Happy New Year filled with music joy and peace. Enjoy from my vaults at KQBM and home studio music I purchase and that is giving by the artist for this show.  

Great time at the 59th SPAH Convention in Tulsa OK.

I had a great time and got to hang out with Charlies Musselwhite. This podcast is about that. Enjoy 

To buy his new CD visit his web page https://www.charliemusselwhite.com

To see more about SPAH visit link https://www.spah.org

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Update of what is up. Whats to come and how things are going 

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This episode I had the pleasure of talking with Jerry Fierro. We talk about his time with Sonny Terry and how enlightening that was for himself and his now students. We also talked about what is going on with him these days in and around Naples Florida. Jerry and the band Mudbone run a jam every Tuesday night at the DogTooth sports bar 5310 Shirley St. Naples, FL 34109.

Here are some words form the Florida Weekley  PROFILES IN PARADISE

March 12, 2015

Jerry Fierro, with his harmonica and occasionally the congas, is a regular guest when the band Mudbone invites other musicians to sit in for a jam session on Tuesday evenings at Weekend Willie’s. Jerry plays great blues and is a terrific blues singer as well. It’s clear he’s having a great time when he plays. His level of excellence is not easily attained, and he’s had quite a musical journey.

He was born the ninth of 10 kids, just five minutes after his twin sister Mary, on Dec. 8, 1958, in Paterson, N.J. Although there were no musicians in the house (his dad was an accomplished auto mechanic and mom was a housewife), there was always music playing. Jerry remembers his parents having great parties with jazz standards on the record player and sometimes a live band in the yard.

He was a senior at Passaic County Tech High School, studying to become a baker, when he got the notion to play music. Inspired by watching a cousin play the harmonica and sing, he bought his first marine band harmonica in 1975 for $5.26 at the legendary Manny’s Music in New York City. Two more really good things happened that same year, he says:

First, he was introduced to Bob “Hoochie Coochie” Paolucci, who taught him what to play and, more importantly, what not to play. “Hooch is still out there doing his thing in Long Island, New York,” he says.

And second, he met Son Lewis (Silk City Records) by answering an ad in the local music rag. “Son is a true bluesman who never made it big but should have,” he says. “He must have seen something in me, because he would sneak me into nightclubs to perform when I was 16. We’ve been playing on and off together ever since.”

After a few years playing with Mr. Lewis, Jerry got the opportunity to expand his horizons by joining Impact, a local band of brothers (now called The Flying Mueller Brothers). They played the blues and almost every other genre of music, too. For eight years, from 1978 to ’86, the band played the New York metro area. It was during that time that Jerry met blues harpist Sonny Terry. Renowned for his unique style of “hootin’ and hollerin,’” Mr. Terry gave Jerry lessons on the harmonica.

Other highlights of Jerry’s music career include playing with such greats as Junior Wells, Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Copeland, Jorma Kaukonen, Felix Cavaliere “and now the best players in Southwest Florida — Mudbone,” he says.

In 2014 Jerry won the trophy for Overall Champion in the Forida Harmonica Competition.

https://www.facebook.com/jerry.fierro.10

Check out the Mudbone Jam with Jerry and the band

https://www.dogtoothnaples.com/happenings/

I started this new page on facebook after years of establishing other pages one being the first woman admin at World of Hamronica and founding member of Harmonica Jam. Now We my husband Julio inglasses run this group of world wide harmonica LOVERS!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598464463522496

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Music from my vaults of KQBM shows 

Don’t take advantage of me Jason Ricci JJ Appleton Dirty Money Cd

Don’t badger the witness          “ “             “ “              Beautiful Slop CD

Geaux Nits Kids                          “ “            “  “                   “ “  “ “    

https://mooncat.org

Rocket RIde                         David Barrett                    It takes Three CD

Meet Me Where They Play the Blues Terry Leonino Blues Harp Women

The Ballad of Mingo County                            Paula Davis  Stewart

Too Late                                                            Little Walter  Singal

Hooka Tooka Chambers Brothers Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

City Of New Orleans Charlie McCoy Ear Candy Country & Folk Amazing Grace Todd Parrott Songs From The Harp Religious

Down By the RiversideSofie ReedRed HenBlues

Blues With a WhoopSonny Terry & Brownie McGheeWizard of the HarmonicaBlues

Take this hammer                                    “  “                                                     “    “

Old lost John                                             “   “                                                  “     “

Work Song                                               Paul Butterfield    The Butterfield Blues Band CD

Born In Chicago                                              “  “                            “  “

Amazonas                             Howard Levy                                     Tango & Jazz (Live)Jazz

Bring it to Jerome                                      Billy F  Gibbons                              The Big Bad Blue

Accelerated Blues            Blues Tavlers                                                  

HOHNER_Originals_Digital_Album

Nick Moss feat. Dennis Gruenling               HOHNER_Originals_Digital_Album    

Mickey Raphael                                             Hand to Mouth3/14/18, 1:33 PM

Shake Your Moneymaker Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo n     Travellin' Tracks Fat Cats & Thin Dogs       Eric Noden & Joe Filisko         Missed Train Blues

Me and Bobby Bones                                Nedra and Julio                     Blues news

Summertime                       Christelle BerthonBlues Harp Women

Sunday Soup                   Todd Parrott                                   Songs From The Harp

Interview with Michael Rubin about his solo project

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Todays I interview

Michael D'Eath -- President  

Of SPAH is a worldwide harmonica organisation based in the United States. SPAH —the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica —is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit registered in the State of Michigan. SPAH advances its mission of preservation and advancement since 1963 in many ways.

To learn more or register for events and become a member visit https://www.spah.org/index.asp