“Classic Harmonica Blues,” out on May 21, features 20 tracks by the blues’ greatest harmonica players. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings In the early 20th-century, southern black ...
In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...
As the curator of our Quest for Sound, Jay Allison tells us, listener Jonathan Mitchell found a cassette his grandfather sent him when Jonathan was a little boy. Grandpa Mitchell wanted to pass down ...
Jacob Prosek had never really thought about harmonicas before the spring of 2014. Now, after research and a trip to Germany, the North Central College student and Oswego East High School graduate is ...