Been threatening to do this for a while. It’s time to expose myself! The majority of teaching I do involves shepherding people through David Barrett’s…
Just got off my second visit to the Harmonica UK Virtual Open Mic. It’s a monthly Zoom meeting where harmonica enthusiasts meet and play harmonica…
Like pretty much everything this year, plans for the annual Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica (SPAH) conference were thrown into turmoil…
We are living in a golden age of harmonica teaching. I know I bang on about Joe Filisko a lot (and posted a link to…
I’m very late to the party with this one, but just in case you haven’t seen it yet I thought it worth a plug. Tomlin…
Great footage here from a 1972 interview with Sonny Terry. He’s talking quite openly about his playing and hand technique etc. Super stuff. I can’t…
Sometimes I get asked about custom harmonicas. What makes them custom? Will they help me play better? Do I need one? and so on. Happily,…
Great article here – supported by copious recordings – by Seth Shumate. One In Every Pocket: The Rise of Harmonica on Old Time Music. The…
This is priceless. Over an hour of music and harp talk from two of the greatest players alive today. There’s a lot of wisdom here.…
A Big Walter Horton lick I got mildly obsessed with a couple of weeks ago. It’s from the stone-cold-classic solo on Jimmy Rogers Walking By…