Explore every episode of the podcast MY Baby Plays the Harmonica
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kim Wilson | 04 Dec 2024 | 00:25:54 | |
The leader of Austin's Fabulous Thunderbirds and the great inheritor of the great Little Walter | |||
| William Clarke | 19 Nov 2024 | 00:23:44 | |
The great chromatic and cross harp player, bandleader, and singer, mentored by George Smith, who died (maybe broke) in 1996. | |||
| Rod Piazza | 08 Nov 2024 | 00:27:02 | |
The great living player, protege of George Smith and perhaps the greatest master of double cross harp. | |||
| Jerry Portnoy | 30 Oct 2024 | 00:28:10 | |
The precision, the tone, and the underlying swing! Out of Chicago, also sitting that Muddy Waters harp chair. | |||
| Magic Dick | 27 Oct 2024 | 00:29:37 | |
Richard Salwitz of the J. Geils Band, the inventor of rock n roll harmonica. My all-time harpgod. | |||
| Charlie Musselwhite | 17 Oct 2024 | 00:26:53 | |
The great living master and creative force of the blues harmonica, Paul Butterfield's non-evil twin. | |||
| Paul Butterfield | 15 Oct 2024 | 00:27:07 | |
We have reached our rendezvous with blues harp racial destiny! | |||
| George 'Harmonica' Smith and Big Mama Thornton | 08 Oct 2024 | 00:30:07 | |
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." | |||
| Carey Bell | 02 Oct 2024 | 00:18:09 | |
The greatest of blues improvisers, as he showed on the London Muddy Waters Sessions. | |||
| James Cotton | 28 Sep 2024 | 00:28:47 | |
The furiously rocking god of blues harmonica! | |||
| Junior Wells | 05 Sep 2024 | 00:25:55 | |
The incredibly right player and maybe the greatest blues singer I ever experienced. | |||
| Racked: Jimmy Reed and Slim Harpo | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:24:35 | |
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. | |||
| Big Walter Horton | 28 Aug 2024 | 00:24:06 | |
The great Big Walter Horton, also known as "Shaky" and "Mumbles". Perhaps Little and Big Walter are the two greatest "classic" blues harp players | |||
| Sonny Boy Williamson II | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:29:08 | |
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! | |||
| Sonny Terry | 14 Aug 2024 | 00:28:48 | |
Episode 4: The great Piedmont/country/acoustic/folk blues master Sonny Terry. | |||
| Early Masters: Deford Bailey and Sonny Boy 1 (John Lee) Williamson | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:25:05 | |
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). | |||
| Why the Harmonica is a Great Blues Instrument | 08 Aug 2024 | 00:18:23 | |
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. | |||
| Little Walter | 07 Aug 2024 | 00:28:12 | |
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 | |||