Rick Kogan: How Billy Branch bought a harmonica, found the blues and changed his life

The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. ...
Yahoo

From Railway Wails To Off The Rails: Buyer's Guide To Harmonica Blues

No one know when the harmonica first got the blues, but WC Handy reported hearing train imitations being played on the instrument in the 1870s, and by the 1920s, after Mamie Smith hit with Crazy Blues ...
The New York Times

Phil Wiggins, Virtuoso of the Blues Harmonica, Is Dead at 69

First as half of the duo Cephas and Wiggins and later on his own, he was one of the best-known musicians playing the style known as the Piedmont blues. By Clay Risen Phil Wiggins, a harmonica player ...

Iowa native brings Blues in the Schools in the QCA

Iowa native Kevin Burt brought Blues in the Schools by performing for kids in the QCA. Burt played guitar and harmonica and sang at Earl Hanson Elementary School in Rock Island February 25. During his ...