EVERETT — Suddenly, it’s 1975 again. “Low Rider” erupts from the harmonica of a hipster with thick curly brown hair and blue tinted specs. It sounds just like the way Lee Oskar played it. What’s up ...
Lee Oskar is as nimble with a paintbrush as he is with a harmonica. He is known for his harp moves in the Grammy-nominated band War’s 1975 hit “Low Rider” and other songs. After a nearly six-decade ...
Sometimes, it’s really hard to remember. That could be because the subject at hand is so difficult you don’t want to embrace it again. Or it could be because the subject is so far in the past that ...
EVERETT, Wash — For even longer than he's been playing the harmonica, Lee Oskar, co-founder of the seminal 70's funk band War ("Low Rider, "Why Can't We Be Friends"), has been a visual artist.
As the frontman for Old Crow Medicine Show, Ketch Secor has proudly carried the flag for the beauty and charm of old-time music while giving it a modern-sounding edge. Secor and his bandmates revel in ...
For his new record, She Said Mahalo (available September 15 on his own Dreams We Share label), the mood is much lighter, joyous, and buoyant on the 10 instrumental tracks. And while Oskar’s harmonica ...
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