Imagine your band playing the usual gig at Rum Boogie Café on Beale Street and everything seems normal. Then, actor Jim Belushi joins the stage with his harmonica — twice. Local Memphis band FreeWorld ...

About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music. Harmonica ...

One of the most versatile harmonica players in pop history is Stevie Wonder, shown here in Paris in 1963 at age 13. Charley Ley / Mirrorpix Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the ...

Hard as it may be to believe, it’s been almost 10 years since the rollicking harmonica-and-guitar opening of “Hot Sauce” started booming out of area stereos. Same for the nostalgic ballad “Standing ...

In the summer of 1963, a strange record by a 12-year-old boy who’d already racked up a string of flops spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It’s largely a showcase for that ...

Last year’s Greeley Blues Jam was voted the best blues festival in Colorado by the members of the Colorado Blues Society. That’s a little disconcerting for Al ...