Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast
1) Josh King interview
Josh King joins me on episode 145. Josh hails from Charlotte, North Carolina, and picked up his first harmonica at just six years old. By the time he was eight, heâd found an incredible mentor in the ...Show More
2) Shane Sager interview
Shane Sager joins me on episode 144. Shane is from Boston. In his early teens, a hand injury forced him to give up drumming, so he turned to the harmonica and never looked back. At Berklee College of ...Show More
3) James Cotton retrospective
Kyle Rowland and Kenny Neal join me on episode 143 for a retrospective on James âMr Superharpâ Cotton. Born in 1935 on the Bonnie Blue plantation in Mississippi, James Cotton received his first harmon...Show More
4) Victor Puertas interview
Victor Puertas joins me on episode 142. Victor Puertas grew up just outside Barcelona, discovering the blues in his early teens, splitting his passion between harmonica and keyboards. At 18 he travel...Show More
5) Yoonseok Lee interview
Yoonseok Lee joins me on episode 141. Yoonseok is from South Korea where he first took up the tremolo harmonica. He discovered the chromatic when he heard Sigmund Groven playing at the Asia Pacific F...Show More
6) Liam Ward interview
Liam Ward joins me on episode 140. Liam is from the north west of England and first took up the harmonica in his late teens. His youthful zeal turned into his career when he chose to become a full-ti...Show More
7) Big Walter Horton retrospective with Tom Ball, Mudcat and Madcat
Tom Ball, Peter âMadcatâ Ruth and Michael âMudcatâ Ward join me on episode 139 for a retrospective on Walter Horton. Walter was likely born on April 6th, 1918, in Horn Lake, Mississippi. He probably ...Show More
8) Richard Sleigh interview
Richard Sleigh joins me on episode 138. Richard is from Pennsylvania and is a renowned harmonica customiser, player and teacher. He tells how his great uncle Bill inspired him to pick up the harp, be...Show More
9) Fabrizio Poggi interview
Fabrizio Poggi joins me on episode 137. Fabrizio plays blues, folk and spiritual music. Hailing from near Milan, he took some time to find his way with the harmonica but since then he has performed a...Show More
10) Sonny Boy Williamson II retrospective with Giles Robson and Jim Basnight
Giles Robson and Jim Basnight join me on episode 136 for a retrospective on Alex âRiceâ Miller (aka Sonny Boy Williamson II). Information on Sonny Boyâs early life is sketchy. Sonny Boy was likely bo...Show More