Phil Wiggins, a blues harmonica virtuoso who embraced the jaunty Piedmont style and toured the world as part of a duo ...

Civil War soldiers took it into battle, and formerly enslaved people used it to play an early version of the blues. Credit: Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures “The cool thing about the harmonica ...

Central to Chicago blues was the harmonica. Marion ‘Little Walter’ Jacobs pioneered a new amplified approach, radically transforming it into a powerful lead instrument. Subsequently ...

As the musical form began to evolve, Delta blues artists often worked solo, accompanying themselves on guitar or harmonica. Bottleneck and slide guitar, a rough and rhythmic intensity, and raw ...

Freestyle Digital Media has just released the music documentary BONNIE BLUE: JAMES COTTON'S LIFE IN THE BLUES, now available to rent/own on all No ...