Consider the harmonica: So simple an instrument in design, yet so complex to master. In the hands of amateurs it produces caterwauling mayhem, like a sonic hairball stuck in a vacuum cleaner. In the ...

I play a little folk and blues acoustic guitar, but since there are so many excellent guitarists in Pocatello with skills far beyond mine, I have recently pursued learning blues harmonica — usually ...

A recent Friday, 10:21 a.m.: Sitting on a 5-gallon bucket in front of tourists waiting to get on the Powell Street cable car, Vincente "Blue" Blupriest belted out his version of the blues with a ...

ASPEN Several years ago, after meeting and jamming with DJ Logic at a San Francisco benefit concert, John Popper put together the John Popper Project. The quartet, a side gig from Popper’s day job as ...

Due to the threat of bad weather, Sunday's Music Haven's concert featuring legendary blues harmonica master James Cotton was moved to the rain site, and nearly 1,400 people packed the downstairs of ...

Oakland-based blues harpist Mark Hummel can get down and dirty with the funkiest of them, but his real forte is the breezy, jazz-influenced west-coast style, which was sparked by T-Bone Walker’s ...

KXCI (91.3-FM) has some classic blues in store for this year’s House Rockin’ Blues Review at El Casino Ballroom on Friday. Lester, 81, was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012 for his ...