On this day (November 7) in 1951, Mickey Raphael was born in Dallas, Texas. Country fans know him as Willie Nelson’s longtime harmonica player. However, he was already touring as a sideman before he ...

Among the harmonica’s many wonderful and unique traits, there is this: You have to really suck to be good at it. As one of America’s finest and busiest harmonica players, Denver’s Ronnie Shellist ...

When Floyd Barto was five years old, he began playing harmonica on the family farm. He had to tend to get the cows in the morning and at night, he recalls, and would play a song on the way there and ...

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 ...

SANTA CRUZ — Some strong winds will be blowing in Santa Cruz on Sunday. That won’t just be in the stormy weather the area is expected to receive but on the stage at Moe’s Alley where several ...

When professional harmonica player Rob Paparozzi was tapped to help Timothée Chalamet play Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, he wasn’t exactly familiar with the 28-year-old sensation. “Never heard of ...