Fifty cents and a cereal box top. That, and whatever a stamp cost in 1949, sparked one of the most remarkable instrumental careers in music history, one that landed Charlie McCoy in the Country Music ...

Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

One of country music’s pioneers, DeFord Bailey, will have his legacy live on forever in Nashville, Tennessee. ABC News reports a street will be named after the “Harmonica Wizard,” DeFord Bailey, on ...

David Herzhaft is a pioneer and new generation harmonica player, pushing the limits of the diatonic harmonica further and blending it into new styles. Using bends and overbends his standard tuned ...

When it comes to music, you only need one instrument. Members of the Rubber Capital Harmonica Club believe that. In fact, they are so devoted to the music of that one instrument that have structured ...

Charlie McCoy is a Nashville studio legend. Known primarily for his harmonica playing, he is also skilled on the guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, vibes, and any number of brass and wind instruments, and ...

LA HULPE, Belgium — His gait is unsteady and his broad face thinning with age. But for nearly two hours this summer, Jean "Toots" Thielemans — who more than half a century ago elevated the harmonica ...