Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast
The Happy Hour Harmonica podcast brings profiles of some of the top harmonica players and technicians today.
The podcast is sponsored by Seydel harmonicas. Check out their great range of products at www.seydel1847.com.
If you would like to make a voluntary contribution to help keep the podcast running then please use this link: https://paypal.me/harmonicahappyhour.
Visit the main podcast webpage at: https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com/
Contact: happyhourharmonicapodcast@gmail.com
The podcast is sponsored by Seydel harmonicas. Check out their great range of products at www.seydel1847.com.
If you would like to make a voluntary contribution to help keep the podcast running then please use this link: https://paypal.me/harmonicahappyhour.
Visit the main podcast webpage at: https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com/
Contact: happyhourharmonicapodcast@gmail.com
Episodes
132 episodes
Paul Butterfield retrospective, part 3, with Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis joins me on episode 132 for another look into the life and career of the legendary Paul Butterfield. Butter gained access to the Chicago blues scene at a young age when his lawyer father carried out pro bono work for some ...
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Episode 132
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59:56
James Harman retrospective with Rick Estrin and Nathan James
Rick Estrin and Nathan James join me on episode 131 for a retrospective on James Harman.James ‘Icepick’ Harman was born in Anniston, Alabama in 1946. After moving between various locations, including Florida, New York, New Orleans and Ch...
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Episode 131
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59:59
Mikael Backman interview
Mikael Backman joins me on episode 130.Mikael is from Sweden where he started playing blues harmonica, recording six albums with the band Ramblin’ Minds. He then joined the band John Henry. Initially a bluegrass band, they went on to pla...
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Episode 130
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59:59
Corky Siegel interview
Corky Siegel joins me on episode 129.Corky played was central in the emergence of the popularity of the blues to a white audience. His Siegel-Schwall band gained a residency at Chicago’s Pepper Lounge, sharing the stage with blues giants...
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Episode 129
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59:59
The harmonica playing of Bob Dylan with Ross Garren, Rob Paparozzi and Liam Ward
Ross Garren, Rob Paparozzi and Liam Ward join me on episode 128, to discuss the harmonica playing of Bob Dylan.The early part of Dylan’s career is chronicled in the current biopic, A Complete Unknown.Ross and Rob were the ‘harmonica coa...
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Episode 128
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1:31:40
Sigmund Groven interview
Sigmund Groven joins me on episode 127. Sigmund is a chromatic player who is a household name in his native Norway. He was inspired to take up the harmonica after hearing Tommy Reilly on the radio. After taking some less...
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Episode 127
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1:00:00
Winslow Yerxa interview
Winslow Yerxa joins me on episode 126.Winslow is originally from Canada, now living in San Francisco. He started out playing blues harmonica before becoming interested in the traditional music of French Canada and British origins, among oth...
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Episode 126
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59:58
Sonny Terry retrospective with Paul Lamb, Joe Filisko and Adam Sikora
Paul Lamb, Joe Filisko and Adam Sikora join me on episode 125, for a retrospective on one of the legends of the diatonic harmonica, Sonny Terry, whose real name was Saunders Terrell.Sonny was born in 1911 (or 1912), in Greensboro, Georgia (...
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Episode 125
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1:32:29
Shima Kobayashi interview
Shima Kobayashi joins me on episode 124.Shima is a classical chromatic player originally from Japan, who has been living in the UK since 2004.After winning the World Harmonica Championship in 1995 she was awarded a bursary by the ...
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Episode 124
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59:08
Paul Oscher retrospective, with Jerry Portnoy, Steve Guyger and Louis Erlanger
Jerry Portnoy, Steve Guyger and Louis Erlanger join me on episode 123, for a retrospective on Paul Oscher.Paul was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and has a place in history as the first white player in a major black blues band, with Muddy Waters....
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Episode 123
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1:18:12
Ross Garren interview
Ross Garren joins me again on episode 122. Ross lives near Los Angeles, where he has established himself as a leading session musician for harmonica recordings on movies, including Marvel’s Logan and the new Joker film, as well o...
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Episode 122
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59:59
Jim Zeller interview
Jim Zeller joins me on episode 121.Jim is from Montreal, Canada, and first starting playing harmonica at age twelve after stealing one from a school friend. He ran away from home at age fifteen and learnt harmonica as he hitch-hiked around ...
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Episode 121
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58:52
Paul deLay retrospective with Grant Dermody, Ross Garren and Pete Dammann
Grant Dermody, Ross Garren and Pete Dammann join me on episode 120 for a retrospective on Paul DeLay.Paul is a harmonica player who may go under the radar for some but his unique approach to both the diatonic and chromatic harmonica, as wel...
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Episode 120
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1:25:59
Yeore Kim interview
Yeore Kim joins me on episode 119.Yeore is from South Korea, where she first picked up the tremolo harmonica at the age of six. Her mother is a piano teacher, so she also learnt piano and other instruments, including trumpet, before focusin...
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David Barrett interview
David Barrett joins me on episode 118.David is based in San Jose, California, where he took lessons from Gary Smith from age 16, in addition to learning from great harmonica recordings. He started teaching harmonica himself from age ...
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Episode 118
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59:59
Yvonnick Prene interview
Yvonnick Prene joins me on episode 117.Yvonnick was born in France and has been resident in New York for seventeen years after first moving to the city to study at the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music.He started out playing ...
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Episode 117
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59:23
Isabella Krapf interview
Isabella Krapf joins me on episode 116.Isabella is from Vienna, Austria, where she started teaching and performing concerts in her late teens and has had a career in the harmonica ever since.Isabella is a collector of harmonicas and put...
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Episode 116
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59:58
Pat Missin interview
Pat Missin joins me on episode 115.Pat’s knowledge about the harmonica is unsurpassed, with his website at patmissin.com, a definitive source of information for over twenty years. He gives us an insight...
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Episode 115
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59:59
Seth Shumate interview
Seth Shumate joins me on episode 114.Seth is an Old Timey and pre-war harmonica player originally from Arkansas, now living in Tennessee. Seth has deeply researched the early history of the harmonica and has written an Old Time Harmonica...
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Episode 114
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59:14
Andre Godoy Coelho (and Brendan Power) interview
Andre Godoy Coelho (and Brendan Power) join me on episode 113.Andre is a Brazilian who relocated to Portugal in 2018, performing and recording two albums with the Rio Grande band in Sao Paulo, before recording a recent album in a duo in ...
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Episode 113
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59:48
Svang interview
Harmonica group Svang join me on episode 112.Svang are a harmonica quartet from Finland, who have been performing and recording for over twenty years now. They first formed in 2003 when Jouko was teaching at the Sibelius Academy in Helsi...
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Episode 112
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58:42
The Ten Minute Question: part 2
Episode 111 is part 2 of the ten minute question, from the remaining podcast guests up until this point.As per the last episode, I’ll say the name of each guest before they respond to the question: “if you had 10 minutes to practise, wha...
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Episode 111
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58:08
The Ten Minute Question: part 1
Something a little different for episode 110 (and also episode 111 so I can keep the length around the one hour mark).The next two episodes are a compilation of all the ten minute question answers from the series so far, in this, the 110...
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Episode 110
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