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
126 episodes
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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57:19
Clint Hoover interview
Clint Hoover joins me on episode 109.Clint is originally from Minneapolis and has spent a life immersed in music and the harmonica. He’s reached great heights on both the chromatic and the diatonic. Early on he also studied guitar and sa...
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59:59
Roly Platt interview
Roly Platt joins me on episode 108.Roly is a Canadian player who has recorded countless sessions over his 45 year career. He started out playing in a country band which set the scene for him playing a diverse range of genres throughout t...
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Episode 108
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59:59
Yotam Ben-Or interview
Yotam Ben-Or joins me on episode 107.Yotam is a chromatic player who attended the Tel-Aviv Music Conservatory, making a name for himself on the Israeli music scene before winning a scholarship to study at The New School for Jazz in New Y...
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Season 1
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Episode 107
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59:12
Eddie Martin interview
Eddie Martin joins me on episode 106.Eddie has been described as the ambassador of British Blues, having released seventeen albums over his near fifty year career, with many of the songs self-penned by Eddie. He started out as a one-man ...
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Episode 106
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59:12
William Clarke retrospective, part 2, with Paul Barry
Paul Barry joins me again on episode 105, for another look at the life and career of the great William Clarke.Paul has now released his biography: Blowin’ Like Hell: The William Clarke Story, writing it from insights he gained from Bill’...
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Episode 105
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59:59
Mike Turk interview
Mike Turk joins me on episode 104.Mike is a Boston-based player who started out playing blues harmonica, inspired by the great Paul Butterfield, before becoming interested in playing jazz on the chromatic. He recorded some session work i...
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Episode 104
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59:26
Konstantin Reinfeld interview
Konstantin Reinfeld joins me on episode 103.Konstantin is a German who comes from the overblow school of harmonica, studying music at a conservatory and taking lessons from Howard Levy as part of his early development. He released a jazz...
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Episode 103
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