Sidekicks (4424 W. Montrose) is an understatedly chill karaoke joint. Flashy people sing at Alice’s or Cafe Mustache, but if you’re looking for a good, weird time singing to a mix of people that might ...
Fat, brassy sounds fill Cafe Van Kleef in downtown Oakland as Mark Hummel blows a slow Muddy Waters blues into his amplified B-flat Hohner harmonica. An off-white Dobbs shantung Panama hat rests on ...
With guest host Jane Clayson. Harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy tears it up with us. From Bach to the blues. Harmonica master Howard Levy, in a photo dated February 2012. (Courtesy the Artist) Oh, you ...
Most people don’t know about the harmonica player. Long gone are the days when a first-rate blues harp player could be the star draw of a band. Today it’s an increasingly rare art form, its ...
Tipped off about a harmonica player spotted on a street corner in East Dallas, I hopped in my car and headed over to the intersection of Bryan and Fitzhugh - home of Jimmy's Food Store, a family-owned ...
BETHEL – Years ago, up in the far north of Canada, harmonica man Mike Stevens found some kids clutching plastic bags of gasoline and huffing the wicked fumes to get high. The disturbing encounter in ...