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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

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91:40

The harmonica playing of Bob Dylan with Ross Garren,...

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2025/01/25

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 coaches’ for the movie. Ross recorded most of the harmonica used in the movie and the soundtrack, with Rob contributing one song and also providing support on the East Coast. Ross shares the painstaking process of recording for such a major music movie, how he stu...

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Sigmund Groven interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2025/01/11

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 lessons with Tommy they formed a lifelong friendship, with Sigmund even becoming his manager.Sigmund has released over thirty albums in his own name through his illustrious career and has played in venues and orchestras around the world, including Carnegie Hall, th...

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59:58

Winslow Yerxa interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/12/21

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 others. Winslow plays in harmonica ensembles and produces his own compositions using a wide variety of harmonicas, including the diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, the Pentaharp, XB40 and the recent Gamechanger harmonica.Winslow created the Harmonica Information Pu...

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92:29

Sonny Terry retrospective with Paul Lamb, Joe Filisko...

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/12/07

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 (or it could have been North Carolina). Growing up on a farm in a rural community, Sonny was left blind by two accidents in his youth. Unable to work on the farm he turned to music, with his harmonica playing father giving him his early lessons.Sonny first r...

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59:08

Shima Kobayashi interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/11/23

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 Japanese government to study with the great Tommy Reilly over a twelve month period. Shima has two albums to her name. The first has a number of pieces composed for chromatic harmonica. Her second album, Chromatic!, contains some pieces written for Shima b...

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78:12

Paul Oscher retrospective, with Jerry Portnoy, Steve...

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/11/09

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. Joining Muddy’s band gave Paul the best grounding in Chicago blues, he lived in Muddy’s house where he also learnt from the great Otis Spann. After leaving Muddy’s band Paul moved to New York and became a pivotal figure in the blues scene there. Paul put o...

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59:59

Ross Garren interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/10/26

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 on albums with numerous pop artists, including recently on Beyonce’s album, Cowboy Carter. Initially a piano player, Ross came to love the harmonica from the age of twelve and plays a wide range of harmonicas, from diatonic to chromatic, bass, chord and...

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58:52

Jim Zeller interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/10/12

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 North America.Jim has a very distinctive energetic style of playing on both the diatonic and chromatic harmonica. He developed this style by emulating guitar riffs and the percussive elements of Indian music.He has played with and supported some famous blue...

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85:59

Paul deLay retrospective with Grant Dermody, Ross...

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/09/28

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 well as his powerful vocals and his insightful and humorous songwriting have placed him firmly in the hearts of harmonica and music fans in the know.Paul was from Portland, Oregon in the north west United States where his first outfit was the Brown Sugar Blues...

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59:59

Yeore Kim interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/09/14

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 focusing on the chromatic harmonica from age 18.Yeore has released two albums of duets with different pianists.She moved to France in 2018 after meeting her guitarist husband, Antoine Boyer, with whom she has released an album, Tangram. This contains a great mix o...

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59:59

David Barrett interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/08/24

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 18 and has become one of the foremost harmonica educators around, with his BluesHarmonica.com website an invaluable resource. He ran the School of Blues for twenty years and has written over seventy instructional books, DVDs and CDs.David has four albums to...

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59:23

Yvonnick Prene interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/08/10

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 blues and jazz on the diatonic and took lessons with some of the great French players, before focusing his attention playing jazz on the chromatic.Yvonnick is a bandleader and has released seven albums under his own name as well as numerous sessions as a sidema...

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59:58

Isabella Krapf interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/07/27

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 puts on exhibitions. She played a part in keeping the Seydel factory in business when it was looking for new investors in the early 2000s, by ordering 1000 ‘boomerang’ harmonicas.In 2011 Isabella was asked to visit North Korea to teach groups of music students the...

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59:59

Pat Missin interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/07/13

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 into some of this knowledge, starting with how free reed instruments were the predecessor of the harmonica and the questionable history of who actually invented the harmonica as we know it today. We also discuss various harmonica recording firsts, such as the first blues harmonica song recorde...

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59:14

Seth Shumate interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/06/29

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 Handbook which contains lots of great information, as well as techniques on how to play authentic Old Timey harmonica using various tongue blocking techniques to add percussive rhythm and to provide self-accompaniment while also playing the melody of the tune...

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59:48

Andre Godoy Coelho (and Brendan Power) interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/06/12

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 Portugal. Andre quickly became interested in harmonica customisation when his first harmonica didn’t quite perform as he wanted. This has turned into a full time business for Andre, who has now teamed up with Brendan Power on his x-reed harmonica range. T...

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58:42

Svang interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/05/28

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 Helsinki and suggested forming a harmonica group with two of his students.The group doesn’t play the typical harmonicas of a harmonica group, with a harmonetta used instead of a chord, and bluesy diatonics used as part of the sound alongside chromatic.Their reperto...

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58:08

The Ten Minute Question: part 2

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/05/18

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, what would you spend that ten minutes doing”.Podcast website:https://www.harmonicahappyhour.comDonations:If you want to make a voluntary donation to help support the running costs of the podcast then please use this link (or visit the podcast website link above):...

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57:19

The Ten Minute Question: part 1

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/05/08

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 110th episode (get it?)Not every episode had a ten minute question, such as the retrospectives, but most did, 96 in fact.So I hope you enjoy listening back to this collection and apply some of the tips and tricks offered by the great players who have been on the ...

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59:59

Clint Hoover interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast ·

2024/05/01

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