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Special Guest: Dennis Gruenling

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2025/04/14

Dennis is one of the greatest Harmonica players working today.

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1:37:44

Special Guest: Boz Scaggs

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2025/04/14

Boz is one of the greats. Case Closed

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1:13:15

Derrick D’MAR Martin – Drummer Extraordinaire

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/12/17

Derrick D'MAR Martin epitomizes the essence of rhythm, seamlessly weaving his percussive mastery into the very fabric of the music industry. With a career spanning over three decades, Derrick has solidified his status as a virtuoso drummer, recording artist, producer, songwriter, educator, and captivating public speaker.

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1:06:33

Chris Layton drummer for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double...

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/12/13

Chris joins Mark on the Blues Cruise to discuss life in the blues and playing drums for Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Chris is one of the founding members of Stevie Ray Vaughan's band Double Trouble. Chris moved to Austin in 1975 and joined Double Trouble in 1978. After forming successful partnerships with bandmates Tommy Shannon and Reese Wynans, Double Trouble recorded and performed with Vaughan until his death in 1990. Layton and Shannon later formed supergroups such as the Arc Angels,

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1:13:17

Walter Shufflesworth – Drummer

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2024/12/06

Walter has been a drummer for 40 years with some of the most influential artists ever! Including: The Dynatones, Linn County, Big Joe Turner,Lowell Fulson,Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, Mary Wells,Luther Tucker, Tim Hardin, Sir Mack Rice of The Falcons, Lightning Hopkins, Mark Naftlin, Big Jack Reynolds, Bobo Jenkins, Featured drummer on over 25 LP's and numerous singles. Warner Bros., RCA, Rhino, Rounder, Blue Suit, Red Lighting, Solid Smoke, Westside, Bad Daddy,...

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1:01:01

Tommy Castro

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/11/22

#painkillers #bluesguitar #bluescruiseMark sits down with guitar player and longtime bandleader Tommy Castro in Tommy's cabin to discuss life, music and 40 years of knowing each other and playing blues.

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1:14:50

Fillmore Slim

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/11/22

#hiphop #rap #bluesguitar #snoopdogg #pimp While cruising and performing on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise, Mark sits down with Fillmore Slim the legendary bluesman, and grandfather of HIP HOP. He has toured the greatest blues, soul, R&B, and jazz artists including Sly and the Family Stone, BB.King, Dinah Washington, Ike and Tina Turner, T-Bone Walker, Holly Maxwell, Sista Monica, Guitar Shorty, Etta James, Frankie Lee, J.J. Malone, Johnny Guitar Watson, Joe Louis Walker, Rick Estrin, Bonnie

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1:14:33

Special Guest – RW Grigsby

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/10/24

Bassist, singer and songwriter Richard “RW” Grigsby, has logged several lifetimes on the road, and his early rock and roll roots (Rome, GA near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains) burst out like another famous Richard from Georgia on “Road Scholar,” his story of a musician who has spent too much time on the road, working for too little pay. It’s sung by Red’s Blues drummer Tim Wilbur, a pro’s pro (2017 Sacramento Music Awards and Sacramento Blues Society Hall of Fame member), who brought

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1:14:18

True Believer CD Release – Stories from the Studio

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/09/25

Mark opens up on recording his new record and touring with legends.Anson Funderburgh Wes Starr Kedar Roy Randy Bermudes Oscar Wilson Joe Beard Billy Flynn https/www.markhummel.com

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1:17:10

Special Guest: Jim Liban

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/09/01

In 1979 at 11 years old Jim first heard Bruce Springsteen sing Born to Run and Thunder Road and was never the same . Music had to be a part of my life! After hearing Woody Guthrie sing I Ain't Got No Home, at 14, he bought an acoustic guitar! Woody posed a question in his music, "What does it mean to be an American?" Jim has spent his life trying to answer that question through story and song. Hearing Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, sealed a lifelong deal. From 1993 until 2000, Jim

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1:01:34

Special Guest Dick Shurman – Blues Hall of Fame Producer

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/08/15

#johnnywinter #chicagoblues #grammywinners #aligator Richard L. Shurman He has produced numerous recordings by notable musicians including Johnny Winter, Lurrie Bell, Eddie C. Campbell, Albert Collins, Little Smokey Smothers, Jody Williams, Roy Buchanan, Big Bill Morganfield, Larry Garner, Robert Cray, Hip Linkchain, Magic Slim, Charlie Musselwhite, Otis Rush, Johnny Heartsman, and Fenton Robinson. Shurman has also written many liner notes, and is the publisher of Chicago Blues News. In 2005, he

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41:34

Special Guest: Greg Piccolo

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/07/25

At age nineteen, Duke Robillard recruited Greg as one of the earliest members of what became the Rhode Island based powerhouse, Roomful of Blues. The unifying magnet within the group in its early years, 1969 -1971, was focus on the rootsy, retro, danceable, swing sound of the ‘40s and ‘50s. This “new” sound to teenage ears and the recall of this music to the older folks, filled dance floors all over the band’s New England home-base and eventually on the global stage.For the next twenty-four years,

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54:22

Special Guest: Lady Bianca

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/07/25

Lady Bianca is an American electric blues singer, songwriter and arranger. Lady Bianca has worked as a session singer, depicted Billie Holiday on stage, and since 1995 released six solo albums, three of which were nominated for a Grammy Award. Born Bianca Thornton, in Kansas City, Missouri, her first exposure to music was through gospel, and she studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her first professional gig was with Quinn Harris and the Masterminds, when she was aged 17. Harris

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1:05:09

Special Guest: Dick Bright

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/06/15

The Dick Bright Orchestra has built a reputation as being San Francisco’s premier social band. They also travel to perform throughout the U.S. for conventions, corporate events, fundraisers, weddings, and private parties. Based on Dick Bright’s colorful career history, we couldn’t wait to interview him and share more with you about what makes him so knowledgable and entertaining. Enjoy! Born in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in West Los Angeles, Rod Serling was president of his junior high

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1:25:45

Pete Sears – Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Jerry Garcia,...

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/06/11

Peter Sears (born 27 May 1948) is an English rock music musician. In a career spanning more than six decades, he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues. He usually plays bass, keyboards, or both in bands.Pete Sears played on the Rod Stewart albums Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells A Story (which was listed high in Rolling Stone's top

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58:01

Austin de Lone – Elvis Costello, Boz Scaggs, Nick...

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/06/09

#elviscostello #lindaronstadt #bozscaggs #bonnieraitt #nicklowe Austin de Lone is an American keyboardist who records and tours with his own bands as well as with other artists, such as Bill Kirchen, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Boz Scaggs, Nick Lowe, Commander Cody, and Loudon Wainwright. De Lone grew up in suburban Philadelphia, taking piano lessons at age 12. His early influences included Ray Charles and George Shearing. After stints as a student at the New England Conservatory of Music, Harvard

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45:56

Bill Champlin – Sons of Champlin | Chicago

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/05/26

Bill Champlin was born in Oakland, California on May 21, 1947 to a musical family. His grandparents, mother and sisters have all been singers. After forming the Sons of Champlin in 1967, he focused his songwriting talents on material for the Sons. “They were breathing fire. They were the most talented of all the San Francisco bands”, said Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead. The Sons’ first album, “Loosen Up Naturally,” was released in 1969 and followed by six more albums before the Sons disbanded in

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1:06:40

Johnny Nicholas: Blues Guitar Legend

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/04/29

Nicholas grew up in Rhode Island, United States, where he formed his first band, The Vikings. The band performed cover versions of popular rhythm and blues hits of the time, along with songs by the Rolling Stones. In the mid-1960s, he formed the Black Cat Blues Band with Duke Robillard, Fran Christina and Steve Nardella. Around 1970, he formed the Boogie Brothers with Nardella. After attending the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1970, the band eventually moved on to San Francisco, California in 1972

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52:46

Bill Kirchen of Commander Cody’s Lost Planet Airmen

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/04/24

In 1969, Kirchen took Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen to California and they developed a reputation as musical "outlaws" that were praised by other outlaw musicians and bands like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, The Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band.Kirchen's band "played a collection of rock 'n' roll, hard-core country, boogie and rockabilly sounds produced in a "high-octane mix" that made them a "happening" group in the San Francisco Bay area.Kirchen began to develop as

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35:43

Mark Answers Listener Questions

Mark Hummel"s Harmonica Party ·

2024/03/25

Grammy Nominee, Blues Award Winner, Author, Harp Man Mark Hummel had a banner year in 2014. Grammy Nominated for his Remembering Little Walter CD he produced and performed on, Mark also won Best Blues CD and Best Traditional Blues CD at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, TN. Mark's The Hustle Is Really On climbed to #2 and stayed in the top five for four months on the Living Blues Radio Charts. Hummel's book "BIG ROAD BLUES:12 Bars on I-80" garnered rave reviews and was nominated for best

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