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Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
This week's podcast is a short Public Service Announcement about the future of the series!
This podcast is brought to you by Tomlin Harmonica School - Step by step guidance and support to become a great harmonica player! http://www.tomlinharmonicaschool.com
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
This week’s podcast is the first in a series where I will be interviewing beginners instead of pros so that you can hear what it’s like starting out on the harmonica journey. Our first beginner guest will be Patrick who started playing about a year ago.
This podcast is brought to you by Tomlin Harmonica School - Step by step guidance and support to become a great harmonica player! http://www.tomlinharmonicaschool.com
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Over the past 30 years, this week’s guest has pushed the harmonica to new technical heights while still staying true to the Blues tradition. He is a technical wizard who has won too many awards to list plus he is a fantastic and thoughtful teacher. He is Carlos del Junco.
This podcast is brought to you by Tomlin Harmonica School - Step by step guidance and support to become a great harmonica player! http://www.tomlinharmonicaschool.com
Show Notes
- Carlos Del Junco’s Webinar
15th August 2020 Noon ET; Webinar with David Burgin - http://www.harmonicapractice.com
- Carlos Del Junco’s Music
Blues at Café Campus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVfdvNLLKE
Little Wing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVtGf43_Sv4
- Recommended Listening
* Lee Oskar
* Howard Levy
* Paul Butterfield
* David Burgin
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
This week’s guest is not a harmonica teacher or player but he is a fantastic musician, teacher and composer. I thought it would be fun to pick his brains about the process of practice as a student of an instrument, how best to do it and why it is important. He is my good friend Vid Gobac.
This podcast is brought to you by Tomlin Harmonica School - Step by step guidance and support to become a great harmonica player! http://www.tomlinharmonicaschool.com
Show Notes
Follow Vid here - https://www.vidgobac.com/
Check out Vid’s seminar on tomlinharmonicaschool.com all about timing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6gD2SPhdSg
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
This week’s guest is a fantastic harmonica player, performer and songwriter. Having given up a career as a software engineer to become a musician he has gone on to develop a unique style blending classic West Coast Blues Harmonica with traditional Indian music. He is the inimitable Aki Kumar.
SHOW NOTES
Aki’s Projects
New Album: https://lnkfi.re/akikumar
New Single: Aana Mere Pyar Ko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waAmX91RPMs
Website: http://www.akikumar.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aki_kumar/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/akikumar/
Recommended Listening
- John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers
- Muddy Waters
- Gary Smith
- David Barrett
- George Smith
- Rod Piazza
- Kim Wilson
- William Clark
- Rick Estrin
Misc.
- Little Village Foundation http://littlevillagefoundation.com/our-people/founder-jim-pugh/
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Not only is this week’s guest an awesome diatonic and chromatic player but he is also an amazing band leader, singer, drummer, keyboard player and lap-steel player. Jason Ricci describes him as a fiery, open minded, unique and musical harmonica player. He is the sensational Hank Shreve…
Show Notes
• Hank’s Projects
The Hank Shreve Band - http://www.hankshreveband.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hank.shreve
Band Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HankShreveBand/
YouTube Page - https://www.youtube.com/user/hankshreve
Music Masters Teaching Studio - https://www.musicmastersstudio.com/teacher-roster/hank-shreve-guitar-and-drum-lessons-eugene/
• Recommended Listening
Paul deLay
Carlos Del Junco
William Clark
Norton Buffalo
Jimmy Reed
Sonny Boy Williamson I
Rob Paparozzi
Deak Harp
Rick Estrin
Dennis Gruenling
Stevie Wonder
• Amp Used
Roland Cube GX80
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
You probably know this week’s guest as the author of the best-selling instructional books “Harmonica for Dummies” and “Blues Harmonica for Dummies” but there is so much more to the story than that. He is comfortable playing diatonic and chromatic across a wide variety of genres including Blues, Jazz and French/Canadian/Scottish Folk. He has been described by Jason Ricci as a mad scientist of harmonicas and harmonica music. He is none other than Winslow Yerxa…
Show Notes
- Harmonica Collective; http://www.harmonicacollective.com
- SPAH http://www.spah.org
- Social History of Harmonica https://www.facebook.com/virtualfilmfest/?hc_location=ufi
- http://www.winslowyerxa.com
- https://www.facebook.com/winslowyerxamusicpage/
Players to Listen To;
- Cream/Rolling Stones
- Toots Thielemens
- Larry Adler
- Tommy Riley
- Little Walter
- George Smith
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
This week’s guest is a prodigious talent on both diatonic and chromatic harmonica, he is a Berklee College of Music graduate and he is Sting’s harmonica player. He is Shane Sager
This podcast is brought to you by Tomlin Harmonica School - Step by step guidance and support to become a great harmonica player! http://www.tomlinharmonicaschool.com
Show Notes
- Shane’s projects
The Sager Family Foundation http://teamsager.org/
Shane’s Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/ssager2012
- Shane’s music
“Brand New Day” Sting NYE 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alu-XPPytXg
“My Songs: Live” Sting (feat Shane) https://smarturl.it/MySongsLive
- Recommended Listening
William Clarke
Rob Paparozzi
Larry Adler
Toots Thielemens
Hank Shreve
Stevie Wonder
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
This week’s guest is a versatile player on the diatonic and chromatic and is comfortable playing many different musical genres including but not limited to Irish folk, Jazz, Pop and Blues. He has recorded and toured with huge names ranging from Sting to Van Morrison. And, As well being an inspirational player, he is also a hugely creative harmonica customiser. He is Brendan Power.
This podcast is brought to you by Tomlin Harmonica School - Step by step guidance and support to become a great harmonica player! http://www.tomlinharmonicaschool.com
Show Notes
- Brendan’s Music
State Of The Harp
Country Harmonica
New Irish Harmonica
- Brendan’s Projects
Check out Brendan’s website with his music, projects and harmonica innovations - https://www.brendan-power.com/
Harmonica and iPad instructional series - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/harmonicaipad/401119840
- Recommended Listening
Sonny Terry & Brownie
Sonny Boy Williamson II “This Is My Story”
Charlie McCoy
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
This week’s guest takes a mixture of sweet country and gospel melodies and fuses them together with heavy blues chops to make him one of the most exciting modern harmonica players on the planet. He has a complete mastery of the overblows and overdraws and knows how to play them with extreme taste. He is Todd Parrot.
This podcast is brought to you by Tomlin Harmonica School - Step by step guidance and support to become a great harmonica player! http://www.tomlinharmonicaschool.com
Show Notes
- Todd Parrot’s Projects
Todd Parrot Skype Lessons http://www.toddparrott.com/Harmonica___Links.html
Custom Harmonica Combs https://www.facebook.com/todd.parrott.37
Carolina Harp Fest https://www.ncharmonica.com/
- Custom Harmonicas
Todd uses Joe Spiers’ custom harmonicas https://spiersharmonicas.com/
- Recommended Links
Steve Baker “The Harp Handbook”
Online piano http://www.gootar.com/piano
- Recommended Players
Johnny Mars
Pat Missin
Pete Elder