Phil Wiggins, a blues harmonica virtuoso who embraced the jaunty ... (Cephas received the award in 1989.) After Cephas’s death in 2009, Mr. Wiggins worked with many D.C.-area musicians ...

First as half of the duo Cephas and Wiggins and later on his own, he was one of the best-known musicians playing the style known as the Piedmont blues. By Clay Risen Phil Wiggins, a harmonica ...

Blues harmonica virtuoso and onetime Muddy Waters sideman James Cotton died on Thursday at a medical center in Austin of pneumonia. He was 81. A rep for the musician confirmed his death.

"James Cotton was probably among the half-dozen most important blues harmonica players. He was much imitated, never duplicated. His sound and his style became archetypes. He carried the sound of ...

Hear an encore of their conversation at the audio link. James Cotton, one of the foremost blues harmonica players of the 20th century, died Thursday of pneumonia while being treated at St. David's ...

Even if I tried it, it would come out like the blues.” He also noted that his constant companion through everything has been his harmonica. “Twenty-four hours a day, every day, you’ll catch ...

Tony Glover, the influential blues harmonica player who was a longtime ... and the two would continue to play together until Ray’s death in 2002. Along with their Sixties output, Koerner ...

Tony Glover, a harmonica player ... a new audience to the blues, died on May 29 in a hospital in St. Paul. He was 79. His wife, Cynthia Nadler, confirmed the death. She did not specify the cause.

The legendary bluesmen of the Delta are often identified with a signature song, like Robert Johnson and “Cross Road Blues” or Charley Patton and “Pony Blues.” Son House is best known for ...