Nashville-based Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson’s distinctive, soulful style has made him one of country music’s top session musicians. Since moving to Nashville in 1984, Jelly has recorded with the cream of Nashville’s singers, including Trisha Yearwood, Kathy Mattea, Etta James, Anointed, Randy Travis, The Judds,…

Jimmy Gordon is perhaps the only harmonica player who has played with both Bonnie Raitt and Jerry Lee Lewis. He sometimes tours with rock legend J.J. Cale, in whose company he has played such venues as Carnegie Hall. Jimmy’s first CD, Come On Over, is…

London-based Julian Jackson is a star on the rise. He was raised in a musically oriented family in Liverpool, England. While studying simultaneously at Sandown Music College in Liverpool and with world renowned classical harmonica player James Hughes, Julian captured the Hohner British Harmonica Championships…

Minneapolis, Minnesota native Clint Hoover has been playing the harmonica professionally for 18 years. As a studio session player he has worked for many regional artists as well as for commercials, theater, radio and TV. He has performed with groups working in styles that include…

Don DeStefano is a Connecticut-based harmonica player and vintage amp afficionado. His blues and R&B band The Bernadettes plays throughout New England, and they’re well worth the trip. Don has agreed to share some of his wisdom about things electronic with our visitors, and we’re…

Toronto-based Carlos del Junco began playing harmonica in his teens. del Junco plays the ten hole diatonic harmonica, using both standard and altered tunings, and is one of the leading disciples and exponents of Howard Levy’s “overblowing” approach to chromatic technique on the diatonic harmonica.

Dennis Gruenling is a rising young star in blues harmonica. His major influences include George “Harmonica” Smith, whose West Coast swing style and fat amped tone resonates in much of Dennis’s playing, and swing saxophonists such as Lester Young and Ben Webster. Dennis’s sound is…