Hohner has a new amp designed especially for harp players, the Hoodoo Box.  You can find the specs online at places like Musiciansfriend.com, so I won’t bother listing them here.  What’s interesting is what this signals about the harp gear market. This isn’t the first…

I got an invitation from a harmonica player named Harmonica Boris, who’s based in Ekaterinburg, Russia, to listen to a solo piece of his called “Ad Libitum” at his Myspace page.  I checked it out tonight, and man is it cool stuff.  The playing is…

I get a lot of questions from beginners about what gear they should buy to get started with a decent recording setup for as little money as possible. I thought it might be useful for those beginners to put together a few inexpensive but decent…

In September 2007 I worked as a coach at Jon Gindick’s Harmonica jam camp in Natick, MA alongside Dennis Greunling and Richard sleigh.  At the end of the camp, Dennis and I exchanged CDs–he took a copy of my “The Second Act of Free Being,”…

I first recorded my piece “Put The Lever Down” in 1981.  I wrote the hook while jamming alone in a parking lot outside a rink where my dauighter was competing in a skating competition.  I recorded the whole piece, from first note to final mix,…

Last September at Jon Gindick’s Harmonica Jam Camp in Natick, Massachusetts, I performed a duet with blues harp master Annie Raines on a G minor blues.  The performance was recorded to video–my first videoed performance, and it’s a good one.  You can see it on…

I sat in with Jon Paris’s band in NYC (at Lucille’s Grill in BB King’s, times Square) for the second time on Monday, October 22, and it was fine.  This time, instead of running the harp through the PA, I managed to talk Jon into…

I saw Scott Albert Johnson (SAJ for short) at Arlene’s grocery in NYC last night.  I was the very first buyer of SAJ’s first CD release earlier this year.  (And I’ve got the dated autograph to prove it.)  The CD was enjoyable pop with a touch…

Over a year ago, I wrote to the Harp-L internet mailing list to tell list members that I’d released a new song called “Stone Castle,” and said piece was intended as theme music for a vampire movie.  Soon after, a member of the list named Johan…

I was one of the coaches at Jon Gindick’s Harmonica Jam Camp in Natick this weekend, and it was a blast. I went to Jam Camp because 1) I wanted to learn a few things from the other coaches, and 2) I wanted to help…