Musicians and Friends:
The Best You Ever Heard – A music blog by a guy with great taste in blues, roots and bluegrass
Juzzie Smith – Harp player and street-performing one-man-band phenom
Yuri Lane – Beatbox harmonica player with fantastic taste in hats
Forums:
Harmonica Club
Harmonica Boogie
Dirty-South Blues Harp Forum
Harp-L (Mailing list forum)
Slidemeister (Diatonic Section)
Reference:
Pat Missin.com – Covers history as well as technical aspects. Has a nice FAQ and an interesting uncommon questions section.
Overblow.com – Detailed reference on the overblow technique.
Diatonic Harmonica Reference – Large reference on the diatonic harmonica techniques and theory.
I stumbled on to your blog and enjoyed the format very much.
I was the bass player at the end of Texas Storm and then along with Jimmie Vaughn, Denny Freeman, and Doyle Bramhall I moved to Austin to start STORM. I have open for or played with a lot of the blues greats.
I play the Harp now and there is a CD on CDBABY of my original songs called HILLBILLY HIPPIES. This CD has some Harp but is mostly Texas 60’s music style.
I am working on another project that will feature my harp playing more.
-Jamie Bassett
Thanks for the info! Don’t know if you saw it already, but I actually featured you back in 2012:
https://harmonicaloveaffair.com/2012/08/24/and-jamie-bassett-on-the-harp/
Love your style. I’m going to have to give Hillbilly Hippies a listen! Also, come back and drop me a line when you get your next project going. I’d happily feature one of your songs. Good luck with the new project!
-Parker