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Special Guest Diunna Greenleaf

December 7, 2023Harmonica PartyBB King, Blues, Blues Clubs, Chicago, Mark Hummelmarkhummel

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Diunna Greenleaf, the leader of Blue Mercy, is a native Texan (Houston) who has a background steeped in gospel music. Influenced by the likes of Koko Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Rosetta Thorpe, Sam Cooke, Charles Brown and her own parents Ben & Mary Ella Greenleaf (Gospel). She has developed “Diunna’s style of Blues” in the same tradition as so many other great Texas blues men and women. She combines intricate patches of jazz, gospel and heartfelt soul to create a kind blues that takes one on an emotional roller coaster ride.

Special Guest: John Nemeth

September 19, 2023Harmonica Party, Road RamblesBB King, Berkeley, Blues, Blues Clubs, Charlie Musselwhite, Chicago, Elvin Bishop, Harmonica, James Cotton, Mark Hummel, Memphis Blues, Norton Buffalo, San Francisco Blues, West Coastmarkhummel

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John Németh is an American electric blues and soul harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. He has received five Blues Music Awards for Soul Blues Male Artist, Soul Blues Album, Traditional Blues Album of the Year, Instrumentalist – Vocals and Instrumentalist – Harmonica. He has recorded ten albums since 2002, having also backed Junior Watson, Anson Funderburgh and Elvin Bishop. He has opened for Robert Cray, Keb’ Mo’, and Earl Thomas.

AllMusic noted that he is a “vocalist with great range, ability, and soulfulness, Németh had also developed into a top-notch blues harmonica player…”In 2013 alone, he was nominated five times for a Blues Music Award, making nine such nominations in total.

Special Guest: Mark Wenner

June 27, 2023Harmonica Party, UncategorizedBlubrry, Blues, Charlie Musselwhite, Electro Fi, Elvin Bishop, Harmonica, Harmonica Blowout, James Harman, John Mayall, Mark Hummel, rock&roll, West Coastmarkhummel

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THE NIGHTHAWKS
Mark Wenner: Vocals, Harmonica
Mark Stutso: Drums, Vocals
Paul Pisciotta: Bass
Dan Hovey: Guitar, Vocals

The Nighthawks was an idea in Mark Wenner’s brain long before he was able to implement it. The musical product of pre-1958 radio in Washington, D.C., he did not know there were rules against mixing blues, R&B, honky-tonk country, doo-wop, gospel and rockabilly into one delicious stew.

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Special Guest: Sugar Ray Norcia

May 2, 2023Harmonica Party, UncategorizedBB King, Berkeley, Blues Clubs, Bluetones, Charlie Musselwhite, Chicago, Electro Fi, Elvin Bishop, Gary Smith, Harmonica Blowout, Jazz, Kim Wilson, Little Walter, Magic Dick, Mark Hummel, road dogs, Rock and Roll, Room Full of Blues, San Francisco Blues, Sugar Raymarkhummel

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#bluesharmonica #blues #roomfullofbluesSugar Ray Norcia is an American electric and soul blues singer and harmonica player. Formerly the singer for Room Full of Blues, he is best known for his work with his backing band, The Bluetones, with whom he has released seven albums since 1980.

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Special Guest: Magic Dick

April 7, 2023Harmonica Party, Road Rambles, UncategorizedBlues, Blues Clubs, Charlie Musselwhite, Chicago, Elvin Bishop, Harmonica Blowout, J Geils Band, James Cotton, James Harman, Madison Square Garden, Magic Dick, Mark Hummel, Muddy Waters, Rolling Stones, San Francisco Blues, West Coastmarkhummel

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Magic Dick, (Richard Salwitz) plays harmonica for the J. Geils Band.

Salwitz was born in New London, Connecticut. He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he met John “J.” Geils and Danny Klein and became a founding member of the J. Geils Band in 1965. Salwitz’s harmonica playing became a major and distinctive element in the J. Geils Band’s sound during their hard-rocking 1970s heyday. His performance of “Whammer Jammer” on the band’s live album Full Househas been particularly noted. In The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1979), music critic Dave Marsh described Salwitz as possibly “the best white musician to ever play blues harmonica.” He was often referred to as “Magic Dick and his Lickin’ Stick”.

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Special Guest UK Blues Legend Bob Hall

March 25, 2023Harmonica Party, Road RamblesBB King, Blues, Fleetwood Mac, Harmonica, John Lee Hooker, John Mayall, Mark Hummel, Paul Butterfield, Peter Green, Rolling Stonesmarkhummel

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Mark and Bob hanging out at Bob’s house in Sheffield, England telling stories about the famous and infamous in UK music. Founder&member of several British blues bands including The Groundhogs, Tramp, The Sunflower Blues Band and The De Luxe Blues Band, Hall has worked and recorded with artists such as Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, and is also a long serving member of Savoy Brown, and guests with The Blues Band, featuring Paul Jones, Dave Kelly and Tom McGuinness. Hall was also a founder-member, with Ian Stewart, of the Boogie Woogie Big Band which later became Rocket 88, and which included Hal Singer, Don Weller and Dick Morrissey, Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner, and Jack Bruce. Bob has accompanied: John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Witherspoon, Chuck Berry, Homesick James, Lightnin’ Slim, Lowell Fulsom, Charlie Musselwhite, Snooky Pryor, J. B. Hutto, Lazy Lester, Dave Peabody, Baby Boy Warren, Eddie “Guitar” Burns, Eddie Taylor, Big John Wrencher, Mickey Baker, and Eddy Clearwater.

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Special Guest Big Joe Louis

March 21, 2023Harmonica Party, Road RamblesBB King, Blubrry, Blues, Blues Clubs, Charlie Musselwhite, Delta Blues, Fleetwood Mac, Harmonica, John Mayall, Mark Hummel, Paul Butterfield, rock&rollmarkhummel

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Marks talks with Big Joe Louis while touring the UK together. Big Joe Louis was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and moved to the UK during the 1970s. The Blues Kings were formed 18 years ago and have taken their special kind of real down-home Blues to venues the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland and with great success in virtually every country in Western Europe and Scandinavia. 1998 and 1999 brought two invitations to play in the USA, leading to exceptional reviews.

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Special Guests: Kid Andersen & Wes Starr

December 26, 2022Harmonica Party, UncategorizedAsleep at the wheel, Blues, Blues Clubs, Bob Dylan, Charlie Musselwhite, Chicago, Delbert McClinton, Delta Blues, Electro Fi, Elvin Bishop, Fleetwood Mac, Gary Smith, Hal Ketchum, Harmonica, Harmonica Blowout, James Harman, Kim Wilson, Mark Hummel, Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, Stevie Ray Vaughn, West Coastmarkhummel

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Mark sits down at Greaseland Studios with guitarist/producer Kid Andersen ( Charlie Musselwhite, Rick Estrin, Little Charlie,Terry Hanck) and legendary drummer Wes Starr. (Asleep at the Wheel, Hal Ketchum, Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, Omar and The Howlers).

The guys talk about their attraction to the Blues and their journey to California. Kid began playing as a younth in Norway and came to the US at the invitation of Terry Hanck. Wes was raised in Georgia and was exposed to the best of the blues. Wes made it to California via Nashville & Austin among other stops.

The guys also open up about sobriety and their path to becoming a sober performer and the challenges of staying sober on the road and in an industry that expects abuse.

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Special Guest: Nick Gravenites

November 7, 2022Harmonica Party, Road Rambles, UncategorizedBill Graham, Blues Clubs, Bob Dylan, Boz Scaggs, Charlie Musselwhite, Chicago, Elvin Bishop, Filmore, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Mark Hummel, Muscle Shoals, Newport Folk Festival, Paul Butterfield, San Francisco Blues, Steve Miller, West Coast, Winterlandmarkhummel

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Nick Gravenites played in clubs with Mike Bloomfield, Charlie Musselwhite and others. In 1967 he formed the Electric Flag with Bloomfield. Gravenites also wrote the score for the film The Trip and produced the music for the film Steelyard Blues.

Gravenites is credited as a “musical handyman”, helping such San Francisco bands as Quicksilver Messenger Service and Janis Joplin‘s first solo group, the Kozmic Blues Band. He wrote several songs for Joplin, including “Work Me, Lord“ and the unfinished instrumental track “Buried Alive in the Blues”. Gravenites was the lead singer in the re-formed Big Brother and the Holding Company (without Joplin) from 1969 to 1972. He also worked extensively with John Cipollina after producing the first album by Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Gravenites produced the pop hit “One Toke Over the Line” for Brewer & Shipley and the album Right Place, Wrong Time for Otis Rush, for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award.

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Special Guest: R.J. Mischo

June 18, 2022Harmonica Party, Road Rambles, UncategorizedBB King, Blues, Charlie Musselwhite, Chicago, Harmonica, Harmonica Blowout, Mark Hummel, West Coastmarkhummel

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RJ Mischo is considered by critics and fans worldwide to be in the upper echelon of today’s great Harp players and singers. RJ started playing at the age of ten and by the time he was 19 he was working as a full-time professional musician. Mischo has performed at major festivals and night clubs throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Slovenia, Finland, Lichtenstein & Luxembourg, RJ Mischo’s music is drenched in the grease of the juke joint shuffles that have stayed in style since before they called it Rock & Roll. “Mischo’s magnificent tone, formidable chops, and affable, self-assured vocals…” make him a top entertainer; the kind of entertainer that only 25 years of touring experience will bring to the stage

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