Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. In the summer of 1963, a strange record by a 12-year-old boy who’d already racked up a string of ...

Over a year of consistent practice and hard work, only the best 14 or so qualified to play during the Stanley Cup playoffs. This elite group didn’t feature burly defensemen or history-making scorers ...

Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

One of the most versatile harmonica players in pop history is Stevie Wonder, shown here in Paris in 1963 at age 13. Charley Ley / Mirrorpix Many harmonica histories begin around 1100 B.C. with the ...

The glass harmonica’s bad reputation was entirely undeserved, though.

There are myriad reasons why playing music is one of the most enjoyable and spiritually beneficial things to do on earth. Melody, rhythm and lyric are but three glorious aims. One drawback to playing ...

For a specific generation of Koreans, playing the harmonica is a reminder of their youth and their home -- whereas not playing the harmonica for decades reminds them of what they left behind to pursue ...

Tommy Morgan, a harmonica player who recorded soundtracks for more than 600 films, including “Dances With Wolves,” “My Fair Lady,” and “Cool Hand Luke” has died. He was 89. According to Deadline, ...

Don't be fooled by the harmonica. Sure, more musically inclined cowboys used to whip 'em out around the campfire, and cultures from Eastern to Western and everything in between have laced their ...

On this day (November 7) in 1951, Mickey Raphael was born in Dallas, Texas. Country fans know him as Willie Nelson’s longtime harmonica player. However, he was already touring as a sideman before he ...

About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music. Harmonica ...