Love me some harmonica. Just any kind of stripped down blues sounds great. It's on like all the Muddy Waters records...Mannish Boy, the whole thing is like a fuzz harmonica riff. This guy lets it rip (1:25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY

Also Canned Heat's lift of Henry Thomas's Goin Up the Country as "On The Road Again" is great but I like the pan flute in the original.

There are also the wonderful melodic uses in so many great country music recordings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEpwmcc8Rg

I much prefer a harmonica to a Saxophone...

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 8:33 pm “Last Dance With Mary Jane” wouldn’t be the same without it, neither would the first track of Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden.

Nice. Both of those are awesome, and they couldn't be more different from each other.

Blues Traveler are crap, the harmonica is not crap.

As for self aware revivalism, I like Judah Bauer just fine.
Also if you just need to hear the Pixies doing a Paul Butterfield Blues Band cover here goes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcygm3I3YHA

Crap, with the occasional Belgian, though I can't think of any examples right now. Someone mentioned Delta 72, yeah, that's one waffle.

Of the free reed aerophones, much prefer accordion.

zorg wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 10:34 am
I much prefer a harmonica to a Saxophone...

Nashville is alright, if you like Harmonicas

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https://youtu.be/Yp2DvPKh118?si=UUaknJYi8fm96XJv

I like it when Captain Beefheart plays one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ja9PWAR ... AHAQ%3D%3D

Kniferide wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 3:27 pm

zorg wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 10:34 am
I much prefer a harmonica to a Saxophone...

Nashville is alright, if you like Harmonicas

*heart*

It ain't what you play (it's how you play it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSYEgZT ... rt_radio=1

Dave N. wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 9:26 pm My first ever live music performance was in 4th grade, playing “Oh, Susanna” on harmonica for the entire school during an assembly.

I have mixed feelings. I love a dirty sounding blues harp. I love it when Ozzy plays it in “The Wizard”. I love having a pocket instrument. I don’t love overplaying Blues Traveler-type stuff.

Not crap with a heap of waffles

DIRECT HIT HERE. First song I thought of was "The Wizard" and the second was that Talk Talk one from Spirit of Eden. Not crap there.

As super cool dude Eric Clapton said, "IT'S IN THE WAY THAT YOU USE IT!"