The Harmonica Lady

SPAH through the years

Time travel with me from 2009 and on some of my audio recording form my trips to SPAH. Hear some old clips of my visits and adventures. Visit www.spah.prg for more history and harmonica happenings. and visit www.nedraruss.com to wee what we are up to. 

Celtic

From my  CDS enjoy the Irish jigs,  ballads, and melodies 
Charlie McCoy https://www.charliemccoy.com
Tony Eyers https://harmonicatunes.com/about/
James Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Conway_(musician).
Nedra and Julio https://www.nedraruss.com
Song Book https://theharmonicasongbook.com
Steve Baker https://www.stevebaker.de/bio_en_10.html
 

Feb 2023 Podcast The Harmonica Lady

The Harmonica Lady Podcast Feb 19 2023
 
Blue Bird Valise 
Razz My Berries
Kurt Crandall
www.Kurtcrandall.com 
Good Blues Tonight
Always Been Your Friend
When The Frisco Left The Shed
https://www.charliemusselwhite.com 
Curtly Dance
Telemann Canonic Sonata NO1
www.howardlevy.com
Sixth Sense
Solid Ground
Deep Well Deep Pocket’s
www.eriknodden.cm
Life's Railway To Heaven 
Peace int he Valley
Daddy Sang Bass
Wayfaring Stranger
I’ll Fly Away
Keep. On The Sunny Side
https://www.facebook.com/mike.caldwell.585/ 

Christmas

End of the year Christmas show. Thank you for tuning in and loving the harmonica Heres to a Happy New Year filled with music joy and peace. Enjoy from my vaults at KQBM and home studio music I purchase and that is giving by the artist for this show.  Christmas Time In The Country Kenny Neal Alligator records Christmas Collection Santa Claus Little Charlie and the night cats Alligator Records Christmas Collection Dashing through the snow Joe Filisko Please let me be your Santa claus William Clark Alligator Records Christmas Collection Oh Christmas Tree Mike Caldwell Christmas With Harmonica Mike HolidaySilent Night Charlie MusslewhiteSilent Night Mike Caldwell Christmas with Mike Silent night Joe FiliskoHarmonica for Christmas Baked A La Ska Ska of Wonder ReggaeStoplight for Christmas The Mystic Cowboys Harmonica Winds CountryHole int he soul of my Christmas stocking Nedra and Julio BluesJingle Bell Rock Nashville Harmonicas Best-Loved Songs of Christmas HolidayAve Maria (Bach-Gounot) Beata Kossowska Harmonica Christmas Europe Silver Bells Nashville Harmonicas Best-Loved Songs of Christmas Holiday O Christmas Tree Harmonica Rascal Rare Gene Jones Harmonica Classics Pop Rednose rdear Nedra RussChristmas in Killarney David CourtWhat Christmas Means to Me (feat. Stevie Wonder) 2:41 John Legend A Legendary Christmas Holiday Rockin around the Joy to the World White Christmas all byMike Caldwell Christmas With Harmonica Mike HolidayWhat the World need snap Charlie McCoy ear candyCustard Pie Sonny Terry Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Telephone BluesJingle Bell 4:02 Kwon Byung Ho Blue Christmas - EP Jazz 100 R.J. Mischo East Meets West: Blues Harp Meltdown, Vol. 2 BluesJingle Bell Kwon Byung Ho Blue Christmas - EP JazzBlack Limousine JJ Appleton & Jason Ricci Dirty Memory Blues037 Bring It On Home (Single) Sonny Boy Williamson II His Best BluesNine Below Zero (1961 Single) 3:30 Sonny Boy Williamson II Never Leave Me Home Diana Redlin Blues Harp Women Blues-Rock It's Only A Paper Moon Filip Jers Quartet Filip Jers Quartet Jazz8/26/18, Angel With Straw Wings Him And Her Him & Her Do Texas Women Alternative Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring / Blackbird (Live) (Featuring Anthony Molinaro) Howard Levy Tango & Jazz (Live) Jazz 0

Tulsa Time With Charlie Musselwhite

Great time at the 59th SPAH Convention in Tulsa OK.
I had a great time and got to hang out with Charlies Musselwhite. This podcast is about that. Enjoy 
To buy his new CD visit his web page https://www.charliemusselwhite.com
To see more about SPAH visit link https://www.spah.org
Visit my page athttps://www.nedraruss.com
To leave a tip or help to support this podcast visit https://paypal.me/TheHarmonicaLady?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US
 

On the Road to Tulsa

Update of what is up. Whats to come and how things are going 
 

I’ll Worry if I Wanna

Web Page 
http://michaelrubinharmonica.com
 
Players
Mike Keller guitar
Michael Archer Bass
Mark Hays drums
Producer Josh Fulero
Engineer Matt Smith
Studio 6 String Ranch
 
Podcasters web site 
www.nedraruss.com 

Talking with Jerry Fierro

This episode I had the pleasure of talking with Jerry Fierro. We talk about his time with Sonny Terry and how enlightening that was for himself and his now students. We also talked about what is going on with him these days in and around Naples Florida. Jerry and the band Mudbone run a jam every Tuesday night at the DogTooth sports bar 5310 Shirley St. Naples, FL 34109.
Here are some words form the Florida Weekley  PROFILES IN PARADISE
March 12, 2015
Jerry Fierro, with his harmonica and occasionally the congas, is a regular guest when the band Mudbone invites other musicians to sit in for a jam session on Tuesday evenings at Weekend Willie’s. Jerry plays great blues and is a terrific blues singer as well. It’s clear he’s having a great time when he plays. His level of excellence is not easily attained, and he’s had quite a musical journey.
 
He was born the ninth of 10 kids, just five minutes after his twin sister Mary, on Dec. 8, 1958, in Paterson, N.J. Although there were no musicians in the house (his dad was an accomplished auto mechanic and mom was a housewife), there was always music playing. Jerry remembers his parents having great parties with jazz standards on the record player and sometimes a live band in the yard.
 
 
He was a senior at Passaic County Tech High School, studying to become a baker, when he got the notion to play music. Inspired by watching a cousin play the harmonica and sing, he bought his first marine band harmonica in 1975 for $5.26 at the legendary Manny’s Music in New York City. Two more really good things happened that same year, he says:
 
First, he was introduced to Bob “Hoochie Coochie” Paolucci, who taught him what to play and, more importantly, what not to play. “Hooch is still out there doing his thing in Long Island, New York,” he says.
And second, he met Son Lewis (Silk City Records) by answering an ad in the local music rag. “Son is a true bluesman who never made it big but should have,” he says. “He must have seen something in me, because he would sneak me into nightclubs to perform when I was 16. We’ve been playing on and off together ever since.”
After a few years playing with Mr. Lewis, Jerry got the opportunity to expand his horizons by joining Impact, a local band of brothers (now called The Flying Mueller Brothers). They played the blues and almost every other genre of music, too. For eight years, from 1978 to ’86, the band played the New York metro area. It was during that time that Jerry met blues harpist Sonny Terry. Renowned for his unique style of “hootin’ and hollerin,’” Mr. Terry gave Jerry lessons on the harmonica.
Other highlights of Jerry’s music career include playing with such greats as Junior Wells, Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Copeland, Jorma Kaukonen, Felix Cavaliere “and now the best players in Southwest Florida — Mudbone,” he says.
In 2014 Jerry won the trophy for Overall Champion in the Forida Harmonica Competition.
https://www.facebook.com/jerry.fierro.10
Check out the Mudbone Jam with Jerry and the band
https://www.dogtoothnaples.com/happenings/
I started this new page on facebook after years of establishing other pages one being the first woman admin at World of Hamronica and founding member of Harmonica Jam. Now We my husband Julio inglasses run this group of world wide harmonica LOVERS!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598464463522496
Visit my site for more cool linkd and blogs
https://www.nedraruss.com
 

Charlie Barath

Fantastic and fun interview with Master Harmonicist Charlie Barath
We talked about his record Just Me and My Friends
Here is what he says on Bandcamp
I put together this specific collection of songs for two reasons: 1. To demonstrate the diversity in my songwriting as well as my Harmonica playing and my Vocals. 2. To shine a spotlight on some of the amazing and talented people that I am fortunate to work with on a regular basis, AND call my friends. I am thrilled to be able to present this music to the listening public, and I truly hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I've enjoyed creating it! My sincere thanks to you!
credits
released May 13, 2021
Bandcamp
https://charliebarath.bandcamp.com/album/just-me-and-my-friend-s?fbclid=IwAR2bxKtMDFfCMDgPs_Ov_is5ZkZj0G_39xo_UNrt4M7QyYT4OMJgsqSYskA
You can also follow him on Facebbok
https://www.facebook.com/charliebarathharmonica 
here is the link to the art we talked about https://geoffreygordonfineart.com/?fbclid=IwAR1CAwS2Ru98J2V6KQfhYams31gXh4otQ3UkmqKCamKKAkReA5L-VmP4Ync
 
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Just good Harmonica music

Music from my vaults of KQBM shows 
 
Don’t take advantage of me Jason Ricci JJ Appleton Dirty Money Cd
Don’t badger the witness          “ “             “ “              Beautiful Slop CD
Geaux Nits Kids                          “ “            “  “                   “ “  “ “    
https://mooncat.org
Rocket RIde                         David Barrett                    It takes Three CD
Meet Me Where They Play the Blues Terry Leonino Blues Harp Women
The Ballad of Mingo County                            Paula Davis  Stewart
Too Late                                                            Little Walter  Singal
Hooka Tooka Chambers Brothers Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
City Of New Orleans Charlie McCoy Ear Candy Country & Folk Amazing Grace Todd Parrott Songs From The Harp Religious
Down By the RiversideSofie ReedRed HenBlues
Blues With a WhoopSonny Terry & Brownie McGheeWizard of the HarmonicaBlues
Take this hammer                                    “  “                                                     “    “
Old lost John                                             “   “                                                  “     “
Work Song                                               Paul Butterfield    The Butterfield Blues Band CD
Born In Chicago                                              “  “                            “  “
Amazonas                             Howard Levy                                     Tango & Jazz (Live)Jazz
Bring it to Jerome                                      Billy F  Gibbons                              The Big Bad Blue
Accelerated Blues            Blues Tavlers                                                  
HOHNER_Originals_Digital_Album
Nick Moss feat. Dennis Gruenling               HOHNER_Originals_Digital_Album    
Mickey Raphael                                             Hand to Mouth3/14/18, 1:33 PM
Shake Your Moneymaker Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo n     Travellin' Tracks Fat Cats & Thin Dogs       Eric Noden & Joe Filisko         Missed Train Blues
Me and Bobby Bones                                Nedra and Julio                     Blues news
Summertime                       Christelle BerthonBlues Harp Women
Sunday Soup                   Todd Parrott                                   Songs From The Harp