CHICAGO (AP) -- Blues harmonica player Carey Bell, who performed with both Muddy Waters' and Willie Dixon's bands, has died of heart failure. He was 70. Bell died Sunday at Kindred Hospital, according ...

Blues harmonica player Carey Bell, who performed with both Muddy Waters’ and Willie Dixon’s bands, died Sunday in a Chicago hospital of heart failure. He was 70. Mr. Bell’s trademark sound worked well ...

Paul Oscher was 20 when he started playing harmonica for Muddy Waters. It was 1967, and he was a rare sight for the times: a white man playing in a Black blues band of such prominence. He more than ...

Host John Ydstie talks with harmonica player and Chicago native Jerry Portnoy. Portnoy's dad worked on Maxwell Street, where there was lots of action, including a place where blues musicians jammed.

Paul Oscher, who moved to Austin eight years ago after a career that included many years in blues legend Muddy Waters' band, died Sunday at age 71. He had been hospitalized with COVID-19 for several ...