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 ...

As a young man, Jerry Portnoy certainly didn’t expect or plan to have a career as a blues harmonica player. He’d already been on a roulette wheel of life paths: failed college student, ...

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.

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