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This page contains a collection of some of the finest harmonica music available. By clicking on the links on this page you will be taken directly to amazon.co.uk. If you buy the albums from these links then the NHL will gain a small amount of money from the sale. Why not help the NHL by buying the albums through this page? You can search Amazon's site from here: Harmonica tuition books and music from Amazon If you want to email suggested albums in please do so: nhl@harmonica.co.uk Recommended albums Jump to a category: Blues Classical Jazz Modern/Fusion Country Folk Groups Other DVDs Blues/Rock Anthologies Blowing the Blues - A History of Blues Harmonica 1926-2002, issued on Indigo - IGOTCH 2536. Three CDs and Seventy one tracks of history for about £12. Harp Attack - Junior Wells, James Cotton, Carey Bell & Billy Branch. Blues Harp Boogie - A good, cheap compilation. British Blues Paul Lamb - Harmonica Man - 38 songs from a man who stands shoulder to shoulder with the best. Eddie Martin has a string of CDs available through his web site including his latest Ice Cream which has received great reviews in the blues magazines. My long time favourite is the acoustic Alone in Soho. Other more electric guitar and rack harmonica blues albums are Pillowcase Blues, Keep On Working, Live in the USA, Fires and Floods , and Blue to the Bone. www.eddiemartin.com P.O. Box 416 Bristol BS99 2DE Tel/fax +44 (0) 117 907 9358 Nine Below Zero - Live at the Marquee/Don't Point Your Finger. - Mark Feltham has been around forever Official Blues Band Bootleg Album/Ready - The NHLs very own President, Paul Jones The Blues Band - Be my Guest - BGoCD600 - buy from BGO Records Early Blues Sonny Boy Williamson I - John Lee Williamson - Bluebird Blues - To buy it from Amazon click here. Sonny Boy Williamson I - John Lee Williamson - Blues in the Mississippi Night - To buy it from Amazon click here. This album was banned for several years & the musicians who played on it unknown. Chicago Blues Muddy Waters - The Anthology - 2CD of the Father of the Blues. A range of the the best harp players around - they all played with Muddy. Little Walter - His Best - The master at his best. A Proper Introduction to Little Walter - Good value. Walter Horton - Mouth Harp Maestro - Quite an early recording but great nevertheless. Paul Butterfield - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band & East-West - Double album Carey Bell - Deep Down - Carey has a style all of his own Country Blues Sonny Terry - Whoopin' the Blues - Recordings from 1947-50 Sonny Terry - Whoopin' - A very good modern album with Johnny Winter on guitar Sonny Boy Williamson II - Rice Miller - His Best - The Chess recordings are always reliable Sonny Boy Williamson II - Rice Miller - Nine below Zero - IGOCD 2545 - To buy it from Amazon click here. West Coast Blues George Smith - Harmonica Ace - Moved from Chicago to influence all the players out on the West Coast Modern Master: The Best of Rod Piazza - Double CD tracks the length of Rod's career. William Clarke - Blowin' Like Hell - One of the finest players. Mixture between chromatic & diatonic. The Harmonica According to Charley Musselwhite - Charley was recently interviewed in the NHL magazine, Harmonica World Classical Larry Adler - Rhapsody and Fantasy Tommy Reilly - Thanks for the Memory Tommy Morgan - Classics Lite Vol Two - A second great collection of classical musical for the chromatic harmonica. Buy it and Vol One from his web site - www.tmorganharmonica.com Jazz Toots Thielemans - Brazil Project Toots Thielemans - East Coast, West Coast Toots Thielemans, Les Thompson - Toots Blues: 1950/52 - To buy it from Amazon click here. Harry Pitch - Harmonically Yours - a second CD of movie themes, standards, and his big hit "Goovin with Mr Bloe". Buy directly from Harry - 01628 622895. William Galison & Madeleine Peyroux - Got you on my Mind - Great small group swing jazz and a vocalist with a touch of Billie Holiday about her. A masterclass by William who plays great guitar, chromatic harmonica, sings produced the CD. A nice range of tempos and mood, with obvious synergy between the performers. Morphius Records - morphius.com - To buy it from Amazon click here. Jens Bunge & Uli Wagner - Pas de Deux - Buy it from here - www.palatina-viva.de Modern/Jazz/Fusion Graham Pike and his group of friends, Loxford, play a mixture of modern jazz, world, fusion, and a bit of techno, on this bunch of mainly original material on their CD Zoo Ba De Boom. You can buy it direct from the Loxford web site or Graham's own web site Country Charlie McCoy - Greatest Hits The King of Country harp Willie Nelson - Tougher Than Leather - the harp player is Mickey Raphael Folk/Traditional Iron Lung - Triple Harp Bypass - Brendan Power, Mick Kinsella, and Rick Epping - Buy direct from Brendan Power - email him - brendan@power.com, or visit his web http://www.brendan-power.com/ where you will find links to his solo CDs like his latest one Tradish. Mick Kinsella - Harmonica - OBM 301, Open Ear Productions - To buy it from them click here. Ernie Gordon - The Geordie Jock - the best tremolo music in the Nothumberland style. A companion of Will Atkinson. Buy directly from Ernie - 01665 604168 Rory McLeod - Footsteps and Heartbeats - he may not be to everyone's tastes but no-one could fail to love this heartfelt album Groups/Quartet Four in Accord - Harmonica Showcase - the first recording by the UKs premier quartet of Dave Beckford, Derek Yorke, Jim O'Driscol, and Roy Green. Phone Derek Yorke at 01787 460230 to order a copy. Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats - Greatest Hits, and Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - To buy it from Amazon click here. Other Complilations Harmonica Swing - Double CD of mainly European harmonica recordings from 1920-50 assembled by Alain Antoinietto & Dominique Cravic with Max Geldray, Dany Kane, Larry Adler, Borrah Minevitch, Hotcha Trio and others - To buy it from Amazon. click here. DVD Rod Piazza: Big Blues Party - Recording of a live concert with Rod Piazza & his band, The Mighty Fliers: click here. Return to the NHL Help Page page. 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