Adam's YouTube harp lessons:
www.youtube.com/kudzurunner
Adam's MySpace page:
www.myspace.com/adamgussow
Adam's academic homepage at the University of Mississippi:
www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/people/professors/bios/gussow_adam_main.html
Sterling Magee's MySpace page:
www.myspace.com/sterlingsatanmagee
SATAN AND ADAM: a documentary by Scott Balcerek and Craig McTurk (coming Fall 2007)
www.satanandadam.com
What the bloggers are saying:
northernsubverbia.blogspot.com/2007/04/adam-gussows-keys-to-kingdom.html
buckyrichardson.vox.com/library/post/adam-gussow-is-your-harmonica-teacher.html
harmonica.typepad.com/harmonica_ramblings/2007/02/adam_gussow_bar.html
OTHER ESSENTIAL HARP-RELATED LINKS:
The #1 blues harp site on the web for more than ten years--and for good reason:
www.bluesharp.ca/
Howard Levy is the presiding genius on the diatonic harmonica, the guy who used overblows to explode our idea of what is possible. Rarely does one individual musician have this sort of effect on an instrument; shock waves from his accomplishment will continue to be felt for decades. His album HARMONICA JAZZ nailed me to the wall back in 1987, with its fully-chromatic version of "Donna Lee" in bebop time, but he's kept on growing, expanding, and shows no signs of resting on his laurels.
www.myspace.com/howardlevyland
P.T. Gazell is a harp player's harp player who plays country, swing, and pop instrumentals with full chromaticity on a valved diatonic harp. Check his stuff out!
ptgazell.com/
Jason Ricci is a harp player that all contemporary harp players surely know about by now; if you don't know about him, please drop what you're doing and check out his stuff: original, soulful, blazing fast, overblow-driven 21st Century blues harmonica:
www.jasonricci.com
Billy Gibson, Mississippi-born, is THE harp player on Memphis's renowned Beale Street these days, and he's got the voice, the chops, and the band to back it up:
www.billygibson.com
Dennis Gruenling isn't just a superb and original player who has made the lowwwwww harps his own; he's a great teacher, in part because he was the most intensely focused student of the harp I've ever seen. If you still haven't heard his first album, "Jump Time," buy it:
www.dennisgruenling.com
When an American harp player travels through Europe, the one name he hears repeatedly is "Steve Baker." Beautiful tone, original approach; he's a master teacher AND he's got a harmonica named after him, the Steve Baker Special. For the English-language version, hit the Union Jack icon:
www.stevebaker.de
Harmonica 101 is a mid-sized links page and the links are ALL well-chosen, including the seven or eight harp gurus at YouTube:
home.hawaii.rr.com/webguides/harmonica.html
David Barrett and his "school of the blues" put Jack Black's School of Rock to shame. If you've got money in the bank, check out his fly-in lessons:
www.schooloftheblues.com/harmonica.html
Dave Gage is a harp-industrial phenom. Lotsa hot links:
www.harmonicalinks.com
Brian Purdy's "HarpGear" amps are simply the best; they're hand-built by a player FOR players, with classic circuit design and superb craftsmanship:
www.harpgear.com
Jon Gindick's blues harmonica jam camps are fun, enlightening, and unequalled, and he's the world's bestselling author of harmonica instructional books. Check 'em out:
www.gindick.com
Harp-L is the THE internet discussion list for all things harmonica. Ask any question and you'll get a half-dozen (or three dozen) well-informed opinions:
harp-l.com/mailman/listinfo/harp-l
Orjan Hansson's website: an incredible set of links from a Swedish player/fan:
ohw.se/links/
SPAH (Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica) is THE organization for all things harmonica. Their annual conventions are the stuff of legend; pretty much everybody shows up and throws down at the evening concerts and jam sessions:
www.spah.org
Glenn Weiser's blues harp page: lots of great stuff, including a whopping set of links and the definitive set of Little Walter transcriptions:
www.celticguitarmusic.com/harppage.htm
Very cool custom harp cases:
www.cumberlandcustomcases.com/
I first encountered Annie Raines, harp master, in 1989 at the Chicago Blues Festival, where she was sitting in with some local guys under the trees behind the stages in Grant Park. She was great then and she's masterful now. Check out her blog on Road Food:
www.paulandannie.com
Jan Van Gastel's website has good info on repairing harps, plus a survey of various harp "courses" or instructional methods:
home.wanadoo.nl/jhm.vangastel/Harmonica/harps.htm
Do you want to know what mic and amp set-up Little Walter used in the Chicago clubs? Here you go:
www.littlewalter.net/LWequipment.html
If you're looking for a neat little harp mic--an alternative to the big, bulky Astatic and Green Bullet--you'll definitely want to take a look at the Bottle o' Blues mic:
www.geocities.com/bottle_o_blues/
Here's an extremely informative site on the subject of amping the harp:
www.amptone.com/g068.htm
Rod Jones is a painter and harp player (R&B Jones) from the UK who offers, among other things, insightful commentary on harmonica teachers. Spend a little time at his quirky, one-of-a-kind site:
wossname.thingy.com/
wossname.thingy.com/Blues_harp_how.htm
This harp blog has an amazing number of international sites, plus a great open attitude:
harmonica-world.over-blog.com/
MY FRIENDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY BLUES SCENE:
www.robertrossband.com
www.arthurstavernnyc.com/artists/frankieparis/index.html
www.myspace.com/irvinglouislattin
www.myspace.com/powersblues
www.myspace.com/triphenderson
www.ronsunshine.com
www.kid-java.com
www.bigedsullivan.com/
OTHER COOL LINKS:
Justin Sandercoe is a blues/jazz guitar-god over at YouTube; his philosophy of teaching--give all you've got, and then some--is one I heartily endorse:
www.justinguitar.com
