Rod Piazza

Send us Fan MailThe leader of Austin's Fabulous Thunderbirds and the great inheritor of the great Little Walter

Send us Fan MailThe great chromatic and cross harp player, bandleader, and singer, mentored by George Smith, who died (maybe broke) in 1996.

Send us Fan MailThe great living player, protege of George Smith and perhaps the greatest master of double cross harp.

Send us Fan MailThe precision, the tone, and the underlying swing! Out of Chicago, also sitting that Muddy Waters harp chair.

Send us Fan MailRichard Salwitz of the J. Geils Band, the inventor of rock n roll harmonica. My all-time harpgod.

Send us Fan MailThe great living master and creative force of the blues harmonica, Paul Butterfield's non-evil twin.

Send us Fan MailWe have reached our rendezvous with blues harp racial destiny! The two documentaries mentioned are "Horn from the Heart" and "Born in Chicago"

Send us Fan MailThe great player and mentor of masters (Rod Piazza, William Clarke, James Harman) George 'Harmonica' Smith, never quite adequately recorded. And his astonishing friend the criminally underappreciated Big Mama Thornton. "Me and him have been scuffling a long time."Gunsmoke Blueshttps://youtu.be/_ATwmyuhmeY?si=-T_By5lQJvJKeqwBBig Mama Thornton and Big Walter! (and John Lee Hooker!)https://youtu.be/GX8f70FW3lU?si=_G--_fYYjF6yfSQa

Send us Fan MailThe greatest of blues improvisers, as he showed on the London Muddy Waters Sessions.

Send us Fan MailThe furiously rocking god of blues harmonica!