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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 3 chart positions in 3 markets.
By chart position
- 🇨🇦CA · Music History#38100K to 300K
- 🇿🇦ZA · Music History#102500 to 3K
- 🇧🇪BE · Music History#181500 to 3K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
71K to 214K🎙 Biweekly cadence·18 episodes·Long inactive - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
101K to 306K🇨🇦98%🇿🇦1%🇧🇪1% - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
30K to 92K
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Kim Wilson
Dec 4, 2024
25m 54s
William Clarke
Nov 19, 2024
23m 44s
Rod Piazza
Nov 8, 2024
27m 02s
Jerry Portnoy
Oct 30, 2024
28m 10s
Magic Dick
Oct 27, 2024
29m 37s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 12/4/24 |  Kim Wilson | Send us Fan Mail The leader of Austin's Fabulous Thunderbirds and the great inheritor of the great Little Walter | 25m 54s | ||||||
| 11/19/24 |  William Clarke | Send us Fan Mail The great chromatic and cross harp player, bandleader, and singer, mentored by George Smith, who died (maybe broke) in 1996. | 23m 44s | ||||||
| 11/8/24 |  Rod Piazza | Send us Fan Mail The great living player, protege of George Smith and perhaps the greatest master of double cross harp. | 27m 02s | ||||||
| 10/30/24 |  Jerry Portnoy | Send us Fan Mail The precision, the tone, and the underlying swing! Out of Chicago, also sitting that Muddy Waters harp chair. | 28m 10s | ||||||
| 10/27/24 |  Magic Dick | Send us Fan Mail Richard Salwitz of the J. Geils Band, the inventor of rock n roll harmonica. My all-time harpgod. | 29m 37s | ||||||
| 10/17/24 |  Charlie Musselwhite | Send us Fan Mail The great living master and creative force of the blues harmonica, Paul Butterfield's non-evil twin. | 26m 53s | ||||||
| 10/15/24 |  Paul Butterfield | Send us Fan Mail We have reached our rendezvous with blues harp racial destiny! The two documentaries mentioned are "Horn from the Heart" and "Born in Chicago" | 27m 07s | ||||||
| 10/8/24 |  George 'Harmonica' Smith and Big Mama Thornton | Send us Fan Mail The 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 Blues https://youtu.be/_ATwmyuhmeY?si=-T_By5lQJvJKeqwB Big Mama Thornton and Big Walter! (and John Lee Hooker!) https://youtu.be/GX8f70FW3lU?si=_G--_fYYjF6yfSQa | 30m 07s | ||||||
| 10/2/24 |  Carey Bell | Send us Fan Mail The greatest of blues improvisers, as he showed on the London Muddy Waters Sessions. | 18m 09s | ||||||
| 9/28/24 |  James Cotton | Send us Fan Mail The furiously rocking god of blues harmonica! | 28m 47s | ||||||
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| 9/5/24 |  Junior Wells | Send us Fan Mail The incredibly right player and maybe the greatest blues singer I ever experienced. | 25m 55s | ||||||
| 9/2/24 |  Racked: Jimmy Reed and Slim Harpo | Send us Fan Mail The fine rack players, born mid-1920s, with classic songs galore. Big Boss Man. Baby Scratch My Back. Sorry about audible incoming emails. I can do better. | 24m 35s | ||||||
| 8/28/24 |  Big Walter Horton | Send us Fan Mail The great Big Walter Horton, also known as "Shaky" and "Mumbles". Perhaps Little and Big Walter are the two greatest "classic" blues harp players | 24m 06s | ||||||
| 8/19/24 |  Sonny Boy Williamson II | Send us Fan Mail Rice or Alex or Alec Miller, Little Boy Blue, or SBW2: A real asshole, seemingly. But one of the handful of greatest music artists of the 20th century. Help me, baby! I screwed up when I said that his band included Jimmy Rogers. Robert Junior Lockwood! | 29m 08s | ||||||
| 8/14/24 |  Sonny Terry | Send us Fan Mail Episode 4: The great Piedmont/country/acoustic/folk blues master Sonny Terry. | 28m 48s | ||||||
| 8/12/24 |  Early Masters: Deford Bailey and Sonny Boy 1 (John Lee) Williamson | Send us Fan Mail The very different but related country/blues styles of Opry star Deford Bailey (1899-1982), an incomparable virtuoso, and incomparable influence John Lee Williamson (1914-1948), known as Sonny Boy 1 (Rice Miller, Sonny Boy Williamson 2, swiped the name, but was an even better player). | 25m 05s | ||||||
| 8/8/24 |  Why the Harmonica is a Great Blues Instrument | Send us Fan Mail bonus episode on why the diatonic harp is ideal for blues. country and other folk or roots genres, and a bit about how i learned to play circa 1971. | 18m 23s | ||||||
| 8/7/24 |  Little Walter | Send us Fan Mail By acclamation, the greatest blues player ever to blow a harmonica. Here are likely future episodes: Sonny Boy Williamson 1 and 2 James Cotton Junior Wells Sonny Terry Magic Dick Paul Butterfield Carey Bell Jason Ricci Charlie McCoy Mickey Raphael Deford Bailey George Smith Rod Piazza Kim Wilson William Clarke Charlie Musselwhite Jerry Portnoy Lee Oskar | 28m 12s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.