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Notice: new episodes are currently on hold. The Happy Hour Harmonica podcast brings profiles of some of the top harmonica players and technicians today. The podcast is sponsored by Seydel harmonicas. Check out their great range of products at www.seydel1847.com. If you would like to make a voluntary contribution to help keep the podcast running then please use this link: https://paypal.me/harmonicahappyhour . Visit the main podcast webpage at: https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com/ Contact: happyhourharmonicapodcast@gmail.com
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Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast is hosted by Neil Warren. The show has published 150 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Toots Thielemans retrospective" (27 December 2025, 92 minutes), "The Ten Minute Question: part 3" (20 December 2025, 57 minutes), and "Hank Shreve interview" (6 December 2025, 60 minutes).
Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 65 minutes across 150 episodes.
Booking probability for Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast is 40%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast are Music & Recording. Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast has a music audience and around 1,100 subscribers on YouTube.
Neil Warren hosts Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast, a music podcast with 150 episodes published.
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Episode #150
Hermine Duerloo, Laurent Maur and Alexandre Piret join me on episode 150, for a retrospective on the great Toots Thielemans. Toots was born in 1922 to humble beginnings, in Brussels, Belgium, where his parents ran a...
Episode #149
Episode 149 is the third compilation of the ten minute question answers from episode 112 to episode 148. Not every episode had a ten minute question, as there’s been quite a lot of retrospective episodes in this batch...
Episode #148
Hank Shreve joins me on episode 148. Hank started playing harmonica at age eight, and that has remained his true love despite learning various other instruments. He explains how his drumming background shapes the...
Episode #147
Santiago Alvarez joins me on episode 147. Santiago is a chromatic player from Buenos Aires, who has dedicated himself to the folk traditions of Argentina, including writing a thesis on the history of the Argentine...
Episode #146
Ryan Hartt joins me on episode 146. Ryan is a harmonica player, vocalist and songwriter from New England. After completing musical studies, he headed to Los Angeles in the late 1990s to immerse himself in the blues...
Episode #145
Josh King joins me on episode 145. Josh hails from Charlotte, North Carolina, and picked up his first harmonica at just six years old. By the time he was eight, he’d found an incredible mentor in the legendary James...
Episode #144
Shane Sager joins me on episode 144. Shane is from Boston. In his early teens, a hand injury forced him to give up drumming, so he turned to the harmonica and never looked back. At Berklee College of Music he studied...
Episode #143
Kyle Rowland and Kenny Neal join me on episode 143 for a retrospective on James ‘Mr Superharp’ Cotton. Born in 1935 on the Bonnie Blue plantation in Mississippi, James Cotton received his first harmonica from his mother...
Episode #142
Victor Puertas joins me on episode 142. Victor Puertas grew up just outside Barcelona, discovering the blues in his early teens, splitting his passion between harmonica and keyboards. At 18 he traveled to the US and had...
Episode #141
Yoonseok Lee joins me on episode 141. Yoonseok is from South Korea where he first took up the tremolo harmonica. He discovered the chromatic when he heard Sigmund Groven playing at the Asia Pacific Festival in 2004, and...
Episode #140
Liam Ward joins me on episode 140. Liam is from the north west of England and first took up the harmonica in his late teens. His youthful zeal turned into his career when he chose to become a full-time harmonica player...
Episode #139
Tom Ball, Peter ‘Madcat’ Ruth and Michael ‘Mudcat’ Ward join me on episode 139 for a retrospective on Walter Horton. Walter was likely born on April 6th, 1918, in Horn Lake, Mississippi. He probably made his first...
Episode #138
Richard Sleigh joins me on episode 138. Richard is from Pennsylvania and is a renowned harmonica customiser, player and teacher. He tells how his great uncle Bill inspired him to pick up the harp, before discovering...
Episode #137
Fabrizio Poggi joins me on episode 137. Fabrizio plays blues, folk and spiritual music. Hailing from near Milan, he took some time to find his way with the harmonica but since then he has performed at Carnegie Hall and...
Episode #136
Giles Robson and Jim Basnight join me on episode 136 for a retrospective on Alex ‘Rice’ Miller (aka Sonny Boy Williamson II). Information on Sonny Boy’s early life is sketchy. Sonny Boy was likely born in 1912 and had a...
Episode #135
John Sebastian joins me on episode 135. John had considerable chart success in the 1960s as part of the folk rock band, The Lovin' Spoonful, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the year 2000. John...
Episode #134
Ronnie Schreiber joins me on episode 134. Ronnie runs The Electric Harmonica Company, producing the Harmonicaster, which is an alternative to the traditional harmonica microphone, using guitar style pick-ups to create...
Episode #133
Kim Field joins me on episode 133. Kim’s 1994 book ‘Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy Breathers: The History of the People’s Instrument’ was the first book released on the history of the harmonica. And Kim has recently...
Episode #132
Tom Ellis joins me on episode 132 for another look into the life and career of the legendary Paul Butterfield. Butter gained access to the Chicago blues scene at a young age when his lawyer father carried out pro bono...
Episode #131
Rick Estrin and Nathan James join me on episode 131 for a retrospective on James Harman. James ‘Icepick’ Harman was born in Anniston, Alabama in 1946. After moving between various locations, including Florida, New York...
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