Annie raines biography

How did you discover the bluesharp ?
~ It was my 17th birthday and I was looking for a book to buy for myself, called Juggling for the Complete Klutz - it was my idea that I would spend the summer learning how to juggle.

The bookstore was out of that book, so instead I got a similar looking book called Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless by Jon Gindick.

If everything would be possible (waking the dead included) , which bluesharp player would you invite for a jam session?
~ All of them!

Well, I would invite Gary Primich and Jerry McCain and Little Walter and stand back!

What is your favorite bluesharp brand / type and tell us why?
~ I play Hohner Marine Bands and Marine Band Deluxe models almost exclusively.

I have a few Thunderbirds, the low harps, and I love those too. The Marine Band sound and feel is the closest I can get to emulating my heroes, chiefly the Chicago and Memphis masters like Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy I &