"Saunders Terrell", better known as "Sonny Terry", was a blind, American Piedmont blues musician. He was widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts.

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If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

In them days I just as soon died-except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.