List of harmonicists

This is a list of musicians that are for their harmonica playing.

Harmonica bands

*Borrah Minnevitch and his Harmonica Rascals
*Troupe da Gaita
*The Harmonicats

Blues players

*Billy Boy Arnold
*Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues
*Carey Bell
*James Belushi
*Norton Buffalo (Steve Miller Band: Chromatic, Diatonic)
*Howlin' Wolf (real name: Chester Burnett)
*Paul Butterfield
*James Cotton
*Jim Conway
*Cyril Davies
*Garrett Dutton (aka G. Love of G. Love & Special Sauce)
*Paul deLay
*Carlos del Junco
*Rick Estrin (Little Charlie & the Nightcats)
*Harmonica Frank
*Jazz Gillum
*Alan Glen (the Barcodes, Yardbirds, Dr Feelgood, Nine Below Zero)
*Marla Glen
*Tony "Little Sun" Glover
*Slim Harpo
*Taylor Hicks
*Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans
*Big Walter Horton
*Paul Jones (The Blues Band, Manfred Mann)
*Lazy Lester
*Noah Lewis
*Dutch Mason
*John Mayall (Bluesbreakers)
*Delbert McClinton
*Paul Nebenzahl
*Hammie Nixon
*Jean-Jacques Milteau
*Charlie Musselwhite (Diatonic, Chromatic)
*Sam Myers
*Rod Piazza (Chromatic, Diatonic)
*Roly Platt Versatile Blues, R&B, Country player - Canada
*Jerry Portnoy (Diatonic)
*Snooky Pryor
*Annie Raines
*Jimmy Reed
*Jason Ricci
*Curtis Salgado
*George "Harmonica" Smith
*Powell St. John
*Les Stroud, also known as the host of "Survivorman", plays harmonica for "protection" from wild animals
*Sugar Blue
*Greg "Fingers" Taylor (Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band)
*Sonny Terry
*Big Mama Thornton
*Captain Beefheart (a.k.a Don Van Vliet)
*Little Walter
*Junior Wells, (Muddy Waters)
*Mark Wenner (The Nighthawks)
*Sonny Boy Williamson I
*Sonny Boy Williamson II
*Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
*Upendra Laxmeshwar (The Royal Harmonica Club, Pune)

=Folk=

*Donovan
*Bob Dylan
*Ramblin' Jack Elliott
*Jesse Fuller
*Arlo Guthrie
*Woody Guthrie
*Mel Lyman (Jim Kweskin Jug Band)
*Rory McLeod
*Sonny Terry
*Vikki Thorn (The Waifs)
*Neil Young
*León Gieco
*Hugo Díaz

=Rock=

*Ryan Adams
*Teddy Andreadis (Live harmonicist for Guns N' Roses during the Use Your Illusion Tour)
*Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
*Gem Archer (Oasis)
*Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)
*Tim Armstrong (Rancid)
*Beck
*Bono (U2)
*David Bowie
*Gary Brooker (Procol Harum)
*Jack Bruce
*Bertrand Cantat (Noir Désir)
*Gene Clark (The Byrds)
*Alice Cooper
*Sheryl Crow
*Burton Cummings
*Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)
*Ray Davies (The Kinks
*Rick Davies (Supertramp)
*Magic Dick (Richard Salwitz of the J. Geils Band)
*Roger Daltrey (The Who)
*Rick Danko (The Band)
*Bob Dylan
*John Entwistle (The Who)
*Melissa Etheridge
*Andrew Farriss (INXS)
*Jon Foreman (Switchfoot)
*Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil)
*Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)
*David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
*John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
*Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
*Levon Helm (The Band)
*George Harrison
*Kelly Hoppe (Big Sugar)
*Mick Jagger
*Billy Joel
*Brian Jones (Rolling Stones)
*John Kay (Steppenwolf)
*Adam Lazzara (Taking Back Sunday)
*Arthur Lee (Love)
*John Lennon
*Lemmy (Motörhead)
*Huey Lewis (Huey Lewis and the News)
*Richard Manuel (The Band)
*Johnny Marr
*Matt Mays
*Ron McKernan (Grateful Dead)
*Van Morrison
*Alanis Morissette
*Lee Oskar (War)
*Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath)
*Tom Petty
*Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)
*John Popper (Blues Traveler)
*Keith Relf
*Billy Lee Riley
*Robbie Robertson (The Band)
*Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes)
*Joe Satriani
*John Sebastian (The Lovin' Spoonful)
*Shakira
*Nicky Shane
*Southside Johnny
*Bruce Springsteen
*Chris Squire (Yes)
*Ringo Starr
*Ray Thomas (Moody Blues)
*Scott Thurston (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
*Pete Townshend
*Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)
*Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
*Stevie Wonder
*Neil Young
*Pete Yorn
*Warren Zevon
*Peter Stahl (Goatsnake)

Country Music

*DeFord Bailey
*Buddy Greene
*Charlie McCoy
*Terry McMillan
*Mickey Raphael
*Bobbejaan Schoepen

Irish music

*Patrick Clancy (The Clancy Brothers)
*James Conway

Jazz

*Philip Achille (Chromatic, Saxophonist, Piano and Double bass)
*Larry Adler (Chromatic)
*Carlos del Junco
*Max Geldray (Goon Show)
*Howard Levy (Diatonic)
*Chris Michalek (Diatonic)
*Jean "Toots" Thielemans (Chromatic)

Classical music

*Larry Adler (Chromatic)
*Robert Bonfiglio (Chromatic)
*Angelo Dos Santos (Chromatic)
*Sigmund Groven (Chromatic)
*Tommy Reilly (Chromatic)

Tango

* Hugo Díaz

ee also

*Harmonica