The List Of Famous Harmonica Bands & Famous Harmonicists

Famous Harmonica bands

1. Borrah Minnevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

2. Troupe da Gaita

3. The Harmonicats

Famous Harmonicists

Blues players

1. Billy Boy Arnold

2. Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues

3. Carey Bell

4. James Belushi

5. Norton Buffalo (Steve Miller Band: Chromatic, Diatonic)

6. Howlin' Wolf (real name: Chester Burnett)

7. Paul Butterfield

8. James Cotton

9. Jim Conway

10. Cyril Davies

11. Garrett Dutton (G. Love & Special Sauce)

12. Paul deLay

13. Carlos del Junco

14. Harmonica Frank

15. Jazz Gillum

16. Alan Glen (the Barcodes, Yardbirds, Dr Feelgood, Nine Below Zero)

17. Marla Glen

18. Tony "Little Sun" Glover

19. Slim Harpo

20. Taylor Hicks

21. Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans

22. Big Walter Horton

23. Paul Jones (The Blues Band, Manfred Mann)

24. Lazy Lester

25. Noah Lewis

26. Dutch Mason

27. John Mayall (Bluesbreakers)

28. Delbert McClinton

29. Hammie Nixon

30. Jean-Jacques Milteau

31. Charlie Musselwhite (Diatonic, Chromatic)

32. Sam Myers

33. Rod Piazza (Chromatic, Diatonic)

34. Roly Platt Versatile Blues, R&B, Country player - Canada

35. Jerry Portnoy (Diatonic)

36. Snooky Pryor

37. Annie Raines

38. Jimmy Reed

39. Jason Ricci

40. Curtis Salgado

41. George "Harmonica" Smith

42. Powell St. John

43. Les Stroud

44. Sugar Blue

45. Greg "Fingers" Taylor (Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band)

46. Sonny Terry

47. Big Mama Thornton

48. Captain Beefheart (a.k.a Don Van Vliet)

49. Little Walter

50. Junior Wells, (Muddy Waters)

51. Sonny Boy Williamson I

52. Sonny Boy Williamson II

53. Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)

Folk

1. Donovan

2. Bob Dylan

3. Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4. Jesse Fuller

5. Arlo Guthrie

6. Woody Guthrie

7. Mel Lyman (Jim Kweskin Jug Band)

8. Rory McLeod

9. Sonny Terry

10. Vikki Thorn (The Waifs)

11. Neil Young

12. León Gieco

Rock

1. Ryan Adams

2. Teddy Andreadis (Live harmonicist for Guns N' Roses during the Use Your Illusion Tour)

3. Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)

4. Gem Archer (Oasis)

5. Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)

6. Tim Armstrong (Rancid)

7. Beck

8. Bono (U2)

9. David Bowie

10. Gary Brooker (Procol Harum)

11. Jack Bruce

12. Bertrand Cantat (Noir Désir)

13. Gene Clark (The Byrds)

14. Alice Cooper

15. Sheryl Crow

16. Burton Cummings

17. Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)

18. Rick Davies (Supertramp)

19. Magic Dick (Richard Salwitz of the J. Geils Band)

20. Roger Daltrey (The Who)

21. Rick Danko (The Band)

22. Bob Dylan

23. Melissa Etheridge

24. Andrew Farriss (INXS)

25. Jon Foreman (Switchfoot)

26. Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil)

27. Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)

28. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

29. John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

30. Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

31. Levon Helm (The Band)

32. George Harrison

33. Kelly Hoppe (Big Sugar)

34. Mick Jagger

35. Billy Joel

36. Brian Jones (Rolling Stones)

37. Adam Lazzara (Taking Back Sunday)

38. Arthur Lee (Love)

39. John Lennon

40.Lemmy (Motörhead)

41. Huey Lewis (Huey Lewis & The News)

42. Richard Manuel (The Band)

43. Johnny Marr

44. Matt Mays

45. Ron McKernan (Grateful Dead)

46. Van Morrison

47. Lee Oskar (War)

48. Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath)

49. Tom Petty

50. Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)

51. John Popper (Blues Traveler)

52. Keith Relf

53. Billy Lee Riley

54. Robbie Robertson (The Band)

55. Joe Satriani

56. John Sebastian (The Lovin' Spoonful)

57. Nicky Shane

58. Southside Johnny

59. Bruce Springsteen

60. Chris Squire (Yes)

61. Ringo Starr

62. Ray Thomas (Moody Blues)

63. Scott Thurston (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)

64. Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)

65. Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)

66. Stevie Wonder

67. Neil Young

68. Pete Yorn

69. Warren Zevon

Country Music

1. DeFord Bailey

2. Buddy Greene

3. Charlie McCoy

4. Terry McMillan

5. Mickey Raphael

6. Bobbejaan Schoepen

Irish music

1. Patrick Clancy (The Clancy Brothers)

Jazz

1. Philip Achille (Chromatic, Saxophonist, Piano and Double bass)

2. Larry Adler (Chromatic)

3. Carlos del Junco

4. Max Geldray (Goon Show)

5. Howard Levy (Diatonic)

6.Chris Michalek (Diatonic)

7.Jean "Toots" Thielemans (Chromatic)

Classical music

1. Larry Adler (Chromatic)

2. Robert Bonfiglio (Chromatic)

3. Angelo Dos Santos (Chromatic)

4. Sigmund Groven (Chromatic)

5. Tommy Reilly (Chromatic)