MEMPHIS — When James Cotton was still a youngster, he'd come in after picking cotton all day under the broiling Mississippi sun to a payment of just 3 dollars. One day, he pulled out his harmonica on ...

Organizers say they needed 1,707 harmonica players to make the Guinness Book of World Records under the category of largest harmonica play along, so it appears that the record was broken handily at ...

At the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs in Los Angeles, there were some breakout stars - not hockey players, but about a dozen Korean women in their 70s and 80s. Steve Futterman reports. STEVE FUTTERMAN: The ...

Iconic blues harmonica virtuoso Little Walter Jacobs died on Feb. 15, 1968, in Chicago. He was just 37 years old.

Few basic scientists today are as celebrated as MD Anderson Cancer Center's Jim Allison, but back in the day, contemporaries did not exactly welcome his big discovery. It was the 1990s, a time when ...

Tom Moore first learned to play the harmonica when he was about 10 years old, but, like many boys, he later became more interested in girls and forgot about the harmonica for decades. “I put it in a ...

Not one to let the pandas steal all the spotlight for their painting prowess and, um, artificial insemination attempts, an elephant at the National Zoo is developing her musical talents. Shanthi, a 36 ...

The harmonica is suddenly in the news because the Democratic candidate for Vice President, Senator Tim Kaine, is a devoted player. Kaine was introduced to the instrument at a young age by a friend.