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the blues harp. I fell in love with the blues harp, and when I was like 15/16

years old, I wanted to learn to play the harmonica, the blues harp and it turns

out that blues music was a music genre, a genre of music where the
harmonica, the blues harp was featured a lot. And so that's how I ended up

being a huge fan of blues music through my love for the blues harp, actually.

BiTS: What harp players were you listening to when you first started out?

DS: When I first started out, there was one guy I listened to the most and

that was Sonny Terry, and it was like more country blues, acoustic blues. He

formed the duo with Brownie McGhee. Some of your listeners may know

them. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and that actually was my first love

for harmonica.

Of course then after a while, all the blues greats followed, particularly also

Little Walter. I'm a huge fan of Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson and
when it evolved, I became a big fan of more contemporary blues harp players

like Rod Piazza, James Harman. Today, nowadays, I like guys like Kim Wilson

a lot who are really virtuoso on the instrument. For me, the harmonica is the

love of my life.

I've been playing

it since I was 15-

years-old, so more

than 35 years, and

later on in life I
started learning

to play the guitar

as well.

BiTS: Well,

congratulations

on both of those

things. Your harp

playing is
a b s o l u t e l y

excellent and your