If something has the blues it is the sweet sound of the harmonica. That sound just turned off, with the death, which occurred today, the pioneer James Cotton, the 81-year-old in a hospital in Texas.
Cotton was born on July 1, 1935, in Tunica, Mississippi, and it was from those dollars where they began to pursue this noble instrument. Since he was nine years old, and earned some money, possibly touching.
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He had as master Sonny Boy Williamson, then 50, joined the Muddy Waters band, but later he founded his own band, called James Cotton Band.
That sweet sound also accompanied the musical projects of luminaries such as Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, BB King and Santana.
When sound harmonics, somewhere will be the essential sound of James Cotton