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Jimi Lee grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. After relocating to Hawaii, he spent 12 years captivating audiences from around the world and was voted Best In the State by the Hawaiian Blues Society. He now resides in Austin, Texas where the Austin Blues Society awarded him First Place in the Solo/Duo category at the Heart O' Texas Blues Challenge 2008, and was first to represent Austin at the Blues Foundation International Blues Challenge 2009 in Memphis. continue reading...

For those of you that have yearly subscriptions... just like the monthly subscriptions, you don't have to do anything, it will charge your account automatically. I have received a number of emails in regards to wanting to renew for the year... again, there's nothing that you need to do, you're good to go!

We have just posted another section to "Performance Training: Beginnings, Breaks & Endings." In this addition I play with the band everything that I taught student Richard Gilman.

I just heard the sad news about Chris Michalek... great player and super-nice guy. Best wishes to his friends and family. If you want to learn more about Chris see his interview on this site.

Congratulations to our three top winners of the competition...

1st Place
Thomas Troussier for "Tia's Mood"

2nd Place
Robert Venables for "Strollin down the tracks"

3rd Place
Rob Fraser for "Key To The Railway"

Congratulations to all of the others that submitted recordings as well... I and the other judges enjoyed everything that came in. It's probably obvious to you now that the competition is an excuse for students to experience the fun and creative process of writing and recording a harmonica instrumental. More competitions to come... so get ready!

Visit http://www.bluesharmonica.com/share/king-of-the-chug to see who won the King of the Chug contest presented my BluesHarmonica.com and Hohner Harmonicas. Great job everyone!

Judging is in and now being tallied! Winners will be announced Sunday the 5th. How will you know?... the member's picture will change to the King of the Chug logo and will designate which place they have won.

Here it is... Joe's first performance!

The new Harmonica Masterclass Workshop and BluesHarmonica.com newsletter is up. Visit http://www.bluesharmonica.com/home at the bottom of the page.

Join me and a group of the most experienced harmonica-backing blues musicians on the planet for a lesson on Grooves. Our band for this lesson is Rusty Zinn (guitar), RW Grigsby (bass) and Marty Dodson (drums). In this study we cover all the common grooves played in blues: Shuffle, Double Shuffle, T-Bone Shuffle, Jimmy Reed Shuffle, Backwards Shuffle, Chicago Shuffle, Floater (Shuffle), Box (Shuffle), Lump (Shuffle), Flat Tire, Swing, Two Beat, Mojo Beat (Two Beat), Train Beat (Two Beat), Rock Beat, Funk, Tramp, Slow Blues, Rhumba, Modal, and more! continue reading...