HARTFORD >> The world is full of guys who play guitar and harmonica and sing the blues, but only a few of them can say they’ve done what Paul Oscher has done. For five years, from 1967 through 1972, ...

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

Paul Oscher was 20 when he started playing harmonica for Muddy Waters. It was 1967, and he was a rare sight for the times: a white man playing in a Black blues band of such prominence. He more than ...

Saturday, Paul Oscher makes a stop at Black-Eyed Sally’s. He is best known for his harmonica work but he goes beyond that as an award-winning blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, and ...

PUTNEY -- Legendary blues musician Paul Oscher remembers when he was 12 years old and his uncle gave him his first instrument, a Marine Band harmonica. "At that time, I was working at a grocery store ...

Louisiana “swamp blues” harmonica legend Lazy Lester and former Muddy Waters sideman Paul Oscher are headliners at the inaugural Mississippi Saxophone Festival, which takes place this weekend in ...

Thursday night at C-Boy's Heart & Soul, and Steve Wertheimer's southside juke joint is drenched in true blues. Dim lights, vintage soul posters, foil streamers, and a threepiece rhythm section. A ...

He mainly played harmonica, but also guitar and piano — often all three instruments at the same time. He died of complications of the coronavirus. By Penelope Green This obituary is part of a series ...

Paul Oscher, who moved to Austin eight years ago after a career that included many years in blues legend Muddy Waters' band, died Sunday at age 71. He had been hospitalized with COVID-19 for several ...