Kyle Wooten

When Kyle Wooten plays "The Choking Blues" it is not so much the sounds of silence but of strangulation, but then again there is no predicting what will happen sonically when a muscular pair of lips and a throat begin manipulating the flimsy reeds of a harmonica. Incorporating impressive vocal tricks as well as authentic animal imitations, Wooten is certainly in a class by himself on harmonica, matched in the audaciousness of his sound by only Freeman Stowers and Garley Foster. Wooten was one of a group of early American harmonica virtuosos that were anthologized on the Yazoo ...