Rod Piazza

A California-based blues bandleader, harmonica player, and singer, Rod Piazza's stratospheric harmonica wailings owe a heavy debt to both Little Walter and George "Harmonica" Smith. Piazza began his professional career as a member of the Dirty Blues Band in the mid-'60s, where he established his own technique and style that came to fruition on his solo debut, 1973's Bluesman. From 1980 on, he began playing with the Mighty Flyers, a band he formed with his keyboard-playing wife, Honey Alexander. Their boogie sound combines jump blues, West Coast blues, and Chicago blues. They h...