Tom Ball

Veteran singer/harmonica player/guitarist Tom Ball is best-known for his longtime partnership with Kenny Sultan, who is also a guitarist. When Ball and Sultan are performing together as a blues-oriented acoustic duo -- often without bass or drums -- Ball's primary role is that of a singer who plays harmonica. In the blues world, people tend to think of Ball as a vocalist instead of an instrumentalist. But in fact, Ball is both a singer and an instrumentalist -- and when he isn't performing blues-oriented duets with Sultan, he can be a fine acoustic guitar picker along the line...