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Joe Filisko
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It’s not likely you will find many aspects regarding the current state of the diatonic harmonica that have not been influenced in some way by Joe Filisko.

His craftsmanship, musicianship, and knowledge of the instrument and its history are being acknowledged and praised by the likes of Howard Levy, Kim Wilson, Charlie Musselwhite, Gary Primich, Mickey Raphael, John Hammond, Curtis Salgado, Madcat Ruth, Steve Baker, Mike Stevens, Mark Graham, The National Music Museum, the Harmonikamuseum Trossingen, and even the M. Hohner Company.

The SPAH organization named Joe “Harmonica Player of the Year” in 2001.

Joe has recently completed the definitive discography on Big Walter Horton. Currently he has been writing the harmonica entry for the “Encyclopedia of the Blues” to be published by Routledge.

Joe can be found teaching harmonica every Monday at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music besides playing evenings with The Carl Davis Band and On the Mainline throughout the Chicagoland area.