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Glenn Weiser
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Glenn Weiser was born in 1952 in Ridgewood, NJ. He first took up the guitar at age 13 and began playing harmonica at 16. On harmonica, he started out as a blues player in the Sonny Terry style, but eventually expanded into playing the Chicago tongue blocking style, and also Celtic music and Southern Appalachian old time string band music. Now based in Albany, NY, he has been teaching and performing music full time for over twenty years, and is the author of several music books. These include three harmonica books-Blues and Rock Harmonica, Irish and American Fiddle Tunes for Harmonica, and the forthcoming Masters of Blues Harp. As a performer, he has appeared on the same bill with Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, and others. His playing can be heard on Never Grow Up by Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen on the Flying Fish label. Glenn is the harmonica columnist for the folk music journal Sing Out!. He was also featured by the Associated Press for having transcribed 70 of the harmonica solos of blues legend Little Walter Jacobs, some of which will appear in Masters of Blues Harp.