{"id":10284,"date":"2011-09-13T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=10284"},"modified":"2011-09-13T07:38:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T15:38:42","slug":"james-mr-superharp-cotton-at-momm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=10284","title":{"rendered":"James &#8220;Mr. Superharp&#8221; Cotton At MoMM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jamescotton_1313450319.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jamescotton_1313450319.jpg','popup','width=400,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jamescotton_1313450319-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jamescotton 1313450319\" \/><\/a>Those into blues harmonica (and really, what other kind is there?) will want to hit up <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofmakingmusic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Making Music<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday, September 18, 2011 as Grammy Award-winning player <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescottonsuperharp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James &#8220;Mr. Superharp&#8221; Cotton<\/a><\/strong> plays at 6:45 PM.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cotton is celebrating sixty-seven years in the entertainment business (starting at the age of nine), with his unique harmonica style, he has performed alongside blues greats such as B.B. King and Muddy Waters.  He recorded almost 30 solo albums, including two highly-regarded releases for Alligator in the 1980s and the famed Harp Attack! with Junior Wells, Carey Bell and Billy Branch in 1990.  The New York Daily News calls Cotton \u201cthe greatest living blues harmonica player.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tickets are $40 for non-members and $35 for those who cared enough to join. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofmakingmusic.org\/tickets\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order online<\/a><\/strong> or follow the jump for more info.<!--more-->On Sunday, September 18, 2011, the Museum&#8217;s Roots of Reeds exhibition performance series kicks off with an unforgettable concert featuring a special exhibition reception at 6:00 p.m. followed by Grammy Award-winning blues harmonica player James \u201cMr. Superharp\u201d Cotton at 6:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton is celebrating sixty-seven years in the entertainment business (starting at the age of nine), with his unique harmonica style, he has performed alongside blues greats such as B.B. King and Muddy Waters.  He recorded almost 30 solo albums, including two highly-regarded releases for Alligator in the 1980s and the famed Harp Attack! with Junior Wells, Carey Bell and Billy Branch in 1990.  The New York Daily News calls Cotton \u201cthe greatest living blues harmonica player.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times adds, \u201cCotton helped define modern blues harmonica with his moaning, wrenching phrases and his train-whistle wails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cotton will be accompanied by long-time band member, guitar player and singer Tom Holland.   <\/p>\n<p>Tickets to this event are $40; $35 for Museum Members. For tickets, please call (760) 438-5996, or order online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those into blues harmonica (and really, what other kind is there?) will want to hit up Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Museum of Making Music on Sunday, September 18, 2011 as Grammy Award-winning player James &#8220;Mr. Superharp&#8221; Cotton plays at 6:45 PM. Cotton is celebrating sixty-seven years in the entertainment business (starting at the age of nine), with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10285,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions\/10285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}