Reflections From The World...Christopher Bryson

The Christopher Bryson Series

Abraham Lincoln carried a harmonica in his pocket, and harmonicas were played by soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War. Frontiersmen Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid played. In the mid-1920s DeFord Bailey made mouth harp recordings, and duo recordings with guitarists Hammie Nixon, Walter Horton, and Sonny Terry. In 1925 there were 50 harmonicas on the White House Christmas tree.

These tears fall from my eyes,
as the rain falls from the sky.

I walk through the rain,
so you can't see me cry.

But only when the rain drops fall from the sky,
so you can't see the things that I hide.

Robert Louis DiTullio, Jr.
Harmonica Player
Faubourg Tremé
New Orleans, Louisiana