7/1/1935 - 3/16/2017
2017 Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of James Cotton
James Cotton, the Grammy Award-winning blues harmonica player who backed some of the greatest blues artists of his time, died Thursday, March 16, 2017, according to multiple news sources. Cotton, aka Mr. Superharp, was 81.
James Henry Cotton was born July 1, 1935, in Tunica, Mississippi. He started his music career in the early 1950s as the harmonica player for Howlin' Wolf's band. He recorded some of his first songs in Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio in Memphis, where Elvis Presley,...
