Billy Branch
Billy Branch, actually William Earl Branch, ( born October 3, 1951 in Chicago ) is a harmonica player of the Chicago blues.
Branch grew up in San Francisco in 1969 and returned to his native town, where he studied political science at the University of Illinois. There he joined a band of Lefty Dizz. As the beginning of his professional career shall be the profit of a harmonica contest in 1975, which led to Willie Dixon took him in his All Star Band. With his band Sons of Blues, he toured Europe and appeared at the Berlin Jazz Festival on. The band's name was no coincidence, as played in the band, among other things Lurrie Bell, son of Carey Bell and Freddie Dixon, the son of Willie Dixon. In 1984, Branch record his first album " Where's My Money ". As a studio musician, he has worked on more than fifty albums; among other things, he played with Muddy Waters, Big Walter Horton, Son Seals, Lonnie Brooks, Koko Taylor, Johnny Winter and Albert King. The album Harp Attack!, He Carey Bell, Junior Wells and James Cotton recorded with his harmonica colleagues, received the WC Handy Award.