Harper

Peter D. Harper is an Australian-American blues rock harmonica player, singer and songwriter. His unique slant on the blues and roots music genre includes his use of the Australian indigenous instrument - the didgeridoo. Harper has received 14 Music Awards in four different countries including a Gold Record. Billed with his backing band as Harper and Midwest Kind, his 2020 Rise Up album debuted at No.3 on the Billboard Blues Album Charts. Rise Up was listed in the Top 20 Albums of 2020 by Blues Blast Magazine USA. Rise Up has been nominated as Best Modern Roots Album by Independent Blues Awards, 2021 and Harper and Midwest Kind has also been nominated as Best Modern Roots Band. Rise Up followed Show Your Love which debuted at No. 9, and peaked at No. 3 in the US Billboard Blues Albums chart plus a 25 week run in the Top Ten. His interest in the blues was inspired by his grandfather's record collection which included work by Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Muddy Waters, and Little Walter. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)