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Legendary Blues Harmonica Player James Cotton Passes Away

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via Alligator Records

James Cotton, legendary Grammy-winning blues harmonica player who recorded and toured with Muddy Waters and played with countless others, has died at the age of 81, his label Alligator Records reports. The musician had been battling pneumonia and passed away at a Austin, TX hospital.

Cotton was born in Mississippi in 1935 and began playing music early on in life,…