I saw Amos mentioned Sonny Terry...I recommend Sonny Terry along with his long-time blues partner Brownie McGhee.

Brownie sings a lot and Sonny Terry plays a mean harmonica.

Which brings me to Patrick Costello's advice: PLAY! grab that harmonica! No offense intended to the REAL harmonica artists out there, but even the rest of us can't butcher that harp too bad!

And SING! If you're a storyteller, man, you got to love singing the blues. Patrick's right again though. Learn to play a little bit and the singing will come too. I played the sax for a lot of years and never learned to sing a lick with that thing in my face all the time. Horrible singer, like you. Then I started fooling around with some banjo and hollering the loud, funny words at the same time.

Now...people don't run screaming from the room.

He's right! Play!