Mark Hummel was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He began playing the blues harmonica professionally in 1973 after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Mark's extensive career includes traveling the, "Big Roads" and blue highways of the United States and Europe for over thirty years as a harmonica maestro,

Mark Hummel was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He began playing the blues harmonica professionally in 1973 after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Mark's extensive career includes traveling the, "Big Roads" and blue highways of the United States and Europe for over thirty years as a harmonica maestro, band leader, music producer, and journal and blog writer. Big Road Blues is his first book.