[1] The music journalist Tony Russell described Harman as an "amusing songwriter and an excellent, unfussy blues harp player".
[3] Harman performed as a blues harmonica player and singer in Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere before moving to southern California in the 1970s.
King, T-Bone Walker, Lowell Fulsom, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, and Albert Collins.
[2] Numerous songs by Harman have been used in films and on television, including "Kiss of Fire" (from the album Those Dangerous Gentlemen), which was used for the soundtrack of The Accused.
Harman has received several W. C. Handy Blues Award nominations, for songs on his own releases and on other artists' albums.