Charlie Musselwhite
NewMusicforOldFolks says …
The album title says it all Harmonica According to Charlie Musselwhite. That's where I would start my collection. Charlie's been going since the 1960s and nobody does it better. I took my son to see Musselwhite at a blues festival a few years back and when a 14-year-old boy is impressed by anything a 65-year-old man does musically, one of them is hipper than his age suggests. It's probably a little of both, but the Charlie earns some extra hip points for his recent work with Ben Harper. The two combined on an album, Get Up!, and tour in 2013.
Artist's Info
Website: charliemusselwhite.com
See him live: Tour dates
Record company: CD Baby
See also: Ben Harper
Genre: Blues
If you like this, look into: Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Nick Moss, Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King
Bio (From the artist's website)
Fifty years of nonstop touring, performing and recording have reaped huge rewards. Charlie Musselwhite is living proof that great music only gets better with age. This man cut his (musical) teeth alongside Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and everyone on the south side of Chicago in the early 1960’s – thank your lucky stars he is still with us telling the truth with a voice and harp tone like no other. Musselwhite may be the only musician to get a huge ovation just for opening his briefcase. Fans know that’s where he keeps his harmonicas and they’re about to hear one of the true masters work his magic on the humble instrument. (more)
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Recordings
Most Recent
I AIN'T LYIN'! (2015): Charlie’s riveting Sonoma County show brought his unstoppable, hard hitting, tone heavy sound to the audience who couldn’t get enough. Luckily someone had turned on the tape and Charlie knew just what to do – he took the tapes down to Clarksdale MS and delivered them into the capable mixing and mastering hands of Gary Vincent who in collaboration with Charlie, brought Mississippi mud to this exceptional live recording. I Ain't Lyin' is all Charlie. The CD is a group of painstakingly crafted original tunes penned by the hand of this Mississippi master that resonate with the land of Mississippi itself. Charlie’s music rises from the river, crosses the levy, dances through the streets and cuts straight to the heart of what it is to be alive.
OTHERS
Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band (1967)
Louisiana Fog (1968)
Stone Blues (1968)
Tennessee Woman (1969)
Memphis Charlie (1969)
Memphis, Tennessee (1970)
Takin' My Time (1971)
Goin' Back Down South (1974)
Leave the Blues to Us (1975)
Times Gettin' Tougher Than Tough (1978)
Harmonica According to Charlie Musselwhite (1978)
Where Have All the Good Times Gone? (1984)
Mellow-Dee (1986)
Ace of Harps (1990)
Signature (1991)
In My Time (1993)
Rough News (1997)
Continental Drifter (1999)
Harpin' on a Riff: The Best of Charlie Musselwhite" (1999)
Up & Down the Highway Live: 1986 (1986)
One Night in America (2002)
Darkest Hour (2003)
Sanctuary (2004)
Delta Hardware (2005)
Black Snake Moan Original Soundtrack (2007)
Rough Dried – Live at the Triple Door (2008)
The Well (2010)
Juke Joint Chapel (2012)
Get Up! with Ben Harper (2013)
