Charlie Musselwhite

Charlie Musselwhite (born the January 31st 1944 in Kosciusko, the Mississippi) is a American Harmoniciste specialized in the Blues.

Biography

Charlie Musselwhite was born in the state from the the Mississippi and raised with Memphis at one time when the clubs resounded of a musical interbreeding having given rise to rock' N roll: teenager, Charlie often saw there Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis or Johnny Cash.

After an adolescence rock' N roll , Charlie moves in Chicago like many people of the major South, hoping to find a work with the factory and a better life; it found there only the hard life of the district of South Side, but discovered the roots of its music there: living at the ground floor of Delmark records with Big Joe Williams (which learned how to him to play and drink), it met Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker: the giants of the Chicago blues accepted it and the doors of the local clubs opened to him.

Formant its own group, it records in 1966 its first disc Stand Back! at Vanguard: regarded as traditional, this album gains an immediate success and arranges it in the category of large blues. This triumph enables him to be established in California, and to become a musician impossible to circumvent of the scene of San Francisco.

These talents were worth to him to record a score of albums solos and to appear as a guest on the albums of Bonnie Raitt, of The Blind Boys off Alabama, of Tom Waits or INXS. There will remain friendly with John Lee Hooker until his death. A recent round and its participation in the last disc of Ben Harper brought back it on the front of the scene.

Musselwhite was honoured with many times: 18 W.C. Handy awards, 6 nominations in Grammy, the Lifetime Achievement Award of Monterey Blues Festival, and the the Mississippi Governor' S Award for Excellence in the Arts . One of its greater personal successes was its victory against alcoholism.

Discography

Discography

  • 1967 : Back Stand! Young stag Comes Charley Musselwhite Southside Band (Vanguard)
  • 1968: Louisiana Fog (Red Cherry)
  • 1968: Stone Blue (Vanguard)
  • 1969: Tennessee Woman (Vanguard)
  • 1970: Memphis Tennessee (MCA/Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)
  • 1978: The Harmonica According To Charlie (Kicking Mule Records)
  • 1982: Curtain Cal Cocktails (Solid Smoke Records)
  • 1986: Mellow Dee (CrossCut)
  • 1990: Ace off Harps (Alligator Records)
  • 1991: Signature (Alligator)
  • 1992: Where Cuts All the Good Times Gone? (Blue Rock' It)
  • 1993: In my time (Alligator) with The Blind Servant boys off Alabama
  • 1994: The Blues Never Die (Vanguard)
  • 1995: Takin Care off Business (Kent Music) Republication of Louisiana Fog
  • 1997: Rough News (Pointblank/Virgin)
  • 1999: Continental Drifter (Pointblank/Virgin)
  • 1999: Harpin' One has Rif the best off (International Music Collection)
  • 1999: Superharps (Telarc) with James Knitting machine, Billy Branch and Sugar Ray Norcia
  • 2000: Best off the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
  • 2000: Live 1986: Up & Down the Highway (Indigo)
  • 2002: One night in America (Telarc) with Robben Ford, Marty Stuart, Kelly Willis…
  • 2004: Sanctuary (Real World Records) with Ben Harper
  • 2005: Deluxe Edition (Alligator)
  • 2006: Delta Hardware (Real World Records)

Participations

Last concerts in France

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Real World (its recording company)

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