Browsing: Charlie Musselwhite

This year’s best blues albums were produced in studios by artists who had time away from touring to write and record their music. 

Few artists have made such an explosive comeback as John Lee Hooker did when he released ‘The Healer’ in 1989.

The new ‘Elvis’ film had some heavy shoes to fill, and it succeeded on all fronts.

“To me it’s just me doing what I do.” Today’s medicine for a world gone mad and his welcome home gift to fans, Charlie’s new album marks his moving back to Clarksdale from California. ‘Mississippi Son’ is out now via Alligator Records!

Make plans to be at the crossroads by hook or crook to catch all the action that’s happening in a town that knows how to give the blues its due.

Mississippi-born, Memphis-raised, Grammy Award-winning music legend Charlie Musselwhite will release Mississippi Son, his new Alligator Records CD and LP, on Friday, June 3. Musselwhite…

Virtual show features performances by ”Kingfish” along with past BMA winners Bobby Rush, Watermelon Slim, Southern Avenue, Don Bryant, Shaun Murphy and John Németh & the Blue Dreamers

Fifty years ago, 23-year-old blues fan Bruce Iglauer spent his meager savings to record an LP by his favorite Chicago blues band, Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, and founded Alligator Records to release it. Today, Alligator boasts a catalog of over 350 titles, many of which are renowned, award-winning, time-tested classics of the genre.

The ‘New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Vol. 2’ repertoire is a mix of righteous takes on such musical chestnuts

Charlie Musselwhite, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, the Late Jim Dickinson, Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson Return as the New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers ‘Vol. 2,’ Set for March 26 Release on Stony Plain Records