Browsing: Charlie 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

Bluesville chooses fifteen songs to match the number of pool balls in a “rack.” It all has to do with Low-Fi’s Bar and Pool Hall in the imaginary community of Bluesville, of which BB King is the perpetual mayor, and the Blues Foundation is the new power-generating station

Join in for a free online music event on December 10th at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT

Editorial note: Revisiting this interview with Ben Harper, originally published in 2018, to celebrate his birthday!

‘100 Years of Blues’ shows that while there’s over a century of playing between the two of them, they still have new things to say.

No matter where we’re from we want the music to take us home, and this album does it

The two history-making musicians – both Blues Hall Of Famers – are blues legends  in their own right, with over 100 years of professional musicianship between them.