Charlie Musselwhite – Look Out Highway (Blue / Green vinyl)

Charlie Musselwhite is an American icon. His story is entangled in the story of America, and he's been tracing it's highways and entertaining it's audiences, and those abroad, for nearly six decades.

So, it's fitting that his new record, is entitled Look Out Highway, and it's remarkable that a man who has spent more days on the road than off still brings such spirit and passion to the music and the lifestyle. Throughout his illustrious career Charlie Musselwhite has received 13 Grammy nominations and 33 Blues Music Awards. In 2014 his collaboration with Ben Harper Get Up won a Grammy and in 2010 he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. In 2023, Musselwhite was cast in Martin Scorsese's film Killers of the Flower Moon. Charlie has collaborated with an eclectic list of incredible artists over the years, including Ben Harper, Cyndi Lauper, Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Gov't Mule, INXS, George Thorogood, Eliades Ochoa, Cat Stevens, Elvin Bishop and John Lee Hooker.More than any other harmonica player of his generation, Charlie Musselwhite can rightfully lay claim to inheriting the mantle of many of the great harp players that came before him with music as dark as Mississippi mud and as uplifting as the blue skies of California.

In an era when the term legendary gets applied to auto-tuned pop stars, this singular blues harp player, singer, songwriter, and guitarist has earned and deserves to be honored as a true master of American classic vernacular music.