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Artist: Charlie MusselwhiteEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-04-08
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Both Sides Of The Fence
- I Sat & Cried
- Sleepwalk
- Natural Born Lover
- Darkest Hour
- Harlem Nocturne
- Drifting Boy
- Rough Dried Woman
- Feel It In Your Heart - Charlie Musselwhite C
- Rainy Highway
- Clarksdale Boogie
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Music Review: Rough and Ready: The Mastery of Charlie Musselwhite
Rating: 5 Stars
Prolific and prodigiously talented, Charlie Musselwhite has long been a master of Chicago blues harp. Here, his buzz-saw amped harmonica cuts its way through around and over 11 great cuts--mostly "over," because Musselwhite's solos are a thing of beauty that deserve center stage. Here he shows his range and mastery of the idiom. While he captures the big sound of urban blues prototypes Little Walter and James Cotton, Musselwhite blends these traditions with his own stamp.
The songs sound more personal (think Robert Cray), eschewing some of the more tired blues themes. Yet, unlike some of Cray's efforts, Musselwhite is not trying to reinvent the blues into something more palatable; he keeps--he insists on keeping the rough-edged sound that makes this music so aurally and even viscerally powerful. From the fun "Both Sides of the Fence," with its frat-boy vocal chorus to the magnificently raw, vintage sound of his solo guitar, harp, and vocals on Clarksdale Boogie, this album is an outstanding combination of urban and the more pared down rural blues. Musselwhite's voice is a little on the thin side, but that just fits with the personal themes and the spare sound of the music, and for longtime fans like myself, there's an authenticity here that's more powerful than the slick productions that think the blues need reinventing (unfortunately this time, think Cray again--at least some of his work). Refreshing, gritty, powerful, and very enjoyable, I recommend this with a serving of John Hammond's "WIcked Grin" on the side.
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