{"id":129454,"date":"2023-06-06T18:17:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=129454"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T23:17:32","slug":"blues-tells-the-truth-in-a-world-thats-full-of-lies-charlie-musselwhite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/blues-tells-the-truth-in-a-world-thats-full-of-lies-charlie-musselwhite\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Tells The Truth in a World That\u2019s Full of Lies: Charlie Musselwhite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catch Musselwhite at the North MIssissippi Hill Country Picnic Saturday, June 24 <\/h2>\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wr7q7uyrLQE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Mississippi<\/strong>-born, <strong>Memphis<\/strong>-raised, <strong>Grammy Award<\/strong>-winning music legend <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charliemusselwhite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Musselwhite<\/a><\/strong> will make his official <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nmshillcountrypicnic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic<\/a><\/strong> debut Saturday evening with a duo performance. He will be joined by Los Angeles-born and Nashville-based singer, guitarist, and producer <a href=\"http:\/\/kirkfletcherband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Kirk Fletcher<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musselwhite is renowned worldwide as a master harmonica player, a seasoned, truth-telling vocalist, and an original songwriter rooted deep within the Blues tradition. As many of his fans know, he\u2019s also a country Blues guitarist of great depth, warmth, and subtlety. On his recent release, the Grammy-nominated <strong>Alligator Records<\/strong> album, <strong><em>Mississippi Son<\/em><\/strong>, Musselwhite\u2019s straight-from-the-soul vocals and deep Blues harmonica playing are the perfect foil to his deceptively simple, hypnotic guitar work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musselwhite recently won the <strong>2023 Blues Music Award<\/strong> for <strong>Acoustic Album of the Year<\/strong> for <em>Mississippi Son<\/em>. This is the 34th Blues Music Award of his career. In 2022, Musselwhite was honored in France with the prestigious <strong>Charles Cros Academy Grand Prix Blues Award<\/strong>, and writers and editors of French <em>Soul Bag<\/em> magazine selected Mississippi Son as its 2022 Album of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having recently moved back to Mississippi from northern<strong> California<\/strong>, Musselwhite recorded <em>Mississippi Son<\/em> in <strong>Clarksdale<\/strong>, right in the heart of the Delta. His honest, soulful vocals, like his every-note-matters harmonica playing and idiosyncratic guitar work, overflow with hard-earned authenticity and lasting emotional intensity. Musselwhite calls his Blues, \u201csecular spiritual music,\u201d a sound he\u2019s been perfecting since he, as a young teenager, played his first E7 chord on his Supertone acoustic guitar. Upon hearing and feeling the chord\u2019s blue note, the future Blues master thought, \u201cI have to have more of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlie Musselwhite doesn\u2019t just sing and play the Blues; he is, in every sense of the word, a Bluesman. Growing up, he not only learned the music first-hand from many of the genre\u2019s most influential artists, he also absorbed the lifestyle. \u201cIt\u2019s an attitude,\u201d Musselwhite says of playing the Blues. \u201cA way of living life.\u201d<br>A groundbreaking recording artist since the 1960s, Musselwhite has never stopped creating trailblazing music while remaining firmly rooted in the Blues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, Charlie has released nearly forty albums on a variety of labels, his exploratory recordings including straight Blues but often mixing in elements of jazz, gospel, Tex-Mex, Cuban, and other world musics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, with <em>Mississippi Son<\/em>, Musselwhite has come full circle, returning home to Mississippi after decades in Memphis, Chicago, San Francisco, and points in between. Amalgamating all he\u2019s learned and absorbed throughout his years of worldwide touring, Musselwhite imparts sage wisdom in every song he writes, sings, and performs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBlues tells the truth in a world that\u2019s full of lies,\u201d he intones in \u201cBlues Gave Me A Ride,\u201d at once telling his own story and plainly summing up the genre\u2019s timelessness. Through his evocative vocals, masterful harmonica playing, and note-perfect Southern country Blues guitar, Charlie Musselwhite leans forward and delivers the Blues\u2019 honest truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch Musselwhite at the North MIssissippi Hill Country Picnic Saturday, June 24 Mississippi-born, Memphis-raised, Grammy Award-winning music legend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":129131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[25615,25617,25564,25618,397,4],"class_list":["post-129454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-shows","tag-alligator-records","tag-blues-music-award","tag-charlie-musselwhite","tag-mississippi-son","tag-north-mississippi-hill-country-picnic","tag-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Charlie-Musselwhite-01.jpg?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}