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| White bluesman Charlie Musselwhite is one of Chicago's best-known harpists, coming to fame during the 1960s. Like contemporary Paul Butterfield, Musselwhite honed his skills playing in the black blues clubs on the South and West Sides, and playing for tips at Maxwell Street Market. Born in Kosciusco, Mississippi in 1944, Musselwhite lived in Memphis and by the late '50s he was playing music with that city's bluesmen. He lived across the street from Johnny Burnette, and a few blocks from Slim Rhodes, and went to parties at Elvis Presley's house. Musselwhite moved to Chicago looking for a better paying job. During the late '60s, Musselwhite moved to San Francisco. Says he, "I moved out west because they were playing my music on the radio. They had underground radio where the disc jockeys could play anything they wanted. Back in Chicago, I wasn't getting any airplay and the only places I was playing were these little bars that hardly paid anything. But in California, they had these big ballrooms and they didn't know we'd play for nothing; they'd pay us actual money." his major-label debut Leave the Blues to Us (Capitol) was a disappointment, and the label promptly dropped him. Musselwhite continued to play, but seemed to be going nowhere. After sobering up, and getting a contract with Alligator Records, Musselwhite has begun to put list life back together again, recording three excellent albums (including In My Time) before moving to Pointblank Records (where you'll find his new CD, Rough News, which roams from blues to jazz to rockabilly and even latin music) this year.
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