Few things can be told that have not been already said about Charlie Musselwhite. A six-decade career and nearly forty albums released, endorse and reward a lifetime completely devoted to blues, that still brings new surprises to blues lovers, like this new project Charlie has just released for Alligator Records.

Born in Mississippi quite a long time ago and raised in Memphis and Chicago, from a very young age Charlie felt a special attraction for old hollers and rural bluesmen songs, who howled their blues with sadness, regret and despair, accepting or fighting against their sad destiny. Although he learned to play guitar when he was thirteen years old, his career has mostly developed as harmonica player and electric blues singer in Chicago and San Francisco. Now and coming back to Mississippi, Musselwhite wants to pay his most deep tribute to rural blues he so much loves, with an album where he sings, plays guitar and, of course, harmonica.

Eight own compositions and seven covers coming from artists like Yank Rachell, Charley Patton or Joe Lee Williams among others, give shape to a relaxing honest album but, at the same time, full of wisdom, deep feeling, respect and reverence to a kind of music that becomes the essence of human life driven to the highest musical expression. Musselwhite has also counted with Barry Bays on double bass and Ricky “Quicksand” Martin on drums in some cuts.

It is a duty and a must for blues fans to get a copy of an album coming from a living blues legend like Charlie Musselwhite.