We are proud to announce that Charlie is up for
5 Blues Music Awards this year!
The categories include:
- Best Instrumentalist,Harmonica
- Traditional Blues Male,
- Artist Of The Year,
- Album of The Year,
- Song of the Year – “Sad and Beautiful World”! Tied for most nominations.
- Awards will be held in Memphis on May 5, 2011
The Blues Music Awards are produced by The Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization established to preserve Blues history, celebrate Blues excellence, support Blues education and ensure the future of this uniquely American art form. The Foundation consists of a worldwide network of 190 affiliated Blues societies and has individual memberships spanning the globe. In addition to the Blues Music Awards, the Foundation also produces the Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, the International Blues Challenge and the Keeping the Blues Alive Awards. It fosters education through its Blues in the Schools programming, supports the medical needs of Blues musicians with its HART Fund, and offers health insurance access through its Sound Healthcare program. Throughout the year, the Foundation staff serves the worldwide Blues community with answers, contact information and news. For more information or to join The Blues Foundation, log onto www.blues.org
We are honored to have “The Well” included at #8 on Amazon.com’s Best Blues of 2010. It is quite an honor for Charlie and the band!
Thursday, November 18th
7:40 AM and 4:45 PM, Take Five: American blues-harp player and bandleader Charlie Musselwhite talks with Darren DeVivo.
9 PM, Words and Music from Studio A: Charlie Musselwhite is Darren DeVivo’s guest in Studio A.
For More Information visit www.wfuv.com
In 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell down a narrow well in Midland, Texas, and was trapped for three days before being rescued. Among the millions worldwide transfixed by the ordeal was Charlie Musselwhite, the blues-harmonica virtuoso.
The event’s life-altering impact on Musselwhite inspired a song that is the title track for his latest, heavily autobiographical album, “The Well” (Alligator), among the best releases in a career that stretches back to the explosive Chicago blues scene of the ‘60s.
Musselwhite had been drinking excessively since he came to Chicago in 1962 looking for work after growing up in the South. By ’87, he was downing as much as two quarts of alcohol a day.
Charlie & band will be interviewed and perform in studio tomorrow
(9/14 at Noon ET) on New York’s WFUV 90.7 FM
Catch the show live online at www.wfuv.org
Ben Manilla from the TheBluesMobile.com stopped by recently for an office tour with Charlie.
You can check out the video tour by clicking below.
Also visit TheBluesMobile.com for more great Blues Legend Interviews like this.
We are proud to announce that Charlies new CD has debuted at #4 on the Bilboard Blues Chart.
In other news this week…
Charlie performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno with Cyndi Lauper and Johnny Lang. You can watch the full episode on the Tonight Show Website
Coming in September…
e-town will feature Charlie alongside Cyndi Lauper in a performance on Sept 23 at the Boulder Theatre. Charlie plays in Cyndi’s band and will perform his own set as well. For additional info, see www.etown.org/attend.summary.php?id=317
Catch Charlie with Cyndi Lauper on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, airing on NBC, Monday August 30.
Cyndi and Charlie will be performing in Support of Cyndi’s new CD Memphis Blues.
Check local listings for specific broadcast times.
