Musselwhite, Charlie
(*1944)> HARMONICA PLAYER · SINGER
Musselwhite, Charlie 31 January 1944; Kosciusko, MS Harmonica player and singer. Born in Mississippi, he grew up in Memphis, one of a few white residents of its African American community. Charlie Musselwhite was introduced to blues in the early 1960s by Will Shade, the founder of the Memphis Jug Band. He spent most of the 1960s in Chicago and went to San Francisco in 1970. Among various LPs in some thirty years, he has published a formative manual for beginners: The Harmonica According to…