On this edition of AOS, WBGO's Dave Popkin chats with blues legend Charlie Musselwhite.
Look up “authentic blues man” in the dictionary and you’ll find a picture of Musselwhite. He was born in Mississippi, raised in Memphis, and came of age on the south side of Chicago.
His half hour interview with Dave Popkin is just the tip of the iceberg of his blues odyssey. During that chat, the GRAMMY Award winner talked about Mississippi Son, his most recent (and accidental) album for Alligator Records that was taken from a series of pandemic-era recordings in a local studio near his home in Clarksdale, Mississippi. “It was just kind of a lark. We didn’t set out to make an album.”
The listener can envision a couple friends sitting around on the front porch at sunset, pulling out some down-home blues tunes. It’s an intimate, stripped-down, timeless record.
