When Southern California native and blues/folk artist Ben Harper and blues icon Charlie Musselwhite came together in 2013 to work on what would become their Grammy Award-winning album, “Get Up!,” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel, lifestyle, and culture. Bishop and Musselwhite are both Blues Hall of Famers with over 100 years of professional ...

Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite sharing a stage seems like the natural thing to do. The two blues and roots music stars have known each other since they were aspiring young blues musicians in ...

If you’re fumbling for shorthand for the blues, how about this? The blues is an emotional and artistic investigation of love and death. If you buy that even a bit, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite’s ...

“We’ve been around since the Dead Sea was sick,” Bishop sings on the track, “so I guess we better keep on just doing what we do. Lord have mercy, it’s been a hundred years of blues.” A more accurate ...

FAIRFIELD >> It wasn’t that long ago that Charlie Musselwhite played at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne — only about seven months ago, actually — but that was August and this is March, and ...

The musical careers of Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite have followed similar paths. Both were raised in America’s heartland: Bishop in Iowa, Musselwhite in Tennessee. Both are white musicians who ...

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, “No Mercy in This Land” (Anti-Records) With a Grammy for best blues album in their pocket for 2014’s “Get Up!” Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite put themselves in ...

Charlie Musselwhite never wanted to be an entertainer, he just wanted to play the blues. But six decades after he picked up the harmonica, he’s the star he never wanted to be, a Grammy Award and ...

For Charlie Musselwhite, the blues has been a companion, a kindred spirit that has been his love and livelihood for the last 50 years. "I've always said that blues is your comforter when you're down ...

For acclaimed singer/songwriter Ben Harper and iconic bluesman Charlie Musselwhite the payoff of working together is obvious. Harper gets, as he says, accepted into the elite blues community, while ...