2020 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94704
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The Box Office window is open 12:30pm-7pm and during all performances.
2020 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94704 The Box Office window is open 12:30pm-7pm and during all performances.
Charlie Musselwhite
The Easy Leaves open Friday, June 3, 2016, 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)heavyweight blues harpist $42 adv / $46 door Purchase tickets online June 03 8:00 pm
Charlie Musselwhite may be the only musician to get a huge ovation just for opening his briefcase. Fans know that’s where he keeps his harmonicas and they’re about to hear one of the true masters work his magic on the humble instrument.
Musselwhite is, and always will be, a bluesman of the highest order. But he’s taken blues harp from the clubs on the Southside of Chicago (where “Memphis Charlie” and Mike Bloomfield backed Big Joe Williams) to places it’s never been before, both musically and physically. He’s soloed to “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” with Cyndi Lauper on Good Morning America; wailed on “Echo Bells” with Japan’s Kodo drummers (produced by the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart); and mixed blues with Cuban son legend Eliades Ochoa, each playing on the other’s album. He’s jammed on stage with Mick Jagger and recorded with such diverse artists as INXS, Tom Waits, bluegrass fiddler Vassar Clements, gospel Blind Boys of Alabama, and even Cat Stevens. And shortly before winning the Grammy for Best Blues Album for their collaboration Get Up!, he and Ben Harper played at the White House for President Obama and the First Lady, in a salute to Memphis soul.
Their last record, Fresno, a featured new Country release on iTunes, found the boys truly bringing the honky tonk into the studio. Summer of 2016 sees the release of The Wheels, in the same timeless vein, as they continue their pilgrimage as proud ambassadors for California Country music.
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