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The Annual Paul deLay Scholarship Benefit Concert Series |
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We would like to thank the following for their generous support of this Memorial Concert Series:Peggy PassarellImpactAds.net Aladdin Theater Belmont Station Candlelight Café & Bar Cascade Bar & Grill Cascade Blues Association Echo Audio Garrison's Fine Wines Music Millennium Oregon Music News Original Halibut's The Heathman Hotel New Seasons Market Portland Powder Coating Trail's End Saloon Integrity Computer Services Northwestmall |
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Charlie Musselwhite 
Some musicians become blues players by choice, some are simply born into it. Harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite's life story reads like a classic blues legend, with roots in the blues heartland of Mississippi and Memphis followed by a migration to Chicago, the birthplace of modern electric blues. His recordings—two dozen solo albums for many labels spanning almost 40 years—have become classics, and his live shows continue to amaze fans around the world. Like the greatest bluesmen before him, Musselwhite has added his own signature to the music. Over the course of his career, he's introduced jazz stylings, Cuban rhythms and a contemporary world-view into his vision of the blues.Musselwhite's lengthy resume includes, in addition to his solo projects, guest tracks on recordings by Bonnie Raittt, the Blind Boys of Alabama, John Lee Hooker, Tom Waits and INXS; 17 W.C. Handy awards and six Grammy nominations. Charlie Musselwhite is firmly entrenched in musical history. Charlie continues building on his musical legacy with his latest release, Delta Hardware, on Real World Records. Like the recordings of R.L Burnside and the North Mississippi Allstars, Delta Hardware was pulled from the storied North Mississippi Delta and Hill Country. Drawing on Charlie's own Delta roots, the album is a mix of wild country abandon seasoned by years of playing urban electric blues in Chicago that spurs the likes of Ben Harper, Tom Waits and Gov't Mule to welcome Musselwhite onto their stages and records. It helped Charlie emerge the big winner at the 28th annual Blues Music Awards in 2007, walking away with four of the five trophies he was nominated for including: Album of the Year (Delta Hardware), Song of the Year ("Church Is Out"), Traditional Blues Album of the Year, and Instrumentalist. Musselwhite has also been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Monterey Blues Festival, the Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and a prestigious Brass Note plaque on Memphis' Beale Street (prominently placed outside B.B. King's Club). The latest in this list is the Mississippi Trail Marker on the square of his birthplace, Kosciusko Mississippi. |
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