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- Summary: The latest full-length release from blues artist Charlie Musselwhite features six covers and eight new originals.
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- Record Label: Alligator Records
- Genre(s): Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Regional Blues, Delta Blues, Traditional Blues
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Jun 22, 2022Mississippi Son is an unromanticized testament to living the blues and sounds like it came from the soil. As such, it's a late-period masterpiece.
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Jun 22, 2022Charlie Musselwhite’s smiling visage sums up the very air of modest, joyful generosity that permeates Mississippi Son.
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UncutJun 22, 2022Mixing classic covers (Big Joe Williams’ “Crawling King Snake”, Charlie Patton’s “Pea Vine Blues”) with his ‘new’ compositions, lyrical advances into commonplace blues melodies like “When The Frisco Left the Shed”, there’s timelessness in every note here, every expression. [Jul 2022, p.29]
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MojoJun 22, 2022His singing, always restrained, is so low-key that it risks losing the listener's attention, but the playing supplies the feeling. [Aug 2022, p.95]