The blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is a legend in the world of
bluesmen and joins a small cadre of white blues artists who rose to prominence
in the 1960s. Allegedly, Musselwhite was the inspiration behind the Elwood Blues
character played by actor and comedian Dan Ackroyd in the 1980 John Landis film
'The Blues Brothers'. Although he was born in Misissippi, Musselwhite spent his
formative years in Memphis, Tennessee after his family moved there when he was
three years old. As a young man he became an economic migrant moving north to
Chicago in search of a well paid f...