With an induction into the Blues Music Hall of Fame, 35 Blues Music Awards and 11 Grammy nominations including a win in 2014, American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader Charlie Musselwhite has truly earned legendary status as one of blues music most important artists. One of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Dan Aykroyd’s character in The Blues Brothers. He was born in Mississippi but spent his formative years in Memphis, TN during the period when rockabilly, western swing, electric blues and other forms of African American music were combining to give birth to rock and roll.

North Mississippi Allstars formed in 1996; the product of a special time for modern Mississippi country blues. Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Memphis legend Jim Dickinson, and absorbed the North Mississippi legacy while playing in juke joints and pioneering their own brand of blues-infused rock and roll.