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Charlie Musselwhite
Rough Dried: Live at the Triple Door
Henrietta Records
www.charliemusselwhite.com

When it comes to stomping, lowdown blues harmonica it just doesn't get any better than Charlie Musselwhite, and what could be better than a live recording right from Seattle's own Triple Door” The 12 tracks contain only three covers, one being Charlie;s main stay since his first release, “Cristo Redentor” (aka Christo Redemptor) as an encore. Charlie's supporting cast on Rough Dried-Live at the Triple Door Features the same band that has performed on Charlie's '05 Real World Records CD Delta Hardware with Chris “Kid” Anderson – guitar (Terry Hank, Rick Estrin and The Nightcats) who is also in the credits as the mixer and one of the recorders along with Glenn Dennler. I could easily expound at length about each track; but there isn't room for that here. The set is jump started with the opening cut “River Hip Mama,” the barn burner from Charlie's '90 Alligator set “Ace Of Harps” (one of the three cuts included off that CD). Charlie describes “Feel It In Your Heart” as Brazilian blues, which appropriately features an infectious Latin beat. It is off the '97 Point Blank release Rough Edges as is the title track “Rough Dried Woman”. Rough Dried – Live at the Triple Door absolutely cooks from start to finish and will go down as one of my favorite CD's in quite some time.
Review by Malcolm Kennedy of The Washington Blues Society