2011 GRAMMY Nominee
♦ for The Well for Best Traditional Blues Album
♦ Featured on Cyndi Lauper's, Memphis Blues, also nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album
2012 Blues Music Award Nominee for Best Instrumentalist – Harmonica AND for Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year (last year's winner in both categories)
2011 Blues Music Award Winner for Best Instrumentalist - Harmonica AND Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year! Also nominated for Album of the Year for The Well, Traditional Blues Album of the Year for The Well and Song of the Year for "Sad and Beautiful World"
2011 - recognized in the 59th DownBeat Critics Poll in the Blues Artist category and Blues Album category
2011 - honored by fans in the DownBeat magazine Readers Poll in two categories - Best Blues Artists and Best Blues Albums for Charlie's The Well.
2011 Living Blues Award. Charlie won the Readers' Poll Most Outstanding Musician award (Harmonica), for the fifth year in a row, his 9th overall Living Blues Award for Outstanding Musician.
2011 Best Harmonica Player - Blues Matters (UK) International Writer's Poll
2010 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee
7-Time GRAMMY Nominee
25-Time Blues Music Award Winner
Featured on Tom Waits latest album, Bad As Me, which entered the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at #6 in November 2011. Charlie appears on five tracks, including the title track.
Latest CD The Well released August 24, 2010. Downbeat proclaims: "Musselwhite gives it to us straight on the crown jewel in a discography dating back to the late-'60's… He's a wise man dispensing golden truths."
Featured performer in Cyndi Lauper's band, on tour around the country Summer and Fall 2010 and a featured guest on Cyndi's album of blues cover songs, Memphis Blues released June 2010.
Featured performer on the Hot Tuna Blues tour February and March 2011 with Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Jim Lauderdale.
Collaborations with Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, Ben Harper, Bonnie Raitt, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Gov't Mule, INXS, Mickey Hart, George Thorogood and personal friend and best man at his wedding John Lee Hooker.
Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame Honoree. Charlie's marker was placed outside of BB King's Nightclub in Memphis, TN in 2008.
2009 Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Honoree. Created by the Mississippi Blues Commission, the Blues Trail is composed of historical markers and interpretive sites located throughout the state. Other artists honored with markers to date include fellow legends B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon. |
