Artist

Charlie Musselwhite

Wins

Nominations

About Charlie Musselwhite

"To me, the harmonica is like a voice."

Born Jan. 31, 1944, in Kosciusko, Miss.
Mississippi-born Musselwhite came to prominence as a harmonica player on the Chicago blues scene in the '60s. He released his debut album, Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band, in 1967. He charted on Billboard's Blues album chart for the first time in 1999 when Continental Drifter reached No. 15.
Musselwhite earned his first GRAMMY win for Best Blues Album for 2013 for Get Up! with Ben Harper.
In the 1998 musical comedy film, Blues Brothers 2000, Musselwhite starred as a member of the Louisiana Gator Boys along with musicians such as B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Dr. John, Lou Rawls, Paul Shaffer, and Steve Winwood, among others.

All Grammy Awards and
Nominations for Charlie Musselwhite

Year	Award	Artists	Work	All Nominees
2026	Best Traditional Blues Album	Charlie Musselwhite	Look Out Highway	All Nominees
2023	Best Traditional Blues Album	Charlie Musselwhite	Mississippi Son	All Nominees
2022	Best Traditional Blues Album	Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite	100 Years Of Blues	All Nominees
2019	Best Traditional Blues Album	Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite	No Mercy In This Land	All Nominees
2015	Best Blues Album	Charlie Musselwhite	Juke Joint Chapel	All Nominees
2014	Best Blues Album	Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia, James Harman	Remembering Little Walter	All Nominees
2014	Best Blues Album	Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite	Get Up!	All Nominees
2014	Best Music Film	Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite	I'm In I'm Out And I'm Gone: The Making Of Get Up!	All Nominees
2011	Best Traditional Blues Album	Charlie Musselwhite	The Well	All Nominees
2005	Best Contemporary Blues Album - or Contemporary Blues Recording	Charlie Musselwhite	Sanctuary	All Nominees
2003	Best Contemporary Blues Album - or Contemporary Blues Recording	Charlie Musselwhite	One Night In America	All Nominees
2001	Best Traditional Blues Album	James Cotton, William E. 'Billy' Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugar Ray Norcia	Superharps (Album)	All Nominees
2000	Best Contemporary Blues Album - or Contemporary Blues Recording	Charlie Musselwhite	Continental Drifter (Album)	All Nominees
1998	Best Traditional Blues Album	Charlie Musselwhite	Rough News (Album)	All Nominees
1995	Best Traditional Blues Album	Charlie Musselwhite	In My Time (Album)	All Nominees
1992	Best Contemporary Blues Album - or Contemporary Blues Recording	Charles Musselwhite	Signature (Album)	All Nominees