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Hardware ()   While Charlie Musselwhite has always been an
adventurous musician -- take into consideration his fine Cuban
inflected Continental Drifter, the Americana drenched One Night
In America, and the rollicking rock and soul on Sanctuary -- the
Delta of his upbringing has never been left out of the mix
entirely. Musselwhite may have had a reason to dig so deeply
into the hard-edged roots of Delta by way of Chicago blues on
this set: he lost both his parents in 2005. The CD booklet is
filled with pictures of the sites of his life in Mississippi.
Delta Hardware was recorded with Musselwhite's road band, and it
has the feeling of motion along with its looking into the past.
Guitarist Chris "Kid" Andersen, bassist Randy Bermudes, and
drummer June Core hop into the heart of the electric trancelike
blues that have been a part of Musselwhite's backbone his entire
performing career. The question is, why didn't he record with
these guys before? Delta H