Product Description:
Personnel: Charlie Musselwhite (vocals, electric & slide guitars, harmonica); John Lawrence (electric & slide guitars, churrango); Cesar Rosas (electric & slide guitars); Junior Watson (guitar, background vocals); Kid Ramos, Fenton Robinson (guitar); Stu Blank (keyboards, background vocals); Felton Crews (bass, background vocals); Larry Taylor, A.G. Hardesty, Rene Coman (bass); Steven Hodges (drums, background vocals); Victor Bisetti, Jeffrey Clemens (drums); Dick Shurman (background vocals).
Producers: Dick Shurman, Cesar Rosas, Keith Keller.
Engineers: Julian Herzfeld, John Paterno, Keith Keller.
Recorded at Tone Zone and Rax Trax, Chicago, Illinois in April 1996; Chez Flames, New Orleans, Louisiana; NRG Studios, Rowland Heights, California.
Includes liner notes by Charlie Musselwhite.
ROUGH NEWS was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.
Entertainment Reviews:
Down Beat - 7/97, p.63
4.5 stars (out of 5) - "Charlie Musselwhite plays some of the most compelling blues on the planet, and his 17th feature album is a gem....he's also one fine songwriter....Musselwhite...draws better-than-good performances out of his sidemen."
