180g Vinyl LP!
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
2019 Grammy Award Nominee:
• Best Traditional Blues Album
No Mercy In This Land is a blues record by Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper who were introduced to one another by John Lee Hooker. The legendary musician thought the two men should play together, so he brought them into the studio to record a song called simply "Burnin Hell." The two remained friends and their paths periodically crossed out there on the road. But it wasnt until 2013 that the two met up in a studio to record what would be their Grammy winning album Get Up! And as good as that record was, it was just the beginning.
Both men agree that their friendship deepened in the many months of touring that followed. And its that bond, that closeness, that makes this new record something special. At first glance, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite might seem an unlikely pairing. While Ben grew up in in the tree lined Southern California college town of Claremont, a bastion of culture and liberalism just east of Los Angeles, Charlie was raised in Memphis during the time of rockabilly and Sun Records. But while the two might have come to their musical knowledge in different eras and places, as Charlie explains, "We were both searchers and were still seeking." Each of them possess an enduring hunger for musical knowledge that came to them early.
Features:
180g Vinyl
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
Gatefold jacket
Selections:
Side A:
1. When I Go
2. Bad Habits
3. Love And Trust
4. The Bottle Wins Again (Blues)
5. Found The One
Side B:
1. When Love Is Not Enough
2. Trust You To Dig My Grave
3. No Mercy In This Land
4. Movin' On
5. Nothing At All
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
2019 Grammy Award Nominee:
• Best Traditional Blues Album
No Mercy In This Land is a blues record by Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper who were introduced to one another by John Lee Hooker. The legendary musician thought the two men should play together, so he brought them into the studio to record a song called simply "Burnin Hell." The two remained friends and their paths periodically crossed out there on the road. But it wasnt until 2013 that the two met up in a studio to record what would be their Grammy winning album Get Up! And as good as that record was, it was just the beginning.
Both men agree that their friendship deepened in the many months of touring that followed. And its that bond, that closeness, that makes this new record something special. At first glance, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite might seem an unlikely pairing. While Ben grew up in in the tree lined Southern California college town of Claremont, a bastion of culture and liberalism just east of Los Angeles, Charlie was raised in Memphis during the time of rockabilly and Sun Records. But while the two might have come to their musical knowledge in different eras and places, as Charlie explains, "We were both searchers and were still seeking." Each of them possess an enduring hunger for musical knowledge that came to them early.
Features:
180g Vinyl
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
Gatefold jacket
Selections:
Side A:
1. When I Go
2. Bad Habits
3. Love And Trust
4. The Bottle Wins Again (Blues)
5. Found The One
Side B:
1. When Love Is Not Enough
2. Trust You To Dig My Grave
3. No Mercy In This Land
4. Movin' On
5. Nothing At All
