Layla Musselwhite

Layla is a New Orleans-based singer songwriter and slide guitarist.  Drawing on a rich musical legacy via her father, blues legend Charlie Musselwhite, Layla grew up on the road steeped in the music of the greatest blues artists of our time. Charlie’s innovative playing led him to share stages and travel the world with artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Big Mama Thornton - & John Lee Hooker was Charlie’s best man when her folks decided to make it legal.  These artists were legends to many and family to Layla.  As a teenager she started getting lessons in Mississippi hill country guitar from Charlie, and her solo shows reveal her understanding and deep respect for early blues rhythms and melody, with a contemporary soulful voice that sends chills down the spine. She performs regularly around the world solo and with her electric blues band Layla Musselwhite and Her Cosmic Gentlemen.