Musselwhite was wiser than his contemporary, Paul Butterfield. Paul got in tight with the Woodstock guys, doing a lot of playing with Levon Helm and Rick Danko in particular. He died of an overdose at age 44.
The debut Paul Butterfield Blues Band album was the first "real" Blues music I heard. It opened the eyes of my teenage suburban bandmates and I as to how bad most of the British bands performed the music (the exceptions being John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac).