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GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite – BLUES NOW (2026)

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July 30, 2026

GA-20 co-founding guitarist Matthew Stubbs was two decades away from being born when Charlie Musselwhite released his 1968 debut album Stand Back. But the young Stubbs joined the singer/songwriter/harmonica master’s band in 2008, traveling the world for a decade. He then recorded two discs with his Antiguas outfit before forming GA-20 in 2017, releasing that band’s first single two years later.
So it’s not unusual that, after the group’s success in the raw Chicago-styled blues field plowed by his former boss, he would reconnect with mentor, and elder statesman Musselwhite for Blues Now. At 82, the elder icon remains not just active but productive, recently releasing the fine Look Out Highway, somewhere around his…

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GA-20 – Orphans (2025)

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December 13, 2025

By any measurement, it has been a hectic few years for GA-20. Since the two guitar/drum (bass-free) trio burst out of Boston’s blues scene with 2019s frills-free debut, the band has gone through a major reconstruction.
First drummers changed, but co-founding guitarist/singer/songwriter Pat Faherty leaving to form Canyon Lights was a major shakeup. That left lone initial member Matthew Stubbs to recruit singer/guitarist Cody Nilsen, maintaining the group’s name and mission; specifically, creating unvarnished blues heavily influenced by Hound Dog Taylor, Otis Rush, Junior Wells, Howlin’ Wolf and other legends of the genre whose sound was and remains raw and real. All this upheaval within five years would sink many other bands.

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