Jimenez, Musselwhite sing the praises of Interstate 10

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May 24, 2000
Web posted at: 5:13 p.m. EST (2113 GMT)

(CNN) -- Flaco Jimenez knows Tex-Mex. Over the past 30 years, his south-of-the-border style has made him a popular performer, someone whose international reputation grew after Ry Cooder discovered him.

Charlie Musselwhite, on the other hand, is a blues man, pure and simple -- has been, too, for 40 years. "That's all I know," he claims.

Yet Jimenez and Musselwhite know at least one other thing: Interstate 10. The two music greats recently collaborated on an album celebrating that prodigious piece of pavement.

They joined Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and others on the recently released "I-10 Chronicles," (Virgin Records) an album tribute to a cement river flowing between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, a road many musicians know well. On the East Coast, I-10 reaches as far as Jacksonville, Florida; to the west, 3,000 miles away, the interstate finally ends at the Santa Monica Pier in California.

Listening to the pair talk about music sounds like a metaphor for mapping one's life, as CNN's Gloria Hillard found. "If you're open to the spirit of the music, it will show you where to go," Musselwhite said. "It will show you -- it will tell you the notes to play."

To hear more on how music moves Musselwhite and Jimenez, click the links above, and listen to the full story.

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