Bob Corritore Update

Wednesday August 8, 2012

• Bob Corritore receives Living Blues Award in the Harmonica category! Full list of winners! Living Blues Magazine is the longest running blues publication in the USA and is highly respected for it's thoughtful, in-depth reporting and it's leaning towards the traditional side of the blues. Living Blues has announced the winners of the 2012 Living Blues Awards and Bob Corritore has won in the category of Most Outstanding Musician -Harmonica (Reader's Poll) . A heartfelt thanks to all our friends and fans who voted! Other winners include Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Marcia Ball, Mavis Staples, Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith, Lazy Lester (who won the critics choice for harmonica!), Chicago Blues: A Living History, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, Bobby Rush, Johnny Rawls, and many more! To see a complete listing of all the winners of the 2012 Living Blues Awards, click here.
• Junior Watson / Fred Kaplan CD Release Party Friday at the the Rhythm Room! The West Coast blues scene has many heros and influential figures. Ranking among the highest on that list are guitarist Junior Watson, pianist Fred Kaplan, and drummer Richard Innes who's collective resumes are filled with unbeleivable acheivement. They along with bassist extrordinare Kedar Roy will appear Friday at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix for a double CD release party! The CDs, Junior Watson / Jumpin' With Junior, and Fred Kaplan / Hold My Mule both have recently been released on the Regal Radio Records label, owned by rising-star harmonica master Bharath Rajakumar. Look for a night of rockin', swingin', and top shelf blues musicianship. CDs will be available for purchase that night! The Rhythm Room is located at 1019 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix, Arizona 85014.
• Other upcoming blues acts at the Rhythm Room! We will highlight some additional national acts appearing at Phoenix's Rhythm Room: The 44s (Aug. 18), Henry Gray with the Rhythm Room All-Stars (Aug. 24 & 25), Joe Beard with the Tommy Grills Blues Band (August 31), Scott H. Biram (Sept 6) Janiva Magness (September 7), Billy T. Band from Norway (September 15), Zac Harmon (September 21), Tab Benoit (Sept. 24), Jimmie Vaughan (Sept 26), Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers and Bob Corritore's birthday party (Sept 29), Sonny Landreth (October 14), Taj Mahal (Oct 21), Shawn Pittman (Oct 27), Candye Kane (Nov 2) Lisa Otey's annual Boogie Woogie festival (Nov 7), Sammy Eubanks (November 9) and many more acts yet to be announced! Also look for regular weekend appearances by great Arizona-based blues bands such as the Rocket 88's, Cold Shott & the Hurricane Horns, Tommy Dukes Blues Band, Bad News Blues Band with Long John Hunter, The Sugar Thieves, George Bowman, Big Nick & The Gila Monsters, Soul Power Band and more! The Phoenix Blues Society will have a showcase on Aug 26th, hosted and organized by George Thomas & the Flamekeepers, and the Arizona Blues Showdown (preliminary to the IBC in Memphis) will happen on the afternoons of October 7, and 14. For a complete list of acts appearing at the Rhythm Room visit http://www.rhythmroom.com/)
• Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore's CD in the media! Thanks to everyone for the great acceptance shown to Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore / Longtime Friends In The Blues, released on March 20th of this year on the Delta Groove label. To date there have been 81 glowing reviews from all around the world which we have posted online at http://www.bobcorritore.com/tdbc_rev.html. Thanks to all the DJs who have been spinning this CD which charted #4 in March and #5 in April in the Living Blues Radio Charts and #1 in April on the French Powerblues Charts! Special thanks to Bill Wax and everyone at Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's B.B. King's Bluesville station who is giving this CD solid airplay. Thanks to Delta Groove for a spectacular marketing campaign and for all that they stand for. Thanks for all the supporters of the blues that allow down home records like this to do well in today's contemporary environment.
• Mannish Boys / Double Dynamite is #1 on July / August Powerblues charts! Congratulations to the Mannish Boys for their #1 chart position in the French Powerblues Charts! The Mannish Boys / Double Dynamite CD on the Delta Groove label is a 2 CD set that has this blues super-group with a star-studded array of special guests. The Mannish Boys band-members are  Finis Tasby, Sugar Ray Rayford, Randy Chortkoff, Kirk Fletcher, Frank Goldwasser, Kid Ramos, Willie J. Campbell, and Jimi Bott. Special guests on the CD include include Jackie Payne, Elvin Bishop, Rod Piazza, James Harman, Jason Ricci, Mud Morganfield, Bob Corritore, Junior Watson, Nathan James, Mike Finnigan, Fred Kaplan, Rob Rio, Bill Stuve, and many more! We have constructed a web page of beautiful photos from the sessions for the Mannish Boys CD which you can see by clicking here. To see the Powerblues charts click here.
• Louisiana Red's blues on Mars! With the successful landing on Mars of space probe Curiosity. We have to highlight the great Mars-themed blues song by late great Louisiana Red called "Red's New Dream". In this song Red goes to the red planet and discusses the Earth's doings including woman, money, taxes, and soul food with the head Martian! Though our search did not find an available online version, this song appears on Red's albums Louisiana Red Plays the Blues and No Turn On Red.
• Muddy Waters 1966 performance of Got My Mojo Working on YouTube! Please enjoy this amazing clip of Muddy Waters and a superb band that includes James Cotton and Otis Spann recorded for a Canadian TV show in 1966. Click here to see.