Blues Blast Music Award Winners Announced At Buddy Guy’s Legends
The winners of the 2008 Blues Blast Music Awards were announced Sunday
November 2nd, 2008 at a Gala Blues celebration at Buddy Guy’s Legends in
Chicago, IL.
The award winners are:
Best Contemporary Blues Recording - Holmes Brothers - State Of Grace
Best Traditional Blues Recording - Lurrie Bell - Lets Talk About Love
Best New Artist Debut Recording - John Németh - Magic Touch
Best Blues Song - Nick Moss - Mistakes from the Past
Best Male Artist - Buddy Guy
Best Female Artist - Koko Taylor
Best Blues Band - Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Sean Costello Rising Star Award - John Németh
Blues Blast Magazine also awarded their first ever Lifetime Achievement Award
to Delta Blues Legend David ”Honeyboy” Edwards. The Lifetime Achievement Award
recognizes significant contributions and a lifetime body of work in the field
of Blues music.
The ceremonies included performances by Magic Slim & the Teardrops,
Lurrie Bell, Matthew Skollar, Nick Moss, Gerry Hundt , John Németh,
The Kilborn Alley Blues Band, Dave Riley, Bob Corritore, Eden Brent,
Sugar Ray Norcia, Teeny Tucker, Gina Sicilia, Dave Gross,
Tim "Too Slim" Langford and others.
The winners were chosen by the 11,000 Blues Blast magazine readers from all
50 states and more than 40 countries voting at the IllinoisBlues.com website.
There was no cost or fees to be eligible to vote. These awards truly represent
the Peoples Choice for the best in Blues music.
Celebrity award presenters included Eric Steiner, president of the Washington
Blues Society, Linda Cain Publisher of ChicagoBluesGuide.com, Chicago Blues
woman Deb Seitz, August “Lordy” Lord, owner of ChicagoBluesBeat.com , Blues
Writer James “Skyy Dobro” Walker, Blues Songwriter, Musician, DJ and
Journalist, Ben Cox, Matt Eimer, Promoter of the Simply The Blues Fest in
Fort Madison, Iowa and Kate Moss Publicity director for Blue Bella Records.
The sponsors of the Blues Blast Music Awards were WGL Blues 24/7 a FREE
online Blues Music stream and Podcast from WGLT radio, a public radio station
in Normal, Illinois (www.WGLT.org) and The Chicago Blues Guide
(www.ChicagoBluesGuide.com)
Blues Blast magazine is a FREE weekly Blues “web-zine” available from
IllinoisBlues.com. The Blues Blast Music Awards recognize the best of today’s
Blues music.
A group of Blues industry professionals including artists, music writers,
radio D.J.’s, artist managers and festival promoters selected five nominees in
each of the eight categories. Voting for the awards took place during July and
August online at the IllinoisBlues.com website. More than 2000 votes were cast
and the awards ceremonies were a celebration of the artists and the music that
represent the best in Blues music today.
For further information contact Bob Kieser at info@illinoisblues.com
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Blues Blast Music Awards Winners
From Illinois Blues
Friday, October 17, 2008
Blues Blast Music Awards
Hey Blues Fans,
IllinoisBlues.com has secured a group rate for rooms for the Blues Blast Music
Awards at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago on Sunday November 2nd at the Travelodge
Hotel Downtown at 65 E. Harrison St just one block from Buddy Guy's.
This event at Buddy Guy's will feature some of the best Blues performers on the
planet. Confirmed performers include Magic Slim & the Teardrops, Lurrie Bell, Nick
Moss, Gerry Hundt, John Nemeth, The Kilborn Alley Blues Band, Dave Riley, Bob
Corritore, Eden Brent, Sugar Ray Norcia, Teeny Tucker, Too Slim and the
Taildraggers, and Gina Sicilia. There may be a few surprise appearances by other
nominees too.
Tickets are just $25. Tickets and complete information are available at
http://www.illinoisblues.com .
GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THEY SELL OUT!
ROOM RATES
Rooms are available from Friday October 31st to Sunday November 2nd at these
discount rates so you can plan a weekend in the Blues Capital of the world in
Chicago! Rooms are available for the following rates:
2 Full Size Beds $139.00 plus tax
1 Full Size Bed $125.00 plus tax
1 King Size Bed $139.00 plus tax
To secure these rates you must contact Darren Anderson, Group Coorinator of the
Travelodge at 312 376-1481 and mention the IllinoisBlues.com rate. These rates are
only available by contacting Darren. His hours are Monday - Friday 8:30 to 4:30.
And remember to get your tickets for the show at http://www.illinoisblues.com too.
This show will sell out.
Thanks for your interest in Blues Blast Magazine!
Bob Kieser
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Illinois Blues Blast Award Show
Press release from Illinois Blues
Press Release - The 2008 Blues Blast Music Award Ceremonies November 2nd, 2008 at Buddy Guy’s Legends.
Who: Blues Blast Magazine from IllinoisBlues.com
What: 2008 Blues Blast Music Awards Ceremony
Where: Buddy Guy’s Legends 754 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605 (312)-427-1190
When: Sunday November 2nd, 2008 7:00pm to 12:00 midnight (Doors open at 6:00pm)
Tickets are just $25 and will be available online at www.illinoisblues.com starting October 7th.
Contact Information: Bob Kieser (309) 267-4425 or info@illinoisblues.com
The Blues Blast Music Award Ceremonies held at the famous Buddy Guy’s Legends will include confirmed appearances by nominees Magic Slim & the Teardrops, Lurrie Bell, Nick Moss, John Nemeth, The Kilborn Alley Blues Band, Dave Riley & Bob Corritore, Eden Brent, Sugar Ray Norcia, Teeny Tucker, Tim "Too Slim" Langford (from Too Slim and the Taildraggers), and Gina Sicilia. There may be a few surprise appearances by other nominees.
The 2008 Blues Blast Music Awards are brought to you by Blues Blast Magazine from IllinoisBlues.com. Blues Blast Magazine is the fastest growing FREE weekly internet Blues magazine read by over 11,000 Blues fans in all 50 states and in more than 40 countries.
In July the Blues Blast Magazine staff, music writers, managers, musicians and other industry professionals nominated the Blues best of 2008 in the following eight categories:
Best Contemporary Blues Recording, Best Traditional Blues Recording, Best Blues Song,
Best Blues Band, Best Male Blues Artist, Best Female Blues Artist, Best New Artist Debut Recording,
The Sean Costello Rising Star Award. The complete list of nominees is listed below at the end of this press release.
In July and August Blues Blast magazine readers voted for their favorites on our website. These awards truly are the “Peoples Choice” without any filter. The voting was absolutely FREE and more than 2000 fans from all over the globe voted their choices. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony.
This event promises to be a great show with music by some of the best established and new contemporary Blues artists. The show will likely sell out so get your tickets as soon as possible.
Complete list of 2008 Blues Blast Music Award Nominees
Best Contemporary Blues Recording
• Too Slim and the Taildraggers – The Fortune Teller
• Bryan Lee – Katrina Was Her Name
• Mem Shannon – Live: A Night At Tipitina’s
• Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wheel Man
• Holmes Brothers - State Of Grace
Best Traditional Blues Recording
• Omar Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan - On The Jimmy Reed Highway
• Bobby Rush - Raw
• Lurrie Bell - Let's Talk About Love
• Dave Riley & Bob Corritore - Travelin’ the Dirt Road
• David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Roamin’ & Ramblin’
Best Blues Song
• Nick Moss - Mistakes From the Past
• The National Debonaires - Ain't Gonna Happen Again
• Sugar Ray Norcia - Little Green Talking Frog
• Omar Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan - Jimmy Reed Highway
• Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wheel Man
Best Blues Band
• Nick Moss & the Fliptops
• Kilborn Alley Blues Band
• Bryan Lee & The Blues Power Band
• Magic Slim & The Teardrops
• Back Door Slam
Best Male Artist
• Lurrie Bell
• Buddy Guy
• Bobby Rush
• Nick Moss
• Bryan Lee
Best Female Artist
• Koko Taylor
• Teeny Tucker
• Diunna Greenleaf
• Betty Harris
• Bettye LaVette
Best New Artist Debut Recording
• Gina Sicilia - Allow Me To Confess
• The Soul of John Black - The Good Girl Blues
• Moreland & Arbuckle - 1861
• Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy - Cottonfields to Coffee
• John Nemeth - Magic Touch
Sean Costello Rising Star Award
• John Nemeth
• Homemade Jamz Blues Band
• John-Alex Mason
• Seth Walker
• Eden Brent
Monday, July 14, 2008
2008 Blues Bash Music Awards From Illinois Blues
The fine folks who bring you the Illinois Blues news via the Blues Bash. Have sent a reminder about their blues awards that you can vote on. Here is their latest press release.
Vote for your favorite artists today! See the nominees below. Everyone who votes will receive a FREE subscription to the Blues Blast E-magazine full of Blues news, CD reviews, pictures and more delivered right to your inbox each week. Tell your Blues friends to vote for their favorite artists and get the FREE Blues Blast too. (Current subscribers must enter the email address where they are receiving their Blues Blast!) Voting continues until August 31st!
Not familiar with some of the 2008 nominees?
Be an informed voter! Listen to the music of the nominees BEFORE you vote! Public Radio station WGLT has set up a web page where you can play music samples of the 2008 Blues Blast Music Award nominees. CLICK HERE to hear these great Blues artists NOW! When you get there, click on one of the nominees links to listen.
WGLT also has the Best FREE 24/7 Blues stream on the ENTIRE WORLDWIDE WEB! Great Blues music FREE anywhere, anytime right from your computer. The GLT Blues 24/7 web stream will play songs from the 2008 nominees at least twice per hour from 6am to 6pm beginning July 14th, 2008! CLICK HERE to listen to the GLT 24/7 Blues Music Stream now!
Best Contemporary Blues Recording
Too Slim and the Taildraggers – The Fortune Teller
Bryan Lee – Katrina Was Her Name
Mem Shannon – Live: A Night At Tipitina’s
Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wheel Man
Holmes Brothers - State Of Grace
Best Traditional Blues Recording
Omar Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan - On The Jimmy Reed Highway
Bobby Rush - Raw
Lurrie Bell - Let's Talk About Love
Dave Riley & Bob Corritore - Travelin’ the Dirt Road
David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Roamin’ & Ramblin’
Best Blues Song
Nick Moss - Mistakes From the Past
The National Debonaires - Ain't Gonna Happen Again
Sugar Ray Norcia - Little Green Talking Frog
Omar Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan - Jimmy Reed Highway
Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wheel Man
Best Blues Band
Nick Moss & the Fliptops
Kilborn Alley Blues Band
Bryan Lee & The Blues Power Band
Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Back Door Slam
Best Male Artist
Lurrie Bell
Buddy Guy
Bobby Rush
Nick Moss
Bryan Lee
Best Female Artist
Koko Taylor
Teeny Tucker
Diunna Greenleaf
Betty HarrisBettye LaVette
Best New Artist Debut Recording
Gina Sicilia - Allow Me To Confess
The Soul of John Black - The Good Girl Blues
Moreland & Arbuckle - 1861
Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy - Cottonfields to Coffee
John Nemeth - Magic Touch
Rising Star Award
John Nemeth
Homemade Jamz Blues Band
John-Alex Mason
Seth Walker
Eden Brent
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P.O. Box 721 Pekin, Illinois 61555
© 2007 - 2008 IllinoisBlues.com
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Watermellon Slim Press Release
Press release from Northern Blues Music
Watermelon Slim and the Workers Win Top Industry Honors For Band Of The Year and Album Of The Year
The NorthernBlues Music release The Wheel Man wins ‘Album of the Year’ over peers Koko Taylor, Bettye LaVette and Jimmie Vaughan.
Watermelon Slim and the Workers won a pair of awards at the Memphis-based Blues Foundation’s 2008 Blues Music Awards (formerly W.C. Handy Awards) on Thursday May 8, 2008 at the Grand Casino Event Center in Tunica, Mississippi.
Watermelon Slim is a relatively new luminary of the blues, rapidly building a career behind four albums and constant touring. In 2008 Slim was nominated for six awards, a feat matched only by the likes of B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Robert Cray. Slim has twelve nominations in the last two years, a feat unmatched in the event’s 29 years.
Slim, his band and the album have been steadily building praise preceding these two Blues Music Awards. The legendary Jerry Wexler penned the liner notes of the award winning album which also won the Independent Music Award for ‘Blues Album of the Year.’ Watermelon Slim and the Workers have long been leading earners for their exclusive booking agency, Intrepid Artists. Among other accolades, the band also won the 2008 Maple Blues Award for ‘International Artist of the Year.’
Blues Revue Magazine wrote of The Wheel Man “(Watermelon Slim) not only holds his own but defines a new genre – one that’s the blues’ answer to some of rock’s greatest garage bands.” Mainstream media such as Paste Magazine describes Slim as “the most exciting and authentic blues performer I’ve heard in years.” The U.K.’s MOJO Magazine ranked Slim’s last two records #1 on its annual ‘Best Blues Albums of the Year’ list.
The Toronto based world/roots/blues label NorthernBlues Music has released the last two Watermelon Slim & The Workers CDs. A self titled album was released in February 2006. ‘The Wheel Man’ was released in April 2007 and debuted in the top ten on Billboard’s Blues Charts. It was produced by Chris Wick and features keyboardist Dave Maxwell and Chicago blues legend Magic Slim on the title track. As mentioned earlier, Jerry Wexler wrote the liner notes yet had to decline a producer role due to health issues.
Owner of NorthernBluesMusic, Inc. Fred Litwin beams "I can't tell you how proud I am of Watermelon Slim - these awards show that the fans recognize he is the most authentic and honest bluesman out there." These are not lighthearted words considering Litwin’s label launched the likes of Otis Taylor and Janiva Magness into worldwide recognition and their own bevy of awards.
Born in North Carolina, raised in Boston, Bill ‘Watermelon Slim’ Homans was schooled at Middleberry College until he enlisted in Vietnam. While laid up in an Army hospital he taught himself upside down left handed guitar with his military issued Zippo as a slide and a plastic pick cut from the top of a coffee can. He has been a truck driver, watermelon farmer, sawmiller, funeral officiator and small time criminal. He’s earned two masters degrees in history and journalism and hauled industrial waste. In the early 2000s, a near fatal heart attack clarified his focus on mortality and he hit the road on a new career as a singing/songwriting/guitar playing/harmonica blowing/ performing bluesman.
The highly anticipated follow up to ‘The Wheel Man’ is entitled ‘No Paid Holidays’ and features Lee Roy Parnell on slide guitar. ‘No Paid Holidays’ hits the street June 24, 2008 on NorthernBlues Music via Redeye Distribution.
For almost three decades, the Blues Music Awards (and previously the W.C. Handy Awards) have celebrated excellence in performance and recording of the blues. For more information about the Blues Foundation and the Blues Music Awards, visit www.blues.org.
www.watermelonslim.com & www.northernblues.com
Label/Radio:Pamela at NorthernBlues 866-540-0003 or info@northernblues.com
Publicity & Media: Michael McClune at 310.319.1199 or michael@michaelmcclune.net
Bookings: Intrepid Artists at 704.358.4777 or staff@intrepidartists.com
Management: Chris Hardwick at Southern Artists at 405.447.4329 or chris@southernartist.net
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Maple Blues Awards
In Canada they had the 11th annual Maple Blues Awards. These are awards given to Canadian blues acts. Yes Canada has the blues too!!!! Click here at Ejazznews.com to see if your favorite Canadian blues artist won!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
2008 BMA's To Be Held In Tunica Mississippi
According to the Sun Herald, the Blues Music Awards will be held in Tunica Mississippi. To read more about it Click HERE.
Monday, December 17, 2007
2008 BMA's Announced
The Blues Foundation has just released information about the 2008 Blues Music Awards. Here is the press release
The Blues Foundation will present the Blues Music Awards for the first time in their 29-year history in the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the Blues. Performers, industry representatives and fans from around the globe will celebrate the best in Blues recording and performance from the previous year on May 8, 2008 at the Grand Casino Event Center in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi, just down the road from Memphis, the Awards’ home since their 1980 inception.
Press release
Source: The Blues Foundation
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2008 Blues Music Awards Nominations Announced |
Among those heading the list of the honorees is Mississippi favorite son Bobby Rush who garnered four nominations, including another historical first - nomination as Artist of the Year in both the Acoustic and Soul Blues categories. This singular achievement stems from the nominators’ recognition of the two personas exhibited in his 2007 public performances - some shows featuring his long-running soul revue while others found him alone with a guitar and a harmonica in support of his Acoustic Album of the Year nominee Raw.
Watermelon Slim & the Workers returned in force, securing six nominations for the second consecutive year on the strength of their Album of Year candidate The Wheel Man. The “Queen of the Blues” Koko Taylor returns to form with four nominations, including one for her Album of the Year nominee Old School. The other artists with Album of the Year selections rode them to three nominations apiece, including On the Jimmy Reed Highway by Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan; Bettye LaVette’s The Scene of the Crime; Nick Moss & the Flip Tops’ Play It ‘Til Tomorrow; My Life, My Friends, My Music by Sugar Ray & the Bluetones; and James Blood Ulmer’s Bad Blood in the City. Lurrie Bell also was honored with three nominations, including one he shares with his late father Carey in the newly-created DVD category.
“At this time of year, releasing the list of nominees is like letting a Blues fan open a gift a little bit early,” according to Jay Sieleman, The Blues Foundation’s Executive Director, “and members are able to play with it right away by rushing out to purchase the nominated CDs, accessing the ballot to start marking their choices or purchasing tickets to get the best seats for the show. Looking into next year, we are really excited about the opportunities the 2008 event will offer Blues fans worldwide, the chance to soak up the deep Blues history of the Delta both before and after the Awards show itself. As the State of Mississippi continues to develop its Blues Marker Trail, you know Mississippi will be ready.”
Online voting begins December 13 for members. Voting, ticket and host hotel information can be found at The Blues Foundation’s website - www.blues.org.
The Blues Music Awards are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists. The presenting sponsor will once again be The Gibson Foundation. In 2008, the State of Mississippi, the Tunica Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Grand Casino and Resort are also sponsoring the Blues Music Awards. The Blues Music Awards are also sponsored by BMI, Casey Family Programs, Eagle Rock Entertainment, FedEx, and the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.
The Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Charter Members' Dinner will be held the night before on Wednesday, May 7 at the Tunica RiverPark museum situated on the banks of the Mississippi River. The 2008 inductees will be announced early next year.
The Blues Music Awards are produced by The Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization established to preserve Blues history, celebrate Blues excellence, support Blues education and ensure the future of this uniquely American art form. The Foundation consists of a worldwide network of 165 affiliated Blues societies and has individual memberships spanning the globe. In addition to the Blues Music Awards, the Foundation also produces the Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, the International Blues Challenge and the Keeping the Blues Alive Awards. It fosters education through its Blues in the Schools programming and supports the medical needs of Blues musicians with its HART Fund. Throughout the year, the Foundation staff serves the worldwide Blues community with answers, contact information and news.
For more information, contact: Jay Sieleman, Executive Director, 901.527.2583 xt 12; jay@blues.org; www.blues.org.
2008 Blues Music Awards Nominees
Acoustic Album of the Year
Bobby Rush - Raw
Dave Riley and Bob Corritore - Travelin' the Dirt Road
Fruteland Jackson - Tell Me What You Say
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes - Done Got Tired Of Tryin'
Marie Knight - Let Us Get Together
Acoustic Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush
Doug MacLeod
Eric Bibb
Fruteland Jackson
Guy Davis
Mary Flower
Album of the Year
Bettye LaVette - The Scene of the Crime
James Blood Ulmer - Bad Blood in the City
Koko Taylor - Old School
Nick Moss & the Flip Tops - Play It 'Til Tomorrow
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - On the Jimmy Reed Highway
Sugar Ray & the Bluetones - My Life, My Friends, My Music
Watermelon Slim & the Workers - The Wheel Man
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Bettye LaVette
Bobby Rush
Janiva Magness
Tommy Castro
Watermelon Slim
Band of the Year
Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials
Magic Slim & the Teardrops
Mannish Boys
Nick Moss & the Flip Tops
Watermelon Slim & the Workers
Best New Artist Debut
Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy - Cotton Field to Coffee House
Gina Sicilia - Allow Me to Confess
Insomniacs - Left Coast Blues
John Nemeth - Magic Touch
The Soul of John Black - The Good Girl Blues
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
Bryan Lee - Katrina Was Her Name
James Blood Ulmer - Bad Blood in the City
Kilborn Alley Blues Band - Tear Chicago Down
Tommy Castro - Painkiller
Watermelon Slim & the Workers - The Wheel Man
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
Bettye LaVette
Candye Kane
Debbie Davies
Fiona Boyes
Teresa James
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
James Blood Ulmer
Kim Wilson
Ronnie Baker Brooks
Tab Benoit
Watermelon Slim
DVD
Carey & Lurrie Bell - Gettin' Up: Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrrie's Home
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads
Pinetop Perkins - Born in the Honey
Son Seals - A Journey Through the Blues - The Son Seals Story
Willie King - Down in the Woods
Historical Album of the Year
Blind Pig - The Essential Magic Slim - Magic Slim
Blue Witch - House Rockin' and Blues Shoutin' - Various Artists
Delmark - Kidney Stew Is Fine - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Delmark - Steady Rollin' Man - Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Epic/Legacy - Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down - Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, James Cotton
Instrumentalist - Bass
Bill Stuve
Bob Stroger
Calvin "Fuzz" Jones
Jeff Turmes
Larry Taylor
Michael "Mudcat" Ward
Instrumentalist - Drums
Jimi Bott
Richard Innes
Robb Stupka
Sam Carr
Sam Lay
Instrumentalist - Guitar
Bob Margolin
Duke Robillard
Kid Ramos
Lurrie Bell
Nick Moss
Instrumentalist - Harmonica
Carey Bell
James Cotton
Kim Wilson
Mark Hummel
Sugar Blue
Sugar Ray Norcia
Instrumentalist - Horn
Big James Montgomery
Calvin Owens
Deanna Bogart
Doug James
Kaz Kazanoff
Instrumentalist - Other
Gerry Hundt - Mandolin
Johnny Sansone - Accordion
Otis Taylor - Banjo
Robert Randolph - Pedal Steel
Sonny Rhodes - Lap Steel
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Ann Rabson
Bruce Katz
David Maxwell
Henry Butler
Honey Piazza
Song of the Year
'Gonna Buy Me a Mule' - Koko Taylor, Koko Taylor - Old School
'Jimmy Reed Highway' - Omar Kent Dykes & Steve Callif, Omar Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - On the Jimmy Reed Highway
'Poor Man's Paradise' - Johnny Sansone, Johnny Sansone - Poor Man's Paradise
'The Last Words of A Fool' - Sugar Ray Norcia, Sugar Ray & the Bluetones - My Life, My Friends, My Music
'The Wheel Man' - William Homans, Watermelon Slim & the Workers - The Wheel Man
Soul Blues Album of the Year
Eugene Hideaway Bridges - Eugene Hideaway Bridges
Holmes Brothers - State of Grace
Mem Shannon - A Night at Tipitina's
Root Doctor - Change Our Ways
Tad Robinson - A New Point of View
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year
Barbara Carr
Denise LaSalle
Irma Thomas
Sharon Jones
Sista Monica Parker
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush
Eugene Hideaway Bridges
Jackie Payne
Mem Shannon
Tad Robinson
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year
Diunna Greenleaf
Koko Taylor
Nora Jean Bruso
Ruthie Foster
Sharrie Williams
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
Big George Brock - Live at Seventy Five
Darrell Nulisch - Goin' Back to Dallas
Koko Taylor - Old School
Nappy Brown - Long Time Coming
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - On the Jimmy Reed Highway
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
Bob Margolin
Hubert Sumlin
Lurrie Bell
Magic Slim
Nappy Brown
Phillip Walker
Monday, August 13, 2007
Jus Blues Music Awards Show
Thursday night is the Jus Blues Music Awards show in Memphis Tennessee. For more information check out this article from the Memphis Flyer. You can also get more information from the Jus Blues website HERE.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Jus' Blues Music Awards
this is an interesting new awards show that I stumbled on to while reading Google news. The 7th annual Jus' Blues Music Awards will take place in Memphis Tennessee on August 16th later this summer. For the past 6 years the awards show has taken place in Atlanta. Its main purpose is to recognize African American artists who are overlooked by the more mainstream music awards shows, like, the Grammy Awards, The American Music Awards, and the MTV Music Awards.
Here is the listing of artists who have won an honaray award for this year. This list comes directly from the Jus Blues Music website.
2007 Honorary AwardsLowell Fulson Lifetime Achievement Award
(Outstanding Career Achievements 20+ years)
Maxine Brown
Denise LaSalle Award for Recording Excellence
(Outstanding Recording Excellence Award)
Artie "Blues Boy" White
Percy Mayfield Award for Writing Excellence
(Outstanding Written Compositions in Blues & Soul Music)
William Bell
Jack "The Rapper" Gibson Radio Pioneer Award
(Outstanding Contributions to Blues & Soul Music in the Radio Industry)
Bobby O'Jay
James Brown Heritage Award
(Outstanding Blues & Soul Live Performer)
Johnnie Taylor Newcomer Award
(Outstanding New Blues & Soul Artist or Group)Sir Charles Jones
Jus` Blues Music Producer's Award
(Outstanding Blues & Soul Music Productions)
Willie Mitchell
Jus` Blues Music Legends Award
(Outstanding Contributions to Blues & Soul Music)
James Alexander & Larry Dodson of The BarKays
Jus` Blues Music President's Award
(Outstanding Contributions to the Business of
Blues & Soul Music)
Rodgers Redding
Jus` Blues Music Promoter's Award
(Outstanding Contributions to the Promotion of
Blues & Soul Music)
Julius C. Lewis
Jus` Blues Music Gospel Pioneer Award
(Outstanding Contributions in Gospel Music)
Lee Williams
Artists that you can vote for from the Jus blues Music website.
Other Award Nominees and Catagories are:
Best Traditional Blues Man
Best Traditional Blues Woman
Best Blues & Soul Radio Show
(Radio Personality Award)
Best Blues & Soul Radio Station Award
(Radio General Managers Award)
Best Blues & Soul Internet Show
"Little Milton" Campbell Guitar Award
(Outstanding Guitar Player)
Junior Wells Harp Award
(Outstanding Blues Harmonica Player)
Best Juke Joint Award
(Best Blues Club)
Best Blues & Soul Man Song Of The Year
Best Blues & Soul Woman Song Of The Year
Blues & Soul Man Of The Year
Blues & Soul Woman Of The Year
Best Blues & Soul Label Award Of The Year
Jus` Blues Music All Star Award
Jus`Blues Music Artist Of The Year Award
- If you would like to vote on this award CLICK HERE.
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