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Friday, May 3, 2024

2024 Living Blues Award Nominees Including Local Artists! VOTE!


Recently, Living Blues Magazine announced the nominees for their 2024 awards. A few local artists received a nod. The public can vote for their choices by clicking here. Deadline to vote is June 15.

Below is a complete list of nominees (voters are allowed write in choices though). 

* signed to Waterdown's Stony Plain Records

Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard) 

Best Blues Album of 2023 (New Recordings) 

  • Eric Bibb: Ridin' (guest starring Hamilton's Harrison Kennedy)*



    Links: Eric BibbMore Eric Bibb StoriesHarrison KennedyMore Harrison Kennedy StoriesVideo above courtesy of Eric Bibb Official 

  • Taj Mahal: Savoy*
  • Cash Box Kings: Oscar's Motel
  • D.K. Harrell: The Right Man
  • Nick Moss Band feat. Dennis Gruenling: Get Your Back Into It!
  • Bobby Rush: All My Love for You
  • Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia: Blood Brothers
  • Ally Venable: Real Gone
  • Selwyn Birchwood: Exorcist
  • Buffalo Nichols: The Fatalist
  • Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: Alligator
  • Candice Ivory: When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie
  • Larry Taylor & the Taylor Family with the Soul Blues Healers: Generations of Blues: West Side Legacy
  • Chris Thomas King: Big Grey Sky
  • Arthur Adams: Kick Up Some Dust
  • Jimi "Primetime" Smith & Bob Corritore: The World in a Jug
  • Stan Mosley: No Soul, No Blues
  • Walter "Wolfman" Washington: Feel So at Home

Best Live Performer 

  • Duke Robillard*
  • Bobby Rush
  • Shemekia Copeland
  • Buddy Guy
  • Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
  • Victor Wainwright
  • Cedric Burnside
  • John Primer
  • Mr. Sipp
  • Selwyn Birchwood

Blues Artist of the Year (Female) 

  • Rory Block*
  • Sue Foley (Ottawa)*
  • Diunna Greenleaf
  • Shemekia Copeland
  • Irma Thomas
  • Trudy Lynn
  • Ally Venable
  • Candice Ivory
  • Anne Harris
  • Anna Popović

Blues Artist of the Year (Male) 

Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar) 

  • Duke Robillard*
  • Eric Bibb*
  • Lurrie Bell
  • Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
  • John Primer
  • Buddy Guy
  • Ana Popović
  • Mr. Sipp
  • Joe Louis Walker
  • Kirk Fletcher

Best Blues Album of 2023 (Reissue Recordings) 

  • Floyd Dixon: Time Brings About a Change
  • Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos
  • Delmark Records 70th Anniversary Blues Anthology
  • Billy "The Kid" Emerson: My Blues are Red Hot
  • James Booker: Behind the Iron Curtain Plus . . .
  • Ike & Tina Turner: River Deep – Mountain High
  • Down Home Blues – Chicago, Vol. 3: The Special Stuff
  • The Memphis Blues Box: Original Recordings, 1914–1969
  • Eddie Bo: The Other Side of Eddie Bo
  • Lazy Lester: All Over You

Best Blues Book of 2023 

  • Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert "Mack" McCormick and John Troutman
  • The Chicago Blues of Washboard Sam by Guido van Rijn
  • The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917–1932 by Scott Blackwood
  • Tell It Like It Is by Aaron Neville
  • Hot Time Blues: On the Trail of Long-Gone Blues and Gospel Singers by Alex van der Tuuk
  • Dynamite! Ike Turner's Recorded Legacy by Fred Rothwell
  • Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews by Margo Cooper
  • The Chicago Blues of Jazz Gillum by By Guido van Rijn
  • Big Joe Turner: Feel So Fine by Derek Coller
  • Notes from the Road by Robert Mugge

Most Outstanding Blues Singer 

  • Shemekia Copeland
  • Trudy Lynn
  • Sugaray Rayford
  • Mavis Staples
  • Diunna Greenleaf
  • Oscar Wilson
  • John Németh
  • Stan Mosley
  • Alabama Mike
  • William Bell

Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica) 

  • Billy Branch
  • Bob Corritore
  • Phil Wiggins
  • Big Harp George
  • Mark Hummel
  • Andrew Alli
  • Charlie Musselwhite
  • Rick Estrin
  • Jason Ricci
  • Omar Coleman

Links: Living BluesMore Living Blues Awards Stories

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