News Roundup (Pearly Jenkins, IBC Winners, Karli June, Johnny Mac Slater)

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News

Local

• Barber Shop Podcast w Pearly Jenkins
  
  
  
  Links: Pearly Jenkins, More Pearly Jenkins Stories, Video above courtesy of Barber Shop Podcast
• Spec story on Grant Avenue Studios Crowd Funding Campaign

Canada

• Jan 2015 Issue of Maple Blues

World

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• Tom Petty Awarded Songwriter credit for "Stay With Me"
• Hilarious Onion Story about a Blues Woman
• 10 Years of Research Produces the Piano of the Future
• Passings: Demis Roussos (Aphrodite's Child), Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream)

International Blues Challenge Winners

Band

• 1st Eddie Cotton (Vicksburg Blues Society)
• 2nd Noah Wotherspoon (Dayton Blues Society)
• 3rd Nico Wayne Toussaint (Southern California Blues Society)
• Best Guitarist -  Band (Gibson & Category 5) Noah Wotherspoon (Dayton Blues Society)

Solo/Duo

• 1st Randy McQuay (Cape Fear Blues Society)
• 2nd Brian Keith Wallen (Dayton Blues Society)
• Best Guitarist – Solo/Duo (St. Blues Guitars) Ben Rice (Ashland Blues Society)

Best Self-Produced CD: Altered Five Blues Band - Cryin’ Mercy (Grafton Blues Association)

Lee Oskar Harp Award: Nico Wayne Toussaint (Southern California Blues Society)

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Featured Video

Links: Johnny Mac Slater Video above courtesy of Johnny Mac Slater

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