THE Blues

**S Landreth** · 11-05-2014, 02:52 AM

just want to flip the page with a big winner

**S Landreth** · 11-05-2014, 02:53 AM

in short

MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Blues Foundation presented the 35th Blues Music Awards Thursday night, May 8 in Memphis. The event brings together Blues performers, industry representatives and fans from all over the world to celebrate the best in Blues recordings and performances from the previous year. Three awards went to Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks and their band, while a Little Walter tribute featuring five top harmonica players received two awards, including album of the year. First time winners included Gary Clark Jr., Doug MacLeod, John Németh, Shawn Holt & the Teardrops, Trampled Under Foot and their female bassist Danielle Schnebelen.

The complete list of winners are:
Acoustic Album: There's a Time - Doug MacLeod
Acoustic Artist: Doug MacLeod
Album: Remembering Little Walter - Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia, James Harman
B.B. King Entertainer: Buddy Guy
Band: Tedeschi Trucks Band
Best New Artist Debut: Daddy Told Me - Shawn Holt & the Teardrops
Contemporary Blues Album: Badlands - Trampled Under Foot
Contemporary Blues Female Artist: Susan Tedeschi
Contemporary Blues Male Artist: Gary Clark Jr.
DVD: Ruf Records - Songs from the Road (Royal Southern Brotherhood)
Historical Album: Bear Family - The Sun Blues Box
Instrumentalist-Bass: Danielle Schnebelen
Instrumentalist-Drums: Cedric Burnside
Instrumentalist-Guitar: Ronnie Earl
Instrumentalist-Harmonica: Charlie Musselwhite
Instrumentalist-Horn: Eddie Shaw
Koko Taylor Award: Diunna Greenleaf
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player: Victor Wainwright
Rock Blues Album: Made Up Mind - Tedeschi Trucks Band
Song: "Blues in My Soul" - Lurrie Bell
Soul Blues Album: Down in Louisiana - Bobby Rush
Soul Blues Female Artist: Irma Thomas
Soul Blues Male Artist: John Nemeth
Traditional Blues Album: Remembering Little Walter - Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia, James Harman
Traditional Blues Male Artist: James Cotton

long version:

35th Blues Music Award WINNERS

Album
Get Up! - Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite
Remembering Little Walter - Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia & James Harman
Rhythm & Blues - Buddy Guy
Cotton Mouth Man - James Cotton
Blues in My Soul - Lurrie Bell

Instrumentalist-Bass
Bill Stuve
Bob Stroger
Danielle Schnebelen
Larry Taylor
Patrick Rynn

Contemporary Blues Album
Get Up! - Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite
This Time Another Year - Brandon Santini
Rhythm & Blues - Buddy Guy
Magic Honey - Cyril Neville
Badlands - Trampled Under Foot

Band
Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials
Rick Estrin & the Night Cats
Tedeschi Trucks Band
The Mannish Boys
Trampled Under Foot

Rock Blues Album
Gone to Texas – Mike Zito & the Wheel
Made Up Mind – Tedeschi Trucks Band
Can’t Get Enough – The Rides
John the Conquer Root – Toronzo Cannon
Luther’s Blues – Walter Trout

Contemporary Blues Female Artist
Ana Popovic
Beth Hart
Bettye LaVette
Candye Kane
Susan Tedeschi

Best New Artist Debut
Double Crossing Blues - Adrianna Marie and Her Groovecutters
Rooster - Clay Swafford
Proof of Love - Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band
What’s the Chance… - Paul Gabriel
Daddy Told Me - Shawn Holt & the Teardrops
Pushin’ Against a Stone - Valerie June

Soul Blues Male Artist
Bobby Rush
Frank Bey
John Nemeth
Johnny Rawls
Otis Clay

Instrumentalist-Drums
Cedric Burnside
Jimi Bott
Kenny Smith
Tom Hambridge
Tony Braunagel

Song
“Blues in My Soul” – Lurrie Bell
“He Was There” – James Cotton, Tom Hambridge & Richard Fleming
“That’s When the Blues Begins” – James Goode
“The Entitled Few” – Doug MacLeod
“The Night the Pie Factory Burned Down” – Johnny Sansone

Soul Blues Album
Down In Louisiana – Bobby Rush
Soul Changes – Dave Keller
Soul for Your Blues – Frank Bey & Anthony Paule Band
Remembering O. V. – Johnny Rawls
Truth Is (Putting Love Back Into the Music) – Otis Clay

Instrumentalist-Guitar
Anson Funderburgh
Gary Clark, Jr.
Kid Andersen
Lurrie Bell
Ronnie Earl

Acoustic Artist
Doug MacLeod
Guy Davis
Harrison Kennedy
Little G Weevil
Rory Block

Instrumentalist-Harmonica
Brandon Santini
Charlie Musselwhite
James Cotton
Kim Wilson
Rick Estrin

Acoustic Album
There’s a Time - Doug MacLeod
Juba dance - Guy Davis featuring Fabrizio Poggi
Soulscape - Harrison Kennedy
Avalon - Rory Block
Unleashed - The Hound Kings

Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
Barrellhouse Chuck
Dave Keyes
Marcia Ball
Mike Finnigan
Victor Wainwright

Historical
The Sun Blues Box (Various Artists) - Bear Family
The Original Honeydripper (Roosevelt Sykes) - Blind Pig Records
The Jewel/Paula Blues Story (Various Artists) - Fuel Records
Death Might Be Your Santa Claus (Various Artists) - Legacy Recordings
The Complete King/Federal Singles (Freddie King) - Real Gone Music

Instrumentalist-Horn
Big James Montgomery
Eddie Shaw
Jimmy Carpenter
Sax Gordon
Terry Hanck

Soul Blues Female Artist
Barbara Carr
Denise LaSalle
Dorothy Moore
Irma Thomas
Sista Monica

Traditional Blues Male Artist
Anson Funderburgh
Billy Boy Arnold
James Cotton
John Primer
Lurrie Bell

Contemporary Blues Male Artist
Buddy Guy
Gary Clark, Jr.
Johnny Sansone
Kim Wilson
Otis Taylor

DVD
High John Records - Time Brings About a Change (Floyd Dixon)
J&R Adventures - An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House (Joe Bonamassa)
Shake-It-Sugar Records – Live (Murali Coryell)
Ruf Records - Songs from the Road (Royal Southern Brotherhood)
Blue Star Connection - Live at Knuckleheads (The Healers)

Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)
Diunna Greenleaf
Lavelle White
Teeny Tucker
Trudy Lynn
Zora Young

B.B. King Entertainer
Bobby Rush
Buddy Guy
John Németh
Kim Wilson
Rick Estrin

Traditional Blues Album
Driftin’ from Town to Town – Barrelhouse Chuck & Kim Wilson’s Blues All-Stars
Remembering Little Walter – Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia, James Harman
Cotton Mouth Man – James Cotton
Blues in My Soul – Lurrie Bell
Black Toppin’ – The Cash Box Kings

**S Landreth** · 17-05-2014, 05:24 PM

For the past day I’ve been listening to Kenny Wayne on Sirius introducing songs (mostly covers, if not all) from his new CD. His label has only put out teasers so far.

And a couple songs from some of the artists listed in the post above,……

**Mid** · 17-05-2014, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by S Landreth

The complete list of winners are:

Thanxs , my new play list

**Camel Toe** · 17-05-2014, 09:52 PM

This may not mean much to many but that rhythm Ronnie Earl is playing is called the up chop or playing off the snare (drum). This is a great example of how SRV was one of the best thieves in music history. This is where he got it from.

**Camel Toe** · 17-05-2014, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Sandi Thom - Save Some Mercy for Me

Save Some Mercy for Me by Sandi Thom

This may not mean much to many but that rhythm riff Ronnie Earl is playing is called the up chop or playing off the snare (drum). This is a great example of how SRV was one of the best thieves in music history. This is who he got it from.

**Camel Toe** · 03-06-2014, 11:57 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=WtpCAhbAJdc

**Camel Toe** · 12-06-2014, 10:50 AM

This is a tad off Eric Clapton's newest, a tribute to JJ Cale.

This song needs a harmony vocal back up track. In fact crying for one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=S-n0c_B5RMY

The old version is better..

**xanax** · 12-06-2014, 01:41 PM

can never see this too many times, from a foggy London in 1967:

youtube.com/watch?v=UpoZZoP-1-g

**YeesipSam** · 12-06-2014, 07:35 PM

Ah, Jimi Hendrix.
I could tell you some stories about what went on when I listened to this tune with like-minded people, many times, years ago, but I wont...
If I had to pick a favourite Jimi tune, my favourite.

**S Landreth** · 18-06-2014, 07:20 AM

Thorbjorn Risager & The Black Tornado

**S Landreth** · 28-06-2014, 12:45 AM

the road has become unbearable

When Graeme Thomson sent us his interview with Eric Clapton, it was not, to be honest, quite what we expected. We anticipated a poignant chat about Clapton’s old friend JJ Cale, to tie in with the forthcoming tribute album, “The Breeze”. As it transpired, though, the album was just a jumping-off point for one of the most unexpected and revealing Clapton pieces most of us can remember.

Closing in on 70, Clapton ended up reflecting on his messy past, his stable present, and a future which could see him retiring a lot sooner than most of us would have expected. There was talk of diminishing powers, Cream reunions and a growing reluctance to tour. “JJ said, ‘When I turn 70 I’m unofficially retired,’” Clapton told Graeme. “I think what I’ll allow myself to do, within reason, is carry on recording in the studio, but the road has become unbearable.”

Eric Clapton

**S Landreth** · 17-07-2014, 09:15 PM

Johnny Winter Has Passed Away

Johnny Dawson Winter III has passed away. He was 70. ”Texas blues icon Johnny Winter has passed away on July 16th, 2014, in his hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland,” read an official email from Winter’s PR company, Kid Logic Media. “His Wife, family and badnmates are all saddened by the loss of one of the world’s finest guitarists.”

The email promised an official statement at the appropriate time.

Winter and his brother, Edgar were raised in a musical family, with his roots firmly planted in the Mississippi delta — his father was the mayor of Leland, Mississippi, and Winter was recently honored with a Blues Trail Marker. From before his teens, Winter was playing and recording, even sitting in with the biggest blues legends of the day and in history, including Muddy Waters and BB King. In 1968, he released his first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment, and after a now-famous performance at The Fillmore East, he was signed to Columbia Records with what was reported to be the largest advance ever made to an artist.

After his mammoth deal, Johnny immediately laid out the blueprint for his fresh take on classic blues, according to his official biography, which was a prime combination for the legions of fans just discovering the blues through the likes of Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton. His first album with Columbia was Johnny Winter, with Willie Dixon playing stand up bass. Winter continued to gain widespread critical acclaim with his innovative blues stylings and in 1970, Winter released his commercially acclaimed ”Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo”, before struggling with heroin addiction for several years, seeking treatment, and emerging with a renewed lease on life.

He made a successful comeback, culminating in what Winter described to American Blues Scene Magazine as the “highlight of my life” when, after the closing of Chess Records, he brought Muddy Waters to the studio to record what would widely become known as the bluesman‘s comeback record, Hard Again. In the album, Winter performed most of the guitar work, while Muddy sang. Winter would go on to produce several Grammy-winning albums for Muddy before the bluesman’s death in 1983.

Winter earned several Grammy nominations for his searing, scorching slide guitar work, and was inducted into the Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame in 2003, and was one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time. “I’m not a rock n roller,” Winter told American Blues Scene. “I’m a bluesman.” From his earliest childhood in the Mississippi Delta and Beaumont, Texas to his last breath, touring on the road, Winter truly lived up to that statement in every sense of the word.

one of my first 8-tracks I purchased (Johnny Winter)

_______________________

Here is Rolling Stone's take on Johnny and his life.

Johnny Winter - Facebook

**S Landreth** · 30-07-2014, 05:43 AM

Listen to The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale - Studio Album by Eric Clapton (2014)

**S Landreth** · 31-08-2014, 07:58 AM

Gary Clark Jr. Live

**S Landreth** · 06-09-2014, 05:37 PM

**S Landreth** · 07-09-2014, 05:29 PM

This item is scheduled for shipment on or around September 9, 2014 for international orders and September 16, 2014 for US orders.

Joe Bonamassa

**S Landreth** · 12-10-2014, 05:08 PM

If you’re a Blues fan and you enjoy SRV,...vote.

Whether you like, love or hate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , you have a chance participate in the selection process for the 2015 inductees and help get more blues in there. Stevie Ray Vaughn is currently in second place behind Nine Inch Nails, which we’re sure they are a fine band but we are talking about Stevie here. There is no possible way they should be ahead of him….BLUES FANS ACTIVATE! Vote HERE now

Legends run deep when memories of Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990) are invoked. David Bowie said, after seeing the 28-year-old Dallas blues guitar sensation for the first time at Montreux in 1982: “SRV completely floored me. I probably hadn’t been so gung-ho about a guitar player since seeing Jeff Beck in the early 60s.” Famed music man Jerry Wexler arranged for Vaughan’s big-time debut at Montreux (which led to him playing on Bowie’s global Number One hit “Let’s Dance”). Equally famed John Hammond led Vaughan to Epic Records. The studio and live LPs released during the last seven years of his life etched SRV into Stratocaster immortality and influenced the next generation of blues guitarists. From the opening onslaught of “Love Struck Baby,” “Pride And Joy,” and “Texas Flood” on his first LP, it was clear that Vaughan belonged in the highest ranks of guitar greats. His devotion to Jimi Hendrix emerged on his second LP, with a blistering cover of “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” It turned into a staple of nearly every SRV show, along with Hendrix’s “Little Wing.” Vaughan laid out his dedication to the great masters for all to see, especially Guitar Slim (“The Things (That) I Used To Do”) and Rock And Roll Hall Of Famers Buddy Guy (“Mary Had A Little Lamb”), Freddie King (“Hide Away”) and Albert King (“Blues At Sunrise”). During his short-lived career, Vaughan also recorded show-stopping collaborations with B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Paul Butterfield, Dick Dale, Lonnie Mack, Albert Collins and many others.

Here’s where things stood today after I voted:

**titan** · 12-10-2014, 05:43 PM

wot a load of

waste of time when the likes of Paul Butterfield are down the bottom well below light weights like Joan Jet .

**S Landreth** · 29-10-2014, 10:10 AM

Just got back from a Tommy Castro and the Pain Killers concert. It was a good show and he played many songs from his latest CD, The Devil You Know.

He opened the concert with Make it Back to Memphis

Originally Posted by titan

wot a load of

waste of time when the likes of Paul Butterfield are down the bottom well below light weights like Joan Jet .

I do believe if there were a much much older group of internet users they would rate better.

**Chittychangchang** · 17-12-2014, 04:59 PM

**S Landreth** · 17-12-2014, 05:23 PM

The 57th Annual Grammy Awards Nominees were listed a couple weeks ago and I forgot to list the Best Blues Album, until Chittychangchang’s nice post of Little Walter.

I do hope it’s Step Back (Johnny Winter)

**Gazza** · 30-12-2014, 02:15 PM

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