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CONTENTS
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JANIVA MAGNESS 2006 Blues Music Awards Winner for "Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year"
Check out her newest release DO I MOVE YOU |
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See and hear Janiva Magness perform by clicking on the above logo. Go to Show # 396 |
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ROD PIAZZA 2006 Blues Music Awards Winner for "Band of the Year"
Honey Piazza (and the rest of The Mighty Flyers) scores a copy of the Blues Festival Guide at the Blues Music Awards.
While hubby Rod Piazza waits for his copy in line behind Tommy Castro. Congratulations to Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers. Check out their newest CD FOR THE CHOSEN WHO |
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Congratulations
to Janiva Magness here reading a Blues Festival Guide at
the Blues Music Awards while waiting to learn that she was a
winner. 
Thanks to all those who entered last week's contest to win tickets for Delbert McClinton & Shemekia Copeland's May 17th show at Philadelphia's Keswick Theatre. The winning essay was penned by Theresa Worrell. She won with this clever reasoning:
I wake up each mornin' feelin the blues
I'm 46 and I have too much to loose
I can't quit my job and spend my day
Vibin' on the riffs these bluesmen play
So help this bluesy woman out, and let her see
Delbert McClinton and Shemekia Copeland for free!
Congratulations Theresa!
And, if you haven't already,
enter to win a
FESTIVAL CRUISE
or other great prizes
GRAND PRIZE
Trip for two on Sandy Beaches Cruise # 13
FIRST PLACE PRIZE
Riverboat Cruise for two
10 SECOND PLACE PRIZES
"The Language of the Blues"
the new book by Debra DeSalvo.
30 THIRD PLACE PRIZES
"Full Circle"
a new CD from Walter Trout
42 winners in all
Contest ends September 12, 2006
Click here for details & to enter
(you will be asked to complete a short survey)
If you have already entered, no need to enter again.
All duplicates will be removed, ...seriously we can do that.
2006 Blues Music Awards Go To....
Last
week at a star-studded and fun fun evening, the 2006 Blues
Music Awards were given out in 25 categories.
The new awards statue (pictured at left) replaces the previous years' W.C. Handy Awards statue.
Acoustic
Album of the Year -
Down In The Delta: Paul Oscher
Acoustic Artist of the Year - Paul Oscher (pictured at right with his two award plaques)
Album of the Year Think of
Me - Little
Milton
B.B. King
Entertainer of the Year
- Buddy Guy
Band of the Year
- Rod Piazza & the
Mighty Flyers
(pictured at
right)
Comeback Album of the Year - Black Coffee - Al Kooper
Best New Artist Debut Zac Harmon - The Blues According to Zacariah (pictured at right)
Contemporary
Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Janiva Magness
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year - Kim Wilson
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year Fever For The Bayou - Tab Benoit (pictured at right)
Instrumentalist-Bass
- Mookie Brill
Instrumentalist-Drums
- Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Instrumentalist-Guitar
Hubert Sumlin
Instrumentalist-Harmonica
- Charlie Musselwhite
Instrumentalist-Horn
- Eddie Shaw
Instrumentalist-Other
- Clarence "Gatemouth"
Brown - Fiddle
Historical Album of the Year - Hoochie Coochie Man: Muddy Waters - Complete Chess Recordings, Volume 2, 1952-1958 (Chess/Hip-O Select)
Pinetop Perkins Piano
Player of the Year
- Marcia Ball
Song of the Year
- Think Of Me -
Little Milton:
written by Jon Tiven, Milton Campbell, Pete Shoulder
Soul Blues Album of the
Year - Think of
Me - Little Milton
Soul Blues Female
Artist of the Year
- Mavis Staples
Soul Blues Male
Artist of the Year
- Little Milton
Traditional Album of the
Year - About
Them Shoes - Hubert Sumlin
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Etta James
Traditional Blues
Male Artist of the Year
- B.B. King
Fender is
Sponsoring Pittsley
Dustin
Pittsley, blues artist and 2006 IBC competitor, has recently
signed with Fender to receive a sponsorship for the next
year. As part of the sponsorship he receives a Fender Custom
Shop guitar of his choice. Pittsley has chosen a reissued
American 1962 Stratocaster featuring Texas Special pick-ups
with jumbo frets. As part of the deal Pittsley will receive
a year's supply of Ernie Ball Strings.
For more information on The Dustin Pittsley Band visit: www.thedustinpittsleyband.com
Blues
Revue/BluesWax Launches Blues Cable Channel:
Visionation, the Des Moines, Iowa-based publisher of Blues
Revue and BluesWax, the two largest Blues subscription based
publications in the world, have announced the launch of The
Blues Channel, BluesWax2, the first cable channel dedicated
to Blues music. Visionation has partnered with the Venice,
Florida-based Southern Entertainment Television (SET) for
the venture.
The Blues Channel will offer commercial-free Blues
programming 24 hours a day. The channel will be a premium
subscription-based channel. BluesWax2 is currently in the
testing phase of production and is currently in negotiations
with the major cable providers in the U.S., Europe, and the
Caribbean who will provide the service to consumer
households later this year.
Visionation head Chip Eagle said, “We are simply thrilled to
be able to provide Blues programming to cable television.
Blues fans are always searching out Blues programming all
over, but now they will have a place to go where they know
they can get their Blues bone satisfied.”
The Southern Entertainment Television currently produces the
Southern Gospel Channel, the Black Gospel Channel, and the
Bluegrass channel.
For more information about The SET and BluesWax2, The Blues
Channel, contact The SET at (941) 485-5500 or hbTheSET.net.
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This Week's Guest: Watermelon Slim Watermelon Slim learned to play slide guitar while serving in Vietnam. He's been a farmer, a teacher, a truck driver and who knows what else. He's also one of the best blues singers out there. Let Elwood Blues introduce you to the wild world of Watermelon Slim, this week on the House of Blues Radio Hour. |
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Courtesy of Roots Music Report "where only the music matters". This chart reflects the radio airplay spins of some of the most prominent people in the genre, worldwide. Reporters to the chart include over 100 radio stations who are playing blues; record stores and distributors selling the blues; clubs booking blues artists; and key music correspondents throughout the world.
For further information about the Roots Music Report, visit www.rootsmusicreport.com
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| TW | LW | Artist: | CD Title: | Label: | Weeks On: | Location: |
| 1 | 3 | LEE ROY PARNELL | BACK TO THE WELL | UNIVERSAL SOUTH | 9 | TX |
| 2 | 1 | DELBERT MCCLINTON | COST OF LIVING | NEW WEST | 32 | TX |
| 3 | 2 | ERIC LINDELL | CHANGE IN THE WEATHER | ALLIGATOR RECORDS | 8 | CA |
| 4 | 5 | THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND | SONGLINES | COLUMBIA | 11 | GA |
| 5 | 4 | GUY DAVIS | SKUNKMELLO | RED HOUSE | 7 | |
| 6 | 6 | SUE FOLEY | NEW USED CAR | RUF | 4 | CANADA |
| 7 | 7 | BONNIE RAITT | SOULS ALIKE | CAPITOL | 31 | TX |
| 8 | 9 | VARIOUS ARTIST | ALLIGATOR RECORDS 35X35: 35 SONGS, 35 YEARS OF GENUINE HOUSEROCKIN' MUSIC | ALLIGATOR | 6 | |
| 9 | 8 | SUSAN TEDESCHI | HOPE & DESIRE | VERVE | 30 | IL |
| 10 | 10 | VARIOUS ARTIST | BLUES GUITAR WOMEN | RUF | 10 | |
| 11 | 18 | PATRICK SWEANY BAND | C'MON C'MERE | NINE MILE | 3 | |
| 12 | 15 | REVEREND BILLY C WIRTZ | SERMON FROM BETHLEHEM | BLIND PIG | 5 | |
| 13 | 16 | JAMES HUNTER | PEOPLE GONNA TALK | ROUNDER | 7 | UK |
| 14 | 12 | JIMMY THACKERY | THE ESSENTIAL | BLIND PIG | 6 | IL |
| 15 | 20 | LOS LONELY BOYS | DIAMONDS | EPIC | 3 | TX |
| 16 | 17 | JOHNNY & THE MOTONES | TWO HITS FOR THE KITTY | ALTENBURGH | 7 | WI |
| 17 | 11 | MARKUS JAMES | CALABASH BLUES | FIRENZE | 19 | VA |
| 18 | 26 | BILL SHEFFIELD | JOURNAL ON A SHELF | AM ROOTS & BLUES | 5 | GA |
| 19 | 32 | TAB BENOIT | BROTHER TO THE BLUES | TELARC | 2 | |
| 20 | NEW | ARSEN SHOMAKHOV | DANGEROUS | BLUES LEAF | 1 | RUSSIA |
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