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 To help celebrate the New Year, we want to celebrate Samuel James - one of the most interesting and original acoustic blues musicians out there. If you haven't caught Samuel live, then you have missed an incredible songster. But, we're not the only people who have noticed Sameul James - as is evidenced by his two 2010 Blues Music Award nominations - Acoustic Artist of the Year, and Acoustic Album (For Rosa, Maeve and Noreen) of the Year! Click here to vote for Samuel for a 2010 Blues Music Award »
Catch Watermelon Slim Live
Calling all Watermelon Slim Fans - Just want to clear up any confusion on whether Slim is touring in 2010. Look for Watermelon Slim and the Workers on tour in USA, Canada, Europe and other points around the globe in 2010. Slim is looking forward to performing for you with his band and on solo tours. We want to thank all of you for another wonderful year. JW-Jones
is a guitar master!
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Parasomnia by JW Jones Band is on a new disc of guitar masters put out by guitar world magazine. JW is in great company - Santana, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and others... Blues Music Awards span genre's past, present, future - USA Today
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... Unprecedented this year is the nine-decade age range among the more than 100 nominees and presenters, a span that almost covers the genre's history... The future is heralded by Tupelo, Missississippi-based Homemade Jamz Blues Band ... Paul Reddick?s Sugar Bird receives a Juno nomination
for best artwork »
Zac Harmon
Joins NorthernBlues Music
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Zac's 2009 release for NorthernBlues, From The Root is an eclectic mix of blues, reggae, soul and gospel. Bluzapalooza goes back to Iraq
- with Moreland & Arbuckle »  Watermelon
Slim & The Workers win 2 top industry honours »Gibson Guitars names Watermelon Slim one of the top ten blues albums of 2007 » NorthernBlues Music receives eight 2008 Blues Music Award nominations! For the second consecutive year, Watermelon Slim has received six Blues Music Award nominations. And, Mem Shannon receives two nominations. Complete list of nominations: Album of the Year - Watermelon Slim & The Workers for "The Wheel Man" BB King Entertainer of the Year - Watermelon Slim Band of the Year - Watermelon Slim & The Workers Contemporary Blues Album of the Year -Watermelon Slim & The Workers for "The Wheel Man" Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year - Watermelon Slim Song of the Year - William Homans for "The Wheel Man" Soul Blues Album of the Year - Mem Shannon for "A Night At Tipitina's" Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year - Mem Shannon NorthernBlues
now has a group on Facebook »  Janiva
Magness named 2007 Blues Music Award for Best Contemporary
Blues Female Artist of the Year. Janiva also won this prestigious award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis in 2006! Run Neil Run takes home the JUNO AWARD for Instrumental Album of the Year!   NorthernBlues
Music Garners Nine BMA Nominations & IMA Win for Watermelon
Slim & The Workers!Full story » AWARD NOMINATIONS NorthernBlues CDs are once again starting to get Award nominations. Congratulations to JW-Jones – his CD, “Kissing in 29 Days” just got a MapleBlues Nomination for Recording of the Year. Other MapleBlues nominations for NorthernBlues artists include Watermelon Slim for International Artist of the Year, and Carlos del Junco, Paul Reddick, and Dave Hoerl for Harmonica player of the year. For more information, please go to: The Toronto Blues Society and please register and vote for NorthernBlues artists! Here's how you can vote for the Maple Blues Awards.
For more information, please go to:www.musiciansatlas.com/pages/ IMAFinalist/AlbumFinalist.aspx Now our CDs are more affordable than ever! Check out our summer prices »  Janiva
Magness Named Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year.Janiva Magness was named the Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year at the 2006 Blues
Music Awards (BMAs) held in Memphis. This is Janiva’s first Blues
Music Award and we are just delighted here at NorthernBlues Music. We’ve
always know she is a world-class act; now the whole world knows!
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Bull Goose Rooster Watermelon Slim & The Workers A reunion of the world’s best blues band! A stunning mix of original blues songs covering a mix of topics from US foreign policy to trucking! |
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The best acoustic bluesman in America!
“Samuel James is like a time machine—the same one that keeps Son House and Mississippi John Hurt traveling back to the public consciousness.” Portland Phoenix |
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Doug Cox—one of Canada’s best slide guitarists, teams up with
Salil Bhatt — one of India’s best slide instrumentalists, along with
Cassius Khan, an amazing tabla player for yet another CD of
blues-Indian fusion.
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Two of the hottest bluesmen join forces!
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"Combine Jimmie Rodgers, the
Carter Family & Bob Wills with Blind
Lemon, Sonny Boy Williamson and
Wilson Pickett—and you have Slim—a
one of a kind pickin’ & singin’ Okie
dynamo." -
Jerry Wexler, Legendary Producer
Lots of terrific extras: • Interview with Publisher of Blues Revue Magazine. • Watermelon Slim talking to blues great John Mayall. • Feature on the Watermelon Slim band, The Workers. • More great slide playing on the balcony of the Ground Zero Club. |
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"Eddie Turner...plays
guitar as if he were Jimi Hendrix trying to transpose Miles Davis'
trumpet." -
Don Wilcock, Record, NY
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"Slim's vocals - grittier than
a country dirt road, tender when they need to be - are framed by excellent
Nashville musicians." - MOJO Magazine
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“Samuel James was born
about 50 years too late. With
his slide guitar, scratchy
vocals and vintage
songwriting, he sounds like
Robert Johnson's little
brother.”
- Lewis Kelly, Vue Weekly,
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“Why Watermelon Slim is not as
recognizable as Col. Sanders is a
damn mystery… Slim delivers
acutely personal workingman blues
with both hands on the wheel of life,
a bottle of hooch in his pocket, a
the Bible on the passenger seat.”
- Ron Baily, Harp
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"... One of the finest jumpin’-swing
blues bands around today. Strong,
original material with good vocals
and superb harmonica and guitar.
Straight-up hard-drivin’ back beat
and that classic stand-up bass.”
- Storman’ Norman,
CFOX Vancouver
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"... From the first chord on the
electric guitar, everyone in the
kitchen bolted up to pay
attention. This was blues music.
Real blues music. The kind of
stuff that B.B. King and Muddy
Waters belt out in juke joints
down in the Delta. The kids
bopped at the kitchen table, all
right. And so did the
grandparents in the den.
Frankly, I did a few two-steps
myself while cooking at the
stove.”
- Michele Norris, NPR
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"Guitar-driven hook-laden contemporary blues.Think
latter-day Eric Clapton or Robert Cray with shades of Luther Allison
and B.B. King."
-Blues Revue "Zac Harmon is pure blues power that hits ya in your soul" -Lucky Peterson "I love Zac Harmon!!!! He is a Soulful man!" -Shemekia Copeland |
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With
special guest, Grammy Award-winner V.M. Bhatt on George Harrison?s ?For You
Blue?
"The deep country
blues of dobro man Doug Cox and the timeless ragas of satvik
veena master
Salil Bhatt blend with the funky New Orleans syncopation of singer
John Boutte in a breathtaking
Harmonic convergence
" -Dave Rubin, Guitar Edge |
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SugarBird Paul Reddick This innovative CD pushes the boundaries of the blues
with special guest Garth Hudson of The Band
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Steady Movin’ Carlos del Junco An incendiary blast of harmonica virtuosity from one
of the greatest diatonic harp players in the world.
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Future of the Blues Vol 3 Over 70 minutes of ground-breaking blues! Includes 2 unreleased Watermelon Slim tracks!
"Fred Litwin has
developed and nurtured a cadre of musicians that break down
barriers and stretch musical boundaries; he's helped me to
discover new ways to experience the blues." -Eric
Steiner, Washington Blues Society |
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Bluelisted JW-Jones A blistering guitar CD from JW-Jones with special guests Little Charlie Baty (Nightcats), Junior Watson, Richard Innes & Larry Taylor. "JW's pure, honest singing plus guitar stars make this record a yellow-dot must-buy addition to the catalog for his fans and new enthusiasts who are getting to know him." -Elwood Blues aka Dan Aykroyd |
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No Paid Holidays Watermelon Slim
A brand new album of woolly wisdom from this worldly-worn Oklahoma truck driver. Watermelon Slim now has gotten 12 Blues Music Awards in the last two years - and he also won MOJO Magazine's Blues Album of the Year for the second year in a row. |
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Pay Me No Mind Homemade Jamz Blues Band
Three young siblings from Tupelo, MS
who are on fire - wicked playing, original tunes and homemade
guitars made out of car mufflers."These young kids have got energy, talent and do the blues proud with their own flavor. I believe they've got a GREAT future ahead." -B.B. King "The Homemade Jamz have such a beautiful Blues spirit -- I really believe they're going to be a huge success." -Elvin Bishop |
