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Samuel James Nominated for 2010 Blues Music Award
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 »
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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.
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JW-Jones is a guitar master! »
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...
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Blues Music Awards span genre's past, present, future - USA Today »
... 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 ...
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Paul Reddick?s Sugar Bird receives a Juno nomination for best artwork »
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Zac Harmon Joins NorthernBlues Music »
Zac's 2009 release for NorthernBlues, From The Root is an eclectic mix of blues, reggae, soul and gospel.
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Homemade Jamz Blues Band on The Today Show!
Watch it here: today.msnbc.msn.com/id/27217407/
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Bluzapalooza goes back to Iraq - with Moreland & Arbuckle »
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Blues FoundationWatermelon Slim & The Workers win 2 top industry honours »
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Gibson Guitars names Watermelon Slim one of the top ten blues albums of 2007 »
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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

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New NorthernBlues now has a group on Facebook »
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Janiva MagnessJaniva 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!
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Run Neil Run takes home the JUNO AWARD for Instrumental Album of the Year!
Run Neil Run
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IMANorthernBlues 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.
  1. Go to: http://www.mapleblues.ca/
    register.aspx
  2. Check your e-mail (at the account you entered in registration)
  3. Copy (or write down) your 6 digit password
  4. Go to: http://www.mapleblues.ca/
    vote.aspx
  5. Enter your e-mail address and password
  6. Make your picks
And, congratulations to Eddie Turner, GlamourPuss, and Watermelon Slim.  Their CDs all received nominations for Blues Album of the Year at the Independent Music Awards in the United States.

For more information, please go to:www.musiciansatlas.com/pages/
IMAFinalist/AlbumFinalist.aspx
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Now our CDs are more affordable than ever! Check out our summer prices »
spacer Janiva MagnessJaniva 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 FoundationBlues 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!

For a complete listing of BMAs, you can visit the Blues Foundation website »
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NorthernBlues Music Recording Artists Garner Four 2006 Blues Music Awards & Nominations and several Maple Blues Nominations & more news from NorthernBlues »

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Northernblues podcast
Subscribe to our Podcast!
Check out interview with Watermelon Slim, Chris Beard, Mason Casey. A continuing series of artist profiles, interviews and music samples from Northern Blues Records with Beardo, Senior Contributing Editor at Blueswax
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Bull Goose Rooster - Watermelon Slim & the Workers
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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!spacer

And For The Dark Road Ahead
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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20,000 Miles
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Slide to Freedom

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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Okiesippi Blues
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Watermelon Slim & Super Chikan

Two of the hottest bluesmen join forces!
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Live at Ground Zero Blues Club
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Watermelon Slim DVD

"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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Miracles & Demons
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Eddie Turner

"Eddie Turner...plays guitar as if he were Jimi Hendrix trying to transpose Miles Davis' trumpet." - Don Wilcock, Record, NY
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Ringers
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NewRingers
Watermelon Slim

"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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For Rosa, Maeve and Noreen
“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,
Edmonton
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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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Come Out Swingin'
The Twisters

"... 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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I Got Blues for You
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I Got Blues for You
Homemade Jamz Blues Band

"... 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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From The Root
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From The Root
Zac Harmon

"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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Slide to Freedom 2
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Slide to Freedom2
Make a Better World

Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt

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 spacer
SugarBird
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SugarBird
Paul Reddick

This innovative CD pushes the boundaries of the blues with special guest Garth Hudson of The Band
"Over the last two decades, Paul has been making some of the most consistent, daring and expressive music by any artist in any genre.”" -Larry LeBlanc, Billboard Magazine
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Steady Movin’
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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.

"Havana-born, Canada-raised del Junco has elevated the status of the humble 10-hole diatonic mouth harp to the equivalent of a Stradivarius violin." -Greg Quill, Toronto Star
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Future of the Blues Vol 3
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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
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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
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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
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