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6 BLUES REVUE<br />
PUBLISHER: Chip Eagle<br />
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Art Tipaldi<br />
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“It can bring people together, like nothing else...<br />
it can wake up a nation, and give such sweet relief.”<br />
I know this has happened to all of you reading this. You proudly wear a t-shirt with an<br />
eye-catching design from a great blues festival or blues event. You stand at a counter in<br />
a store, eat in a restaurant, stand with others watching your children playing a sport,<br />
and someone says, “Great shirt! Where’s it from?”<br />
You reply, “It was at a great blues festival.”<br />
To which he or she replies, “I love the blues.”<br />
At that moment, you proudly add, “Check out the line-up.”<br />
Your back is covered with names like Marcia Ball, Lonnie Brooks, Lil’ Ed, Bobby<br />
Rush, Shemekia Copeland, Charlie Musselwhite, Ruthie Foster, Irma Thomas, Tommy<br />
Castro, Elvin Bishop, Eric Bibb, Duke Robillard, Joe Louis Walker, and blues icons from<br />
the past like Ruth Brown, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Pinetop Perkins, Honeyboy Edwards.<br />
You turn around and await the ohhs and ahhs. Instead you hear, “I don’t know any<br />
of those people.”<br />
My guess is the blues to them is B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt,<br />
Stevie Ray Vaughan, and maybe Taj Mahal or Robert Cray. This is the sad reality every blues<br />
fan faces as we search in vain for recognition of the genre outside its core tribe of fans.<br />
Being in Memphis during the Blues Foundation’s annual International Blues Challenge<br />
each winter is clearly the tonic to erase those disappointing experiences. At every<br />
turn, 225 blues bands from across the globe are fighting the notion that the blues is not<br />
relevant in today’s world. The professionalism of each band’s shows coupled with innovative<br />
musical directions and instrumentation beyond the simple I-IV-V format breathes life<br />
into the genre.<br />
Remember that each of these acts has won a local competition sponsored by one<br />
of over 180 affiliated societies around the world. So for every band or solo/duo act in<br />
Memphis, there could be as many as 15 others who competed for the honor. Does any<br />
other music genre have this kind of local and regional support of its music?<br />
And that’s the great blues paradox: local societies with grass roots memberships<br />
keep this music thriving, while the culture at large gives it one Grammy category and<br />
mostly ignores.<br />
It’s that time of year for the 2013 Blues Music Awards at www.blues.org. Janiva<br />
Magness and John Nemeth lead the slate of nominees with five nominations each.<br />
Other noteworthy nominees include Curtis Salgado, Michael Burks, Joe Louis Walker, and<br />
the team of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi with four. There are also more then a dozen<br />
first time nominees plus the six Best New Artist nominees. This year’s Awards will be held<br />
on May 9, 2013 in Memphis. Once again, Blues Revue will be there to report on the event.<br />
Also noteworthy are the blues records that were named tops of 2012 by DownBeat<br />
magazine. Congratulations go out to the following four and five star records: Barbara<br />
Carr, Keep The Fire Going, Otis Taylor, Contraband, Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Boy Arnold<br />
Sings Big Bill Broonzy, Michael Burks, Show Of Strength, Mary Flower, Misery Loves<br />
Company, Paul Rishell, Talking Guitar, and Catherine Russell, Strictly Romancin’.<br />
The following historical albums were also named tops in 2012: Etta James Live at<br />
Montreux 1975-1993, Ray Charles, The Complete ABC Singles, Muddy Waters and<br />
The Rolling Stones, Checkerboard Lounge – Live Chicago 1981, Albert King, I’ll Play<br />
The Blues For You, Howlin’ Wolf, Smokestack Lightning / Complete Chess Masters<br />
(1951 to 1960).<br />
“Let the music keep our spirits high.”<br />
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