5 Delmark artists received at total of 7 nominations for the prestigious LIVING BLUES AWARDS. Demetria Taylor, Lurrie Bell, Roosevelt Purifoy, Pierre Lacocque, & Billy Boy Arnold
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Congratulations Demetria Taylor on THREE Living Blues Award nominations!!
Blues Artist of the Year
Most Outstanding Blues Singer
Best Blues Album of 2022 – Doin What I’m Supposed To Do
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and we have to give a shout out to all of the nominees, including the following who have recorded for Delmark as a sideman/woman:
Buddy Guy, John Primer, Bobby Rush, Billy Branch, Bob Corritore,, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel
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* 2. Blues Artist of the Year (Female)
Demetria Taylor with Diunna Greenleaf,,Vaneese Thomas, Shemekia Copeland, Irma Thomas, Rory Block, Sue Foley, Trudy Lynn, Gaye Adegbalola, Keeshea Pratt
3. Most Outstanding Blues Singer (FEMALE AND MALE)
Demetria Taylor with Shemekia Copeland, Lee Fields, Trudy Lynn, Sugaray Rayford, Mavis Staples, Diunna Greenleaf, Oscar Wilson, John Németh, Irma Thomas
* 4. Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)
Lurrie Bell with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Duke Robillard, John Primer, Buddy Guy, Joe Louis Walker, Eric Gales, Kenny Neal, Tinsley Ellis, Kirk Fletcher
* 5. Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica)
Pierre Lacocque (Mississippi Heat) with Billy Branch, Bob Corritore, Phil Wiggins, Kim Wilson, Mark Hummel, Andrew Alli, Charlie Musselwhite, Rick Estrin, Boo Boo Davis
* 6. Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)
Roosevelt Purifoy with Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, Victor Wainwright, Jim Pugh, Marcia Ball, Anthony Geraci, Ben Levin, Mitch Woods, Dave Keyes
* 8. Best Blues Album of 2022 (New Recordings)
Demetria Taylor
Doin’ What I’m Supposed to Do
Delmark
Diunna Greenleaf
I Ain’t Playin’
Little Village Foundation
Charlie Musselwhite
Mississippi Son
Alligator
John Primer
Hard Times
Blues House Productions
Buddy Guy
The Blues Don’t Lie
RCA / Silvertone
Kenny Neal
Straight from the Heart
Ruf
Shemekia Copeland
Done Come Too Far
Alligator
Trudy Lynn
Golden Girl
Nola Blue
Duke Robillard Band
They Called It Rhythm & Blues
Stony Plain
Sugaray Rayford
In Too Deep
Forty Below
John Németh
May Be the Last Time
Nola Blue
Tinsley Ellis
Devil May Care
Alligator
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
Blues from Chicago to Paris
Stony Plain
Johnny Rawls
Going Back to Mississippi
Third Street Cigar
Vaneese Thomas
Fight the Good Fight
Blue HeartD
* 10. Best Blues Book of 2022
The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold
By Billy Boy Arnold with Kim Field
University of Chicago Press
The St. Louis Blues of Walter Davis
By Guido van Rijn
Agram Blues Books
Further on Up the Road: Traveling to the Blues
By Martin Feldmann
Self-Published
Wasn’t That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster
By Luigi Monge
University Press of Mississippi
Making Tracks: A Record Producer’s Southern Roots Music Journey
By Scott Billington
University Press of Mississippi
Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee
By John M. Shaw
University Press of Mississippi
This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song
By Barbara Dane
Heyday Books
Goodnight Boogie: A Tale of Guns, Wolves, and the Blues of Hound Dog Taylor
By Matt Rogers
BMG Books
King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton
By Gayle Dean Wardlow, Stephen Calt, and Edward Komara
University of Tennessee Press
Drumsville! The Evolution of the New Orleans Beat
By Robert H. Cataliotti
Louisiana State University Press
