Delmark artists, BOB STROGER and SHARON LEWIS, are the 2023 honorees in the prestigious JUS’ BLUES AWARDS!! Night of the Living Legends Honorees – Bob Stroger and Sharon Lewis receive JUS’ BLUES AWARD and will perform All-Star Blues show, August 3rd in Tunica, Mississippi
2023 JUS’ BLUES LIVING LEGEND AWARD JUS’ BLUES SPECIAL TRIBUTE FOR AN ARTIST WE RESPECT AS A LIVING LEGEND FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BLUES & SOUL MUSIC
BOB STROGER
Bob Stroger (born December 27, 1930) is an American electric blues bass guitarist, singer and songwriter. Stroger’s life story, like much of the blues, corresponds to the Great Migration. He was born in Hayti, Missouri, and his father was a sharecropper who moonlighted as a guitarist. Bob left Missouri for Chicago for the first time in 1947, when his father had a job on the Wabash Railroad; he returned to Chicago permanently in his early 20s, living with his older brother, John. “When I was down South, I didn’t see nothing but multiple cotton fields,” Stroger says. “When I first came here, we moved to the West Side. I used to get on the streetcars and ride from one end to the other. Every place I looked up was tall buildings. I had moved to another world.”
JUS’ BLUES PRESENTS THE JUKE JOINT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING BLUES & SOUL ENTERTAINMENT PRESERVING THE JUKE JOINT STYLE AND PRESERVING THE TRADITIONS OF THE CHITLIN’ CIRCUIT CLUBS
Sharon Lewis
Sharon Lewis Except for the particular world a musician travels in, they at times can be left off the radar of the mainstream industry. So many go for years, and while you might find a photo or a small write-up in a magazine dedicated to that style, there might not be much else. One person who broke up and out of that long ago is Sharon Lewis. Speaking with her from her Chicago home, Lewis is humorous, forthright, outspoken, and unafraid to say what she thinks about any subject, music or otherwise.
Jus` Blues Music Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to Nurture The Soul of The Blues with a mission to protect and preserve Blues Heritage. Honoring the originators and those who continue the legacy of the Blues, Cultural Special Events and Historical Blues Educational Programming is the platform to making sure this original art form and its accomplishments has its rightful place in American History.
