FIVE ALLIGATOR ARTISTS
RECEIVE ELEVEN BLUES MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS
Toronzo Cannon Leads With
Four, Followed By Curtis Salgado With Three
Lil' Ed Williams Receives
Two Award Nominations
Shemekia Copeland and
Moreland & Arbuckle Receive One Nomination Each
On Monday, January 9, 2017, The
Blues Foundation announced the nominees for the 38th Annual Blues Music Awards,
the blues world's highest honors. Five Alligator recording artists received a
total of eleven nominations.
Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon
received four nominations, including Album Of The Year and Contemporary Blues
Album Of The Year for his Alligator debut, The Chicago Way. He was also nominated
for Song Of The Year (for Walk
It Off) and Contemporary Blues Male Artist Of The Year. Cannon has
one previous nomination.
Soul and R&B singer Curtis Salgado received
three nominations including Soul Blues Album Of The Year (for The Beautiful Lowdown)
and Song Of The Year (for Walk
A Mile In My Blues). He also received a nod for Soul Blues Male
Artist of The Year. Salgado has 13 previous nominations and five wins.
Lil' Ed Williams received
two top nominations, one for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year, the other for
the coveted Band Of The Year for Lil' Ed And The Blues Imperials. Williams has
20 previous nominations and two wins.
Singing sensation Shemekia Copeland
received a nomination for Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year.
Copeland has 34 previous nominations and has won a total of eight awards.
Moreland & Arbuckle received
a nomination in the Best Blues Rock Album Of The Year category for their
Alligator debut, Promised
Land Or Bust. This is the group's first nomination.
The 38th Annual Blues Music
Awards will be presented in Memphis on May 11, 2017 at the Cook Convention
Center.
Alligator artists and nominations
are as follows:
Album Of The Year: The Chicago Way
Contemporary Blues Album Of The
Year: The Chicago Way
Contemporary Blues Male Artist Of
The Year
Song Of The Year: Walk It Off, by Toronzo
Cannon
Soul Blues Album Of The Year: The Beautiful Lowdown
Soul Blues Male Artist Of The
Year
Song Of The Year: Walk A Mile In My Blues,
by David Duncan, Curtis Salgado and Mike Finnigan
B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year - Lil' Ed Williams
Band Of The Year - Lil' Ed And
The Blues Imperials
Contemporary Blues Female Artist
Of The Year
Rock Blues Album Of The Year: Promised Land Or Bust
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