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| Sugarcane Collins Wins Australian Blues Album Of The Year At the Australian Blues Music "Chain" Awards, On Thursday 7th February 2008, presented as part of the Australian Blues Music Festival held in Goulburn, Australia, Queensland Bluesman Sugarcane Collins was presented with a "Chain" for the Austalian Blues Album Of The Year for his universally acclaimed blues album Way Down The River . Sugarcane was in Goulburn to receive his award. Says Sugarcane " As Willie Dixon once said ' the blues is the roots - everything else is the fruits'. Well these fruits sure taste sweet to me!" On Way Down The River Sugarcane brings the old delta alive as you travel through his songs to the earliest days of the blues. The 2004 Queensland Songwriter of the Year conjures acoustic blues as it was born to be: powerful, personal and penetrating. Says Collins, "I have always been into the old time original acoustic bluesmen and the songs on Way Down The River are set in the Mississippi Delta of the 20's and 30's. It's all about the cotton fields, baptist churches, juke joints, prison cells and street corners of the south that gave birth to the blues". Appearances in 2007 at major Australian festivals like the Thredbo Legends of Blues Festival, Goulburn's Australian Blues Music Festival, the East Coast Blues & Roots Festival in Byron Bay and the 'Blues Tent' at the Gympie Muster are testament to Collins' fast growing reputation as one of Australia's most distinctive and original blues artists. With a big soulful voice that is as deep and passionate as his finger-picking and wine bottleneck slide is flawless, when Sugarcane sings the blues you see the fervour in his face, the light in his eyes, the veins in his neck. A formidable presence on stage, his shows are equal parts aggression and grace. Sugarcane will be touring the USA this summer. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Jazz News :: home page |