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| Ten Alligator Artists Receive Fifteen Blues Music Award Nominations The Blues Foundation announced the nominees for the 2012 Blues Music Awards. Ten Alligator recording artists received a total of 15 nominations. Tommy Castro received four, including one for the coveted B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year Award. Harmonica legend and Blues Hall Of Famer Charlie Musselwhite received two nominations. Chicago slide guitar hero Lil' Ed Williams also received a nomination for Entertainer Of The Year, and his whole group, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials for Band Of The Year. Singer Janiva Magness, pianist/vocalist Marcia Ball, guitarist Michael "Iron Man" Burks and harmonica master Rick Estrin each received one nomination. Newly signed Alligator artists Joe Louis Walker and Curtis Salgado also received one nomination apiece, as did Keith Crossan, saxophonist of The Tommy Castro Band. Many of the nominated Alligator artists will have releases in 2012, including new albums from Walker, Magness, Salgado, Burks, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials and Rick Estrin & The Nightcats. The 33rd Annual Blues Music Awards will be presented in Memphis on May 10, 2012 at the Cook Convention Center. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Jazz News :: home page |