Thursday, February 10, 2022

2022 Grammy nominations

I am honored to have played on two of this year's Grammy nominated albums.    

Best Traditional Blues Album

  • 100 Years Of Blues — Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite 
  • Traveler's Blues — Blues Traveler
  • I Be Trying — Cedric Burnside 
  • Be Ready When I Call You — Guy Davis
  • Take Me Back — Kim Wilson



Tuesday, February 01, 2022

2021 Blues Music Award winners

I'm proud to have played on 100 Years of Blues with Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite.  

At the 2021 Blues Music Awards the album won in both the Traditional Blues Album category and Album of the Year!

From American Blues Scene:

This entire 12-track release is just two good-old-blues-boys sitting together and jamming. It’s absolutely brilliant. Most of the songs on 100 Years of Blues were written by either Bishop or Musselwhite, and they teamed up to write the title track. Along the way they also pay homage to Roosevelt Sykes with “West Helena Blues,” an appropriate song given the amount of times each artist has played at the King Biscuit Blues Festival. The duo also cover Leroy Carr’s “Midnight Hour Blues,” and Willie Dixon’s “Help Me.”

The album was produced, recorded, mixed, mastered, chopped, scattered, and smothered by Christoffer “Kid” Andersen at his Greaseland Studios in San Jose, and at Bishop’s Hog Heaven Studio in Lagunitas. Kid also plays upright bass on four tracks. The only other artist on the record is none other than Bob Welsh who is part of Bishop’s Big Fun Trio as well as playing and recording with a truckload of blues luminaries. Welsh provides guitar on seven songs and piano on the other five.