Blues Music Awards
Curtis Salgado’s Legacy Rewind Is a Horn-Fueled Victory Lap
Curtis Salgado’s Legacy Rewind Is a Horn-Fueled Victory Lap On April 5, 2025, Curtis Salgado walked onto the stage at The Triple…
Mr. Sipp: From Church Revivals to BMA Glory
When Castro Coleman walked onto the stage at Memphis’s Orpheum Theater in January 2014, he had been playing blues for barely two…
Rick Estrin: The Call From Muddy He Never Got
Rick Estrin: The Call From Muddy He Never Got Rick Estrin stood at the Sutherland Hotel in Chicago, nineteen years old, blowing…
Chris Cain: Jazz-Blues Guitar with Albert King’s Blessing
Chris Cain: The Remarkable Guitarist Albert King Endorsed One night in the late 1980s, Chris Cain found himself on a Memphis stage…
Laura Chavez: Latina Blues Guitarist Breaking Barriers
Laura Chavez walked into JJ’s Blues in San Jose at eighteen years old. She was too young to legally be there. She…
Ronnie Baker Brooks: Carrying His Father’s Chicago Blues
Ronnie Baker Brooks learned guitar from Lonnie Brooks, Albert Collins, and B.B. King. His Alligator debut Blues In My DNA won three…
Shemekia Copeland: Blues, Social Justice, and Her Father
Shemekia Copeland earned 8 Grammy nods and 15 Blues Music Awards carrying her father Johnny Copeland's legacy into a bold new era…
Toronzo Cannon: Chicago Bus Driver by Day, Blues Star
Toronzo Cannon drove a Chicago CTA bus for 27 years while building a fierce blues career. Now full-time on Alligator Records, he…
Piper & The Hard Times: Nashville’s IBC Blues Champions
Piper and The Hard Times walked onto the Orpheum Theatre stage in Memphis in January 2024. They did something that two decades…