ALLIGATOR RECORDS AND ARTISTS CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE AND JANIVA MAGNESS ALL NAMED BLUES MATTERS (UK) INTERNATIONAL WRITER'S POLL WINNERS

ALLIGATOR RECORDS AND ARTISTS CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE AND JANIVA MAGNESS ALL NAMED BLUES MATTERS (UK) INTERNATIONAL WRITER'S POLL WINNERS

 

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Alligator Records, currently bringing its 40th anniversary to a close, was named Best International Record Label in the Blues Matters (UK) International Writer's Poll. Blues legend Charlie Musselwhite won the award for Best Harmonica, and singing sensation Janiva Magness took the award for Best Vocalist.


Musselwhite's latest CD, The Well, received a Grammy nomination. Living Blues said, "The Well features full-toned Memphis-to-Chicago harp chops and is filled with soul-stirring, spiritual uplift and hard-won, life-affirming blues wisdom."

Magness, winner of four Blues Music Awards (including the 2009 award for Entertainer Of The Year), is currently putting the finishing touches on a new CD due for release in Spring of 2012. Her previous album, 2010's The Devil Is An Angel Too, debuted at #3 on the Billboard Blues Chart The CD also debuted as the #1 blues CD at iTunes.