Alligator Records Artists Win Blues Music Awards
ALLIGATOR ARTISTS CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, MARCIA BALL AND CURTIS SALGADO RECEIVE BLUES MUSIC AWARDS
TWO ANDERS OSBORNE-PRODUCED ARTISTS ALSO WIN
Alligator Records artists were among the winners at the star-studded 33rd annual Blues Music Awards show on Thursday, May 10, 2012. The five-hour long celebration and concert, hosted by The Blues Foundation, was held at The Cook Convention Center in Memphis. Harmonica legend and Blues Hall Of Famer Charlie Musselwhite received two awards: Traditional Blues Male Artist Of The Year and Best Instrumentalist - Harmonica. Musselwhite has now won a total of 26 Blues Music Awards. Marcia Ball took the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Of The Year Award, her ninth overall award. And for the second time in his career, Curtis Salgado won Soul Blues Artist Of The Year. Musselwhite and label mate Joe Louis Walker were among the dozens of blues artists who performed.
Alligator's Anders Osborne, whose new album Black Eye Galaxy was released on May 1 to rave reviews and massive radio play, was deeply involved with projects from two BMA Award winners. Tab Benoit's Medicine -- which Osborne co-produced, and on which he played and co-wrote seven songs with Benoit -- won Contemporary Blues Album Of The Year. And the title track from Johnny Sansone's The Lord Is Waiting And The Devil Is Too, produced by Osborne and on which he also plays guitar, won for Song Of The Year.
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Traditional Blues Male Artist Of The Year
Best Instrumentalist - Harmonica
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Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
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Soul Blues Male Artist Of The Year
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Tab Benoit, Medicine - Contemporary Blues Album Of The Year (Co-producer)
Johnny Sansone, The Lord Is Waiting And The Devil Is Too - Song Of The Year (Producer)
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