Four Alligator Artists Win Blues Blast Music Awards
Blues Blast, the free internet blues magazine, announced the winners of the 2015 Blues Blast Music Awards at a ceremony held at The Fluid Events Center in Champaign, Illinois on Friday, September 25th, 2015. Alligator Records artists Elvin Bishop, Marcia Ball, and Selwyn Birchwood all received awards. Bishop won the Male Blues Artist Of The Year award and Contemporary Blues Album Of The Year award (for Can't Even Do Wrong Right). Marcia Ball won Female Blues Artist Of Year. Newcomer Selwyn Birchwood, whose Alligator debut, Don't Call No Ambulance, was released in 2014, received the coveted Sean Costello Rising Star Award.
During the ceremony, legendary Chicago bluesman Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Blues Blast magazine. Clearwater's latest studio album, West Side Strut (Alligator) is an energized mix of West Side blues and old school rock injected with a tough, up-to-the-minute contemporary edge.
