FOUR ALLIGATOR ARTISTS RECEIVE TEN LIVING BLUES CRITICS' AND READERS' AWARDS

Shemekia Copeland and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram Lead All Artists With Four Awards Apiece

Copeland And Kingfish Each Named Blues Artist Of The Year (Male And Female) In Both The Critics' and Readers' Polls

Copeland Wins Critics' And Readers' Awards For Most Outstanding Blues Singer

Kingfish Also Wins Best New Recording/Contemporary Blues For Live In London And Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)

Marcia Ball And Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith (Of The Cash Box Kings), Each Receive One Award

Living Blues magazine, in its July 2024 issue, announced the winners of the 2024 Living Blues Critics' and Readers' Awards. This year, four Alligator artists received a total of ten awards.

Vocalist Shemekia Copeland was named Blues Artist Of The Year (Female) and Most Outstanding Blues Singer in both the Critics' and Readers' Polls, for a total of four awards. Copeland's new album, Blame It On Eve, will be released later this fall.

Copeland's four awards were matched only by GRAMMY Award-winning guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Christone "Kingfish" Ingram. He was similarly named Blues Artist Of The Year (Male) in both the Critics' and Readers' Polls. He also won the Critics' Awards for Best New Recording/Contemporary Blues for Live In London, and for Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar).

Texas pianist/vocalist Marcia Ball was named Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard) in the Readers' Poll

Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith, drummer for The Cash Box Kings, won the Critics' Award for Most Outstanding Musician (Drums).

Artists and their awards are below:  

CRITICS' AWARDS:
Blues Artist Of The Year (Female)
Most Outstanding Blues Singer

READERS' AWARDS:
Blues Artist Of The Year (Female)
Most Outstanding Blues Singer

 

 

CRITICS' AWARDS:
Blues Artist Of The Year (Male)
Best New Recording / Contemporary Blues (Live In London)
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)

READERS' AWARD:
Blues Artist Of The Year (Male)

 

 

READERS' AWARDS:
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)

 

 

 

 

 

CRITICS' AWARD:
Most Outstanding Musician (Drums) - Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith