Critics’ Poll
Blues Artist of the Year (Male)
Bobby Rush
Blues Artist of the Year (Female)
Shemekia Copeland
Most Outstanding Blues Singer
Mavis Staples
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)
Jimmy Johnson
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica)
Billy Branch
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)
Marcia Ball
Most Outstanding Musician (Bass)
Benny Turner
Most Outstanding Musician (Drums)
Cedric Burnside
Most Outstanding Musician (Horns)
The Texas Horns: Kaz Kazanoff,
BETTYE LAVETTE
Blackbirds
Verve – B0031706-02
Bettye LaVette considers the creative success and widespread recognition she has achieved in recent years her “fifth career.” After so many stops and starts,
DOM FLEMONS
Prospect Hill: The American Songster Omnibus
Omnivore Records – OVCD-354
Dom Flemons’ Prospect Hill: The American Songster Omnibus is an ambitious undertaking to redefine the “songster,” a term used to describe musical artists who “sang and played a variety of material in the years before the First World War.” Flemons cites artists such as Papa Charlie Jackson,
