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Living Blues #285 Top Ten Reviews

SELWYN BIRCHWOOD
Exorcist

Alligator Records – AL5012

Selwyn Birchwood cuts loose on his new record, Exorcist. The singer-songwriter-guitarist extraordinaire offers up 13 choice cuts that highlight his soulful vocals and incendiary lead guitarwork.

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30th Annual Living Blues Awards (2023)


Critics’ Poll

Blues Artist of the Year (Male)

John Primer

Blues Artist of the Year (Female)

Shemekia Copeland

Most Outstanding Blues Singer

Irma Thomas

Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica)

Charlie Musselwhite

Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard) 

Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne

Most Outstanding Musician (Bass)

Bob Stroger

Most Outstanding Musician (Drums)

Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith

Most Outstanding Musician (Horns)

The Texas Horns

Most Outstanding Musician (Other)

Shardé Thomas (Fife)

Best Live Performer

Bobby Rush

Comeback Artist of the Year

Jimi “Prime Time” Smith

Artist Deserving More Attention

Dylan Triplett

Best Blues Albums of 2022

Album of the Year

Diunna Greenleaf
I Ain’t Playin’
Little Village Foundation

Best New Recording / Contemporary Blues

Shemekia Copeland
Done Come Too Far
Alligator

Best New Recording / Traditional or Acoustic Blues

Taj Mahal &

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Living Blues #284 Top Ten Reviews

ARTHUR ADAMS
Kick Up Some Dust

Cleopatra Blues – CLO3790

Legendary author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “there are no second acts in American lives.” But Fitzgerald passed away in 1940,

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Living Blues #283 Top 10 Reviews

TAJ MAHAL 
Savoy

Stony Plain Records – SPCD1470

Taj Mahal is music royalty. A prime exponent of both Americana and so-called “world music” long before either of those labels came into widespread use,

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