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Blues Blast Magazine Announces 2023 Award Nominations
Blues Blast Magazine has announced their 2023 Blues Blast Music Award Nominations and we’re thrilled to share that Reference Recordings artists Doug MacLeod and Jimi Bott have been nominated for multiple awards! Nominations Jimi Bott Doug MacLeod How to Vote Fan voting begins July 1, 2023 and continues until August 18, 2023 at BluesBlastMagazine.com. Voting is free, and and open to anyone. You may only vote one time. If you are not currently a Blues…
Blues Blast Magazine Reviews Doug MacLeod’s “A Soul To Claim”
The latest edition of Blues Blast Magazine has a Featured Blues Review for Doug MacLeod and A Soul To Claim: “After many visits to Memphis with the Blues Music Awards and other work with the Blues Foundation, Doug MacLeod decided to move to that area and settle down in Tennessee, giving up the West Coast for a home on the Mississippi River. This album is inspired by his move and his new home. It is…
Blues Blast Magazine Strongly Recommends Fiona Boyes’ “Blues In My Heart”
The latest issue of Blues Blast Magazine has a strong recommendation for Fiona Boyes’s Blues in my Heart 20th Anniversary Edition recording: “Fiona Boyes truly stands out from the crowd… With a hard-to-define style that blends everything from Delta and swamp to Chicago blues and more, Fiona exploded onto the world blues scene with the original analog version of this CD, which was self-produced and released on her own label. … The twelfth album in…
Fiona Boyes Nominated for 2019 Blues Blast Music Award
Blues Blast Magazine has announced their 12th Annual Blues Blast Music Awards nominees, and we’re pleased to share that Fiona Boyes has been nominated for Female Blues Artist of 2019! See the full list of nominees on the Blues Blast website. Fan voting begins July 1, and is open to anyone! Fiona Boyes Recordings on RR
Blues Blast Magazine Reviews Voodoo In The Shadows
The January 31st issue of Blues Blast Magazine features a grand review for Fiona Boyes’ multiple award-nominated Voodoo In The Shadows recording: “Fiona Boyes is the standard bearer for Australian Blues. A guitarist of unique and distinctive style, she is the spiritual love child of Hubert Sumlin and Ry Cooder. A dramatic and stylized singer, she channels the old school bombast and laissez-faire of Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie with a sprinkling of Wolf grit.…
Doug MacLeod Nominated for 2018 Blues Blast Music Award
Following their recent cover story and interview, Blues Blast Magazine has announced Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain is nominated for a 2018 Blues Blast Music Award for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year. This is the second major honor for Break The Chain as it was just recently announced as the winner of the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album of the Year! Break the Chain In this release, his third album for Reference…
Blues Blast Magazine Features Doug MacLeod
Blues Blast Magazine‘s May 31 issue features Doug MacLeod on the cover along with an extensive new interview by Don Wilcock! The first time Doug MacLeod performed “Break The Chain,” the title song from his latest album, was in Denmark. “I was doing a festival. I was in this room. There must have been about 300 people there, and they all stand up there in Denmark. And I mentioned the story of “Break The Chain.”…
Blues Blast Magazine Reviews Break The Chain
Order Now “Beloved acoustic bluesman Doug MacLeod is an anachronism in the modern world, a troubadour in the songster tradition who delivers extremely personal tunes that vary from insightful and intimate to humorous or soulful, as he proves once again in this 12-tune, all-original collection that feels like he’s playing in your living room and just for you. … His homespun vocal delivery belies his birthplace and hints at other lengthy stops along the way,…
Vote for Professin’ The Blues
The polls are now open for the 2017 Blues Blast Music Awards! Make sure to cast your vote for Fiona Boyes’ Professin’ The Blues in the Acoustic Blues Album Category! Vote Now! Voting is free and open to anyone who is a Blues Blast Magazine subscriber. If you are not currently a subscriber you may vote anyway and your vote will count. You are automatically signed up as a subscriber to our free magazine as…
Fiona Boyes To Perform at the Blues Blast Music Awards!
Blues Blast Magazine has announced Fiona Boyes will join Bob Margolin, Eguene ‘Hideaway’ Bridges, Shaun Murphy, Henry Gray, Bob Corritore, Too Slim & The Taildraggers, Danielle Nicole, Guy King and more at the Blues Blast Music Awards! Make sure Fiona Boyes is playing as an award winner and vote for her for Female Blues Artist of the Year! VOTE NOW! Pre-Order her new Recording!
Vote for Fiona Boyes!
Voting is now open for the 2016 Blues Blast Music Awards and RR artist Fiona Boyes has been nominated as the Female Blues Artist of the Year! VOTE NOW! Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Order from RR! Amazon.com Apple Music Spotify Fiona Boyes:
Fiona Boyes on Blues Blast Magazine Cover!
Box & Dice artist Fiona Boyes is on the cover of the latest issue of Blues Blast Magazine! Blues Blast Interview I love it when an “authentic” blues artist forces the blues police to re-adjust their judgment on the validity of that artist’s work even though that artist’s back story doesn’t fit the cliché of who a “real” blues artist should be.Fiona Boyes is a blonde Australian woman of Scottish descent who never heard a…
Doug MacLeod & Exactly Like This Nominated for Blues Blast Music Awards
The 2015 Blues Blast Music Award Nominations have been announced and 2013 Blues Blast Music Artist of the Year Doug MacLeod returns to the BBMA lineup with another nomination for Male Blues Artist as well as a nomination for his new Reference Recordings release, Exactly Like This! The Blues Blast Music Awards In early May, a group of 30 top Blues music industry professionals including music critics, radio DJs, journalists, festival promoters, music venue managers…
Blues Blast Magazine Calls Exactly Like “This Superior Traditional Blues”
Blues critic Rainey Wetnight says if you better be dancing to Doug MacLeod’s Exactly Like This: “[Doug MacLeod] wants listeners to know that great acoustic blues sounds Exactly Like This – crisp, original, and engaging. … Nearly three decades have refined him into a renowned blues master. Performing alongside him on this album are drummer Jimi Bott, bassist Denny Croy, and pianist Michael Thompson. They all prove that music in this genre doesn’t have to…
Blues Blast Music Awards Next Week!
Next Week (10/31) brings the 2013 Blues Blast Music Awards Show and RR’s Doug MacLeod is nominated for THREE awards! Song Of The Year: Black Nights (There’s A Time) Traditional Blues Album: There’s A Time Male Blues Artist of the Year: Doug MacLeod So keep your fingers crossed for Doug! Nominee listEvent Tickets Order There’s A Time in the following formats: HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com