The Blues Foundation is excited to announce the Nominees for the 45th Annual Blues Music Awards, taking place Thursday, May 9 in Memphis, TN.

AND THE NOMINEES ARE...

Acoustic Album
Wild Ox Moan, Catfish Keith
Raw Blues 1, Doug MacLeod
Sticks & Strings, EG Kight
Ridin' the Blinds, Hudspeth & Taylor
Ghost Hymns, William Lee Ellis

Acoustic Artist
Catfish Keith
Doug MacLeod
Eric Bibb
Keb’ Mo’
Kevin Burt

JEFF LARSON will release his first solo full-length album in a decade—the melodically sparkling and CA-themed ADOBE HOME—April 19 via Nashville-based label Melody Place.

For more than four decades the songwriter, New York Times best-selling author (The Wind Done Gone), and acclaimed educator Alice Randall has been one of the few Black female writers on Nashville’s Music Row, and the first to pen a #1 hit (Trisha Yearwood’s  "XXXs and OOOs"). And while she has seen her songs recorded by multiple generations of country artists - from Glen Campbell and Mo Bandy, to Marie Osmond and Yearwood - none of those artists looked like her. Until now.

Southern California’s favorite punk rock and craft beer tasting festival Punk In The Park is celebrating its fourth year by hitting the road in 2024 with Punk In The Park American Road Trip. The first stop for Punk In The Park on tour is Saturday, May 4 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA.

The initial lineup of legendary punk rock bands for Punk In The Park San Francisco includes Descendents, The Vandals, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Exploited, T.S.O.L., Adolescents, The Dickies, Dwarves and more.

Steve Baskin and the Fourteens’ new album, Love Is Hard, is the kind of sophisticated, soulful statement of a record that comes only with decades of hard-earned experience—at life and love and music.

“Having been around the block a few times, Love Is Hard is a set of songs that brings a grownup perspective on love and relationships from just about every angle,” Baskin says. “It deals with marriage, family, community, losing a close friend, and our divided world.”

Lee Fields is a funk and soul legend 50 years in the making. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Charlotte Film Festival 2022 and an Official Selection of sold-out premiere at DOC NYC 2022, Lee Fields: Faithful Man, the feature documentary directed by Jessamyn Ansary and Joyce Mishaan, chronicles Fields’ journey to find his place in soul music history, from vinyl to virtual — and back again.

Today, with the release of the galvanizing opener and strikingly self-honest title track from their forthcoming album, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers further show why Revelations is their most resilient and raw, blunt and biting, compassionate and celebratory set of music to date.

Blues-rock icon Walter Trout is exploding into 2024 with a new album, heavy touring and today he reveals the new video for Broken featuring powerhouse singer Beth Hart. You can watch the video HERE. The song is taken from new album, Broken, which will be released on 1 March via Provogue / Mascot Label Group and features appearances from Hart, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider and Harmonica virtuoso Will Wilde.

Brian K. Pagels and Stephen Russ, the DC-area duo, Brian K & The Parkway, are releasing their second single, “Straight Through” featuring Cat Popper, known for her band Puss N Boots with Norah Jones and Sasha Dobson and for her work with Jack White, Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, among others, who provides guest vocals on the track out March 1, 2024 – Pre-Save HERE.

Benjamin Croft is a British Prog keyboardist, music producer and songwriter. He will be releasing his new single “Wrestling With Plato” on February 2nd. The song features Lynsey Ward (Exploring Birdsong) on vocals and virtuoso drummer Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats).

“Wrestling with Plato” is a tragic love story told over the lifetime of two people. A song about elaborate excuses; in the case of our protagonists, these are far reaching…