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JP Soars is a Boca Raton-based multi-instrumentalist who's been releasing his music with his powerhouse trio The Red Hots since 2008, when he released his debut album Back Of My Mind. JP has won the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge in 2009 and the prestigious Albert King guitar award. In 2012, he was named a Blues Music Award Nominee for Best Contemporary Male Blues Artist, and in 2019, he climbed his way to the top ten of Billboard's blues chart. In 2022, JP was a Blues Music Award nominee for Best Blues Instrumentalist on Guitar, and he was nominated for the BB King Entertainer of the Year honors and for Band of the Year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & THE TRAIN features the high-octane boogie piano and big soul sounds of vocalist and blues man Victor Wainwright, backed by one of the tightest smokin' bands on the scene. Victor's star is definitely on the rise, having won the coveted BB KING Entertainer of the Year in 2016 at Blues Music Award as well as “Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year” in both 2013 and 2014. With the release of ‘Boom Town', the band's latest record, they're poised to ignite blues/roots fans with a sound that's infectious and impossible to ignore. BIRDS OF CHICAGO is a collective built around husband and wife duo JT Nero (Chicago, IL) and Allison Russell (Montreal, QC). Since forming in 2012, they've toured internationally 10+ months of the year. Their brand of rock and roll poetry can be a little hard to categorize, for people that insist on categorizing... their voices are undoubtedly the centerpiece - Nero's fractured country soul croon is wrapped in Russell's silver and gold tones for a harmony blend that is like nothing else in music today. ‘Real Midnight' is the band's poignant new Joe Henry produced album. WoodSongs Kid: Mikaya Taylor is talented bluegrass singer from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. This 12 year old is being called ”Kentucky's Singing Angel.”

Episode 165: Growing up in the Pacific Northwest in the 1960s, Curtis Salgado fell down the rabbit hole of Deep South blues, jazz, soul and R&B and knew it would be his life's work. Now in his mid 60s, he looks back at a life full of happy accidents, earned admiration, survival and awards, including the BB King Entertainer of the Year prize. His new album on Alligator Records is Damage Control, a study in existential poise. Also in the hour, a key Nashville musician who led some of the sessions on that album, piano and organ player Kevin McKendree. He's toured the world with Brian Setzer, Delbert McClinton and more, while writing and producing soul/blues in Music City.  

Janiva Magness is one of our best known and most decorated singers, with 26 Blues Music Award nominations, and seven wins, among them BB King Entertainer of the Year. Her 2016 album Love Wins Again was nominated for a Grammy, and she just released her 15 th studio album, Change in the Weather.

UNITED BY MUSIC is a performance program for musically talented people with development and intellectual challenges. Nonprofit expert and music supporter Barbara Hammerman and mu-sic producer Amanda Gresham founded and manage this program in North America, originally created in The Netherlands in 2006. The two direct this team of professional musician mentors and supporters, find the musical talents for the program, work in weekly sessions to create per-formance shows and play at festivals and events. On this very Special Event Broadcast of WoodSongs, the organization has put together the UNITED BY MUSIC NORTH AMERICA band a blended mix of those who are neuro diverse with those who are neuro typical into a fabulous ensemble of musicians. This extraordinary group features two of their UBMNA Artist Ambassadors viral singing sensation MARLANA VANHOOSE from Kentucky and 19-year-old Mississippi blues artist phenom CHRISTONE "KINGFISH” INGRAM plus several UBMNA mentors including Grammy-nominated BB King Entertainer of the Year JANIVA MAGENESS, Northwest bluesman BEN RICE and award winning recording artists and rhythm section GARY DAVENPORT and MATT TECU.

Alligator recording artist Tommy Castro is a Westcoast blues legend who is one of the most recognizable names in the business. The 2010 BB King Entertainer of the Year harkens back to a simpler time during his San Jose roots on his latest nostalgic studio album, ‘Stompin’ Ground,’ recorded at Kid Andersens Greaseland studios. Since starting his recording career with Warner Brother’s recording artist, the Dynatones, he’s released 15 solo albums; most of which for Alligator.

VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & THE TRAIN features the high-octane boogie piano and big soul sounds of vocalist and blues man Victor Wainwright, backed by one of the tightest smokin� bands on the scene. Victor�s star is definitely on the rise, having won the coveted BB KING Entertainer of the Year in 2016 at Blues Music Award as well as “Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year� in both 2013 and 2014. With the release of �Boom Town�, the band�s latest record, they�re poised to ignite blues/roots fans with a sound that�s infectious and impossible to ignore. BIRDS OF CHICAGO is a collective built around husband and wife duo JT Nero (Chicago, IL) and Allison Russell (Montreal, QC). Since forming in 2012, they�ve toured internationally 10+ months of the year. Their brand of rock and roll poetry can be a little hard to categorize, for people that insist on categorizing... their voices are undoubtedly the centerpiece - Nero's fractured country soul croon is wrapped in Russell's silver and gold tones for a harmony blend that is like nothing else in music today. �Real Midnight� is the band�s poignant new Joe Henry produced album. WoodSongs Kid: Mikaya Taylor is talented bluegrass singer from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. This 12 year old is being called �Kentucky�s Singing Angel.�

Standing 6’ 5” 300 pounds, Sugaray Rayford is a formidable force. Critics consider Sugaray Rayford to be one of the greatest and last blues shouters; in the same league, as: Big Mama Thornton, Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner. Rarely does a singer appear carrying within him the gift of universal appeal that towers above tastes and trends. Grammy Award nominated, Sugaray Rayford is such an artist. Nominated for BB King Entertainer of the year multiple times.

Few performers in American music have toiled for so many years before earning widespread acclaim and respect as Bobby Rush. Rolling Stone dubbed Rush King of the Chitlin' Circuit. Martin Scorsese featured him in his 2003 documentary The Blues. In 2006 he was named to the Blues Hall of Fame, and in 2015, he was named BB King Entertainer of the Year, one week before King himself, a close friend of Rush, passed away. But Bobby Rush is not coasting. He's plays between 100 and 200 dates a year with a big band, and he's recently signed the most significant record deal of his life. Rounder Records, a label with a long history of backing authentic folk and blues artists, has released Porcupine Meat. As the title implies, it's as rural and down-home and true to himself as anything he's ever done. In this hour, Bobby Rush speaks about his passion for performing, his farewell to BB King and about the long, arduous journey from his youth in Pine Bluff AR to Chicago and to his years touring the Deep South as a regional favorite. Then toward the end of the show, our time machine audio segment steps back another generation in the blues, with tape of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim and Sonny Boy Williamson telling Alan Lomax what it was REALLY like to launch a music career in the 1920s and 30s in the segregated south.  

From struggles as a foster child in Detroit, to personal addictions as an adult, Janiva Magness has beat the odds to rise in the music industry and become what USA Today calls one of the biggest blues stars. Throughout her career, Janiva has earned numerous awards including 7 Blues Music Awards and the coveted BB King Entertainer of the Year in 2009, only the second woman to do so following Koko Taylor. She’s reached a larger and more diverse audience with each succeeding album and developed a reputation as a live entertainer that’s made her a staple of the international festival circuit. Her new album, Love Wins Again has peaked the Billboard charts and marks the 12th solo album of her career; 3 being with the Alligator Records Label.

Intro Song Andy T Nick Nixon Band, “Gate's Salty Blues”, Numbers Man, Blind Pig Records, Nominated Album of the Year First Set Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues, “Blues Shock”, Blues Shock, Blind Pig Records, Instrumentalist-Harp Anthony Geraci & The Boston Blues All-Stars, “Heard the Tutwiler Whistle Blow”, Fifty Shades of Blue, Delta Groove Music, Pinetop Perkins Piano Player, Best Song of the Year, Traditional Blues Album Bob Corritore & Henry Gray, “Let's Get High”, Blues Won't Let Me Take My Rest, Delta Groove Music, Historical Album of the Year Second Set - WIB Karen Lovely, “Ten Miles of Bad Road”, Ten Miles of Bad Road, Contemporary Blues Female Artist, Gaye Adegbalola, “Grandma & Grandpa's House”, Blues In All Flavors, Hot Toddy Music, Acoustic Artist Samantha Fish, “I'm In Love With You”, Wild Heart, Contemporary Blues Female Artist,Shemekia Copeland, “I Always Get My Man”, Turn The Heat Up, Contemporary Blues Female Artist, Third Set Bob Corritore & John Primer, “The Clock”, Knockin' Around The Blues, Contemporary Blues Male Artist, Eric Bibb, “Every Wind In The River”, Deeper In The Well, Acoustic Album, Acoustic ArtistGuy Davis, “Down South Blues”, Sweetheart Like You, Acoustic Artist, Acoustic AlbumJohn Nemeth, Mother In Law (Live), Blues Live, BB King Entertainer of the Year, Junior Wells, Hey Lawdy Mama, Hoodoo Man Blues, Historical Album Thanks to the Blues Foundation for making all of this possible! Become a member today so you can vote in the future! Thanks to Michael Allen from the Crossroads Blues Gallery  

  Intro Song Johnny Rawls, “Born To The Blues”, Tiger In A Cage, Catfood Music, Nominated Soul Blues Male Artist First Set Igor Prada Band & Delta Groove All Stars, “Matchbox”, Way Down South, Delta Groove Music, Best New Artist Album, Sugaray Rayford lead singer nominated for Contemporary New Album, Contemporary Blues Male Artist, BB King Entertainer of Year, Song of the Year Jarekus Singleton, “Blame Game”, Refuse To Lose, Alligator Records, Contemporary Blues Male Artist Cash Box Kings, “Download Blues”, Holding Court, Blind Pig Records, Album of the Year, Band of the Year, Traditional Blues Album Second Set - Brandon Santini, “One More Mile”, Live and Extended, Vizztone Label Group, Instrumentalist - Harmonica Doug MacLeod, “You Got It Good (And That Ain't Bad)”, Exactly Like This, Reference Recordings, Acoustic Album, Acoustic Artist, Song of the Year Buddy Guy, “Come Back Muddy”, Born To Play Guitar, RCA Silvertone, Album of Year, Contemporary Blues Album Third Set - WIB Lisa Mann, “The Blues Is My Medicine”, Move On, Instrumentalist – Bass Missy Andersen, “Rent Party”, in the moment, Soul Blues Female Artist Zora Young & Mike and the Tornadoes, “I Love Chicago”, Friday Night, Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female) Fourth SetVictor Wainwright & the Wildroots, “Stop Bossin' Me Baby”, Boom Town, Band of the Year, BB King Entertainer of the Year, Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Eddie Cotton, “One At A Time”, One At A Time, DeChamp Records, Best New Artist Album, Mighty Mike Schermer, “Blues In Good Hands”, Blues In Good Hands, Vizztone Records, Best New Artist Album Thanks to the Blues Foundation for making all of this possible! Become a member today so you can vote in the future! Thanks to Michael Allen from the Crossroads Blues Gallery  

Bobby Rush, the living legend, is the 2015 BB King Entertainer of the year, a 3 time Grammy-nominated, ambassador of the blues, and the adopted son of Jackson, Mississippi. According to the Rolling Stone Magazine, he is the reigning “King of the Chitlin Circuit.” He took the Blues from the outhouse to the White House, to the Carolina’s to the Great Wall of China, from the rap game to the Blues Hall of Fame.

Alligator recording artist, Tommy Castro is the 2010 BB King Entertainer of the Year. He’s one of the most recognizable names in the blues world. Since starting his recording career with Warner Brother’s recording artist, the Dyntones, he’s released 14 solo albums; most of which for Alligator and Blind Pig Records and built a remarkable legacy which includes winning 6 Blues Music Awards, touring with B.B. King, recording John Lee Hookers last session and working as the house band for three seasons of NBC’s comedy showcase.