Guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader Joe Louis Walker is nominated for five awards � Album of the Year and Contemporary Blues Album (for Between a Rock and the Blues), Contemporary Blues Male Artist, Guitar Instrumentalist, and Song of the Year for �I�m Tide,� one of the tracks on his Stony Plain CD.
Guitarist, producer, songwriter and touring bandleader Duke Robillard � who recently earned his second Grammy for his 16th Stony Plain album, Stomp! The Blues Tonight � earned four Blues Award nominations, again reflecting the success of his new Stony Plain album. The CD is up for Album of the Year, while Duke Robillard�s Jumpin� Blues Revue is nominated as Band of the Year; the artist also earned nods as Guitar Instrumentalist and Traditional Blues Male Artist.
Ronnie Earl, the Boston-area guitarist, earned two nominations � for Contemporary Blues Album for his Stony Plain CD, Living in the Light, and for Guitar Instrumentalist.
A fourth Stony Plain artist, singer Maria Muldaur, was nominated for Acoustic Album of the Year, for Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy - Good Time Music for Hard Times, a spirited album recreating the jug band era of the Great Depression.
Voting for the 2010 Awards will begin December 10. Online voting is via the Blues Foundation�s website. www.blues.org.
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