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Tabla Master Zakir Hussain, 73, Succumbs to Illness
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The Blues Foundation will present the Blues Music Awards May 8, 2008, at the Grand Casino Event Center in Tunica Resorts, Miss.
Among those heading the list of honorees is Bobby Rush who garnered four nominations. Watermelon Slim & the Workers received six nominations for the second consecutive year with their album of the year candidate The Wheel Man. Koko Taylor returns to form with four nominations, including one for her album of the year nominee Old School. Lurrie Bell also was honored with three nominations, including one he shares with his late father Carey in the newly-created DVD category.
Album of the year nominees include:
Bettye LaVette’s The Scene of the Crime
James Blood Ulmer’s Bad Blood in the City
Koko Taylor’s Old School
Nick Moss & the Flip Tops’ Play It ‘Til Tomorrow
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan’s On the Jimmy Reed Highway
Sugar Ray & the Bluetones’ My Life, My Friends, My Music
Watermelon Slim & the Workers’ The Wheel Man
More info: blues.org
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