{"id":669,"date":"2016-01-21T02:31:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T02:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2017-06-27T02:40:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T02:40:57","slug":"bma-announced-wee-willie-walker-nominated-3x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlevillagefoundation.com\/lv2021\/bma-announced-wee-willie-walker-nominated-3x\/","title":{"rendered":"BMA ANNOUNCED! WEE WILLIE WALKER NOMINATED 3X!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wee Willie Walker Nominated 3x For The Blues Music Awards!!!<\/p>\n<table id=\"bodyTable\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; background-color: #fafafa;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"bodyCell\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 10px; width: 100%; border-top: 0;\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"templateContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0; max-width: 600px !important;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"templateHeader\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; 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line-height: 19.9733px;\">Acoustic Album<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Doug MacLeod &#8211;\u00a0<em>Exactly Like This<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Duke Robillard &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Acoustic Blues &amp; Roots of Duke Robillard<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Eric Bibb &#8211;\u00a0<em>Blues People<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Guy Davis\u00a0<em>&#8211; Kokomo Kidd<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">The Ragpicker String Band &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Ragpicker String Band<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Acoustic Artist<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Doug MacLeod<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Eric Bibb<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Gaye Adegbalola<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Guy Davis<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Ian Siegal<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Album<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Anthony Geraci &amp; the Boston Blues All-Stars &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Fifty Shades of Blue<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Buddy Guy &#8211;\u00a0<em>Born to Play Guitar<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">James Harman &#8211;\u00a0<em>Bonetime<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">The Cash Box Kings &#8211;\u00a0<em>Holding Court<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><u><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Wee Willie Walker &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/span><\/em><em style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">If Nothing Ever Changes<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Band<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Andy T &#8211; Nick Nixon Band<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Rick Estrin &amp; the Nightcats<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Sugar Ray &amp; the Bluetones<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">The Cash Box Kings<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Victor Wainwright &amp; the Wild Roots<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>B.B. King Entertainer<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">John N\u00e9meth<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Rick Estrin<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Shemekia Copeland<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Sugaray Rayford<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Victor Wainwright<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Best New Artist Album<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Eddie Cotton &#8211;\u00a0<em>One at a Time<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Igor Prado Band &#8211;\u00a0<em>Way Down South<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Mighty Mike Schermer &#8211;\u00a0<em>Blues in Good Hands<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Mr. Sipp &#8211;\u00a0<em>The Blues Child<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Slam Allen\u00a0<em>&#8211; Feel These Blues<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Contemporary Blues Album<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Buddy Guy &#8211;\u00a0<em>Born to Play Guitar<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Eugene Hideaway Bridges &#8211;\u00a0<em>Hold on a Little Bit Longer<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Shemekia Copeland &#8211;\u00a0<em>Outskirts of Love<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Sonny Landreth &#8211;\u00a0<em>Bound by the Blues<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Sugaray Rayford &#8211;\u00a0<em>Southside<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Contemporary Blues Female Artist<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Beth Hart<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Karen Lovely<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Nikki Hill<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Samantha Fish<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Shemekia Copeland<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Contemporary Blues Male Artist<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Brandon Santini<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Eugene Hideaway Bridges<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Jarekus Singleton<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Joe Louis Walker<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Sugaray Rayford<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Historical Album<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>The Henry Gray\/Bob Corritore Sessions, Vol. 1, Blues Won&#8217;t Let Me Take My Rest\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">on Delta Groove Records<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em>Hawk Squat<\/em>\u00a0by J. 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Campbell<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 14.2667px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Instrumentalist-Drums<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Cedric Burnside<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Jimi Bott<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">June Core<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Tom Hambridge<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Tony Braunagel<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Instrumentalist-Guitar<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Anson Funderburgh<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Kid Andersen<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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color: #000000;\">Al Basile<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Doug James<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Kaz Kazanoff<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Sax Gordon<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Terry Hanck<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Diunna Greenleaf<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Fiona Boyes<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Ruthie Foster<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Trudy Lynn<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Zora Young<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Pinetop Perkins Piano Player<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Allen Toussaint<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Anthony Geraci<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Barrelhouse Chuck<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">John Ginty<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Victor Wainwright<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 14.2667px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Rock Blues Album of the Year<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Joe Bonamassa &#8211;\u00a0<em>Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Joe Louis Walker &#8211;\u00a0<em>Everybody Wants a Piece<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Royal Southern Brotherhood &#8211;\u00a0<em>Don&#8217;t Look Back<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Tinsley Ellis &#8211;\u00a0<em>Tough Love<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Walter Trout &#8211;\u00a0<em>Battle Scars<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 14.2667px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Song<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Bad Feet\/Bad Hair&#8221; written and performed by James Harman<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Fifty Shades of Blue&#8221; written by Anthony Geraci and performed by Anthony Geraci &amp; the Boston Blues All-Stars<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Gonna Live Again&#8221; written and performed by Walter Trout<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Southside of Town&#8221; written by Sugaray Rayford and &amp; Ralph Carter and performed by Sugaray Rayford<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">&#8220;You Got It Good (and That Ain&#8217;t Bad)&#8221; written and performed by Doug MacLeod<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Soul Blues Album<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Bey Paule Band\u00a0<em>&#8211; Not Goin&#8217; Away<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Billy Price &amp; Otis Clay &#8211;\u00a0<em>This Time for Real<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Jackie Payne &#8211;\u00a0<em>I Saw the Blues<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Tad Robinson &#8211;\u00a0<em>Day into Night<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><em><u><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wee Willie Walker &#8211;\u00a0If Nothing Ever Changes<\/span><\/u><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 14.2667px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Soul Blues Female Artist<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Bettye LaVette<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Dorothy Moore<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Missy Anderson<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Toni Lynn Washington<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Vaneese Thomas<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 14.2667px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Soul Blues Male Artist<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;\">Frank Bey<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;\">Jackie Payne<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;\">Johnny Rawls<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;\">Otis Clay<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><u><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;\">Wee Willie Walker<\/span><\/u><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 14.2667px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Traditional Blues Album<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Andy T &#8211; Nick Nixon Band &#8211;\u00a0<em>Numbers Man<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Anthony Geraci &amp; the Boston Blues All-Stars &#8211;\u00a0<em>Fifty Shades of Blue<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Cedric Burnside Project &#8211;\u00a0<em>Descendants of Hill Country<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">James Harman &#8211;\u00a0<em>Bonetime<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">The Cash Box Kings &#8211;\u00a0<em>Holding Court<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 14.2667px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><u style=\"line-height: 19.9733px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Traditional Blues Male Artist<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Cedric Burnside<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Dave Alvin &amp; Phil Alvin<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">James Harman<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Jimmy Burns<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">John Primer<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Congratulations to all of the nominees and thanks to each and every artist who submitted his or her music for review. \u00a0The entire blues genre is elevated by the quality of music that was considered for nomination this year. \u00a0Watch for your ballots to arrive by email in the near future. 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