Willie Nelson and Ray Price, Run That By Me One More Time (Lost Highway)

Ronnie Boudreaux, I Wrote This Song For You (Independent)

Little Richard, Get Down With It! The Complete Okeh Sessions (Columbia/Legacy)

Johnny Winter, Winter Essentials 1960-1967 (Fuel 2000)

Freddy Fender, Rock ‘n’ Roll/Interpra De Rock! (Arhoolie)

Meeting the Lord at the Old Scorpio

Various Artists, Swingbillies: Hillbilly and Western Swing On Modern/Colonial/Flair 1947-52 (Ace)

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achivement in Music Award: Eddie Bo

One of the last living exponents of the long lost “Junkers” piano style popularized by men such as Champion Jack Dupree, Archibald and Professor Longhair, Eddie Bo is much more […]

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Sideman Award: Smokey Johnson

Joseph “Smokey” Johnson occupied the drum stool in Fats Domino’s band for 28 years and his powerhouse beats can be heard on hundreds of local productions recorded during the ’60s […]

Bobby Rush

It’s more than likely that on any given evening you’ll find blues man Bobby Rush behind the wheel of his modest tour bus (he’s often referred to it as “the […]