Slim, Bishop Earn Blues Award Nominations
Watermelon Slim & the Workers and Elvin Bishop have each received four Blues Music Awards nominations this year.
Slim earned two individual nominations:
BB King Entertainer of the Year
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
…while he and The Workers were nominated for:
Band of the Year
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year - No Paid Holidays
Slim has racked up an amazing 17 Blues Award nominations in the past four years.
Bishop, who was nominated for a Grammy earlier this month, also received four nominations:
Album of the Year - The Blues Rolls On
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year - The Blues Rolls On
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
Song of the Year - “The Blues Rolls On”
The 30th edition of the Blues Music Awards will take place on May 7, 2009 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee. The complete list of 2009 Blues Music Awards nominees can be found here.