2013 Blues Music Awards pictures, gallery 3
May 9, 2013, the best blues artists on the planet and a small army of fans and media flocked to the Memphis Cook Convention Center. The place rocked for the 34th Annual Blues Music Awards. This gallery shows you a good collection of Blues Music Award pictures. Blues artists in the pictures include: Rick Estrin, Harmonica Artist of the Year, Shakura S'Aida, Nick Moss, Annie Raines and Paul Rishell, Curtis Salgado, and more. Thanks to Joe Powell of Blues for a Cause for big time help with the captions.
Also see the 2013 Blues Music Awards Picture Gallery 1 and Gallery 2.
Read stories of the event at Corndancer dot-com and Weekly Grist for the Eyes and Mind.
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Nick Moss of the band of the same name.
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Nick Moss and Michael Ledbetter, vocals and guitar.
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Joe Louis Walker and drummer Tom Hambridge.
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Joe Louis Walker sidemen, Mike Finigan, AKA "Mr. Yellow Hair," keyboard; Scott Sutherland, bassist and drummer Tom Hambridge.
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Scott Sutherland, bassist.
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Billy Boy Arnold belting out some serious harp.
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Curtis Salgado, winner of the Soul Blues Mail Artist, Soul Blues Album, "Soul Shot," and the BB King Entertainer of the Year Award,
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Billy Flynn, bass, Bob Corritore, Harp, and Bob Margolin backing up Diunna Greanleaf. (They also played for Mud Morganfield).
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Two Bobs. Corritore and Margolin in that order.
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Rick Estrin (minus the Nightcats in this picture). Rick won the Instrumentalist, Harmonica Award.
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Rick: "Alas poor harmonica, I knew ye well."
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Smiling Rick.
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J. Hanson, drummer for the Nightcats
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'Kid' Andersen, guitar and Rick Estrin.
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Annie Raines, harp and vocals; and Paul Rishell.
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Annie and Paul
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Annie on the harp.
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Shakura S'Aida points something out while Gary Davenport whacks the bass.
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Gary Davenport, Shakura S'Aida and Zach Zunis, guitar.