Vote for the 7th Jammy Awards

Here is one category choice that I want to encourage you to vote for: The Tour Of The Year winner should be Solid Blues Tour with North Mississippi Allstars and Mavis Staples. This would be an awesome opportunity for a gospel-soul original like Mavis Staples to win a Jammy award, an excellent crossover of blended genres and music history — plus an honor for a civil rights singer in a time of our nation’s history when revisiting progressive songs is important in the public dialog. Listen to Pops Staples. Listen to The Staples Singers. Pick up the latest solo album from Mavis. I saw one show on the collaborative Solid Blues tour and it was one of my personal favorite concert experiences of 2007. NMA played acoustic to open the show, and then they were the electric backing band for Charlie Musslewhite (chicago blues harmonica player) and then for the climactic set by Mavis Staples that brought the house down. Please go vote for Solid Blues & Mavis Staples for the 7th Jammy Awards.

I wrote the mini-reviews for 4 of them, which were among my votes,
# 10 – Avett Brothers: Emotionalism
# 14 – Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance: Give Thanks To Chank
# 17 – North Mississippi Allstars: Mississippi Folk Music Volume 1
# 28 – Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: This Is Somewhere

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–Daniel