Blue Rodeo, "Florida"
      Wed 5.21 @ Cafe du Nord
Hot Tuna, "San Francisco Bay Blues"
      Thu-Fri 5.15-16 @ Great American Music Hall
Joe Louis Walker, "Kenny's Barrelhouse"
      Fri 5.16 @ Biscuits and Blues
California Honeydrops, "Hey Now"
      Sun 5.18 @ Rancho Nicasio
Teresa James, "E-I-E-I-O"
      Thu 5.15 @ Sweetwater Station

2008 Blues Music Awards Winners

Tommy Castro, "It's That Time Again"
      Comtempotary Blues Album of the Year: Painkiller
      B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Watermelon Slim & The Workers, "The Wheel Man"
      Album of the Year: The Wheel Man
      Band of the Year
Bobby Rush, "Bobby Rush for President"
      Acoustic Album of the Year: Raw
      Acoustic Artist of the Year
      Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
Neal Pattman (w/ Kenny Wayne Shepherd), "Big Daddy Boogie"
      DVD of the Year: 10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads)
Holmes Brothers, "Standing In The Need Of Love"
      Soul Blues Album of the Year: State of Grace
Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy, "Resolutions"
      Best New Artist Debut: Cotton Field to Coffee House
Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter & James Cotton, "Black Cat Bone/Dust My Broom"
      Historical Album of the Year: Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down