Stefan Grossman – Sparta, New Jersey
Though he may be best known as a major player in the folk and country blues revival of the 1960s, Stefan Grossman is being honored for the films he has made available through his Guitar [...]
Tom Hambridge – Nashville, Tennessee
Though Tom Hambridge has played drums with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, and Roy Buchanan and on countless award-winning albums, and has had over 300 of his own songs recorded since 2000, few people [...]
Marcia Weaver – Jackson, Mississippi
When Marcia Weaver became Dorothy Moore’s manager in the late 1990s, Moore had virtually quit the music business. Weaver helped Moore through legal issues regarding her royalties, and in 2002 helped her set up her [...]
Mike Vernon Antequera, Spain
After working with Curtis Jones, Otis Spann, Mae Mercer, Champion Jack Dupree, and Eddie Boyd in the early 1960s, Mike Vernon founded the Blue Horizon label in February 1965 with Purdah and Outa-Site appearing within [...]
Gene Tomko – Lafayette, Louisiana
Gene Tomko started out as a photographer capturing images of the blues artists he so admired more than 20 years ago when the blues resurgence of the ’80s and ’90s was in full swing, traveling [...]
Gerard Herzhaft – Lyon, France
Gerard Herzhaft’s Encyclopedia of the Blues should be an essential addition to every fan’s bookshelf. It was first published in 1979 in Europe, but after many long trips to the United States, Herzhaft revised his [...]
Dick Waterman – Oxford, Mississippi
If, as Rod Stewart famously sang, “Every picture tells a story,” then Dick Waterman has both the pictures and stories of the blues. As an agent and manager in the 1960s, Waterman and his Avalon [...]
Jerry Schaefer – East Islip, New York
Jerry Schaefer has presented the only commercial blues radio program in the New York City/Long Island area for more than a decade. His show, Graveyard Blues, is featured on WRCN 103.9 FM on Sundays from [...]
Larry Lisk – St. Petersburg, Florida
Now in his 16th year hosting Mo Blues Monday on Tampa's WMNF 88.5 FM, a 70,000-watt community radio station, Larry Lisk has made his show the definitive place for west-central Florida blues lovers to get [...]
Blue Star Connection – Winter Park, Colorado
Since its beginning in 2005, the mission of Blue Star Connection has been to help medically fragile children and teens. The organization was born when John Catt of the Grand County Blues Society asked a [...]