Blues Singer Eden Brent is Nominated for Album Of The Year @ 2011 Blues Music Awards
Blues Sensation Eden Brent Nominated For Album Of The Year, Koko Taylor And Pinetop Perkins Blues Music Awards
Boogie-woogie
pianist Eden Brent has been nominated for three 2011 Blues Music Awards
for her album ‘Ain’t Got No Troubles’ (Yellow Dog Records) in the
categories of Album of the Year, Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues
Female) and the Pinetop Perkins Award (Piano Player). Earlier this year,
the Mississippi native won her third Blues Music Award from the Blues
Foundation, for Piano Player of the Year. Online voting for the Blues
Music Awards here: blues.org/bluesmusicawards/vote.php
Amazon
ranked ‘Ain’t Got No Troubles’ its #4 Blues album of 2010 (Buddy Guy
and Mavis Staples took the top spots; Eric Clapton was #6). The album
debuted at #1 on the iTunes Blues chart. It received glowing reviews,
too: USA Today praised Brent’s “raw vocal sound” while NPR Song of the
Day called her “irresistibly fresh.”
Brent also received an
artist fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission; was a featured
guest on several nationally syndicated radio programs, including NPR
Weekend Edition, American Routes, House of Blues Radio Hour and Beale
Street Caravan; and dazzled audiences in major cities across the US with
live renditions of songs from ‘Ain’t Got No Troubles.’
The Blues
Foundation’s 32nd Blues Music Awards will be presented Thursday, May
5th at the Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, and will be
broadcast live in their entirety on Sirius XM’s B.B. King’s Bluesville.
Read more rave reviews for ‘Ain’t Got No Troubles’ here: