Browsing: Irma Thomas

Albums include a remastered edition of Booker’s definitive 1982 LP, Classified and the vinyl debut of Thomas’ GRAMMY® Award-winning 2006 LP, After the Rain

You might say Irma Thomas had a lot to sing about. She was born Irma Lee in Pontchatoula, Louisiana. She went to school and sang in a gospel quartet at her local church. Then she got pregnant, married, pregnant again and divorced. She remarried and gave birth to two more children. Oh, and this is all by the time she’s 19…

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The 35th Blues Music Awards nominees have been announced by The Blues Foundation. Incredible performers have been nominated in 25 categories

30th annual Chicago Blues Festival on June 6-9, Shemekia Copeland and Bobby Rush kick off the festival’s Journey Up the Mississippi

Last night was the presentation of the prestigious 32nd annual Blues Music Awards. See who took home top honors.

Marcia Ball is a force of New Orleans piano playing & a Texas roadhouse fireball! Her new album “Roadside Attractions” from Alligator Records is a pumped-up, gulf coast piano force to be reckoned with!