Nigel Hall released a new single, “The Sun.” The song is set to land on the Lettuce keyboardist and vocalist’s upcoming solo album, Spiritual, set to arrive on July 16 via Regime Music Group.
Hall announced Spiritual — the follow-up to his 2015 solo debut Ladies & Gentlemen… Nigel Hall — earlier this year. Nigel previously previewed the new LP with “Wake Me,” and “Gotta Go To Work” and now follows with third and final single, “The Sun.”
From the New York Times:
On the heels of winning his second Grammy in March, and on the verge of publishing a memoir in June, Rush, now in his 80s, is enjoying a moment of recognition. A lesser-known figure compared to many of the luminaries he has considered friends and mentors, including Elmore James, Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Rush is one of the last remaining Black blues musicians who experienced the horror of Jim Crow-era racism and participated, however tangentially, in the genre’s postwar flowering.
“I may be the oldest blues singer around, me and Buddy Guy,” he said in October, during the first of several conversations, this one via video conference. Rush sat at the edge of a couch at his son’s house in Jackson, slouching to peer into a laptop screen and trotted out a quip he uses onstage: “If I’m not the oldest, I’m the ugliest.”
Congrats to Elvin Bishop, Bobby Rush and Walter Trout on their 2021 BMA wins!
Album of the Year – WINNER 100 Years of Blues, Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite
Song of the Year – WINNER “All Out of Tears” – written by Walter Trout, Maria Trout, and Teeny Tucker (performed by Walter Trout)
Acoustic Blues Album – WINNER Rawer Than Raw, Bobby Rush
Traditional Blues Album – WINNER 100 Years of Blues, Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite
Nominated:
Album of the Year: Rawer Than Raw, Bobby Rush
Album of the Year: Rise Up, Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
Traditional Blues Album: Rise Up, Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
Blues Rock Album: Ordinary Madness, Walter Trout
Blues Rock Album: Ice Cream In Hell, Tinsley Ellis
Blues Rock Artist: Tinsley Ellis
Traditional Blues Male Artist: Jontavious Willis
“Barefoot, wearing all black, a solitary guitarist sits on the stage, her face shrouded by a curtain of long hair, her hands a blur of motion. The sound she makes is so cavernous, evocative and frenetic it sounds as though at least two more guitarists are hiding somewhere in the wings of this atmospheric art deco theatre.
They aren’t: Gwenifer Raymond – in her spare time a games designer, astrophysics PhD and punk drummer – attacks her songs with a technique called clawhammer. Transposed from the banjo, it uses the right hand – thumb and fingers curled in like a claw – to provide a rhythmic counterpoint to the singing work of the left, and its own subtle melodic storytelling as well.”