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Blues Organ + Blues Blast Winners & Maple Blues Nominees

November 9/11

Crossroads continues the November Blues Organ feature and highlights recent Blues Blast Music Awards winners and newly announced Maple Blues Awards nominees.

We’ll hear blues organists Lucky Peterson, Gregg Allman, Jimmy Smith, Raphael Wressnig, and Mike Finnigan with the Phantom Blues Band.

Plus Maple Blues nominees Rick Estrin & the Nightcats (also Blues Blast winners), Samantha Martin, Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne, the Ghost Town Blues Band, and Crystal Shawanda – and Blues Blast Lifetime Achievement Awards recipients Jimmy Johnson and Sugarpie DeSanto.

We’ll also get to new music from Dave Keller, Kirk Fletcher, Kansas City’s Grand Marquis, and Janiva Magness.

Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.