R&B and blues singer Esther Phillips is among the 2023 inductees into The Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame.
— “Release Me” and a remake of Dinah Washington’s “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” . Phillips didn’t live to see her induction. She died in 1984 at age 48.Josh White, who went from being a Piedmont blues artist to an important voice in the folk music world of the 1940s, was also inducted. White, who died in 1969 at age 55, received the Folk Alliance International’s 2023 lifetime achievement award for a legacy artist on Feb. 1 in Kansas City, Mo. Leyla McCalla and Josh White Jr.
David Evans, who won the award for individuals, is a two-time Grammy winner for best album notes. He won forScreamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues – The Worlds of Charley PattonOne of the five recordings being honored has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. That’s Son House’s 1930 recording “My Black Mama,” which was voted into the Grammy HOF in 2013.is 2023’s classic blues recording: album. Hip-O’s five-CD, 126-track compilation was released in 2009.
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