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Eden Brent Nominated for three Blues Music Awards
Congratulations to Eden Brent for earning top honors in this year’s Blues Music Awards! Eden’s new album Ain’t Got No Troubles is nominated for Album of the Year (alongside releases from Buddy Guy and Charlie Musselwhite) and Eden also earned artist recognition in “Koko Taylor (Traditional Blues Female)” and “Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year” categories (the latter, for the third year in a row).
“I grew up listening to Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, and Charlie Musselwhite at the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival in Greenville,” Eden said of the announcement, “and I’m- humbled to now be mentioned among them. What a dream come true!”
The nominations cap a stellar year for Brent.- 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.
Congratulations also to Jimi Bott of Woodbrain, who is nominated again for Best Instrumentalist – Drums.
The Blues Music Awards (formerly known as the W.C. Handy Awards) are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists. And best of all, you can vote in the awards process! Visit The Blues Foundation to join, and then this link to vote once you are a member. Voting is open now through March 1.
Amazon.com names Eden Brent among Best of 2010
Amazon.com has announced its “Best of 2010” music lists and Eden Brent has nabbed honors.- – Not only does her new album Ain’t Got No Troubles clock in at #4 among their Best Blues Albums of 2010,- but the track “Leave Me Alone” from the album earns kudos as #6 among their Best Blues Songs of 2010.- Sound cool?- Consider some of the other names on the lists:- Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples — heavyweight company indeed.- Congratulations Eden!
Eden Brent Review Roundup
Its release date still five days away, Ain’t Got No Troubles is already earning Eden Brent rapturous praise from the likes of NPR Weekend Edition, NPR.org, Garden & Gun and USA Today. Eden’s dazzling new album officially comes out September 7 on Yellow Dog Records. Available digitally in advance of its nationwide release date, Ain’t Got No Troubles quickly rose to No. 1 on the iTunes blues chart and to No. 5 on the Amazon music chart on the strength of CD pre-orders.
Brent joined NPR Weekend Edition host Scott- Simon- in August to talk about her new album and the ironies inherent in blues music. Listen to their conversation here. Eden is also slated for an interview feature on the revered syndicated radio program American Routes- the week of- September- 15th.
“The recording sounds as if it were bootlegged in an obscure juke joint back in the 1920s… an expert channeler of old-time blueswomen… irresistibly fresh.” Those are among the many nice words that NPR.org’s Song of the Day had to say about the album’s title track. USA Today also gave special notice to Ain’t Got No Troubles, selecting it as their Playlist Pick of the Week. And Garden and Gun wrote a glowing piece on the album and especially about Eden’s always-entertaining live shows, saying, “Fantastic… onstage, she’s a dynamo, pounding the keys while she sings and hollers like she’s straight out of a juke joint.” Read the full article from Garden and Gun here.
Stay tuned for much more to come!