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Friday, December 19, 2008
Posthumous honors for Atlanta blues musician Sean Costello
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sean Costello. Photo: Delta Groove Productions.
The Blues Foundation has just announced the nominees for the 30th annual Blues Music Awards, and they hold a bit of bittersweet news for local music fans.
The late Sean Costello, who died earlier this year just one day shy of his 29th birthday, is up for two awards. He’s among the five nominess for contemporary blues male artist of the year, along with Michael Burks, Elvin Bishop, Watermelon Slim and Buddy Guy. “We Can Get Together,” Costello’s lfifth and final album, is up for contemporary blues album of the year.
Just after Costello’s death on April 15, Atlanta blues record producer and musician Bryan Cole compared the young guitarist and singer to one of the men he’ll compete against. “Sean was an immense talent. He had the fire of Buddy Guy,” Cole told the AJC. ”He had his whole career way in front of him. He’ll be missed.”
The awards ceremony takes place on May 7 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis. For a full list of the nominees for the Blues Music Awards, go to the Blues Foundation’s Web site.
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Corey Crowder - From The Road
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Today’s Dispatch From The Road comes from southern rock singer-songwriter Corey Crowder, who’s having his CD release party/performance at Vinyl Saturday.
Already have your ticket? Happen to grow up with Corey?
Well here’s his “postcard” to you…
Hey
This is Corey Crowder. I am very excited to be coming back to my home state of Georgia on December 20th for my CD release show at The Vinyl in Atlanta. My new record, “Gold & The Sand”, hit stores on November 11th. I feel that this record is very reflective of my roots in GA. I grew up in Lilburn listening to music of the 60’s and 70’s from artists like The Allman Brothers and Creedence Clearwater Revival. In High School, after moving to Loganville, I began taking music a little more seriously by writing and singing my own songs. But, being a typical teenager, I was trying to rebel from the music that my parents had raised me on. After many years of musical experimentation, I have come back to my roots and written an album that I feel is my strongest yet. I hope that everyone back home in GA will dig the record and come out to the show on December 20th to celebrate the release of the new album!
-Corey
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