Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Booker T. & the MGs are among the performers named as inductees to the Blues Hall of Fame.
The Blues Foundation announced this year’s honourees on Friday. An induction ceremony is scheduled for May 8 at the Halloran Centre for the Performing Arts and Education in Memphis, Tennessee, reports variety.com.
The Blues Foundation points out that the very first record Franklin ever released after signing with Columbia was a song called “Today I Sing the Blues” and her fifth album was “Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington”.
The Blues Foundation names recordings as well as artists to its Hall of Fame, and the singles being inducted this year include Muddy Waters’ Rollin’ Stone, Ray Charles’ I Got a Woman and Elmore James Shake Your Moneymaker along with Elmore James’ 1965 compilation The Sky Is Crying. (IANS)
