2019 Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2019 Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony presented by The Blues Foundation
May 8, 2019 • Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education • Memphis, TN
Inductees:
Performers: Aretha Franklin, Booker T. & The MGs, Count Basie, Ida Cox, Pee Wee Crayton
Individual (Business-Production-Media or Academic): Moe Asch
Classic of Blues Literature: Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942, by John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel C. Adams Jr.; Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, Editors
Classic of Blues Recording - Album: The Sky Is Crying - Elmore James (Sphere Sound, 1965)
Classic of Blues Recording - Single:
"Everyday I Have The Blues" - B.B. King
"I Got A Woman" - Ray Charles (Atlantic, 1954)
"Rollin' Stone" - Muddy Waters (Chess, 1950)
"Shake Your Moneymaker" - Elmore James (Fire, 1961)
"The St. Louis Blues" - Bessie Smith (Columbia, 1925)
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