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Matt Hill wins Best New Artist Blues Music Award – Parcek and O’Leary deliver impressive performances!
Congratulations to Matt Hill, winner of the 2011 Blues Music Award for Best New Artist Debut! VizzTone is proud to be home for THREE OUT OF FIVE Best New Artist nominees – the Blues Foundation has confirmed that this is definitely a first!. Our artists delivered amazing performances at the BMA show in Memphis on [...]
“Georgia Songbird” EG Kight joins the VizzTone family!
The VizzTone label group is thrilled to welcome EG KIGHT, the “Georgia Songbird” to our family of artists! Her new CD, LIP SERVICE, will be released on June 21, 2011. EG KIGHT has honed her Country-Flavored Southern-Fried Blues with five CDs and headline touring at clubs and festivals across America and Europe. Her rural [...]
VizzTone welcomes Greg Nagy to the family!
The VizzTone label group is proud to welcome GREG NAGY to the family! We’ll be releasing his new CD, FELL TOWARD NONE, on June 21. 2011. GREG NAGY left the popular Midwestern band ROOT DOCTOR a couple years ago, but if he’s no longer a “Doctor”, he’s for damn sure a ROOTS musician. Growing up [...]
Welcome Elijah!
Congratulations to Danielle, Travis, and the whole extended TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT family on the much heralded arrival of ELIJAH CHRISTOPHER OGLE!!! Making his triumphant debut at 9:52 AM, April 8, 2011, Eli weighed in at 6 lbs, 13 oz and measured 18.5″ in length. As you can plainly see, Eli and his mom are [...]
Goodnight, Pinetop
When Blues Icon Pinetop Perkins peacefully left us on March 21, the Blues World came together to grieve his passing and celebrate his life. Pinetop left his Blues with us and inspired tributes, stories, tears and laughter. This week’s BluesWax, Blues Revue’s online voice of the Blues, has gathered these together and VizzTone joins them [...]
VizzTone launches Vizzable Music
The Vizztone label group is pleased to announce the launch of our new sister company, Vizzable Music. Vizzable Music will be offering promotion, publicity, marketing and consultation services to artists and affiliates outside the VizzTone label group. VizzTone is proud to be working with some of the most exciting artists in the Blues and Roots [...]
Trampled Under Foot — the Next Great Family Band
The Allman Brothers of Macon, Georgia; North Mississippi Allstars of Memphis, Tennessee… great blues-based Family bands who generated such intense love, pride and excitement in their regional fans that they were propelled to a worldwide stage. Now it’s time to add one more name to that short list: the Schnebelen family of Kansas City, Missouri [...]
New GINA SICILIA CD!!!
VizzTone is proud to release GINA SICILIA’s new CD, Can’t Control Myself, produced by the insanely talented Dave Gross in his Fat Rabbit Studios. On her third CD, critically acclaimed rising star Gina Sicilia digs deeper into the realms of Soul and Americana music on a killer set that showcases her strikingly distinctive singing and songwriting.
2011 Blues Music Awards – VizzTone Nominees
VizzTone label group artists score 10 Blues Music Award nominations, including THREE OUT OF FIVE in the “Best New Artist Debut” category. Nominees include Matt Hill, Chris O’Leary, Peter Parcek, David Maxwell, Mitch Woods, Terry Hanck, Mac Arnold, Super Chikan, and Rich DelGrosso. Click the pic for details…
Bob Margolin receives Lifetime Achievement Award!
Congrats to Bob Margolin for some richly-deserved accolades! Here he is accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Charlotte Music Awards on December 8, 2010. Also winning the Lifetime Achievement Award that night was Archie Bell, so you can be sure everyone was doing the Tighten Up!