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Anthony Geraci: New recording Where Were You to be released on Delmark Records August 2026. Delmark Records (Chicago, IL) is the oldest continuously operating jazz and blues independent record label in the United States. Joining Anthony on the recording will be Delmark Recording Artists Sheryl Youngblood and Dave Specter. As well as Rodrigo Mantovani, Anne Harris, Pooky Styx (from Buddy Guys band), Jon McDonald, and members of The Boston Blues All-Stars.Anthony is a two time Blues Music Award (BMA) Winner in 2021/2023 from The Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN for Instrumentalist-Piano/Pinetop Perkins Piano Award. He has 19 personal BMA Nominations as well as a Grammy Nomination for Super Harps I (Telarc). Anthony has toured world wide for over 40 years with Ronnie Earl, Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, The Proven Ones, and his own band The Boston Blues All- Stars, which were nominated 3 times for Band of the Year by the Blues Foundation. He has recorded with traditional blues artists such as Odetta, Big Walter Horton, John Brim, Lazy Lester, Snooky Pryor, Big Jack Johnson, Carey Bell, Willie Buck...and contemporary blues artists Kenny Neal, Debbie Davies, John Primer, Duke Robillard, Welch/Ledbetter, Charlie Musselwhite, Teeny Tucker, Billy Branch, Sugaray Rayford, Bob Corritore, Zora Young and many more.He has toured with Otis Rush, J.B. Hutto, Big Walter Horton, Hubert Sumlin, Big Joe Turnerand has backed up up Big Mama Thorton, Chuck Berry, and John Lee Hooker at renowned Blues Festivals /venues. Anthony has had the honor to sit in with Muddy Waters and B.B King. Solid as a Rock! Melodic. Deeply rooted in black music. This is what springs to mind when you hear the name Anthony Geraci. Jazz n More-Switzerland. Marco Piazzalonga.Anthony Geraci has long been part of the bedrock of the Boston-Providence blues scene. In recent years, he has stepped out of the seaside shadows into the limelight of international acclaim, largely on the strength of feature albums. Four Star Review in Downbeat Magazine. Frank-John Hadley.
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