Anthony Geraci wins the 2023 Blues Music Award for Instrumentalist-Piano/Pinetop
Perkins Piano Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN. Anthony Geraci’s
Seventeen Blues Music Awards nominations reflects four decades of musical
excellence both in studio and onstage. Anthony won the Award in 2021 too. His band
The Boston Blues All-Stars were nominated for Band of the Year in 2019, 2021 and
2023.
His recent recording Blues Called My Name (Blue Heart) debuted at #1 on The
Living Blues Radio Chart. Anthony is an original member of Sugar Ray and the
Bluetones, and Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters. Geraci has recorded extensively with
both groups. Other Artists Anthony has recorded with include a host of iconic
traditional blues artists and leading contemporary acts. Anthony has recorded with Lazy
Lester, Big Walter Horton, Carey Bell, John Brim, Snooky Pryor, Odetta, Charlie
Musselwhite, Sugaray Rayford, Kenny and Raful Neal, Debbie Davies, Welch/Ledbetter,
Big Jack Johnson, Kilborn Alley, G.E. Smith and many more.
Ronnie Earl shared this praise: “Anthony has been contributing to this music for many
years, and his new album illuminates the many colors, shades, and styles of the blues.
Anthony is very inspiring, and I love his dedication to the old masters like Otis Spann,
Sunnyland Slim, and Big Maceo Merriweather.” “Anthony Geraci is a beast on all levels
and may well be the finest keyboardist in roots music today.” Mike O’Cull-Rock & Blues
Muse.
-Blues Music Award Nominations~
2016 -Album: Fifty Shades Of Blue (Delta Groove)
-Traditional Album: Fifty Shades Of Blue
-Song of the Year: “Fifty Shades Of Blue” (Geraci) -Instrumentalist-Piano (formally Pinetop Perkins Piano Award.)
2017 -Instrumentalist-Piano
2018 -Instrumentalist-Piano
2019 -Album: Why Did You Have To Go (Shining Stone) -Traditional Album: Why Did You Have To Go -Instrumentalist-Piano
-Song of the Year: “Angelina, Angelina” (Geraci) -Traditional Male Blues Artist -Band of the Year
2020 -Instrumentalist-Piano
2021 WINNER Instrumentalist-Piano –Band of the Year
2022 -Contemporary Blues Album
2022 -Keyboards
2023 WINNER Instrumentalist-Piano -Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Award
-What the critic’s are saying…-
“Blues Music Award-winning keyboardist, songwriter, and composer Anthony Geraci unleashes a lifetime of greatness on his new solo album Blues Called My Name. Available now on Blue Heart Records, the set finds Geraci sounding better than ever on a winning mix of vocal tracks and instrumentals. There are no missteps on the record, though, and nothing here misses the mark. Anthony Geraci is a beast on all levels and may well be the finest keyboardist in roots music today. Mike O’Cull-Rock & Blues Muse” Blues Called My Name est un album très réussi proposé par le pianiste de Boston qui, outre en fait d’être un musicien de grand talent, est un homme d’une grande gentillesse doublé d’un véritable transmettre de connaissances qui donne pour la formation des jeunes ! Fred Delforge ZICAZINE/European Blues Union. ” Every cut on Blues Called My Name is solid, with Geraci showcasing his outstanding keyboard work throughout. It’s just one more piece of evidence that Geraci is one of the better instrumentalists in the blues world today.”Bill Mitchell-Blues Bytes.“Blues Called My Name is een fantastisch album.” Gerrit Schinkel-Bluestown Music ( The Netherlands). “It just doesn’t get any better than this .” Richard Ludmerer- Making A Scene.
BOOKING INFO
AVAILABLE 2024
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- Anthony Geraci: Lead vocals/El.Piano
- Paul Loranger: Bass
- Barrett Anderson: Guitar
- Kurt Kalker: Drums
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