Alabama Blues Hall of Fame

The Alabama Blues Hall of Fame is a local chapter of the Blues Hall of Fame, a website founded in 1999 by Dan Marolt of San Francisco, California to honor blues musicians with an online "eMuseum" and various induction events hosted by local "blues ambassadors" at clubs around the world. The Magic City Blues Society has sponsored such events locally.

The program is a operated under a fiscal sponsorship basis with the Virginia-based non-profit "United Charitable". It is not affiliated with the Memphis, Tennessee-based non-profit Blues Foundation, which operates a brick-and-mortar Blues Hall of Fame Museum.

Induction ceremonies

• October 20, 2009, hosted by Jim Newport and Microwave Dave Gallaher
  • inductees: Microwave Dave Gallaher
• November 29, 2012:
  • inductees: SharBaby, Gip's Place
• September 14, 2014 at Henderson's in Midfield, hosted by Jim and SharBaby Newport with Johnnie Nathan.
  • inductees: Curtis Files, G. B. Burt, Rick Asherson, Roger Stephenson, Eddie Kirkland, George Conner, Jerry McCain, Jim Newport, Johnny Shines, Carroline Shines, Willie King, B. J. Miller, Clarence "Bluesman" Davis, Earl Williams, Elnora Spencer, Johnnie Nathan, Lee Brown, Debbie Bond, Ernest Sykes, Carol Zippert, DeGina Robinson, Rosco Robinson, Leon Atkins, Terry Bean, Henderson's
• October 15, 2016 at the John Drish residence in Tuscaloosa, hosted by Jim Newport
  • inductees: Louie Blue, Tommy Carter, Keithen Ruff, Rickey Streeter, Willie James, Rickie Castrillo, Willie Chavers, Maurice Jones Jr, Russell Gulley, Mack Davis Jr, Art Grayson, Charles Cotton, Willie Carter, Bruce Andews, Gip Gipson, Greg Holt
• September 23, 2016 at the John Drish residence in Tuscaloosa, hosted by Jim Newport
  • inductees: Mac Arnold, Sam Frazier Jr, Tony Coleman, John Palmore, Maxwell Russell, Ardie Dean, Slim Barnes, Jessie Suttle, Lee Charles Mitchell, Kapo Slim Mitchell, Anthony Edgar, Howard Percy, James Wayne, Mose Stovall, John Bull, Johnnie Nathan, Courtland Jones, Rob Harris, Gary Richardson
• April 29, 2018 at the Perfect Place Event Center in the Crestwood Festival Center, hosted by Jim Newport
  • inductees: Candi Staton, David Sea, Theodis Ealey, Bill Avery, Sir Charles Jones, Chris Simmons, Sugar Harp, Sputnik Shepard, Charles Burroughs, DieDra, Aretta Woodruff, Ivory Joe Douglas, Clarence Lewis, Good Rockin Sam, Dennis Edwards, PooNanny, John "Papa Rocks" Ray, Don Mosley, Shelly Stewart, Curtis Bell
• July 14, 2019 at Carmichael's Night Club in the Westgate Shopping Center, hosted by Jim Newport
  • inductees: Beverly Watkins, Bob Steele, Tim Boykin, Michael Carpenter, Henry Main, Johnnie Baldwin Jr, Scott Percer, Roadhouse Blues Band, Lenny Williams, Bennie Lee Deer, General Dowdell, Ron Donald, Dee Bradley, Willie Frank Hightower, Leon McMullen, Derrick Smiley, Leonard Todd, Gary Harbison, Royal Joiner, Eddie Sawyer, Jerry Henry, Jock Webb, Elaine Hudson, Carmichael's Blues Club, Ravon Carmichael
• April 30, 2023 at Carmichael's Night Club in the Westgate Shopping Center, hosted by Jim Newport
  • inductees: Roosevelt Williams, David Lee Mitchell, Rojene Bailey, Willie James Martin, Evangeline Wallace Blues Lounge, Jerry Mason, Jerry Dallas, Henry Green Sr, Johnnie Cox, Ray Hangen, Tarious Hill, Joseph Todd Simpson, Howard Acoff Jr, Larry McGill, Ra'Shad the Blues Kid, Marcus Lee, Bridget Kelly Band, Eddie Stovall Jr, Anthony Skyler Saufley, Erroll Woodward, Lee O. Parker, Dave Crenshaw, Peter O'Hare, Automatic Slim Blues Band, Keith Johnson, Sandra Jean Foster, Charlz Wilson, Al Lauro, T. J. Hooker Taylor, Lauren Sassy Brown, Emanuel Blackmon, Danny Williams, Michael Watts, Ed Meredith, Heath Brown

References

• Prewitt, Nathan T. (January 11, 2013) "Local Birmingham musician inducted in Blues Hall of Fame in San Francisco." The Birmingham News
• L'Hommedieu, Richard (May 26, 2014) "Battle of the Blues Hall of Fames" [sic] Making A Scene

External links

• Alabama, Blues Hall of Fame [sic] at blueshalloffame.com