January/February 2016 Start the New Year Off with the BLUES! FREE TICKET GIVE-AWAY FOR 2016!!! Details and update to come…. 2 Love The Blues? Live The Blues? The Detroit Blues Society’s Board of Directors 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees Chairman 2105: Kenny Parker and Steve Schwartz RJ Spangler 2014: James Cloyd Jr. and Calvin Frazier
[email protected] 2013: Jim McCarty and "Big Maceo" Merriweather President 2012: Claudette "Sweet Claudette" Harrell Manning and Robert Steve Soviak "Baby Boy" Warren
[email protected] 2011: Odell "Blues Boy D" McDowell and Vernon "Boogie Woogie Red" Harrison Vice President 2010: Bobby Murray and Willie D Warren Tom McNab 2009: Kim Wilson and Son House
[email protected] 2008: Thornetta Davis and Sippie Wallace Secretary 2007: Larry McCray, Garfield Angove, Odessa Harris and William Toll "Little" Mac Collins,
[email protected] 2006: Priscilla Price, Billy Davis, Joe Hunter and Terry Thunder 2005: Joe Weaver, Kenny Martin, Stanley Mitchell, RJ Spangler, Treasurer Little Jr. Cannaday, Bobo Jenkins, John Lee Hooker, and Mike Rembor Jo Ann Korczynska
[email protected] 2004: Eddie Kirkland, Aaron "Little Sonny" Willis, and Sir Mack Rice At Large 2003: Lazy Lester George Seedorff 2002: Horace "Duke" Dawson
[email protected] 2000: Harmonica Shah 1999: The Butler Twins (Clarence & Curtis) Blues Horizon Award Winners At Large - 1998: Eddie "Guitar" Burns 2014: Joe Von Battle Luther Keith 1997: Alberta Adams
[email protected] 2013: Wolfgang Spider 1996: "Uncle" Jessie White 2012: Fred Reif At Large 1995: Mr. Bo Collins, Howard Armstrong 2011: John Penney Nikki James 1994: Johnnie Bassett 2009: Mike Moss
[email protected] 1993: Robert Jones, Robert Noll, Steve Gornall, 2008: Mark "Paz" Pazman Jimmy Thackery, and Kim Simmonds 2007: Willy Wilson, At Large Jane Cassisi Jim Zimmerman
[email protected] 2006: Ed Schenk James S.