MAPLE BLUES AWARD NOMINATIONS TAP MULTIPLE STONY PLAIN ARTISTS Congratulations to Stony Plain/True North artists Sue Foley, Colin James, MonkeyJunk and Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne on their recent nominations for the upcoming Maple Blues Awards.  Sue Foley is nomi...

SUE FOLEY'S THE ICE QUEEN SHIPPING ON VINYL WITH 3 BONUS DIGITAL TRACKS Sue Foley's outstanding release The Ice Queen will be available on vinyl on December 7, 2018. Pressed on ice clear vinyl and with a gorgeous layout by Grammy winning photographer Alan Messer, it's a pack...

ERIC BIBB'S DOUBLE-DISC NEW RELEASE GLOBAL GRIOT COMING ON VINYL Global Griot, the newest release from Stony Plain artist Eric Bibb, will be released as a 2-LP vinyl set. (Illustration: J. Paul Pagnon)...

EASTWOOD GUITARS INTERVIEWS DUKE ROBILLARD Long-time Stony Plain recording artist Duke Robillard is the latest artist to get an Eastwood signature guitar. "Blues is simple and universal," says Duke Robillard. "There is a quality to the sound that stretches beyond things like language and e...

SUE FOLEY, RONNIE EARL & ERIC BIBB HONOURED Big thanks to the esteemed readers of DownBeat Magazine for including Sue Foley, Ronnie Earl (pictured) & Eric Bibb in the year end readers' poll. Eric Bibb was recognized in the Blues Artist list, while Sue Foley and Ronnie Ear...

COLIN JAMES & KENNY 'BLUES BOSS' WAYNE DIZZY FROM SPINNING Congratulations to Colin James (pictured) for reaching #2 on the Living Blues Radio Chart that tracks blues radio airplay with his album Miles To Go (Stony Plain/True North) and to Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne f...

COLIN JAMES & ERIC BIBB HEARD MILES DOWNUNDER Thanks to blues DJs across Australia this October for spinning the new albums from Colin James, who reached #1 on the International Blues Airplay Charts with Miles to Go, and Eric Bibb, who was in at #7 with Global Griot....

Now this is big news. One of the true originals in Canadian music has moved from Nashville to Nova Scotia, and is celebrating with music only he could make. Jimmy Rankin's new Moving East is pure East Coast, a homecoming album featuring true stories, tall tales and bittersweet ballads, and the class...

IAN TYSON JOINS YOU FOR CHRISTMAS IN THE FOOTHILLS Ever wonder what it's like at Ian Tyson's ranch in the foothills of the blue Canadian Rockies at Longview, Alberta, in the dead of winter at Christmas time? Here are classic Ian Tyson lyrics you haven't heard till now. "Christmas in the Fo...

PUBLICIST SARAH FRENCH RECEIVES BLUES FOUNDATION ACCOLADE Sarah French, Stony Plain Records publicist and long-time supporter of Canadian blues & roots artists will be the latest recipient of the Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the world-renowned Memphis-based Blues Foundation in Ja...