James Cotton And Marcia Bell Receive Blues Award

JAMES COTTON AND MARCIA BALL RECEIVE 2014 LIVING BLUES AWARDS

COTTON NAMED BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Alligator Records artists James Cotton and Marcia Ball received coveted Living Blues Awards, the magazine announced in its August 2014 issue.

Cotton, whose 2013 release Cotton Mouth Man received a Grammy Award nomination, received three Living Blues Critics’ Poll Awards: Blues Artist Of The Year (Male), Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica), and Album Of The Year (for Cotton Mouth Man).

Ball received a Living Blues Readers’ Poll Award for Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard). Her new CD,The Tattooed Lady And The Alligator Man, will be released on September 23, 2014. Four of Ball’s previous five Alligator releases have been Grammy nominated.