Eddie's Mississippi Trail Marker May 2011 honored by State of Mississippi
Schedule
- Sat Dec 31...First Night...Oil City, PA
- Fri Jan 20 & Sat Jan 21...Kingston Mines... Chicago, IL
- Sat Jan 28...Hines Farm Blues Club... Swanton, Ohio
- Sun Jan 29...Buddy Guys... Chicago, IL
- Wed Feb 1...Buddy Guys...Chicago, IL
- Fri Feb 10...Blind Willie's...Atlanta, GA
- Sat Feb 11...Bradfordville Blues Club... Tallahasee, FL
- Sun Feb 12... TBA...Montgomery,AL
- Feb 13 thru 15 22nd Annual Low Country Blues Bash, Charleston, SC
- Sat Feb 18...Madam's Organ... Washington, DC
EDDIE SHAW on FACEBOOK
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2011 WINNER of the "Instumentalist-Horn" award at Blues Music Awards in Memphis
Winning "Instumentalist-Horn"award at Blues Music Awards in Memphis May 06 & 07
with Paul Benjamin.
Schedule
EDDIE SHAW on FACEBOOK
Join Eddie's Page
2011 WINNER of the "Instumentalist-Horn" award at Blues Music Awards in Memphis
Winning "Instumentalist-Horn"award at Blues Music Awards in Memphis May 06 & 07
with Paul Benjamin.
Winning "Instumentalist-Horn"award at Blues Music Awards in Memphis May 06 & 07
with Paul Benjamin.
"PAPA TOLD ME" CD
"4 DECADES OF EDDIE SHAW" CD
To order Eddie's CD "4 Decades of Eddie Shaw"
Movie "Honeydripper" starring Danny Glover,featuring Eddie Shaw as a music teacher.
WINNER of 2006 & 2007 Blues Music Awards "Instrumentalist- Horn"
1999 - 2005 W.C.Handy Award nominee
LIVING BLUES 1996 Critics Award Most outstanding Blues Musician (horn)
1996 Winner of the Howling Wolf Award presented at the Chicago Blues Festival
Eddie Shaw on tenor and alto saxes and harmonica is a very talented singer,songwriter,musician,arranger, and band leader. Since Howlin' Wolf died in 1976, Eddie Shaw has kept the Wolf Gang name for his band, he was Howlin'Wolf's personal manager for five years. Eddie is one of the most respected blues musicians alive today.
Originally from Benoit, MS, Eddie now lives on Chicago's South Side.
Shaw's family abounds with showbiz talent. Another of his sons, Stan, has acting credits in films diverse as Harlem Nights, Fried Green Tomatoes, Daylight with Sylvester Stallone, and Cutthroat Island, the Geena Davis pirate flick. Eddie Shaw can compose, arrange, and write music. He worked the Delmark studios managing weekly sessions for the label with fellow studio fixture Jimmy Dawkins in the '60s.
Blues Revue Article - In the '90s he recorded for European and Japanese labels as well as for Rooster Blues in Clarksdale, Mississippi, which released In the Land of the Crossroads. "On Land of the Crossroads I did mostly Mississippi bayou type blues because I stayed down in that part of the country," Shaw says. "Well, times change too. You go in with more modern equipment and you go with more up-to-date ideas. . . . Every time you do a new album, you're looking for better quality, you're looking for better compositions, you know, to upgrade everything. You want everything better than it was the year before, so hopefully that's the case now."
Band Members include Eddie Vaan Shaw Jr. , Eddie's son, is one of the best guitar players in the blues business. Vaan has music of his own , CD's, MORNING RAIN and THE TRAIL OF TEARS. Lafayette" Shorty" Gilbert, has been Eddie's bassplayer for over 20 yrs. Strong vocalist , his version of " Rainy night in Georgia" brings tears to your eyes.
Tim Taylor on drums, is son of the late Eddie Taylor .
Eddie's Booking agent Jay Reil 847-272-0202
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Blues Revue Article - In the '90s he recorded for European and Japanese labels as well as for Rooster Blues in Clarksdale, Mississippi, which released In the Land of the Crossroads. "On Land of the Crossroads I did mostly Mississippi bayou type blues because I stayed down in that part of the country," Shaw says. "Well, times change too. You go in with more modern equipment and you go with more up-to-date ideas. . . . Every time you do a new album, you're looking for better quality, you're looking for better compositions, you know, to upgrade everything. You want everything better than it was the year before, so hopefully that's the case now."
Band Members include Eddie Vaan Shaw Jr. , Eddie's son, is one of the best guitar players in the blues business. Vaan has music of his own , CD's, MORNING RAIN and THE TRAIL OF TEARS. Lafayette" Shorty" Gilbert, has been Eddie's bassplayer for over 20 yrs. Strong vocalist , his version of " Rainy night in Georgia" brings tears to your eyes. Tim Taylor on drums, is son of the late Eddie Taylor .
Eddie Shaw on Myspace
Eddie's favorite festival NABF Eddie's photos for press by Dom Forcella
