Big Jack Johnson Nails Three W.C. Handy Award Nominations! Kim Wilson Also Nominated! Click here for details.

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Coming Soon! KIM WILSON's "Lookin' For Trouble"

The First Recording By Big Jack Johnson & Kim Wilson ...

M.C. Records is proud to release The Memphis Barbecue Sessions (MC-0045) by Delta Mississippi blues sensation Big Jack Johnson with 2002 Grammy Nominee Fabulous Thunderbirds lead vocalist & harmonica player Kim Wilson. Grammy and W.C. Handy nominated blues pianist Pinetop Perkins guests on two cuts. Down in Memphis in October 2000, two legends of the blues got together to make some music, eat some barbecue and have a good time. The result is The Memphis Barbecue Sessions. This mostly acoustic release features Big Jack Johnson on acoustic and electric guitars as well as mandolin. Kim Wilson is on every cut and is playing the kind of harmonica that made Muddy Waters say "Kim's the best harp player since Little Walter." Kim Wilson shares a vocal
and plays lead guitar with Big Jack on the song "Going Out Walking." The Memphis Barbecue Sessions, the fourth release from Big Jack Johnson on M.C. Records, features Jack¹s great blues song-writing as well as some of his favorite songs from Howlin¹ Wolf, Jimmy Reed and Elmore James.   Most songs were done in one or two takes and there are no overdubs. Big Jack Johnson has lived and played in the Mississippi Delta all his life and brings that experience to this intimate and powerful CD.

Since signing with M.C. Records in 1996 Big Jack Johnson has been nominated for nine W.C. Handy Awards (including one for Blues Guitarist of the Year for 2000), four Living Blues  nominations, two AFIM Blues Record of the Year Awards. All The Way Back (MC-0035) by Big Jack Johnson & The Oilers won the Crossroads Magazine Award for Best Blues Record of 1999. This new album is sure to cement further Big Jack's status as the reigning native son of the Delta blues , a position that has earned him recent appearances on CNN's Worldbeat, on PBS¹ River of Song, and in National Geographic, and which explains why each of his last three releases with M.C. Records spent four months on the Living Blues Radio Chart.

"he's a bonafide Mississippi bluesman whose voice is as gripping as his guitar lines" Jon Pareles, N.Y. Times

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ODETTA TOURING COAST-TO-COAST AND FOUR COUNTRIES TO SUPPORT "LOOKIN' FOR A HOME"

 2000 Grammy nominee Odetta will be touring from cost-to-coast in the U.S.and into four coutries through November. More oversea dates will be announced over the next few weeks.

Look for Odetta to be performing songs from her M.C. Records release,Lookin' For A Home .  Please contact us for interviews.

Since August Odetta has appeared on David Lettermen, E-Town, Oprah Magazine, Mountain Stage, Prarie Home Companion, Politically Incorrect and many more.

Odetta is supporting her W.C. HANDY NOMINATED CD on M.C. Records, Lookin For A Home (MC-0045) released in August of 2001. The recording is a stunning tribute to Leadbelly and features special guests Kim Wilson, Henry Butler and Clarence Gatemouth Brown. Odetta has appeared on Politically Incorrect, and she gave an inspirational performance on The David Lettermen Show.Did you see Odetta and Bill Wyman in  Billboard?    Nominated for a Grammy in 2000 for her powerful blues CD, "Blues Everywhere I Go" the legendary Odetta has returned to the studio to create "Lookin' For A Home" (Thanks To Leadbelly), a tribute to the great Leadbelly.  This  new release has been welcomed enthusiastically by lovers of folk, blues and American roots music and the loyal following that Odetta has amassed over her more than fifty-year career. Special guests Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown Henry Butler & Kim Wilson come together with guitarist Jimmy Vivino and bassist Mike Merrit (Conan O'Brien) to give Odetta the full band sound that made her last album a sensation. For more info please contact Ken Weinstein at Big Hassle Media: 212-366-4492 or weinstein@bighassle.com

Odetta is booked by Concerted efforts, 617-969-0810, fax 617-969-6761, e-mail, chris@concertedefforts.com

" This album has history and soul, and is an instant classic." New York Post

" Odetta is terrific, creating a heartfelt tribute" Billboard

" Odetta breathes new life into some of his (Leadbelly) best known tunes on"Lookin' For A Home" AP Newswire

Kim Wilson's Latest Solo Effort Gets Grammy and W.C. Handy Nod

Singer/harmonica player Kim Wilson's debut solo CD for M.C. Records, "Smokin' Joint", has been nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Traditional Blues Album, & four W.C. Handy Award nominations.

Released in July 2001, Smokin'  Joint (MC-0043) has received universal acclaim from blues fans and critics alike, while generating substantial radio airplay."An overwhelming mastery of the blues harp,"said The Times of London in its review. "He sounds better than ever," said Living Blues magazine.

Since the album's release, Kim Wilson has also performed on NBC-TV's Late Night with Conan O'Brien and on the nationally syndicated radio program, Mountain Stage. In addition to his solo album and touring, Wilson continuesn to record and tour with The Fabulous Thunderbirds, the seminal roots band he helped form in Austin, Texas in 1974.

Kim Wilson is also featured on good friend Big Jack Johnson's forthcoming new blues album, The Memphis Barbecue Sessions scheduled for release by M.C. Records on February 26. Kim Will be appearing on the syndicated radio show Rock Line on February 16.

This is M.C. Records second Grammy nomination in three years.  In 1999 the label was nominated for Odetta's release Blues Everywhere I Go.

"By far his best effort yet" New York Times Syndicate
"Nothing short of incredible" Style Weekly
"The best harp player since Little Walter" MUDDY WATERS

* Kim Wilson is on the cover of the August issue of Texas Blues Magazine.

Here are some reviews of "Smokin¹ Joint":

" He's making the most vital music of his career" Pulse October 2001

" Smokin' Joint is a most satisfying dose of all-around blues mastery"
Blues Access

"He sounds better than ever" Living Blues

"An overwhelming mastery of the blues harp" The London Times

UPCOMING PRESS:
Mark Pucci of Mark Pucci Media is handling the the press for this CD and will be advancing all of Kim Wilson¹s Solo tour dates. For interviews, CDs,
etc.. contact him at 770-804-9555, e-mail, mpmedia@aol.com or visit them on
the web www.markpuccimedia.com.  Previews are confirmed in the following cities contact us for specifics: Los Angles, Santa Monica, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Detroit, Flint, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Lowell, Cape Cod, New York, Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio. With more being added
every day. Also Kim Wilson will perform on The Wood Songs Radio  (over 200 outlets in 7 countries) to air in early November. Kim has recently appeared on the House of Blues Radio Hour and The Conan O'Brien Show.
 
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*Upcoming Kim Wilson previews & CD reviews will be in Cape Cod Times and an interview in the Allman Brothers Magazine, Hittin' The Note.

 Mark Pucci of Mark Pucci Media is handling the the press for this CD. Forinterviews, CDs, etc.. contact him at 770-804-9555, e-mail, mpmedia@aol.com or visit them on the web http://www.markpuccimedia.com