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15-514: Notable blues artists that have competed in the IBC over the years also includes Fiona Boyes , Eden Brent , Michael Burks , Tommy Castro , Sean Costello , Albert Cummings , Døvydas , Larry Garner , Zac Harmon , Homemade Jamz Blues Band , HowellDevine , Richard Johnston , Julian Fauth , Super Chikan , Susan Tedeschi , Southern Avenue , and Watermelon Slim . The 1994 event in particular had much talent as Susan Tedeschi , Michael Burks (who won

30-621: A member of Howlin' Wolf 's band. He was ranked number 43 in Rolling Stone ' s "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Sumlin was born in Greenwood, Mississippi , and raised in Hughes, Arkansas . He got his first guitar when he was eight years old. As a boy, he met Howlin' Wolf by sneaking into a performance. Wolf relocated from Memphis to Chicago in 1953, but his longtime guitarist Willie Johnson chose not to join him. In Chicago, Wolf hired

45-403: A session from a tour of Europe with Wolf in 1964. His last solo album was About Them Shoes , released in 2004 by Tone-Cool Records. He underwent lung removal surgery the same year, but he continued performing until just before his death. His final recording, just days before his death, was tracks for an album by Stephen Dale Petit , Cracking The Code (333 Records). Sumlin was inducted into

60-618: Is an Australian blues musician. She has been recording for more than 25 years and tours regularly in Australia, the United States, and Europe. Boyes was part of the Australian female Blues band, The Mojo's, in the 1990s alongside Annie Packer, Gina Woods, Kaz Dalla Rosa and Paula Dowes. Boyes released her debut studio album, Blues in My Heart in 2000. In 2003 she won the solo/duo category at

75-742: The Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 2008. He was nominated for four Grammy Awards : in 1999 for the album Tribute to Howlin' Wolf , with Henry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, and Colin Linden; in 2000 for Legends , with Pinetop Perkins ; in 2006, for his solo project About Them Shoes (which features performances by Keith Richards , Eric Clapton , Levon Helm , David Johansen and James Cotton ) and in 2010 for his contribution to Kenny Wayne Shepherd 's Live! in Chicago . He won multiple Blues Music Awards . He

90-585: The Chicago Conservatory of Music to learn keyboards and scales . Sumlin played on the album Howlin' Wolf (called the "rocking chair album", with reference to its cover illustration), which was named the third greatest guitar album of all time by Mojo magazine in 2004. Upon Wolf's death in 1976, Sumlin continued playing with several other members of Wolf's band, as the Wolf Gang, until about 1980. He also recorded under his own name, beginning with

105-697: The International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee . Boyes' debut US release Lucky 13 was nominated by the Blues Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee for the 2007 Blues Music Awards , 'Contemporary Blues Album of the Year'. She has since received three further BMA nominations for 'Traditional Female Blues Artist' (2010), 'Acoustic BluesAlbum of the Year' (2009), 'Contemporary Female Blues Artist' (2008), and her 2008 release Live From Bluesville won

120-618: The Albert King Guitar Award) and a 16-year-old Sean Costello competed, although none of them were the eventual winner. The competition began in 1984, then named the Blues Amateur Talent Contest. The idea was to give amateur or up and coming musicians a chance to be discovered and get a foothold. In 1986, the event was renamed the National Amateur Talent Contest and 17 bands competed. Prior to 1993,

135-400: The IBC had a rule that performers had to make less than 50% of their income from performing. This rule was dropped that year and the following year the word "Amateur" was dropped from the name of the event. In 1995, the event was renamed “The International Blues Talent Competition” to reflect the expanded demand and over 40 acts competed. No competition was held in 1999 as the timing of the event

150-595: The International Blues Challenge. Diunna Greenleaf and her backing band, Blue Mercy, won the competition in 2005. In 2006, the Joey Gilmore Band won the Best Band prize. The winners in 2008 were Trampled Under Foot . The 2010 winner of the top Solo/Duo prize was Matt Andersen . Grady Champion and his band won the Best Band title at the 26th International Blues Challenge in 2010, The 2011 winners of

165-535: The Solo/Duo category were Georg Schroeter and Marc Breitfelder. The band winner in 2014 was Mr. Sipp , with the solo winner being Tim Williams. In 2015, Eddie Cotton won the best band category, with Randy McQuay coming out on top in the solo/duo division. In 2002, the Blues Foundation split the challenge into two categories and began awarding a winner in the Solo/Duo category. Fiona Boyes Fiona Boyes

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180-668: The US Blues Critics Award for Best Live Blues Album. Boyes has also received 15 national recording and performance awards in Australia. Boyes has toured and recorded with many, including Hubert Sumlin and Bob Margolin . Boyes was described by Grammy Award winner and Blues Hall of Fame pianist, Pinetop Perkins , as "the best gal guitarist I heard since Memphis Minnie ." She plays both acoustic and electric, covering pre-war Delta slide, laments, single chord Mississippi Hills grooves, Piedmont finger picking, New Orleans barrelhouse, Memphis soul , classic Chicago, Texas swing, and

195-408: The guitarist Jody Williams , but in 1954 he invited Sumlin to move to Chicago to play second guitar in his band. Williams left the band in 1955, leaving Sumlin as the primary guitarist, a position he held almost continuously (except for a brief spell playing with Muddy Waters around 1956) for the remainder of Wolf's career. According to Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf sent him to a classical guitar instructor at

210-618: The uptown sound of the West Coast. The Music Victoria Awards are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2006. This article on an Australian guitarist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hubert Sumlin Hubert Charles Sumlin (November 16, 1931 – December 4, 2011) was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as

225-540: Was changed from the fall during the King Biscuit Festival to the January/February time frame. In January 2000, the first International Blues Challenge was held with 50 bands competing. As the event has grown in size it was decided to split the acts into two categories, Band and Solo/Duo in 2002. Now each year more than 200 acts from around the world gather on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee , to compete for

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