The Keeping The Blues Alive Awards recognize the significant contributions to Blues music made by the people behind the scenes. Each is selected on the basis of merit by a select panel of Blues professionals. KBA Chairman Art Tipaldi notes with respect to this year’s recipients, “Once again, the committee was faced with the difficult task of selecting honorees from among the many outstanding men, women and organizations, many of whom could have been selected for the honor in the past due to their record of service to the Blues genre. Each year, we think we cannot match the quality of the previous year’s recipients and, and each year we are wrong. It is a great privilege to be involved in the process that gives these folks their well-deserved recognition.” The KBA Committee has this year added an “International” category to specifically recognize the global reach and popularity of Blues music, even though past KBA Awards have presented to Canadians and Europeans.
The 2007 Keeping the Blues Alive Award recipient:
Blues Club: Rum Boogie Café, Memphis, Tennessee
Established in 1985 as the cornerstone of the Historic Beale Street and Highway 61, the Rum Boogie Café blends down-home Delta dining with smokin’ Memphis Blues played live seven nights a week. Whenever The Blues Foundation needs a club on Beale Street to host a late hour jam session or to showcase a Blues label, the Rum Boogie Cafe always steps forward. The fiirst thing you’ll notice when you step inside the Rum Boogie Café are walls and walls of guitars hanging on every available wall space. There are over 200 pieces of musical memorabilia signed by the likes of Ike Turner, B.B. King and Rufus Thomas to Santana and Sting. The award winning food served, featuring catfish, gumbo or bar-b-que, is some of the tastiest on Beale. Rum Boogie Café is the one place where the music and the food is real Memphis all the time.
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