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Multi award winning blues and R&B/soul artist Grady Champion performed Feb 9th for The Grammys at the Grammy’s Museum with Marty Stuart in a salute to Mississippi artists. Grady will be performing two nights at The Shamrock Hotel March 9-10. Grady’s recent release “Make That Monkey Jump” won the 2011 Blues Critics award for best blues song and was runner up to Bobby Rush for best soul album….To many credits to list here…"Grady Champion is a young, blues singer and harmonica player, born October 10, that has been compared to Sonny Boy Williamson, and people can hear exactly why on his Shanachie debut Payin' for My Sins released August 24, 1999. The album includes a version of "Don't Start Me to Talkin'" that really shows Grady's high-energy singing and harmonica playing and an update of the traditional blues lament "Goin' Down Slow" with an AIDS parable -- a hard-bitten vignette of modern life. His revved-up, soulful vocalizing and the charm and insight he brings to his songwriting in numbers like the campy "My Rooster Is King" and the classic-sounding tale of infidelity "You Got Some Explaining to Do" (co-written by his producer Dennis Walker, who helped Robert Cray reach national fame) mark Grady as an important new talent.

Grady's voice not only made me think of Robert Johnson, but the way he worked the crowd seemed as though Johnson's, or Luther Allison's, fire and raw sense of what the audience needs was being born inside him."

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