BIO

In just one short year, Karen Lovely has shot onto the blues scene like Stack O' Lee's Forty-Four, first capturing the 2nd Place Band Prize at the 2010 International Blues Challenge, followed by 2011 BMA Nominations for BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM, BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES FEMALE ARTIST, and BEST SONG.

Karen Lovely & her band consistently deliver outstanding performances that have earned them awards, critical acclaim and standing ovations at venues such as the New Daisy & Orpheum Theatres (International Blues Challenge), Waterfront Blues Festival, Britt Festival, Bronze Blues & Brews Festival, Willamette Blues & Brews Festival and Canada's Canal Bank Shuffle.

Driven by Lovely's powerful, expressive voice, and backed by a stellar band, this act delivers a blistering mix of contemporary & old school blues, R &B, and pure Memphis soul.

HONORS/AWARDS

2011 BMA NOMINEE - BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES FEMALE ARTIST
2011 BMA NOMINEE - BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM
2011 BMA NOMINEE - BEST SONG"Still the Rain" (D. Walker/A. Mirikitani)

2010 WINNER - 2nd Place Band, Int'l Blues Challenge
2010 WINNER Muddy Award - BEST FEMALE VOCALIST
2010, 2009 WINNER - Muddy Award - BEST PERFORMANCE
2010 WINNER - Blues Revue Magazine "Sponsor the Band" Contest
2009 WINNER Muddy Award - BEST NEW ACT
2009 WINNER - Waterfront Prize BEST PERFORMANCE

QUOTES/REVIEWS

"Even before Koko Taylor's passing, the number of outstanding female blues singers was alarmingly small. Things are looking up, though, due to the emergence of Karen Lovely."
- DownBeat

"Lovely's new album is the brightest spot on the horizon and a good bet to make many a top Blues album list this year. "Still the Rain" is magnificent!"
- BluesWax

"Lovely is a first class vocalist"
- Art Tipaldi, Blues Revue

"a star in the making!"
- Bill Wax, XM Radio, B.B. King's Bluesville

"Lovely’s style begins from sources within such classic blues singers as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith.  And, like Janis Joplin before her, she has translated those influences into an utterly gripping contemporary style of her own...stunning musicality."
- Don Heckman, International Review of Music
(renowned former music critic LA Times, NY Times)

"Lovely's voice combines roadhouse grit with a focused emotional clarity all her own. Given superior songs by Dennis Walker and Alan Mirikitani, she's an unstoppable force blasting out of the Pacific Northwest."
- Frank-John Hadley

"The single most impressive emerging female vocalist I've heard in quite some time. Karen Lovely doesn't just sing, she is the song. Star power personified...she's here to stay!"
- The Blues Hound, KPFT Houston

"...enjoyed the disc all the way through and.put it in my playlist right away!"
- Dennis Schaibly, WWOZ New Orleans

DISCOGRAPHY

"STILL THE RAIN" - 2010
#1 "Pick to Click" XM Bluesville
#4 Roots Radio Top 50 Blues Chart
#12 Living Blues Chart
#1 Oregon Roots Radio Blues Chart
TOP 10 Blues City Radio

"LUCKY GIRL" - 2009
#1 "Pick to Click " XM Bluesville
#13 Living Blues Chart
#1 Blues City Radio
#1 Oregon Roots Radio Blues Chart

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