Great News! William Bell's single "Strange Fruit Is Still Hanging" is an official entry in this year's GRAMMY nominating process!

Recording Academy voting members can officially vote for nominees now thru October 15th & we'd sincerely appreciate your consideration when submitting your nominations.

"Strange Fruit Is Still Hanging" is up for nomination in the following categories:

SONG OF THE YEAR - "Strange Fruit Is Still Hanging"

BEST JAZZ PERFORMANCE - "Strange Fruit Is Still Hanging"


LISTEN TO "Strange Fruit Is Still Hanging" HERE!

Thanks for your consideration & support!

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A familiar hook plays over the opening seconds of Ludracris’ “Growing Pains.” It’s a seven-note guitar riff, repeated twice and capped by a lush minor-key resolution, sounding sultry, sad and funky all at once. On the surface, it might seem out of place leading off a track from a hard-edged hip-hop album produced in the second year of the new millennium...

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“You Don’t Miss Your Water” by Stax Records artist William Bell inducted into GRAMMY Hall of Fame in 2024

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Art Credit Ric Watkins / AJC

Article By Bo Emerson Feb 18, 2024

Excerpt "It’s a given that most original American music — country and western, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, the blues — came from the South. READ FULL ARTICLE

https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-black-history/georgias-mount-rushmore-of-music/CDX33TJ5DNBVZLU6OOOX5SGC7Y/

Story by Jessica Nicholson

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"Music legend Mavis Staples will celebrate her 85th birthday in style, with a star-studded celebration to be held Thursday, April 18, at YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, and produced by Blackbird Presents. 
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William Bell tribute will appear on duo's upcoming 'Ohio Players' LP

The Black Keys JIM HERRINGTON*
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/black-keys-i-forgot-to-be-a-lover-ohio-players-1234965260/

NEW YORK – It's a little late for John Leventhal to be considered a hot young thing in music.

He's won six Grammy Awards for songwriting and producing records, the latter a role that he essentially fell into as a journeyman guitarist in New York who befriended artists like Shawn Colvin and Jim Lauderdale. READ ALL ABOUT IT

Dear Grammy voting members of the Recording Academy, for your consideration:

BEST AMERICANA ROOTS SONG
"One Day Closer To Home"
William Bell
William Bell & Scott Bomar, songwriters

BEST AMERICANA ROOTS PERFORMANCE
"One Day Closer To Home"
William Bell

William Bell and Emmy Award-winning film composer Scott Bomar have crafted the title track from Bell's latest album  fused with elements of Blues and Americana....thanks for your support!

Ryman in Nashville for the 22nd Annual Americana Honors & Awards. With performances by 49 Winchester, Adeem the Artist, Allison Russell, Angel Olsen, The Avett Brothers, Bettye LaVette, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Logan Ledger, Margo Price, Marty Stuart, The Milk Carton Kids, Nickel Creek, Noah Kahan, Patty Griffin, Rufus Wainwright, S.G. Goodman, Sunny War, The War And Treaty and William Prince. 

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William Bell New Single Release “Brag About You”  Download available on all major platforms CLICK HERE

Podcast Interview Music Makers And Soul Shakers Podcast On the show this week is William Bell, an incredible vocalist and legendary soul songwriter from Memphis.

Jus’ Blues presents the Inaugural William Bell Blues & Soul Award ​For Outstanding Accomplishments as an Artist, Arranger, Writer & Producer in the Genre of Blues & Soul Music

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by: Tim Sampson

William Bell is one of our favorite Stax Records artists of all time. He’s also one of the Stax Museum and Stax Music Academy’s most avid supporters, with academy students opening for him in Manchester, England in 2017, performing with him in Orlando, Florida, students featured in his video for his 2020 NEA National Heritage Fellowship… Continue to read

https://staxmuseum.com/country-soul-blog-william-bell-is-back-to-bring-home-soul/

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Stax records has a wonderful William Bell page with interesting information and anecdotes

EXCERPT: Early in life, William Bell had thought to become a doctor. Singing was just a relaxing pastime reserved for social gatherings. But friends convinced him to try his hand at entertaining and he and his group won second prize at the annual Mid-South Talent Contest of Memphis, Tennessee. The prize was a recording contract with Stax Records.

As a sideline to his music career, William Bell is also an actor. A graduate of the two-year program at the Theatre Academy of Dramatic Arts in Atlanta, , where he now resides, he has played a variety of acting roles in stage plays while enrolled at the school. He is probably the only Black actor to play the role of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. END OF EXCERPT

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https://staxrecords.com/artist/william-bell/