M.C. Records Artist Nominated For 2026 Living Blues Awards

May 20, 2026- Northport, NY - M.C. Records is proud to announce that two of their artists, slide guitar master Rory Block, and Harmonica legend Kim Wilson, have been nominated for the prestigious 2026 Living Blues Awards—Rory for Female Blues Artist of the Year, and Kim Wilson for Harmonica Player of the Year.

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The 7-time Blues Music Award-winning Rory Block is supporting her 2025 record, Heavy On The Blues, released on August 22. Rory Block is the standard bearer for early American roots blues- a celebrated, multi-award-winning artist and a songwriter whose originals ring with unadorned power and truth. Rory’s commitment as a blues preservationist, with an ear for finding the soul of every song she performs, has earned her accolades from the blues and roots music community.

She just may be the greatest acoustic blues guitarist alive. This album pretty much proves my point - Don Wilcock - Blues Music Magazine

Kim Wilson's latest, Slow Burn was released on November 18. It is the follow-up to his 2020 Grammy-nominated record, The Bigtone Sessions. Joining Kim on much of the record are three amazing blues musicians who recently passed, Richard Innes on the drums, Barrelhouse Chuck on the piano, and Larry Taylor from Canned Heat on bass. Slow Burn is his fourth full-length recording with M.C. Records. Slow Burn has spent six months on the Living Blues Radio Chart and will be released on vinyl on Friday, May 22.

On his current release, Slow Burn, the songs stand as a testament to the quality the singer brings to his own music as filtered through the tracks laid down by the long-forgotten Blues masters. The Alternate Root