Anthony Geraci wins the 2023 Blues Music Award for Instrumentalist-Piano/Pinetop Perkins Piano Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN. Anthony Geraci’s Seventeen Blues Music Awards nominations reflects four decades of musical excellence both in studio and onstage. Anthony won the Award in 2021 too. His band The Boston Blues All-Stars were nominated for Band of the Year in 2019, 2021 and 2023.
His recent recording Blues Called My Name (Blue Heart) debuted at #1 on The Living Blues Radio Chart. Anthony is an original member of Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, and Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters. Geraci has recorded extensively with both groups. Other Artists Anthony has recorded with include a host of iconic traditional blues artists and leading contemporary acts. Anthony has recorded with Lazy Lester, Big Walter Horton, Carey Bell, John Brim, Snooky Pryor, Odetta, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugaray Rayford, Kenny and Raful Neal, Debbie Davies, Welch/Ledbetter, Big Jack Johnson, Kilborn Alley, G.E. Smith and many more. Ronnie Earl shared this praise: “Anthony has been contributing to this music for many years, and his new album illuminates the many colors, shades, and styles of the blues. Anthony is very inspiring, and I love his dedication to the old masters like Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, and Big Maceo Merriweather.” “Anthony Geraci is a beast on all levels and may well be the finest keyboardist in roots music today.” Mike O’Cull-Rock & Blues Muse.