RONNIE EARL & THE BROADCASTERS

Legendary Blues guitarist Ronnie Earl is a four-time Blues Music Award winner as Guitar Player
of the Year (1997, 1999, 2014, 2018), most recently receiving the award on May 10, 2018, in
Memphis. He has served as an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music and
has taught at the National Guitar summer workshop in Connecticut.
In 1995 Ronnie released Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar with Soul, an instructional VHS tape re-
released in DVD format in 2005. Earl’s discography includes acclaimed albums on Stony Plain
Records, Black Top, Bullseye Blues, Verve, and Telarc. His 1996 Bullseye Blues release,

Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads, won Downbeat Magazine’s Blues Album of the Year, and in
2004 Earl’s Hey José won the Best Blues/R&B Song at the 3rd Annual Independent Music
Awards. In 2022, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters celebrate 35 years as a band. The recent
releases by Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Spread the Love (2010), Just for Today (2013),
and Good News (2014), Father’s Day (2015), Maxwell Street (2016), and The Luckiest Man
(2017), Beyond The Blue Door (2019) and Rise Up (2020) all debuted on the top ten Billboard
Blues charts and received wide critical acclaim. Mercy Me (2022) is Earl’s 14th album in
partnership with Stony Plain and his 28th career album.