Anthony Geraci & his band, The Boston Blues All-Stars are available for booking based out of Boston.
His calendar this week includes a tour in Sweden with Bob Corritore on Harmonica. June in New England,
August run through Canada, & September residency at Marians Jazz Room in Bern, Switzerland.  We are
accepting bookings for Mid-Atlantic & Northeast October 2023 through January 2024. An East Coast to Florida
run is being booked currently for February/March 2024.  To lock down a Southeast show  For the Pine Top Perkins,
2023 Blues Music Award Winner, Anthony Geraci & The Boston Blues All-Stars Band Contact the Jim Nestor Agency
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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.

2023 Blues Foundation
Blues Music Award  Winner
Instrumentalist-Piano

2021 Blues Foundation
Blues Music Award  Winner
Instrumentalist-Piano
Band of the Year Nomination
2021 BMA Winner-Piano
15 BMA Nominations 2016-2021
Grammy Nomination
Super Harps  (Telarc)

 

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.

 

 

crazy blues/mississippi woman

in the quicksand, again (geraci)

“Hand You Your Walking Shoes”

 “Everything I Do Is Wrong”

"Tutti Frutti Booty"

 

Reviews

Blues Called My Name
by: Anthony Geraci

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Label: Blue Heart
Sub Genre: Contemporary Blues
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The Roots Music Report's Top 50 Blues Chart  #2
Blues Called My Name (Blue Heart Records) 2022

 "All of the new songs are originals while the album is dedicated to the memory of keyboardists Gene Taylor, Mike Finnigan (Phantom Blues Band, and Bonnie Raitt), and the spirit of the late great James Harman.  It just doesn't get any better than this" ~
Richard Ludmerer,   
MAKING A SCENE              

#1 on Living Blues Radio Chart, June 2022
#2 Roots Music Radio Blues Chart

             Worldwide airplay in Europe, Australia and Japan

Daydreams In Blue (Shining Stone) 2020. This electrifying performance of Anthony’s thirteen original compositions features extraordinary guitarists: Monster Mike Welch and Walter Trout.

“Geraci’s dozen songs (Daydreams In Blue) offer a picture of a time when the piano was THE featured instrument. Geraci’s knowledge of that history is obvious. As with everything here, Geraci is spot on, never playing an indulgent note.” - Art Tipaldi, Blues Music Magazine

#1 on Roots Music Report Blues Album Chart
#1 on Living Blues Radio Chart August/September
#4 On Billboard Blues Albums Chart
 

Why Did You Have To Go (Shining Stone) 2018. Featuring: Sugaray Rayford, Sugar Ray Norcia, Michelle "Evil Gal" Willson, Ronnie Earl, Kid Ramos, Monster Mike Welch, Troy Gonyea, Michael Mudcat Ward, Willie J. Campbell, Jimi Bott and others.

Nominated for Six 2019 Blues Music Awards

Song of the Year - "Angelina, Angelina” (Geraci)
Band of the Year - Anthony Geraci & The Boston Blues All-Stars
Instrumentalist-Piano, Pinetop Perkins Award (4 years in a row)
Traditional Blues Male Artist
Album of the Year - Why Did You Have To Go (Shining Stone)
Traditional Blues Album - Why Did You Have To Go
 

Fifty Shades Of Blue (Delta Groove) Featuring: Sugar Ray Norcia, Michelle "Evil Gal" Willson, Darrel Nulisch, Toni Lynn Washington, Monster Mike Welch, Michael Mudcat Ward, Marty Richards, Neil Gouvin.

Nominated for BMA Album, Traditional Album, Song of the Year for the title track. Piano too!
 

 

 

 

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Other Recordings

-With Monster Mike Welch
Right Place, Right Time (Delta Groove) Mike Welch/Mike Ledbetter 2017 release. BMA Winner.
These Blues Are Mine (Tone Cool Records)
Cryin’ Hey! (Dixie Frog Records, France)

-With Sugaray Rayford
Dangerous (Delta Groove) Also featuring: Kim Wilson, Sugar Ray Norcia, The Mannish Boys

-With Otis Grand
Blues 65 (Maingate)
Nothing Else Matters (Sequel Records-London, England)
Grand Union (Blueside Records- London, England) with Debbie Davies and Anson Funderburgh

-With Ronnie Earl
Healing Time (Telarc Records)
Smokin' (Black Top Records)
They Call Me Mr. Earl (Black Top Records)
Test Of Time (Black Top Records)
Blues Guitar Spotlight (Black Top Records)
Blues In D Natural (Leopard Records) 45 rpm EP


 

Pianist, Hammond organist and composer Anthony Geraci was  born in New Haven, Conn. in 1954. His interest in playing piano began at age four when he told his parents “I want a piano!” Kind of an odd request when most kids want a new baseball glove or bicycle. His parents weren’t musical-not even a record player at their house- but they always supported their son’s undeniable passion for music. They soon bought a Kimball Grand Piano that his mother paid 4 dollars a week to own. Lessons at the Neighborhood School of Music which was affiliated with Yale University soon followed. At around the age of sixteen he befriended a fellow musician, Ed Cherry at high school. They soon began listening to music together after school and one day Ed played a Jimmy Rogers recording, Chicago Bound that literally changed his life. Ed went on to be Dizzy Gillespie’s guitarist for many years.

 New Haven was rich as far as listening to and seeing major music   artists, and NYC was only a few hours away by train. Seeing Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and Willie Dixon was part of his blues education that could only be learned by seeing these great artists fist hand. Years later Anthony had the opportunity to play piano with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Chuck Berry, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Rodgers and many more-something a sixteen year old budding blues pianist would never have seemed possible.
 
 Anthony has recorded with Big Walter Horton, Ronnie Earl, Big Jack Johnson, Zora Young, Sugaray Rayford, Debbie Davies, Kenny Neal and many more great Blues Artists. Anthony graduated from the Berklee College of Music with B.A. Degree, and a M.A. from Skidmore College. His 2015 release, Fifty Shades of Blue, on Delta Groove Records has been met with acclaimed reviews and earned multiple Blues Music Award nominations from the Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN.

Nominations include: Best Song-for the title track, Best Album, and Best Traditional Blues Album. Anthony also received an individual nomination for the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year Award. Fifty Shades Of Blue was also nominated for Traditional Blues Album of the year by Blues Blast Magazine, and was ranked as one of the top 50 Blues recordings of 2015 by Living Blues Magazine, and earned a 4 Star view in Downbeat Magazine.

In 2019 Why Did You Have To Go (Shining Stone) received nominations by the Blues Foundation Blues Music Awards for Album of the Year, Traditional Album of the Year, Song of the Year-"Angelina, Angelina", as well as individual nominations: Pinetop Perkins Piano Award, Traditional Male Blues Artist and Band of the Year-An unprecedented 6 personal Nominations!

2021-Anthony wins the Instrumentalist-Piano from the Blues Foundation/Blues Music Awards Memphis, TN. Anthony Geraci and The Boston Blues All-Stars are nominated for Band of the Year.

New recording Daydreams In Blue (Shining Stone) debuts at #1 on The Living Blues Radio chart-#1 Roots Music Report-Blu
es.

 

    

Photo, Marilyn Stringer                                                                                                                                  Photo by Marilyn Stringer

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