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The Nighthawks with Rev. Billy C. Wirtz at The Blue Note Grill

Courtesy of Etix | Posted on March 6, 2019

Where

The Blue Note Grill
4125 Durham Chapel Hill Boulevard
Durham, NC
Map
919-401-1979

When

Sat, July 20, 2019
8:00 pm

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Musicians

About

The Nighthawks<br>
When Mark Stutso, master of the deep groove, joined The Nighthawks at the beginning of 2010, the 21st-century version of the legendary American roots band was complete. With Paul Bell and Johnny Castle in the band for nearly a decade, and founding father Mark Wenner the remaining original, this team outshines all previous incarnations.
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Blues Music Award<br>
In 2009, Sirius XM's Bill Wax, having heard that The Nighthawks were playing some acoustic shows, invited the band to record some live tracks for his "B.B. King's Bluesville" channel. In less than two hours, the band cut almost a dozen tunes. A week later, Bill handed them a mixed version with permission to release. After Bill Wolf's magic-touch in the mastering, Last Train to Bluesville was released on RipBang Records. With the able assistance of publicist Mark Pucci and radio promoter Todd Glazer, the CD won Acoustic Album of the Year at the Blues Foundation's Blues Music Awards in Memphis in May 2011....

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