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FEBRUARY 2014
Rosebud Founder Mike Kappus To Be Inducted Into Blues Hall of Fame

DECEMBER 2013
The Rosebud Agency Will Continue To Service Contracted Dates But Winds Down Active Booking Operations - Special Projects And Management To Continue The Stone Foxes' New Music Video For Goodnight Moon Project Premieres On Wall Street Journal Trombone Shorty, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and Jon Cleary Nominated For OffBeat Magazine 2013 Best Of The Beat Awards JJ Cale Op-Doc On New York Times Site Trombone Shorty Music Academy On ABC World News With Diane Sawyer, Plus Shorty Also Featured On Regis Philbin's Crowd Goes Wild On Fox Sports 1 The Blind Boys Of Alabama Featured On The Colbert Report For The Second Time In Just Over One Month, Plus Tavis Smiley Interviews Jimmy Carter Again Charlie Musselwhite & James Cotton Tied For This Year's Top Blues Music Awards Nominees - Marcia Ball Also Nominated Rosebud Artists Score 8+ Grammy Nominations! John Hammond Set To Release Live CD, Timeless - Marking 50 Years As A Recording Artist Rosebud Artists Feature On HBO's Treme, Season Four: Music By Allen Toussaint, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue And BeauSoleil With Michael Doucet

NOVEMBER 2013
Tommy Castro And The Painkillers New CD, The Devil You Know, Out 1/21/14 Rosebud Artists Place High In DownBeat Readers Poll, Trombone Shorty Wins Best Trombonist, Bill Frisell #2 Best Guitarist Jim Lauderdale Releases Two New Albums, Black Roses & Blue Moon Junction, On 11/19/13 The Blind Boys Of Alabama Featured On The Colbert Report On 11/13/13, Raves On New CD From Rolling Stone And People Magazines JJ Cale Induction Into Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame James Cotton And Mavis Staples Nominated For Canada's Maple Blues Awards James Cotton Honored With Mississippi Governor's 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award Jim Lauderdale / Music City Roots on American Public Television, NASHVILLE 2.0 and ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival, Plus Old Time Angels Now On CD Allen Toussaint Enshrined In New Orleans Musical Legends Park. Featured On Will Lee's (David Letterman's Late Show Band) New Album With ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons

OCTOBER 2013
Elvin Bishop In Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Nominations. John Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite And Elvin Featured In Sweet Blues Documentary Marcia Ball In Holiday Motion Picture, Angels Sing, Starring Harry Connick Jr., Willie Nelson And Connie Britton Pieta Brown's New Project, Love Over Gold, Receives Rave Reviews In Rolling Stone (Australia), Uncut and Rhythms Magazines The Blind Boys Of Alabama Featured On NPR, Tavis Smiley And Day Trotter - Plus Performing With Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) At Austin City Limits Festival And Exclusive ACL Music Video Trombone Shorty's "Fire And Brimstone" Music Video Premiers On Vevo, Feature On NPR's All Things Considered - And Bhind The Scenes Interviews With Raphael Saadiq Online At Okayplayer's The Revivalist, Complex And BLURT

SEPTEMBER 2013
Meshell Ndegeocello's Music Video Premier Of "Suzanne" On USA TODAY The Blind Boys of Alabama's Two Major Premiers In One Week Via Yahoo.com And RollingStone.com. Also Featured At Boston Red Sox Game And On Live At The Ice House Jim Lauderdale's New CD, Old Time Angels, Out 9/24/13, Plus Jim Hosts The Americana Music Awards For The 11th Year In A Row Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue on Jay Leno Sept 11, Performing Anthem for New Orleans Saints Opening Game Sept 8, New CD, Say That To Say This Out Sept 10

AUGUST 2013
Loudon Wainwright III's Surviving Twin Theatrical Premier Set For September 4-8. Loudon Also Featured On HBO's Boardwalk Empire Soundtrack Volume 2 Jim Lauderdale To Release 11 Albums Online - Plus Live Stream Release Event On StageIt.com Bill Frisell With Earl Klugh And Mavis Staples With Willie Nelson On New Releases, Plus Rave Reviews For Mavis' And Bill's Latest Albums Rosebud Artists Ruthie Foster, Charlie Musselwhite, Marcia Ball And Muddy Waters Score Wins In The 2013 Living Blues Awards

JULY 2013
Pieta Brown Duo Project With Lucie Thorne, Love Over Gold, Will Release Fall To Rise September 9, 2013 JJ Cale Has Passed Away James Cotton On NPR's World Cafe And House Of Blues Radio, Plus Cotton Mouth Man Tops Roots Music Report's Blues Radio Chart For 7 Consecutive Weeks The Blind Boys Of Alabama's I'll Find A Way, Produced By Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Out October 1st - Plus Pitchfork Debuts New Single, "Every Grain of Sand" Trombone Shorty's Say That To Say This, Produced With Raphael Saadiq, Out September 10 Plus USA TODAY Debuts Brand New Single, "Fire & Brimstone" The Blind Boys of Alabama, Allen Toussaint and Mavis Staples Among Artists Chosen For NPR's The Mix: Songs Inspired By The Civil Rights Movement Allen Toussaint's New Live Solo Album/DVD, Songbook, Out September 24, 2013 10 Rosebud Artists Recognized In DownBeat's 61st Annual Critics Poll, Including Wins For Bill Frisell And Trombone Shorty Allen Toussaint To Be Awarded National Medal Of Arts By President Obama Adding To Year Of Major Recognition Mavis Staples' One True Vine Debuts In Top 100 On The Billboard 200 Chart, And Mavis Featured On NPR's Talk Of The Nation

JUNE 2013
Mavis Staples To Appear On Conan, June 25, On TBS Network Bill Frisell To Perform At Joni Mitchell Tribute Concert On June 18 and 19, Named Guitarist Of The Year By The Jazz Journalists Association, Plus New CD, Big Sur, Released Today Elvin Bishop And Charlie Musselwhite Featured In Born In Chicago, Directed By Emmy-winner and Grammy-nominee, John Anderson Rosebud Artists Featured On Independent Music Award-Winning/Nominated Works Mavis Staples Featured On The Daily Show June 12, And Entertainment Weekly Debuts Her New Music Video With Producer, Jeff Tweedy Of Wilco Rosebud Artists Nominated For Thirteen 2013 Living Blues Awards - Vote Now

MAY 2013
Trombone Shorty Featured on Complex Magazine's "The Visionaries" Series Presented By Cadillac, Also Upcoming Performance At Red Rocks Amphitheater With Big Head Todd & The Monsters Will Be Broadcast On AXS TV Allen Toussaint Featured Among Top Stars On New John Fogerty Album Wavy Gravy, Legendary Social Activist, Master Satirist, and Humanitarian Icon Joins The Rosebud Agency Allen Toussaint To Receive Honorary Doctorate From Tulane University Jim Lauderdale Featured On ABC's Nashville And In Pistol Annies' New Music Video Alongside Brenda Lee The Blind Boys Of Alabama's New Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) Produced Album Out This Fall, Plus All-Star Benefit CD Featuring The Blind Boys Jim Lauderdale Nominated For Two 2013 Americana Music Awards With Buddy Miller, Jim Hosts The Americana Music Awards Ceremony For the 11th Consecutive Year, And Jim And Buddy's NPR Tiny Desk Concert Now Available Ruthie Foster Honored With Fifth Blues Music Award Win In Four Years, Muddy Waters / Rolling Stones DVD Also Wins BMA James Cotton On NPR's Weekend Edition And In Rolling Stone - Trombone Shorty Recently Featured On NPR's Talk Of The Nation Bill Frisell's New Album, Big Sur, Out June 18, 2013, Named For Prestigious Curator Roles Johnny A. Ranked #6 In The Top 20 Bands In Boston Right Now By The Alternate Root, Plus Jamming With Jeff Beck At Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp Marcia Ball, Ben Harper And Charlie Musselwhite, And Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue To Be Featured On AXS TV's Live Coverage Of 2013 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

APRIL 2013
USA Today Streaming James Cotton's New Star Studded CD, Cotton Mouth Man Allen Toussaint's 75th Birthday Tribute Concert & Benefit Features All-Star Line-Up Trombone Shorty Foundation's First Annual "Shorty Fest" Announced, Plus Trombone Shorty Honored With Closing Set At The 2013 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival And Official Jazz Fest Commemorative Envelope Jon Cleary To Anchor All-Star American Routes 15th Anniversary Concert Charlie Musselwhite And Ben Harper On David Letterman, Plus People Magazine Ranks Get Up! The 5th Best Album Of 2013; Charlie's New Live CD, Juke Joint Chapel, Now Available Marcia Ball, Loudon Wainwright III, And Jim Lauderdale Featured On NPR Mavis Staples Reunites With Wilco's Jeff Tweedy For Her New Album, One True Vine, Out June 25, 2013 James Cotton Living Blues Magazine Cover Story Jim Lauderdale And Odie Blackmon's "Tough All Over" Performed On ABC's Nashville Carrie Rodriguez Featured On Google Play's April Antenna Playlist, Plus The Stone Foxes On Google Play's Free Song Of The Day Trombone Shorty Featured On KING's (Joe King of The Fray) New Single/Video And On Upcoming Releases By Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk And Robert Randolph - Plus New Raphael Saadiq-produced Album Out This Summer The Rolling Stones Announce "50 And Counting" North American Tour Dates Mavis Staples And Charlie Musselwhite To Perform At White House All-Star Celebration Of Memphis Soul Tommy Castro's Blues Cruise Cabin Raffle For The Blues Hall Of Fame Ann Savoy Documentary Short, The Hidden World of Ann Savoy, Now Available Online David Lindley In Rolling Stone Magazine Feature JJ Cale's Five Disc Box Set, Classic Album Selection, Out April 2, 2013

MARCH 2013
Duke Robillard's New Album, Independently Blue, Out April 9, 2013 The Blind Boys Of Alabama And Bettye LaVette Featured At Prince Tribute Concert At Carnegie Hall JJ Cale's Song "Angel" Featured On Eric Clapton's Latest CD, Old Sock. "Angel" Picked As Free Starbucks Download The Stone Foxes Tour News, Video Premieres And Raves For Small Fires Charlie Musselwhite And Ben Harper's "Making Of" Documentary To Premiere On Palladia TV; Also Featured On NPR's World Cafe James Cotton's New Album, Cotton Mouth Man, Out May 7, 2013

FEBRUARY 2013
GRAMMY Award Winning Blues Legend, James Cotton Joins The Rosebud Agency Raves And "Best Of's" For Rosebud Artists' 2012 Releases Rosebud Artists On House of Blues and NPR Radio - Marcia Ball, Ruthie Foster, Tommy Castro and Charlie Musselwhite Pieta Brown's Mercury Is #1 On Roots Music Report's Top 100 Folk Albums Of 2012, Other Rosebud Artists Rank High On Roots Music Report's Year-End Charts BeauSoleil's New Album, From Bamako To Carencro, Out February 26, 2013 Charlie Musselwhite Joins Ben Harper On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tavis Smiley, And DownBeat Magazine Cover Story; Plus Charlie On American Public Media's The Dinner Party Jim Lauderdale, Carrie Rodriguez and Charlie Musselwhite Projects Top Americana Radio Chart And Roots Music Report, Jim Lauderdale Bluegrass Unlimited Cover Story GRAMMY / MusiCares News: Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples And More Mavis Staples To Perform At The 2013 GRAMMY Awards Ceremony, "Love For Levon" Concert Broadcast And Video Release Trombone Shorty Performs At Six Super Bowl XLVII Events, Featured In New Lenny Kravitz Documentary

JANUARY 2013
Bill Frisell Featured At SFJazz Center Grand Opening Events Allen Toussaint To Receive Honorary Doctorate From Tulane University Charlie Musselwhite And Ben Harper To Appear On The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Tonight, January 22, On NBC Trombone Shorty Honored With 3 Best Of The Beat Awards, Featured At The 2013 Green Inaugural Ball Carrie Rodriguez To Be Honored By City Of Austin With An Official Carrie Rodriguez Day The Blind Boys of Alabama Set For Prince Tribute Concert At Carnegie Hall Carrie Rodriguez, Ruthie Foster And Marcia Ball To Be Featured At Texas State Society's Presidential Inauguration Ball Elvin Bishop on Prairie Home Companion This Week! Mavis Staples To Perform At Grammy MusiCares Bruce Springsteen Tribute Charlie Musselwhite Inducted Into The Mississippi Musicians Hall Of Fame

DECEMBER 2012
Rosebud Artists Nominated For 13+ OffBeat Magazine 2012 Best Of The Beat Awards Loudon Wainwright III's Older Than My Old Man Now Makes NPR's Top 10 Albums Of 2012, Loudon Contributes Song To Judd Apatow's This Is 40 Soundtrack Mavis Staples On The Colbert Report With Jeff Tweedy And Sean Lennon - December 13 Rosebud Artists Nominated For 2013 Blues Music Awards Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews Partners With Tulane University To Teach Underserved Students In The New Orleans Community Congratulations To Ruthie Foster On Her Second Grammy Nomination! Loudon Wainwright III, Bill Frisell and Trombone Shorty participants in Grammy Nommed CDs by Bonnie Raitt and Zac Brown Band

NOVEMBER 2012
Jim Lauderdale Documentary, The King Of Broken Hearts, Premiering At The Country Music Hall of Fame Then GRAMMY Museum Meshell Ndegeocello On NPR's All Things Considered And Bettye LaVette On Tavis Smiley Mavis Staples Gets Her Due In Michael Jackson Documentary, Bad 25 Bettye LaVette Nominated For Induction Into The SoulMusic Hall Of Fame Trombone Shorty Featured on Rod Stewart's Christmas Special, Rod's and Cee-Lo's New CDs - TV Special Marks Fourth National TV Broadcast In One Week Carrie Rodriguez New Solo Album Out January 2013 The Stone Foxes Unveil Brand New Single From Their Upcoming Record, Small Fires, February 12, 2013 Trombone Shorty Tops DownBeat Magazine Readers Poll For Best Trombone Player Rosebud Artists Score High In DownBeat Readers Poll Trombone Shorty Featured On Rod Stewart's Christmas CD, Merry Christmas, Baby, And On Stewart's PBS Christmas Concert Special JJ Cale Garners More Raves From Neil Young In His New Memoir Marcia Ball and Ruthie Foster Featured in Austin Live Video Johnny A. Nominated In 2012 Boston Music Awards For Blues Artist Of The Year And Ranked Among Top 12 Guitar Players You Must See Live

OCTOBER 2012
Duke Robillard Performs At The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame's Chuck Berry Tribute With Chuck Berry The Americana Music Awards, Hosted by Jim Lauderdale On PBS November 10, New Jim Lauderdale / Buddy Miller CD Coming Soon Loudon Wainwright III Featured In Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize Ceremony Honoring Ellen DeGeneres Pieta Brown Releases New Song, "To Believe", in Honor of President Obama's Re-Election Campaign; Pieta to be Featured on Iowa City Song Project Release Trombone Shorty Joins Prince on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Airing Tuesday, October 23rd on ABC Johnny A. Featured on Les Paul Tribute Record and Documentary; Johnny A. Signature Guitar Makes Top Ten List of Blues Guitars; Set To Teach At Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp Mavis Staples on Austin City Limits with Bonnie Raitt, airing October 20th Marcia Ball Featured on HBO's Hit Series, Treme Tommy Castro & The Painkillers' Debut Release with Alligator Records Out November 4, 2012 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, with Founding Member Elvin Bishop, Nominated for Induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Charlie Musselwhite Collaborates with Ben Harper on Forthcoming CD Get Up!

SEPTEMBER 2012
Rosebud Artists Featured on Preservation Hall Jazz Band's 50th Anniversary Recording Bettye LaVette Featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - Airing Tonight, Sept 25 Jim Lauderdale's Carolina Moonrise Out September 25 - Hosts Americana Awards for 10th Consecutive Year Mavis Staples Featured on All Star PBS TV Special

AUGUST 2012
Mavis Staples Featured in Levon Helm Tribute and On Austin City Limits With Bonnie Raitt Coco Montoya - Blues Blast Magazine Cover Story Bettye LaVette Featured In Time Magazine's "Fall's Best" Jim Lauderdale Featured In Jerry Garcia Tribute Concert - Co-Hosts New Radio Show With Buddy Miller On SiriusXM Meshell Ndegeocello's Pour Une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication To Nina Simone - out October 9th

JULY 2012
Rosebud Artists Marcia Ball and Mavis Staples Are Winners In The 2012 Living Blues Awards Mavis Staples And Meshell Ndegeocello In Tribute To The Life And Music Of Curtis Mayfield Bettye LaVette Featured At Prestigious Ford's Theatre Gala - Meets With President At The White House Trombone Shorty Featured On Zac Brown Band's Chart Topping Album, Uncaged The Stone Foxes Featured On KFOG's Local Scene 9 CD, Supporting Music In Schools Today Loudon Wainwright III At The Grammy Museum, Letterman, New Video on NPR, New Film Role! Allen Toussaint, The Dirty Dozen and Jon Cleary - Legends Of New Orleans - The Sydney Opera House Pays Tribute John Hammond Remembers Woody Guthrie On Biography.com Loudon Wainwright III On Letterman, Thursday July 12 Dr. John and Bill Frisell Are Winners In DownBeat Critics Poll! Marcia Ball, Bettye LaVette, Meshell Ndegeocello, Allen Toussaint and Trombone Shorty Also Named Among The Best The A, B, C & D of Boogie Woogie's New Live CD, Jimmy Fallon Show, Rare New York Dates New Song from The Weepies Featured on PBS KIDS Compilation Album PBS KIDS ROCKS!. Out Now.

JUNE 2012
Ruthie Foster Nominated For Best Female Blues Artist In 2012 Blues Blast Music Awards Bettye LaVette's New CD Announced With Initial Single "I'm Not the One" Out Today And Accompanying Video Available On RollingStone.com Bill Frisell Named Guitarist Of The Year For Third Time Since 2008 By The Jazz Journalist Association Dr. John To Be Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award At Lugano Estival Jazz 2012 Bill Frisell Featured On Shawn Colvin's New CD, Bill Joins An All-Star Cast for Hunter S. Thompson's The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved Tombone Shorty Featured At Obama For America Event at Sarah Jessica Parker's New York Home Elvin Bishop on A Prairie Home Companion, Saturday June 16 The Blind Boys of Alabama Join Tom Petty For East Canada Dates Rosebud Artists Nominated for 7 Living Blues Awards: Marcia Ball, Ruthie Foster, Mavis Staples and Duke Robillard All Up For Nominations - Cast Your Vote Jon Cleary and Dr. John Join Forces for Summer Tour of the US and Europe

MAY 2012
Jim Lauderdale To Host Americana Music Association's Nominees Announcement Event May 31, 2012 Loudon Wainwright III Family Reunion At New York's Town Hall John Hammond Inducted Into New York Blues Hall of Fame Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews Honored At Tulane University Commencement with President's Medal Dr. John and Bettye LaVette Featured Among Star Studded Cast at the Harlem Apollo's Jazz Foundation of America Fundraiser Pedrito Martinez' New Yorker Magazine Feature, Jazz Fest, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center Appearances Boost Profile Allen Toussaint, Ruthie Foster, Charlie Musselwhite and Marcia Ball Honored with Blues Music Awards Tommy Castro Wins 2011 International Songwriting Competition, Blues Category Bill Frisell Receives Prestigious Doris Duke Performing Artists Award and Nominations for 2012 Jazz Awards Meshell Ndegeocello Speaks On PBS's News Hour About The Importance Of The Arts In Education The Blind Boys of Alabama Celebrate Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary Marcia Ball Inducted Into Louisiana Music Hall of Fame

APRIL 2012
Elvin Bishop's "What The Hell Is Goin' On?" Featured as Title Track for Paul Thorn's New CD out May 8 Trombone Shorty and Dr. John Both Winners At Big Easy Music Awards Elvin Bishop Joins The Rosebud Agency Dr. John Featured on Jimmy Fallon with Dan Auerbach PLUS NPR Morning Edition - New Album Scoring Raves From Rolling Stone And Everyone Else Bettye LaVette's NYC Residency at Cafe Carlyle A Triumph - Major Raves From NY Times and Wall St. Journal

MARCH 2012
Bonnie Raitt's New Album Features Bill Frisell and Cover of Loudon Wainwright III Song, Plus Mavis Staples Joins Bonnie's Summer Tour Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Featured in CBS Final Four Clip, Plus Troy Judges NOLA School Brass Band Competition The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Celebrate 35th Anniversary With New Album TWENTY DOZEN - Out May 1st Trombone Shorty and Dr. John Both Nominated For Big Easy Music Awards The Pedrito Martinez Group Joins The Rosebud Agency Jon Cleary, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Dr. John Featured on HBO's Treme Season Two Soundtrack Out April 17, 2012 Ruthie Foster #1 on Blues Radio Chart for 2nd Week and Pieta Brown Maintains #1 Hold on Folk Radio Chart for 5th Month Jon Cleary's New Album Occapella Out April 17

FEBRUARY 2012
Bill Frisell's Latest Album Project Floratone II with Matt Chamberlain, Lee Townsend and Tucker Martine Out March 6 Dr. John's New Album Locked Down Out April 3, 2012 Produced By The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach Trombone Shorty and Bill Frisell Top Australia's Rhythms Magazine Readers Poll Allen Toussaint To Be Inducted Into Blues Hall of Fame on May 9th, 2012 Loudon Wainwright III Featured on 2012 GRAMMY Winning Soundtrack PLUS Dirty Dozen Brass Band Members and Trombone Shorty Contribute to GRAMMY Winners and More Trombone Shorty to Perform at The White House in All Star Black History Month Celebration February 21st Johnny A. Full Live Set Airing on German TV February 20 Featured On NPR: Ruthie Foster (Weekend Edition) and Bill Frisell (Tiny Desk Concert) Loudon Wainwright III's New CD Older Than My Old Man Now Out April 17 Trombone Shorty Featured On Official 2012 New Orleans Jazz Fest Poster Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Release New CD, Radio Salone, on April 24, 2012

JANUARY 2012
Trombone Shorty Honored with 6 Best of The Beat Awards, NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu Again Collaborates on Horns For Schools Project, New Dates with Lenny Kravitz and Zac Brown Band Ruthie Foster Celebrates Let It Burn Release with Webcast Concert Event from The Grammy Museum Rosebud Artists Recognized In Village Voice 2011 Pazz & Jop Poll Rosebud Artists Win Accolades In Best Of 2011 Lists Trombone Shorty To Perform National Anthem And At Half-Time Of New York Giants - Atlanta Falcons Playoff Game January 8th

DECEMBER 2011
Meshell Ndegeocello Featured on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Loudon Wainwright III's "Newt Gingrich Is Running For Pres" On You Tube Now The Blind Boys Of Alabama Celebrate The Holiday Spirit With Daryl Hall 7 Rosebud Artists Nominated for 12+ Blues Music Awards: Tommy Castro, Ruthie Foster, Charlie Musselwhite, Marcia Ball, Jon Cleary, Bettye LaVette and Duke Robillard All Honored with Nominations Trombone Shorty Leads In Best of The Beat Awards With 8 Nominations. Irma Thomas, Jon Cleary, Michael Doucet and More Honored Bettye LaVette Featured on Amnesty International Bob Dylan Tribute Trombone Shorty JAZZIZ Magazine Cover, Music Rising Web Spotlight And Sound Opinions Broadcast The Blind Boys of Alabama, Allen Toussaint and Trombone Shorty To Join Preservation Hall Jazz Band's 50th Anniversary at Carnegie Hall January 7, 2012 Charlie Musselwhite and John Hammond Top Blues Matters International Writer's Poll - Jon Cleary and Tommy Castro Score Among The Best

NOVEMBER 2011
Charlie Musselwhite and John Hammond Top Blues Matters International Writer's Poll - Jon Cleary and Tommy Castro Score Among The Best Mavis Staples To Perform On VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Premiering December 19, 2011 - Honoring The Great Cities Of Soul Music Charlie Musselwhite and Allen Toussaint Join Cyndi Lauper on The Rosie Show and Both Featured on Cyndi Lauper DVD/CD To Memphis, With Love Rosebud Artists Score DownBeat Readers Poll Honors Once Again Johnny A. and Duke Robillard Nominated for Boston Music Awards' 2011 Blues Artist of The Year Ruthie Foster's New Album Let It Burn Features The Blind Boys of Alabama, William Bell And More - Out January 31, 2012 Charlie Musselwhite Featured on New Tom Waits Album, Bad As Me

OCTOBER 2011
Trombone Shorty Cover Story In DownBeat Magazine Plus New Collaboration with Mark Ronson, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Zigaboo Modeliste and members of the Dap Kings Loudon Wainwright III Interview Featured in MOJO Magazine Duke Robillard and Bettye LaVette Nominated for B.B. King International Artist of the Year Award Duke Robillard Joins Pieta Brown and Trombone Shorty at #1 on Respective Charts Orleans Avenue's Pete Murano and Michael Ballard Highlighted in Guitar Player and Bass Player Magazines Trombone Shorty's "For True" Featured In Nikon 1 Ad Campaign Bettye LaVette and Meshell Ndegeocello Featured on John Lennon Tribute Album to Benefit Red Cross' Tsunami Relief Efforts - Out November 15 Jim Lauderdale Hosts Americana Music Awards, Appears on NPR's Mountain Stage Airing October 21 Pieta Brown Offers Free Track In Solidarity With "Occupy Wall Street" Protestors The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Members Join Members of Wilco and TV On The Radio as Special Guests On Tinariwen's Hit Album Tassili Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Featured on New Dan Zanes Album And In New Playing for Change Episode, Gimmie Shelter Pieta Brown's Mercury #1 on Folk Radio Chart - Tour Highlighted by Shows with Richard Thompson, Iris DeMent, Greg Brown, and Amos Lee The Blind Boys of Alabama To Join Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Holliday, Peabo Bryson and More at 90th Birthday Celebration Honoring Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet Awarded "Best Non-European Cajun Band 2011" - First Time Ever Presented

SEPTEMBER 2011
Encore Performance of The Weepies on NPR's Mountain Stage Airing September 23 Trombone Shorty's Whirlwind Week Crowned With For True #1 Debut! Meshell Ndegeocello's Weather - Out November 8th

AUGUST 2011
Carrie Rodriguez Joins Jeff Bridges' Band For Performances On The Today Show, The Colbert Report, Live! With Regis & Kelly And More Marcia Ball Featured On House of Blues Radio Hour Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue To Perform On Conan Monday, August 15, 2011 Pieta Brown's New Album Mercury Out September 27, 2011 - Title Track Out Now

JULY 2011
Rosebud Artists Mavis Staples, Marcia Ball and Charlie Musselwhite Honored at 2011 Living Blues Awards Bill Frisell Explores The Songs Of John Lennon On New Album All We Are Saying - Out September 27, 2011 Duke Robillard's New Album Low Down And Tore Up - Out September 20, 2011 A Big Thanks To HBO's Treme For Again Featuring Rosebud Artists In Their 2ND Season: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dr. John, Jon Cleary, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Music by Allen Toussaint Bill Frisell Honored With 10TH DownBeat Critics Poll Win For Guitarist of the Year - Allen Toussaint, Trombone Shorty, Bettye LaVette, Dr. John, Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples Also Recognized The Stone Foxes Release 2 New Songs, Invite Fans To Be Part Of Their New Video, Plus Concert For Relix Magazine Online Trombone Shorty's New Album - For True - Featuring Guest Appearances By Jeff Beck, Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Ledisi, Warren Haynes, Ivan And Cyril Neville, The Rebirth Brass Band And More Is Out September 13 The Blind Boys of Alabama Featured On NPR's Tiny Desk Concert Series Charlie Musselwhite Nominated For 2 Blues Blast Music Awards: Traditional Blues CD of the Year & Song of the Year - PLEASE VOTE Mavis Staples and The Blind Boys of Alabama Featured In New Gospel Documentary: Rejoice and Shout - In Select Theaters Now

JUNE 2011
Meshell Ndegeocello's NY Times Raves, Contribution To It Gets Better Book, Featured Guest Appearances On Three New Music Projects PLUS New Album in the Works JJ Cale Nominated For Induction Into Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Allen Toussaint and Meshell Ndegeocello Featured on Madeleine Peyroux's Newly Released Album, Standing On The Rooftop Dr. John, Allen Toussaint & The Meters Revisit The Dr.'s 1974 Album Desitively Bonnaroo at 10th Annual Bonnaroo Fest PLUS Dr. John Heads Up Fest's Super Jam with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach Rosebud Artists Nominated For 7 Living Blues Awards: Marcia Ball, Ruthie Foster, Bettye LaVette, Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples All Get Nods - CAST YOUR VOTE The Blind Boys of Alabama Featured on NPR's Mountain Stage Premiering June 17th // Blind Boys Play Sold Out BAMA RISING: A Benefit Concert for Alabama Tornado Recovery June 14th Bill Frisell To Play TEDxGoldenGateED June 11th - Bill Named Among New SFJAZZ Center's Inaugural Artistic Directors

MAY 2011
Bettye LaVette's Café Carlyle Residency Met With Rave Reviews // Featured On Steve Cropper Project, Out July 5th The Stone Foxes Featured on KFOG Radio Compilation, Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey Ad, San Jose Earthquakes Video & More Bill Frisell Nominated for Guitarist of the Year at the 2011 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards Jim Lauderdale Releases New Album, Reason & Rhyme June 21st Ruthie Foster Releases First Ever Live Concert DVD & CD, Live At Antone's, June 21st Tommy Castro Presents The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue Live! New Album Out June 7 Rosebud Agency Artists Everywhere During 42nd Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival The Blind Boys of Alabama To Be Featured in Music Builds: CMT Disaster Relief Concert Thursday May 12, High Profile Guest Collaborations and Media Appearances 2011 GRAMMY Winner Mavis Staples Receives Honorary Doctor of Music Degree From Berklee College of Music Congratulations to Rosebud's 2011 Blues Music Award Winners: John Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite, Ruthie Foster, Irma Thomas, Dr. John Trombone Shorty Wins Best Male Performer and Dr. John Wins Best R&B Artist at 2011 Big Easy Music Awards in New Orleans Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Meet DJ Logic on the Rise & Shine Remixes EP

APRIL 2011
Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas to Sing National Anthem at NBA Playoff Game Between L.A. Lakers @ New Orleans Hornets Thursday April 28 The Stone Foxes' "I'm A King Bee" Featured in Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey Ad Campaign and Released on iTunes - Ad Spot Named Adweek's Ad of the Day 4/27/11 Marcia Ball's Roadside Attractions Hits #1 on Top 50 Blues Radio Airplay Chart 2011 GRAMMY Winner Mavis Staples Featured on CBS Sunday Morning's Sunday Profile The A B C and D of Boogie Woogie's Ben Waters' New Album - Boogie 4 Stu - Features Band Mate Charlie Watts Along With Fellow Rolling Stones Jagger, Richards, Wood and Wyman Irma Thomas, Dr. John and Arrangements by Allen Toussaint Featured on Forthcoming Album by Hugh Laurie (Star of FOX TV's House) Allen Toussaint Featured In All Star Benefit: Harmony for Health, Unity for the Gulf Concert April 20 at New Orleans' House of Blues Pieta Brown Featured on A Nod To Bob 2 Collection (for Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday), New Amos Lee CD and Greg Brown Covers Pieta on His Upcoming Freak Flag CD Captain Beefheart's Classic Album, Trout Mask Replica, Selected For Preservation By Library of Congress In The National Recording Registry Marcia Ball's New Roadside Attractions #1 Most Added and Highest Debut On Americana Radio Charts Plus NPR's Song of the Day

MARCH 2011
Collaboration with Jackson Browne: Love Is Strange - En Vivo Con Tino Wins Independent Music Award (Best Live Performance Album) The Blind Boys of Alabama Featured in New Movie HOP (out April 1st) Plus Daily Inspirational Twitter Posts John Lee Hooker Honored with Mississippi Blues Trail Marker Dedication 2011 GRAMMY Winner Mavis Staples Featured on NPR's Mountain Stage Premiering April 1st Dr. John Inducted Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, March 14, 2011 Bill Frisell's New Sign of Life: Music for the 858 Quartet Out April 26th Johnny A.'s Version of "Walk Away Renee" is #4 on Gibson Guitars' 10 Greatest Valentine's Day Instrumentals and Johnny A. To Be Featured in Boston Legends All Star Concert on March 18th Mavis Staples Honored with NAACP Image Award for You Are Not Alone (Outstanding Gospel Album) and Featured Live at Award Ceremony The Blind Boys of Alabama Releasing New Album Take The High Road on May 3rd Jim Lauderdale To Be Inducted Into The Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame on June 11th

FEBRUARY 2011
Allen Toussaint To Be Inducted Into The Songwriters Hall of Fame June 16th Marcia Ball's New Roadside Attractions Out March 29th 2011 GRAMMY Winner Mavis Staples To Perform on Conan on the TBS Network March 2nd Thanks To Mountain Stage (NPR) Encores For Loudon Wainwright III, Pieta Brown, David Lindley, John Hammond, Mavis Staples, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Loudon Wainwright III Releasing 40 ODD YEARS, 4 CD/1 DVD Box Set on May 3rd, Co-Produced with Judd Apatow David Lindley's Collaboration with Jackson Browne: Love Is Strange - En Vivo Con Tino Nominated for Independent Music Award (Best Americana Album) John Hammond To Be Inducted Into Blues Hall of Fame on Wednesday May 4th, 2011 Trombone Shorty Featured in Jeff Beck's Rock 'n' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul, Out on CD and DVD February 22nd Mavis Staples Wins The GRAMMY for You Are Not Alone (Best Americana Album) Bill Frisell Featured On Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings - Album Out March 1st The Blind Boys of Alabama Featured on 700 Club Charlie Musselwhite and Ruthie Foster Featured on New Album: 100 Years of Robert Johnson by Big Head Blues Club, Out March 1st GRAMMY Nominees Mavis Staples and Trombone Shorty to Perform at GRAMMY Awards Pre-Telecast Ceremony February 13 Trombone Shorty Named in NBC News' The Grio's 100: History Makers in the Making

JANUARY 2011
Trombone Shorty, Dr. John, Irma Thomas and BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet Honored with OffBeat Best of the Beat Awards JJ Cale Collection - The Silvertone Years - International Release February 7th Rosebud Artists Recognized In Village Voice 2010 Pazz & Jop Poll and More Year End Praise for Bettye LaVette and Trombone Shorty Tommy Castro Featured In Blues Revue Magazine Cover Story GRAMMY and Multiple Blues Music Award Nominee Charlie Musselwhite Featured on NPR's World Café and eTown Trombone Shorty's Backatown is Back At #1! Big Year End Love for Rosebud Artists Across Best of 2010 Critics' Lists: A number of Rosebud artists were praised in Best of 2010 lists for their albums, songs and live shows, garnering accolades from Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Mojo, London Times, NPR, Amazon, iTunes, and Paste, among many others GRAMMY Nominee Bettye LaVette on Tonight Show with Jay Leno January 12, at Carnegie Hall Tribute to Neil Young February 10, Song Featured in ABC's Detroit 1-8-7 January 4, BET Broadcast January 30 and NPR's World Café Online

DECEMBER 2010
The Stone Foxes Named #1 Artist On The Verge by Relix Plus Song Included on Tap Tap Revenge 4 Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Contribute to We Are The World 25th Anniversary and Release New Song For Download 2011 GRAMMY Nominee David Lindley Special Featured Guest on Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Songs From The Promise (Live) Streaming On VEVO and on The Promise CD Set Rest In Peace, Don Van Vliet - Captain Beefheart Rosebud Artists Honored With 13+ Nominations For New Orleans' Best of The Beat Awards - Vote Now! Charlie Musselwhite Leads Blues Music Awards With 5 Nominations, Two Noms For Duke Robillard, Plus Dr. John, Irma Thomas, John Hammond and Ruthie Foster Nominations Dr. John To Be Inducted Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ruthie Foster And The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Featured At 22nd Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam 2011 GRAMMY Nominee Mavis Staples Featured at Kennedy Center Honors in Tribute to Paul McCartney, CBS to Broadcast December 28 Bill Frisell New CD with Vinicius Cantuária Out January 25, 2011 Dr. John Joins The Rosebud Agency for Representation Outside U.S. and Canada GRAMMY Nominee Bettye LaVette Performs On Lopez Tonight December 21st Trombone Shorty Backatown Tour Hits 5th Continent in one year, Grammy Nomination, Red Hot + New Orleans Triumph, RED Collaboration Johnny A. Wins Blues Artist of the Year at 2010 Boston Music Awards Carrie Rodriguez on NPR's Mountain Stage Premiering 12/3, New Duet Album We Still Love Our Country Out Digitally 2/1/11 and Austin City Limits Re-Airing Weekend of 12/3 Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars #1 on 2010 World Music Charts Europe Rosebud Artists Score Grammy Nominations

NOVEMBER 2010
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Support Dave Matthews Band's Last Shows Before Year-Long Hiatus, Shorty Guests w/ DMB Each Night Allen Toussaint, Co-Founder of New Orleans Artists Against Hunger & Homelessness To Be Featured At Anniversary Event with Jon Cleary, Irma Thomas And More The Rosebud Agency Nominated For Pollstar Concert Industry Award: Independent Booking Agency of the Year Jim Lauderdale Honored with Inspiration Award and Two Other Awards at SESAC 2010 Music Awards Bettye LaVette Featured on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson November 12th - NPR.org Interview/Performance Now Available Online The Blind Boys of Alabama Featured on Third Day's "Lift Up Your Face" Single Rosebud Artists Once Again Score Honors In Downbeat Readers Poll Bill Frisell Wall Street Journal Rave and Tops Again In Downbeat Readers Poll Duke Robillard and Mavis Staples Both Nominated for Maple Blues Award The Tommy Castro Band Win Best Blues Band at 2010 Blues Blast Music Awards

OCTOBER 2010
Mavis Staples Featured At Jon Stewart / Stephen Colbert DC Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear Jim Lauderdale Cover Story in The Direct Buzz, Featured on New Elvis Costello CD and Letterman Performance, Upcoming Gwyneth Paltrow Film and CMA Performance The Blind Boys of Alabama Sing for President Jimmy Carter Bettye LaVette Performs on Today Show October 15 - Bettye's Performance with Herbie Hancock at UNCF Tribute to Chaka Khan Coming to BET January 2011 New Eric Clapton CD Features JJ Cale, Allen Toussaint and Trombone Shorty Trombone Shorty Is Music Director For All Star Red Hot + New Orleans Benefit Event In NYC - Fellow Rosebuds Irma Thomas and Roger Lewis (Dirty Dozen) Plus Many More Featured Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Join Sudan365 Beat for Peace Campaign

SEPTEMBER 2010
Trombone Shorty Featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live (9/23), The Tonight Show (9/30) and Austin City Limits (10/23) BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet Featured On BBC's God's Jukebox Radio Show The Weepies' Be My Thrill Debuts In Billboard Top 40, Top 10 Digital Albums, #3 on Folk Chart Trombone Shorty, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Allen Toussaint Featured in NFL Season Kickoff Festivities Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue To Support Dave Matthews Band on Tour Finale Before DMB Hiatus Bettye LaVette Honored with Heroes And Legends Achievement in Music Award Allen Toussaint To Support Neil Young Solo Dates Trombone Shorty, Irma Thomas & Allen Toussaint Featured on HBO's Treme Soundtrack (Out 9/28 Digitally) Carrie Rodriguez Featured on New Los Lonely Boys Album, Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez Collection and more Mavis Staples Coming Up On The Tonight Show, Letterman and The Colbert Report - Lollapalooza Raves Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Featured On New Bob Marley Tribute Album

AUGUST 2010
Charlie Musselwhite's The Well Featured on B.B. King's Bluesville (Sirius/XM) August 24 Pieta Brown To Support John Prine, Upcoming Track on Think Out Loud CD Rosebud Signs The Stone Foxes Booker T., Bettye LaVette and Trombone Shorty Featured on Live from the Artists Den Premiering August 19th Television Encores for Bettye LaVette, Jim Lauderdale With Elvis Costello, Trombone Shorty and Carrie Rodriguez David Lindley and Jackson Browne Featured In Rolling Stone - Contest For Their Polyester Fans Duke Robillard's Passport To The Blues Chosen As CD of the Month for September on House of Blues Radio

JULY 2010
Irma Thomas, The Soul Queen of New Orleans, Joins Rosebud Bill Frisell Again Honored As Guitarist Of The Year & Other Rosebud Artists Score In Downbeat's 58th Annual Critics Poll Charlie Musselwhite's New Album The Well Out August 24, 2010 Mavis Staples' New Song "You Are Not Alone" Premieres On Pitchfork Bettye LaVette's Guest Appearances on Good Morning America July 6, and Tavis Smiley July 9 Precede Three Night Hollywood Bowl Run Thank You To HBO's Treme For Featuring Allen Toussaint, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Irma Thomas, Jon Cleary, and Music by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Trombone Shorty Featured As WXPN's Artist To Watch For July

JUNE 2010
Tommy Castro and Ruthie Foster Nominated For 2010 Blues Blast Music Awards Allen Toussaint To Join Jimmy Buffett In Concert For Gulf Oil Spill July 11, 2010 Trombone Shorty's "Hurricane Season" Chosen As MTV's Real World New Orleans Theme Song - Backatown Still #1 Contemporary Jazz CD for 9th Straight Week Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone Produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy September 14, 2010 The Weepies New Album Be My Thrill Out August 31, 2010 Trombone Shorty Featured With Jeff Beck, Plus Bonnaroo And Playboy Jazz - And That's Just 4 Days Last week - Treme and Letterman Coming Soon Allen Toussaint To Join Cyndi Lauper On Letterman June 14, 2010 Meshell Ndegeocello Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron and Named to Faculty of Bootsy Collins' Funk University Bill Frisell's New CD Beautiful Dreamers Out August 31, 2010 Bettye LaVette's Interpretations Scores Chart Personal Bests and Media Raves

MAY 2010
Trombone Shorty #1 Contemporary Jazz For 5th Straight Week And Many More Highlights Duke Robillard's New CD Passport to the Blues Out August 17, 2010 JJ Cale's "Travelin' Light" Played In Space Ruthie Foster's Pollstar Cover Story Bettye LaVette's May 24 Tonight Show Appearance Kicks Off Busy Summer Marcia Ball, BeauSoleil, Jon Cleary and Allen Toussaint To Perform At Gulf Aid Benefit May 16, 2010 Charlie Musselwhite and Allen Toussaint Guest On New Cyndi Lauper Album, Charlie To Join Cyndi On Tour Blues Music Awards Winners: Tommy Castro, Ruthie Foster and Duke Robillard PLUS Charlie Musselwhite Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and more Bettye LaVette Special Guests On Robert Plant Summer Tour The Blind Boys of Alabama Curate 3 Nights At Lincoln Center In July - Featured On House of Blues Radio Hour May 22-23, 2010 Jim Lauderdale Performing With Willie Nelson on Letterman May 5 and on The View May 6

APRIL 2010
Trombone Shorty's Backatown Debuts At #1 on Billboard Contemporary Jazz Album Chart! Johnny A. Featured On New Jimmy Webb CD Bill Frisell Nominated For Guitarist of the Year At The JJA Jazz Awards, Yoshi's Residency The Blind Boys of Alabama Inducted Into Alabama Music Hall of Fame Bettye LaVette To Release Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook May 25, 2010 on Anti Records Mavis Staples and Booker T. Join Earth Day Climate Rally on The National Mall in Washington, DC

MARCH 2010
Big Public Thanks To Our Friends At Mountain Stage For Featuring 10 Rosebud Artists In The Past Year Alone Trombone Shorty and Allen Toussaint Honored at New Orleans' Big Easy Awards Trombone Shorty's New Release: Backatown, Out April 20, 2010 David Lindley and Jackson Browne To Release Live CD May 11, 2010 - Touring Europe and US Together This Summer Jim Lauderdale To Release Patchwork River May 11, 2010; Also Featured On New Willie Nelson CD & PBS's Soundstage With Willie Pieta Brown To Release New Album One and All April 6, 2010 Duke Robillard and Tommy Castro Featured On The House of Blues Radio Hour - Premiering March 13, 2010 Charlie Musselwhite To Be Inducted Into Blues Hall of Fame Booker T. To Perform on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon With The Roots, March 4 & 5 Bettye LaVette Delivers "Vocal Highlight of The Night" at Carnegie Hall Who Tribute March 2, 2010; New CD: Interpretations - The British Rock Songbook Coming May 25

FEBRUARY 2010
Loudon Wainwright III Releases 10 Songs For The New Depression and Featured In The New Yorker Online Booker T., Bettye LaVette and Trombone Shorty Featured On Live From The Artists Den Episode The Blind Boys of Alabama Featured In White House Performance For PBS Special Jon Cleary Featured On Harry Shearer's Le Show John Hammond, Mavis Staples and Tommy Castro Named Among The Decade's Best In Blues Revue Critics Poll JJ Cale Interview on American Routes March 10, 2010 - Walt Richmond To Tour With Eric Clapton Carrie Rodriguez To Release Love & Circumstance April 13, 2010 Trombone Shorty Featured On Oscar Nominated Best Original Song, Mardi Gras, East Coast Headlining Tour

JANUARY 2010
Grammys for Booker T. and Loudon Wainwright III, Performances by Jim Lauderdale and Trombone Shorty plus Booker T. for Neil Young Musicares Tribute Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars For Haiti Relief: Donating 100% of Proceeds From Early Release of "Global Threat" Allen Toussaint, BeauSoleil & Trombone Shorty Score Wins At New Orleans' Best of the Beat Awards Rosebud Artists Recognized In Village Voice 2009 Pazz & Jop Poll Johnny A.'s One November Night DVD/CD To Be Released March 9, 2010 Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars New Album: Rise & Shine, Out March 23rd Coco Montoya To Release I Want It All Back March 9th Loudon Wainwright III To Play Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 1/14/10 Pieta Brown To Support Mark Knopfler On Spring Tour - Her New CD Out April 6 Rosebud Artists Score Year and Decade End Honor Marcia Ball To Be Inducted Into Gulf Coast Music Hall Of Fame The Blind Boys of Alabama On Letterman With Lou Reed January 21

DECEMBER 2009
Rosebud Artists Honored With 13 Nominations For New Orleans' Best of The Beat Awards Bill Frisell, Mavis Staples, Allen Toussaint CDs Recognized Among Best of the 2000's by Downbeat Magazine - Frisell #2 Jazz CD of the Decade Per London Times Allen Toussaint, 2010 GRAMMY nominee, To Be Featured On Austin City Limits and Spectacle with Elvis Costello Rosebud Artists Nominated for 10 Blues Music Awards 10 Grammy Nominations for Rosebud Artists! Allen Toussaint and BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet Selected By Offbeat Magazine as the #2 & #3 CDs of 2009

NOVEMBER 2009
Jim Lauderdale With Elvis Costello On Austin City Limits, On New Willie Nelson CD, George Strait Single Duke Robillard and Sunny Crownover's Tales From The Tiki Lounge November 17, 2009 Bettye LaVette & Allen Toussaint Featured In Tributes To Jerry Wexler, Janis Joplin Pieta Brown's "You're My Lover Now" To Be Featured On KCRW Wednesday 11/4/09

OCTOBER 2009
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Featured On PollStar Magazine Cover The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Celebrate My Feet Can't Fail Me Now 25th Anniversary With Re-release Of Milestone CD

SEPTEMBER 2009
Allen Toussaint, Trombone Shorty and The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band To Perform At G20 Summit Reception The Blind Boys of Alabama Release New CD, Duets, October 27, 2009 Ruthie Foster Song Featured In Tyler Perry's #1 Hit Film, I Can Do Bad All By Myself Pieta Brown To Release Shimmer on November 10, 2009 The Essential Coco Montoya Out October 20, 2009 - Coco On Tour with Tommy Castro This Fall Ruthie Foster Featured On Blues Revue Magazine Cover

AUGUST 2009
Bill Frisell Original Music Featured On Buster Keaton DVD, New Frisell Solo DVD Meshell Ndegeocello To Release Devil's Halo October 6, 2009 Tommy Castro's Hard Believer Debuts On 3 Billboard Charts, Features on XM and House of Blues Radio Loudon Wainwright III On NPR's Fresh Air, Rolling Stone review Jim Lauderdale's Could We Get Any Closer? In Stores No NPR Features Allen Toussaint (American Routes) and Trombone Shorty (World Café Live) Marcia Ball & Charlie Musselwhite Winners Again in 2009 Living Blues Awards Allen Toussaint Inducted Into Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame

JULY 2009
Bill Frisell Honored As Guitarist Of The Year & Other Rosebud Artists Score In Downbeat's 57th Annual Critics Poll Booker T. On World Café Live, Fuji Rock & Europe Fests Charlie Musselwhite and Duke Robillard CDs Selected As Best Blues Albums Of 2009 (so far) By About.com:Blues Bettye LaVette "No One More Soulful" per CNN Loudon Wainwright III Featured In Disney's G-Force 3D Bill Frisell, Duke Robillard and Marcia Ball NPR Features Loudon Wainwright III's High Wide & Handsome - The Charlie Poole Project - Out August 18, 2009 Tommy Castro's Hard Believer Out August 11, 2009 Duke Robillard Featured On House of Blues Radio Hour, Ruthie Foster Featured On Mountain Stage, Carrie Rodriguez Repeats on Austin City Limits

JUNE 2009
Rosebud Artists Nominated For Living Blues Awards - Vote Bill Frisell Repeats As Guitarist of the Year In Jazz Journalists Association Poll Bill Frisell's Disfarmer Set for July 21 Release The Truth According To Ruthie Foster #1 On B.B. King's Bluesville Ruthie Foster Featured In Keyboard Player Magazine Cover Story

MAY 2009
Bettye LaVette To Perform On CBS' The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson June 24, 2009, New Digital EP release June 16 Ruthie Foster's "I Really Love You" Chosen As Song Of The Day On NPR JJ Cale Songs Featured On New Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood Live From Madison Square Garden CD/DVD Release Jim Lauderdale Featured On New Elvis Costello Disc & Appearing With Elvis On Letterman And Conan The Blind Boys of Alabama Featured In Documentary Screening At Cannes & Tribeca Film Festivals Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi Band: Live At The Village Vanguard Broadcast On NPR Duke Robillard Featured In Blues Revue Magazine Cover Story Rosebud Artists Everywhere At New Orleans Jazz Fest John Hammond Releases New CD, Rough & Tough Bettye LaVette's Digital EP "A Change Is Gonna Come Sessions" Out June 16, 2009 Marcia Ball and Albert Collins Honored With Blues Music Awards, John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" Inducted Into Blues Hall of Fame The Truth According to Ruthie Foster Hits #1 on Roots Blues Chart Johnny A. Custom Gibson Guitar Named An Iconic Guitar Daby Touré / Skip McDonald New Release Call My Name Out Now

APRIL 2009
The Blind Boys of Alabama Winners Again With Two 2009 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards Charlie Musselwhite Honored With Blues Trail Marker Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins Joins Mavis Staples Onstage in Chicago Bettye LaVette Appears With Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr And More At Radio City Music Hall Booker T. To Release Potato Hole On April 21 During Featured Run on Late Night Jimmy Fallon Show Carrie Rodriguez Live In Louisville CD Out Now

MARCH 2009
New Buckwheat Zydeco CDJJ Cale Joined Onstage By Tom Petty & Mike Campbell On First Stop of Rare Tour Mavis Staples, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Staple Singers and The Late John Lee Hooker Featured On Civil Rights Box Set Introducing Sunny And Her Joy Boys, Featuring Duke Robillard, Out March 24 Rosebud Artists Honored With 2009 Big Easy Music Awards Nominations Idrissa Mallam Bangura, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Bassist, Passes Allen Toussaint and Trombone Shorty Featured On New Orleans Jazzfest Posters JJ Cale's Roll On Scores Record First Week Sales And Chart Debut and BBC2 Record Of The Week, New Tour Dates Added Trombone Shorty Wins Best Documentary At Beverly Hills Short Festival, Guest Appearance On New Buckwheat Zydeco CD

FEBRUARY 2009
Blind Boys of Alabama Nominated For Two Gospel Music Association Dove Awards Bettye LaVette's Moving Story Featured On SoulfulDetroit.com Marcia Ball Wins Blues Critic Award Trombone Shorty Film Featured In The Beverly Hills Shorts Festival The Best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1: Folk Songs Out February 24 Marcia Ball's Most Generous and Fun Birthday Bettye LaVette Makes Tonight Show Debut March 3rd Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi, Follows Grammy Honors and Grammy TV Appearance Grammy Congratulations! Allen Toussaint, The Blind Boys of Alabama, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Marcia Ball, Bill Frisell, Trombone Shorty, and James Burton Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet Win Big At New Orleans'

JANUARY 2009
Rosebud Artists Honored With New Orleans Best of The Beat Nominations Bettye LaVette Featured At Pre-Inauguration Concert Bettye LaVette To Duet At Obama Pre-Inauguration Event January 18 With Jon Bon Jovi Bill Frisell New Releases Including Download Series and Live DVD Jon Cleary Signs With The Rosebud Agency