Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters

Ronnie Earl is a two-time W.C. Handy Blues Award winner as Guitar Player of the Year. He has served as an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music, taught for five years at the National Guitar summer workshop in Connecticut. In 1995 Ronnie released Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar with Soul, an instructional VHS tape that was then rereleased in DVD format in 2005. Earl's discography includes acclaimed albums on Stony Plain, Black Top, Bullseye Blues, Verve, and Telarc. His 1996 Bullseye Blues release, Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads, won Downbeat'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.