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Broken Mirror 6:130:00/6:13
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Tears in My Eyes 4:270:00/4:27
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Blues for Willie J. 4:060:00/4:06
“Anthony Geraci is a beast on all levels and may well be the finest keyboardist in roots music today.” - Mike O'Cull
— Rock and Blues Muse
Anthony Geraci won the 2023 Blues Music Award for Instrumentalist-Piano/Pinetop Perkins Piano Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN. His 17 Blues Music Awards nominations reflect four decades of musical excellence both in studio and onstage. Anthony also won this award in 2021. His band, The Boston Blues All-Stars. was nominated for Band of the Year in 2019, 2021 and 2023.
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.”
"Geraci is one of the better instrumentalists in the blues world today.” - Bill Mitchell, Blues Bytes
"You’re one hell of a piano player.” - B.B King
“Geraci offers a picture of a time when the piano was THE featured instrument. Geraci’s knowledge of that history is obvious.”- Art Tipaldi, Blues Music Magazine
"Anthony Geraci is not only a gifted pianist, he also a talented a songwriter .” - Debra C. Argen, Luxury Experience
"A stalwart on the New England blues scene for decades as a key member of both Sugar Ray & the Bluetones and Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, keyboardist Anthony Geraci continues to deliver stellar work as a bandleader." - Jim Hynes, Glide Magazine
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"Anthony Geraci is a perennial BMA nominee on keyboards, and he's certain to receive honors for this disc, too, teaming with his band, the Boston Blues All-Stars, and trying something new here. He dazzles on the 88s, paying tribute to his musical forebears. But it's no cover album. It's an all-original effort that delivers a traditional feel throughout." - Marty Gunther, Red, Hot 'n Blues Music Reviews, Chicago Blues Guide
BIO
About Anthony
Pianist, Hammond organist and composer Anthony Geraci was born in New Haven, CT 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 his undeniable passion for music. They soon bought a Kimball Grand Piano that his mother paid $4 a week to own. Lessons at the Neighborhood School of Music, affiliated with Yale University, soon followed. At around the age of 16 he befriended a fellow musician, Ed Cherry. They 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.
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