Beale Street’s latest success story, Tennessee Music Award Winner, 5-time Blues Blast Music Award Nominee and International Blues Challenge Runner-up is Ghost Town Blues Band.
GTBB's new album Shine debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart. Recently headlining the blues stage at The Montreal Jazz Festival and appearing at The Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland.
Not your grandpa’s blues band, their live show has been captivating audiences in the U.S., Canada and Europe with their "second-line horn entrance," cigar box guitars and electric push brooms to Allman Brothers style jams. The band's stage show and energy is unparalleled and has been called the best new, live blues shows in the world.
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“GTBB shows what can happen when the past is distilled through young sensibilities, voices, and instruments. This is 21st century blues at its best.”
-Living Blues Magazine
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Horns, harmonies and homegrown instruments combined with an energetic and roots rich festival set makes Ghost Town Blues Band one of the “must see live bands on the festival scene today.” Both Garrett Marshall behind the drums and Matt Karner on the bass guitar are a punishing rhythm section behind multi-instrumentalist/frontman Matt Isbell with raunchy cigar box guitar licks and raspy "Dr. John-like, whiskey and gravel-soaked vocals." With the addition of Tenor Sax player Grady Henderson and Noah Donoho on B3, the grooves go from fresh to funky as the band gains more notoriety in the blues festival and Roots circuit.
Ghost Town Blues Band has performed all across US, Europe and Canada at over 150+ festivals and will announce more than a half-dozen international tours in in 2025.
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TESTIMONIALS
"Isbell can sing and has a pinch of iron powder on the vocal chords."
ROCK TIMES - GERMANY
"With sold-out shows in Canada and New York to overflowing festival crowds from Florida to Las Vegas....GTBB's live show is as good as the album and this band is on fire!"
WBFO RADIO - NY
"Fine blues and plenty of humor. Hits all the traditional Blues notes."
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CHRIS EVANS, WRVU
ACCOLADES AND AWARDS
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2023 2ND PLACE INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION ("SHINE")
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2022 B.B. KING INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE - MAPLE BLUES AWARDS (CANADA)
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2020 WINNER - B.B. KING INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR - MAPLE BLUES AWARDS (CANADA)
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2019 #1 BILLBOARD BLUES ALBUM CHART
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2019 INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARD NOMINEE - "BEST LIVE ALBUM"
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2019 B.B. KING INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE - MAPLE BLUES AWARDS (CANADA)
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2018 TENNESSEE MUSIC AWARD WINNER "BEST BLUES BAND"
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2018 B.B. KING INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE - MAPLE BLUES AWARDS (CANADA)
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2018 3-TIME BLUES BLAST MUSIC AWARD NOMINEE "BEST LIVE BLUES ALBUM" - "BEST ROCK BLUES ALBUM" - "BEST BLUES BAND"
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2018 #4 BILLBOARD BLUES ALBUM CHART FOR BACKSTAGE PASS
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2018 #6 BILLBOARD HEATSEEKERS SOUTH CENTRAL CHART FOR BACKSTAGE PASS
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2018 #13 ROOTS MUSIC REPORT CONTEMPORARY BLUES SONG CHART - ("SHINE")
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#9 ROOTS MUSIC REPORT SINGLES CHART
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#7 ROOT MUSIC REPORT TENNESSEE ALBUM CHART
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APPEARED ON NPR'S "WOODSONGS OLD-TIME RADIO HOUR" (INTERNATIONALLY SYNDICATED)
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APPEARED ON NPR'S “BEALE STREET CARAVAN” (INTERNATIONALLY SYNDICATED)
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BEST NEW ACT AWARD AT FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU BLUES DE TREMBLANT
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INDEPENDENT BLUES AWARD WINNER “BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES SONG” - "HARD ROAD TO HOE"
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2016 FOUR-TIME INDEPENDENT BLUES AWARD NOMINEE FOR “BEST INDEPENDENT BLUES ROCK CD” ("HARD ROAD TO HOE"), “BEST BLUES ROCK BAND”, “BEST INDEPENDENT BLUES STAGE PERFORMANCE”, “BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES SONG” ("HARD ROAD TO HOE")
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2015 INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION 3RD PLACE WINNER, "TIED MY WORRIES TO A STONE."
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2015 BLUES BLAST AWARD NOMINEE “BEST BLUES BAND”
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2014 INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE 2ND PLACE
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2013 INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE FINALIST