Richard Flohil & Associates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 5, 2007

Contact: Richard Flohil (416) 351-1323

STONY PLAIN PRESENTS DUKE ROBILLARD'S WORLD FULL OF BLUES - AN "ALL KILLER, NO FILLER" SPECIALLY PRICED 2-CD SET DUE IN CANADA MAY 15. U.S. RELEASE SET FOR JUNE 26.

Stony Plain Records has announced a May 15 release date for Duke Robillard's World Full of Blues, the latest CD from the legendary Grammy-nominated blues and roots music guitarist. The two-disc set is being retailed at a special single CD list price and contains almost two hours of music from one of the genre's most honored musicians.

A frequent visitor to Canada - and signed worldwide to the Edmonton-based Stony Plain label for more than a decade - Duke Robillard is one of this era's most acclaimed guitar players. He's won four W.C. Handy Awards as "Blues Guitarist of the Year" and received a Grammy Award nomination for his 2006 Stony Plain release, Guitar Groove-A-Rama. A tough road warrior, Robillard will tour extensively to support the new release.

Canadian shows on his schedule include the Rainbow in Ottawa (May 18) and le Zaricot in Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec, the following day. He'll return to Quebec for the Mont Tremblant International Blues Festival in early July and will play the Calgary International Blues Festival in August.

On June 2, he will receive the 2007 Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, which recognizes artistic excellence in Robillard's home state and on the national level. Additional award winners honoured that night will include Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. Previous Pell honorees include actors Jason Robards, Robert Redford, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, as well as Stephen Sondheim and Beverly Sills from the music world.

In addition to his Grammy nomination, 2006 also saw Duke Robillard playing guitar on Tom Waits' national tour, as well as touring to support his own album. Over the years, Duke has recorded with Bob Dylan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Ruth Brown, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Jay McShann, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Witherspoon and many others, including the legendary Roomful of Blues, which he founded at the age of 17; he has recorded and/or produced well over a dozen CDs for Stony Plain.

"When I conceived of this project and convinced Stony Plain to let me record a double-disc CD, my intention was to record a set of music that touched upon nearly all the areas of blues and blues related music that make up my sound", writes Duke Robillard in the album liner notes.

"Now, with a double CD and over 115 minutes of music, I feel like I have made a definitive statement that's true to what I'm about."

Indeed, Duke Robillard's World Full of Blues salutes gut-bucket blues, swing, funk, soul and gospel, among other genres, on a musical tour with stops in Memphis, New Orleans, Texas, Mississippi and a host of other signposts along the blues highway. In addition to a number of original tunes, he gives his guitar imprint to songs by blues icons Memphis Slim, Jimmy Reed, T-Bone Walker and Bo Diddley, as well as more recent heroes such as Booker T. and the MGs, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Eric Bibb.

On Duke Robillard's World Full of Blues, he's backed by a number of players from his regular recording and touring lineups, including Mark Teixeira on drums, John Packer on bass, Doug James on sax, Marty Ballou on bass, Bruce Bears on keyboards and "Sax" Gordon Beadle on sax.

Special guests include "Sugar" Ray Norcia on harmonica and Al Basile on cornet, among many others. Stony Plain Records are distributed in Canada by Warner Music Canada and in the United States by Navarre.

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For more information, contact

Holger Petersen
Stony Plain Records
(780) 468-6423
holger@stonyplainrecords.com

Richard Flohil
Richard Flohil & Associates
(416) 351-1323
rflohil@sympatico.ca

US queries to

Mark Pucci Media
Mark Pucci
(770) 804-9555

Websites:

www.dukerobillard.com

www.stonyplainrecords.com