‘Call Me Lucky’ is real music, and it’s the best CD Dale has put out in more than 24 years of recording 27 albums. What it shares with the best in blues is honesty, simplicity and truth.

It’s rare to find a ’60s legend like Trower still on trailblazing form in their eighth decade. But while his peers recycle the old hits or retreat from view, the 73-year-old guitarist finds himself in a golden late-bloom of creativity.

It will be quite the regal evening when The Blues Foundation salutes its milestone 40th class of Blues Hall of Fame inductees with a special ceremony at the Halloran Centre for the Performing Arts and Education in Memphis on May 8th.

“The blues, despite it being the roots of all American music, has always been relegated to an underground status. I was always acutely aware that blues was not on mainstream radio or television except on rare occasions. It has not been given the due that it legitimately deserves.” – Billy Branch