NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

2022 BLUES MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS

Album Of The Year - "Not In My Lifetime"

Band Of The Year - The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra

Song Of The Year - "Real Good Lie"

Soul Blues Album - "Not In My Lifetime"

Living Blues Magazine Top 50 Albums Of The Year

Downbeat Magazine Critic's Poll

Living Blues Magazine Critic's Poll

SELECT PAST PERFORMANCES

Chicago Blues Festival, Chicago, IL

Notodden Blues Festival, Notodden, Norway

San Javier Jazz Festival, San Javier, Spain

Bilbao Blues Festival, Bilbao, Spain

Porretta Soul Festival, Porretta, Italy

Umbria Jazz Festival, Perugia, Italy

Bottlerock Festival, Napa, CA

Bayfront Blues Festival, Duluth, MN

Baden Blues Festival, Switzerland

Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland, OR

Blues Music Awards Ceremony, Memphis, TN

Maspalomas Soul Festival, Grand Canary Island

Pordenone Blues Festival, Pordenone, Italy

Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

Mammoth Bluesapalooza, Mammoth Lakes, CA

San Diego Blues Festival, San Diego, CA

San Jose Jazz Festival, San Jose, CA

North Atlantic Blues Festival, Rockland, ME

Fountain Blues Festival, San Jose, CA

Logan Center Blues Festival, Chicago, IL

QUOTES

“The music is consistently top-flight soul and blues with a strong dose of Memphis. The Soul Orchestra is tight and pushes a strong groove behind soul-drenched singing…”

          Elmore Magazine

“How can you not love this sound? Answer: Impossible, have to love it!

          Saint Louis Rhythm Highways - East Side Slim

“They’re keeping the Soul flame burning bright and effortlessly killing it.”

          Mike Kappus, Rosebud Agency

“Power, charisma, flexibility, sense of timing and dramaturgy, gospel fervor imbued with blues, the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra, performance is top notch. How could it be otherwise with these musicians honed by decades of experience and camaraderie?”

          Soul Bag Magazine

“…excellent guitarist Anthony Paule’s Soul Orchestra… heavily weighted in favor of substantive musical drama.”

          Downbeat Magazine - Frank J. Hadley

“Anthony Paule provides his usual spot-on, savvy and impeccable guitar playing and bandleading, as his talent-rich Soul Orchestra combines with thoughtful, substantial songwriting… to craft as sympathetic a frame as a vocalist could dream about.”

          Richard Shurman, Producer