Rae Gordon
Rae Gordon is NOT performing at the 2025 Big Blues Bender.
This page is an archive from thier past perfomance(s).
Rae Gordon has appeared on 3 previous Big Blues Bender lineups.
2022, 2018, 2017
The multi-award-winning Rae Gordon Band serves up a potent stew of gritty blues and heartfelt soul–soaring vocals with searing guitar counterpoint, high-energy horns, and a hard-driving rhythm section with the power of a freight train.
Following their 3rd-place finish at the International Blues Challenge in 2017 (finals judge Walter Trout said afterward, “I gave her a score of 10, the best score you can give. She made an incredible impression.”), the band released its third CD Better Than I Was, which has received airplay in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the UK and appeared on the Living Blues Radio Chart and the Roots Music Report Soul Blues Album Chart. The CD also won a Muddy Award for Best Northwest Recording from the Cascade Blues Association and the band received the Best Contemporary Blues Act Muddy Award.
Winter 2019 brings the release of the band's hotly-anticipated fourth CD, Wrong Kind Of Love, produced by Kivett Bednar and engineered and mixed by Jimi Bott at his studio Roseleaf Recording. The CD's ten original songs cover a wide gamut of styles, from lowdown barroom blues to dance-worthy funk, from heart-tugging soul ballad to slide-drenched rage rocker, from minor-key blues angst to uplifting soul anthem.
