November 2006
Boston-based Bellevue Cadillac has been placed on the official ballot for the 2007 Grammy Awards by The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Committee. The band is nominated seven times in five separate categories, all related to
Bellevue's recent album"Love Allways."
The categories are as follows:
Category 1 - Record of the Year: Bellevue Cadillac - "Three Rules"
Award would go to artist, producer, recording engineer, and mixer: Bellevue Cadillac, Tom Hambridge and Ducky Carlisle
Category 2 - Album of the Year: Bellevue Cadillac - "Love Allways"
Award would go to artist, producer, recording engineer, mixer, and mastering engineer:
Bellevue Cadillac, Tom Hambridge, Ducky Carlisle and Adam Ayan
Category 3 - Song of the Year: Bellevue Cadillac - "Three Rules"
Award would go to songwriter: Doug Bell
Category 3 - Song of the Year: Bellevue Cadillac - "You Just Know"
Award would go to songwriter: Doug Bell
Category 7 - Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocal: Bellevue Cadillac - "Havana Moon"
Award would go to artist: Bellevue Cadillac
Category 7 - Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocal: Bellevue Cadillac - "Three Rules"
Award would go to artist: Bellevue Cadillac
Category 11 - Best Pop Vocal Album: Bellevue Cadillac - "Love Allways"
Award would go to artist: Bellevue Cadillac
This is the first year Bellevue Cadillac has been placed on the Grammy ballot. The band was placed by Providence RI- based, Big Noise, which is a full voting and nominating member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
Since 1991, Boston-based Bellevue Cadillac has been a regional favorite, performing its unique "Bellevue Experience" - a gumbo of Americana music and stage-presence mayhem. Since 1998, with the emergence of the neo-swing era, Bellevue has played on international stages including Moscow and Shanghai.
Their music appears on movie soundtracks, such as Shallow Hal, and on TV shows such as The Sopranos, Las Vegas, Ed, Sex In The City, Touched by an Angel, Brimstone, and Good and Evil. Also, their performances have been telecast on Access Hollywood, CNN Showbiz, Hard Copy, and VH1. Just recently, their music was in the final segment of Brotherhood, a Showtime series based on the Bulger brothers of Boston.
This Cadillac travels in good company!!!
To date, Bellevue has songs on 17 compilation discs with artists such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Prima, Louis Jordan, Sammy Davis Jr., Peggy Lee, Brian Setzer, Joe Jackson, Cab Calloway, Mel Torme, Rita Coolidge, Eva Cassidy, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and others.
The reviews have been raves in Rolling Stone, Jazziz, Blues Review, and People magazines... Additionally, Bellevue has played with Ray Charles, James Brown, Ruth Brown, Percy Sledge, Bo-Diddley, Kool and The Gang, Patty Austin, Keith Richards, Tito Puente and others.
Their quality in sound, showmanship, and reputation was cemented in history when the band was selected to play at John F. Kennedy Jr.'s secret wedding, but turned down the "gig-of-a-lifetime" to honor a prior commitment.
Bellevue Cadillac has produced eight records, four of which are distributed worldwide by CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com) and are also available as I-Tunes, and at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, plus others.
Bellevue Cadillac was formed by singer-songwriter Doug Bell, who remains the band's leader and lead guitarist.
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