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click CD SR5001: I'm Not Hungry But I Like To Eat - Blues click CD SR5002: Heavy Timbre — Chicago Boogie Piano click CD SR5003: 8 Hands on 88 Keys click CD SR5004: Prescription For The Blues click CD SR5005: Primitive Piano click CD SR5006: St. James Infirmary click CD SR5007: Glory! Glory click CD SR5008: Just In Time click CD SR5009: Melancholy Serenade click CD SR5010: In the Right Hands click CD SR5011: Careless Love click CD SR5012: Heavenly Keys click CD SR5013: Rock This House Live click CD SR5014: Got My Eyes On You click CD SR5015: Madam Queen click CD SR5016: Soulful Sound click CD SR5017: In Hymn I Trust click CD SR5018: Sunday click CD SR5019: This Is My Story, This Is My Song click CD SR5020: Erwin Helfer Way click CD SR5021: Driftin from Town to Town click CD SR5022: Now is the Time click CD SR5023: Lift Me Up click CD SR5024: Last Call click CD SR5025: Remembering the Masters click CD SR5026: I Thank God click CD SR5027: On a Glorious Day click CD SR5028: Celebrate the Journey click CD SR5029: Just Can't Make It By Myself click CD SR5030: Just for Me click CD SR50231: My Soul Says Yes!
click Book SR4001: Blues Piano and How to Play It

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♦ Two new releases in 2024.
CD release party: the first weekend of May at the Old Town School of Folk Music.

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Milestones - The Sirens Records

♦ 1975 - Steven Dolins, David Goldberg, and Barry Dolins founded the company and reissued the 1957 blues piano classic "Primitive Piano" with Speckled Red, Billie Pierce, Doug Suggs, and James Robinson.

♦ 1976 - Recorded "Heavy Timbre - Chicago Boogie Piano", a studio house rent party with Sunnyland Slim, Blind John Davis, Willie Mabon, Jimmy Walker, and Erwin Helfer - a blues piano dream team!

♦ 2001 - Steven Dolins restarted The Sirens Records. Recorded Erwin Helfer's "I'm Not Hungry But I Like To Eat - Blues!" which was nominated for a Handy Award and featured on NPR's All Things Considered. Hear the full review

♦ 2002 - Recorded "8 Hands on 88 Keys - Chicago Blues Piano Masters" with Helfer, Barrelhouse Chuck, Detroit Junior, and Pinetop Perkins. Reissued Heavy Timbre and Primitive Piano on CD.

♦ 2003 - Nat Hentoff, esteemed writer and jazz critic, features The Sirens in the Wall Street Journal.details...

♦ 2003 - Gospel pianist Pastor Dwayne Mason made his debut and is dubbed the Reverend of Funk by the NY Times.

♦ 2003 - Heavy Timbre is named one of the 52 greatest blues recordings by the Year of the Blues

♦ 2004/2005 - Bebop pianist Earma Thompson made her debut and is invited by Marian McPartland to appear on NPR's Piano Jazz.

♦ 2004 - Recorded "In the Right Hands - Chicago Gospel Keyboard Pioneers" with the gospel keyboard dream team, Jessy Dixon, Geraldine Gay, and Nash Shaffer. Geraldine Gay accompanied her brother Pastor Donald Gay on vocals.

♦ 2005 - Geraldine Gay received the Gospel Pioneer Award at the Chicago Gospel Festival.

♦ 2006 - Erwin Helfer's "Careless Love" is featured on NPR's Fresh Air. Hear the full review

♦ 2007 - Nat Hentoff writes another column in the Wall Street Journal about Barrelhouse Chuck and "Got My Eyes on You". details... This same band, featuring Kim Wilson, is used on the soundtrack for the movie "Cadillac Records", the story of Chess Records. Hentoff includes his article about Chuck in his book "At the Jazz Band Hall: 60 Years on the Jazz Scene" published by the University of California Press.

♦ 2008 - Earma Thompson receives the Jazz Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award.

♦ 2009 - Kimberly Gordon's "Mr. Sandman" is used on a Fox TV show.

♦ 2009 - Peter Silvester's 2nd edition of his classic "The Story of Boogie Woogie - A Left Hand Like God" discussed The Sirens Records and included the cover photo from Heavy Timbre.

♦ 2011 - Eddie Robinson, who accompanied Mahalia Jackson for 17 years, makes his debut recording "This is my story" the same year as Mahalia's centennial birthday.

♦ 2013 - Barrelhouse Chuck and the Kim Wilson Blues All-Stars "Driftin' From Town to Town" is nominated for the 35th Blues Music Traditional Blues Album of the Year (formerly the Handy Awards)

♦ 2014 - Barrelhouse Chuck received Living Blues Critics' Poll Award for Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard).

♦ 2015 - Chris Foreman's "Now is the Time" is featured on NPR's Fresh Air. Hear the full review

♦ 2016 - Erwin Helfer receives the Jazz Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. Barrelhouse Chuck receives Blues Blast Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award.

♦ 2021 - Erwin Helfer's "Celebrate the Journey" is featured on NPR's Fresh Air. Hear the full review

♦ 2022 - At the Chicago Blues Festival, the Mayor of the City of Chicago proclaimed June 9th to be ERWIN HELFER DAY IN CHICAGO and encouraged all residents to celebrate this legendary artist and his indelible contributions to the blues.

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2022 Three New Gospel Releases

Available October 7, 2022



2021 New Book Release

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2019 Two New CD Releases

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