Why do I love photographing women in the blues… Because women are always beautiful!
— Laura Carbone
Laura Carbone is a practicing physician with a long standing passion in photography. She was schooled in New York and Chicago where great live music, especially Blues, had a profound influence on her. Taking photographs as a pastime has moved into the professional realm of photographs being chosen for album covers, the US post office, artists’ websites and national magazines. The focus is on the beauty and joy within the performer.
LINKS
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PHOTOS
Alexis P. Suter
Tampa Bay Blues Festival, Palladium Theater, Tampa Bay, Florida – January 2013 © Laura Carbone
Alexis has a baritone voice and a soul that shakes you and the building from the foundation out. This shot was not altered, behind her is the red curtain of the Palladium and she is feeling the music move through her. One of the most powerful singers in the blues today.
Dawn Tyler Watson
Mont Tremblant International Blues Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2016 © Laura Carbone
Diuna Greenleaf
Trois Rivieres International Blues Festival, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada 2019 © Laura Carbone
Grace Potter
Grand Point North Festival, Burlington, Vermont – September 2014 © Laura Carbone
Although also considered a rock goddess, Grace Potter can wail on the B3, shred a guitar and sing the blues powerfully, this photo shows Grace in flight like a winged angel on the stage.
Irma Thomas
New Orleans Jazz Festival, Gospel Tent, New Orleans, Lousiana – 2014 © Laura Carbone
Irma is crowned the Soul Queen of New Orleans but reign’s over her roots in the Gospel tent.
Mavis Staples
Burlington, Vermont, June 2015 © Laura Carbone
Mavis Staples is more than just a gospel/soul/blues singer, she is part of the history of America, civil rights and songs of freedom and joy. She changed the face of America and this photo shows the power that is within her song.
Ruthie Foster
Vermont Blues Festival – August 2012 © Laura Carbone
Ruthie Foster is a Texas born, three time Grammy-nominated blues artist who can bring people to joy or tears with the purity of her voice. She is the recipient of the 2016 Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female) at the Blues Music Awards. This photograph shows Ruthie’s most beautiful curve, her smile.
Susan Tedeschi
Rhythm & Blues Cruise – January 2013 © Laura Carbone
Susan playing her star studded guitar of heroes and bringing blues to a wide audience with a supergroup collaboration with her husband, Derek Trucks.
Teeny Tucker
Pennsylvania Blues Festival, Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania, 2012 © Laura Carbone
Teeny Tucker was born into blues royalty, as the daughter of Tommy “Hi-Heel Sneakers” Tucker, but stands tall on her own as one of the finest blues singers in the country.
Tierinii Jackson
Blues Music Awards Memphis,TN 2018 © Laura Carbone
Tikyra Khamiir Jackson
Plattsburgh Blues Festival – Plattsburgh, PA 2019 © Laura Carbone
