Corey Harris

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For the football player of the same name see Corey Harris (football player).

Corey Harris (born February 21, 1969, Denver, Colorado) is a Bates College educated blues and reggae musician, currently residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. Harris is constantly on tour and is proud to carry the tradition of classic African-influenced blues music into the 21st century. Harris was featured on the acclaimed 2003 PBS television mini-series The Blues in an episode directed by Martin Scorsese. Harris also works as a part-time music teacher at the Field School of Charlottesville. He has hosted a weekly radio show, "Blues and the Abstract Root", on WTJU radio in Charlottesville.

In 2002, he featured on the Bo Diddley tribute album Hey Bo Diddley - A Tribute!, performing the song "Crackin' Up".

He helped Billy Bragg and Wilco to write the music for "Hoodoo Voodoo" on Mermaid Avenue, an album consisting entirely of songs for which the lyrics were written by the late Woody Guthrie. He also appeared as a musician on the album and its sequel, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II. Harris received an honorary doctorate from Bates College in 2007.^[1]

In September 2007 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced that Harris is among 24 people named MacArthur Fellows for 2007. The award comes with $500,000 to be given over five years.

[edit] Discography

Year of release	Album title	Record label
1995	Between Midnight and Day	Alligator
1997	Fish Ain't Bitin'	Alligator
1999	Greens from the Garden	Alligator
2000	Vu-Du Menz	Alligator
2002	Downhome Sophisticate	Rounder
2003	Mississippi to Mali	Rounder
2005	Daily Bread	Rounder
2007	Zion Crossroads	Telarc