Freaks Hall Class of 2019 Election: Oldies and Sidemen Ballots

Big Jay McNeely

It's Labor Day, and it's time to kick off our Rock 'n' Roll Freak Hall election season for the class of 2019!

Starting this year, we're making some changes in how we select our inductees. The biggest change is going to be our primary eligibility requirement. For the first five years of the Freaks Hall, we made artists and groups eligible 35 years after their first release, basically with the idea that we were going to give the "real" Rock Hall a full decade to do the right thing by the artists before we fixed their mistakes. Well, from now on, we're dispensing with that courtesy, and we're going to the same 25-year requirement for our 2019 election, considering artists and groups that made their debut in 1993 or prior.

But before we get to that, our first order of business is a couple of preliminary votes in two categories: the Oldies Ballot, which is made up of artists and groups who made their recording debut prior to 1954; and the Sidemen Ballot, made up of musicians who spent considerable portions of their career playing behind other artists on stage and in the studio. In next year's election, the Sidemen Ballot will be replaced with a Contributor Ballot election, and the two will alternate every other year.

HOW TO VOTE:

Each ballot contains ten nominees. Select up to FIVE (minimum three) per ballot, and send your votes for each to rocknrollfreaks@gmail.com to be counted.

The top vote getter in each category will join our class of 2019. If there is a tie for the top vote total, all nominees with the top amount of votes will join the class.

Oldies Ballot (recording debut came prior to 1954)

Johnny Ace
Roy Brown
The Clovers
Guitar Slim
Lightnin' Hopkins
Amos Milburn
Little Esther Phillips
Big Jay McNeely
Sonny Boy Williamson II
Chuck Willis

Sidemen Ballot

Lee Allen
Mickey "Guitar" Baker
Mike Bloomfield
Glen Campbell
James Cotton
Nicky Hopkins
Al Kooper
Billy Preston
Robert Quine
Mick Ronson

VOTE TODAY! Polls close at 12 noon EST on Sunday, September 30.

Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield

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