Blues Music Award
The Blues Music Awards are presented by the Blues Foundation, an organization to promote the blues music. The Blues Foundation started the awards in 1980 under the name W. C. Handy Awards. In 2006 they were renamed Blues Music Awards. The Blues Music Award is one of the highest honors a blues musician can get in the USA.
Like the Grammys the Blues Music Award is given in different categories. The nominees are chosen by a group of people who are connected with Blues music.
Blues Music Award 2009 change
Acoustic Album of the Year change
Eden Brent - Mississippi Number One
Acoustic Artist of the Year change
Album of the Year change
Buddy Guy - Skin Deep
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year change
Janiva Magness
Band of the Year change
Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials
Best New Artist Debut change
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm - 2 Man Wrecking Crew
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year change
Buddy Guy - Skin Deep
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year change
Janiva Magness
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year change
DVD change
Broke & Hungry Records, Cathead Blues & Mudpuppy Recordings - M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through The Birthplace of the Blues
Historical Album of the Year change
Eagle Records - Albert Collins Live At Montreux 1992
Instrumentalist-Bass change
Mookie Brill
Instrumentalist-Drums change
Instrumentalist-Guitar change
Instrumentalist-Harmonica change
Billy Gibson
Instrumentalist-Horn change
Instrumentalist-Other change
Otis Taylor - Banjo
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player change
Rock Blues Album of the Year change
Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues
Song of the Year change
Kenny Neal - Let Life Flow (Kenny Neal)
Soul Blues Album of the Year change
Irma Thomas - Simply Grand
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year change
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year change
Bobby Rush
Traditional Blues Album of the Year change
B. B. King - One Kind Favor
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year change
Koko Taylor
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year change
B.B. King
Blues Music Award 2010 change
Acoustic Album of the Year change
- David Maxwell & Louisiana Red, You Got to Move
Acoustic Artist of the Year change
Album of the Year change
- Joe Louis Walker, Between a Rock and the Blues
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year change
Band of the Year change
- Tommy Castro Band
Best New Artist Debut change
- Monkey Junk, Tiger in your Tank
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year change
- Tommy Castro, Hard Believer
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year change
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year change
- Tommy Castro
DVD change
- Delmark Records, It Ain't Over! Delmark Celebrates 55 Years of Blues, Live at Buddy Guy's Legends
Historical Album of the Year change
- Chess, Authorized Bootleg (Muddy Waters)
Instrumentalist-Bass change
- Bob Stroger
Instrumentalist-Drums change
- Cedric Burnside
Instrumentalist-Guitar change
Instrumentalist-Harmonica change
Instrumentalist-Horn change
- Deanna Bogart
Instrumentalist-Other change
- Buckwheat Zydeco (Akkordeon)
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player change
Rock Blues Album of the Year change
- Derek Trucks Band, Already Free
Song of the Year change
- Cyril Neville & Mike Zito, 'Pearl River' (Pearl River—Mike Zito)
Soul Blues Album of the Year change
- Johnny Rawls, Ace Of Spades
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year change
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year change
Traditional Blues Album of the Year change
- Super Chikan, Chikadelic
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year change
- Debbie Davies
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year change
Blues Music Awards 2011 change
Acoustic Album of the Year change
- Last Train to Bluesville, The Nighthawks
Acoustic Artist of the Year change
- John Hammond
Album of the Year change
- Living Proof, Buddy Guy
B.B King Entertainer of the Year change
- Buddy Guy
Band of the Year change
- The Derek Trucks Band
Best New Artist Debut change
- Matt Hill, On the Floor
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year change
- Living Proof, Buddy Guy
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year change
- Robin Rogers
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year change
- Buddy Guy
DVD change
- Ruf, Songs From The Road, Luther Allison
Historical Album of the Year change
- Delta Groove, Harmonica Blues, Bob Corritore & Friends (Koko, Pinetop, Nappy Brown, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, et al.)
Instrumentalist-Bass change
- Bob Stroger
Instrumentalist-Drums change
- Cedric Burnside
Instrumentalist-Guitar change
- Derek Trucks
Instrumentalist-Harmonica change
- Charlie Musselwhite
Instrumentalist-Horn change
- Eddie Shaw
Instrumentalist-Other change
- Sonny Rhodes, Lap Steel Guitar
Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female) change
- Ruthie Foster
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player change
- Dr. John
Rock Blues Album of the Year change
- Live! In Chicago, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band featuring Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bryan Lee and Buddy Flett
Song of the Year change
- Living Proof, Tom Hambridge/Buddy Guy, Living Proof, Buddy Guy
Soul Blues Album of the Year change
- Nothing's Impossible, Solomon Burke
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year change
- Irma Thomas
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year change
- Solomon Burke
Traditional Blues Album of the Year change
- Joined At the Hip, Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year change
- Charlie Musselwhite
Other websites change
- Blues Music Awards Homepage Archived 2009-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
- List of past winners of the Blues Music Awards Archived 2012-07-31 at Archive.today