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
Acoustic Album of the Year
Eden Brent - Mississippi Number One
Acoustic Artist of the Year
Eden Brent
Album of the Year
Buddy Guy - Skin Deep
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Janiva Magness
Band of the Year
Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials
Best New Artist Debut
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm - 2 Man Wrecking Crew
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
Buddy Guy - Skin Deep
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
Janiva Magness
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
DVD
Broke & Hungry Records, Cathead Blues & Mudpuppy Recordings - M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through The Birthplace of the Blues
Historical Album of the Year
Eagle Records - Albert Collins Live At Montreux 1992
Instrumentalist-Bass
Mookie Brill
Instrumentalist-Drums
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Instrumentalist-Guitar
Sonny Landreth
Instrumentalist-Harmonica
Billy Gibson
Instrumentalist-Horn
Deanna Bogart
Instrumentalist-Other
Otis Taylor - Banjo
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
Marcia Ball
Rock Blues Album of the Year
Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues
Song of the Year
Kenny Neal - Let Life Flow (Kenny Neal)
Soul Blues Album of the Year
Irma Thomas - Simply Grand
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
B. B. King - One Kind Favor
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year
Koko Taylor
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
B.B. King
Blues Music Award 2010
Acoustic Album of the Year
- David Maxwell & Louisiana Red, You Got to Move
Acoustic Artist of the Year
- Louisiana Red
Album of the Year
- Joe Louis Walker, Between a Rock and the Blues
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
- Tommy Castro
Band of the Year
- Tommy Castro Band
Best New Artist Debut
- Monkey Junk, Tiger in your Tank
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
- Tommy Castro, Hard Believer
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Ruthie Foster
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Tommy Castro
DVD
- Delmark Records, It Ain't Over! Delmark Celebrates 55 Years of Blues, Live at Buddy Guy's Legends
Historical Album of the Year
- Chess, Authorized Bootleg (Muddy Waters)
Instrumentalist-Bass
- Bob Stroger
Instrumentalist-Drums
- Cedric Burnside
Instrumentalist-Guitar
- Derek Trucks
Instrumentalist-Harmonica
- Jason Ricci
Instrumentalist-Horn
- Deanna Bogart
Instrumentalist-Other
- Buckwheat Zydeco (Akkordeon)
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
- Eden Brent
Rock Blues Album of the Year
- Derek Trucks Band, Already Free
Song of the Year
- Cyril Neville & Mike Zito, 'Pearl River' (Pearl River—Mike Zito)
Soul Blues Album of the Year
- Johnny Rawls, Ace Of Spades
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Irma Thomas
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Curtis Salgado
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
- Super Chikan, Chikadelic
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Debbie Davies
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Duke Robillard
Blues Music Awards 2011
Acoustic Album of the Year
- Last Train to Bluesville, The Nighthawks
Acoustic Artist of the Year
- John Hammond
Album of the Year
- Living Proof, Buddy Guy
B.B King Entertainer of the Year
- Buddy Guy
Band of the Year
- The Derek Trucks Band
Best New Artist Debut
- Matt Hill, On the Floor
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
- Living Proof, Buddy Guy
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Robin Rogers
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Buddy Guy
DVD
- Ruf, Songs From The Road, Luther Allison
Historical Album of the Year
- Delta Groove, Harmonica Blues, Bob Corritore & Friends (Koko, Pinetop, Nappy Brown, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, et al.)
Instrumentalist-Bass
- Bob Stroger
Instrumentalist-Drums
- Cedric Burnside
Instrumentalist-Guitar
- Derek Trucks
Instrumentalist-Harmonica
- Charlie Musselwhite
Instrumentalist-Horn
- Eddie Shaw
Instrumentalist-Other
- Sonny Rhodes, Lap Steel Guitar
Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)
- Ruthie Foster
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
- Dr. John
Rock Blues Album of the Year
- Live! In Chicago, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band featuring Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bryan Lee and Buddy Flett
Song of the Year
- Living Proof, Tom Hambridge/Buddy Guy, Living Proof, Buddy Guy
Soul Blues Album of the Year
- Nothing's Impossible, Solomon Burke
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Irma Thomas
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Solomon Burke
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
- Joined At the Hip, Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Charlie Musselwhite
Other websites
- 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