jazz blues rock

B.B. King Entertainer

Album of the Year

Billy Branch

Church of the Blues, Watermelon Slim

Rick Estrin

Hail to The Kings!, The Cash Box Kings

Sugaray Rayford

Kingfish, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Bobby Rush

The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp, Toronzo Cannon

Mavis Staples

Roots and Branches – The Songs of Little Walter , Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues

Band of the Year

Song of the Year

The Cash Box Kings

“Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues”, written by Rebecca Lovell

The Nick Moss Band

“Lucky Guy”, written by Nick Moss

Rick Estrin and The Nightcats

“Resentment File”, written by Rick Estrin, Joe Louis Walker, and JoJo Russo

Southern Avenue

“Time To Get Movin’”, written by Eric Corne

Sugaray Rayford Band

“The Wine Talkin’”, written by Joe Nosek, John Hahn, and Oscar Wilson

Acoustic Blues Album

Best Emerging Artist Album

Catfish Crawl, Catfish Keith

Before Me, Ben Levin

Confessin’ My Dues, Terry Robb

Folie a deux, Hudspeth & Taylor

Good as Your Last Dollar, Fruteland Jackson

Kingfish, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Solo Ride, Bruce Katz

Spectacular Class, Jontavious Willis

This Guitar and Tonight, Bob Margolin

Through My Eyes, John “Blues” Boyd

Blues Rock Album

Contemporary Blues Album

Killin’ It Live, Tommy Castro & The Painkillers

Contemporary, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

Masterpiece, Albert Castiglia

Don’t Pass Me By – A Tribute to Sean Costello, Various Artists

Reckless Heart, Joanne Shaw Taylor

Kingfish, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Survivor Blues, Walter Trout

The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp, Toronzo Cannon

Up and Rolling, North Mississippi Allstars

Venom & Faith, Larkin Poe

Soul Blues Album

Traditional Blues Album

Dog Eat Dog, Billy Price

Church of the Blues, Watermelon Slim

Keep On, Southern Avenue

Hail To The Kings!, The Cash Box Kings

Real Street, Tad Robinson

Lucky Guy!, The Nick Moss Band feat. Dennis Gruenling

Sitting on Top of the Blues, Bobby Rush

Roots and Branches — The Songs of Little Walter, Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues

Somebody Save Me, Sugaray Rayford

Spectacular Class, Jontavious Willis

Acoustic Blues Artist

Blues Rock Artist

Eric Bibb

Albert Castiglia

Guy Davis

Tommy Castro

Rhiannon Giddens

Tinsley Ellis

Fruteland Jackson

Eric Gales

Doug MacLeod

Walter Trout

Contemporary Blues Female Artist

Contemporary Blues Male Artist

Diane Blue

Toronzo Cannon

Vanessa Collier

Gary Clark Jr.

Shemekia Copeland

Luther Dickinson

Samantha Fish

Rick Estrin

Janiva Magness

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Soul Blues Female Artist

Soul Blues Male Artist

Annika Chambers

Billy Price

Thornetta Davis

Sugaray Rayford

Bettye LaVette

Tad Robinson

Terrie Odabi

Curtis Salgado

Vaneese Thomas

Wee Willie Walker

Traditional Blues Female Artist (Koko Taylor Award)

Traditional Blues Male Artist

Rory Block

Lurrie Bell

Sue Foley

Billy Branch

Mary Lane

John Primer

Trudy Lynn

Jimmie Vaughan

Teenie Tucker

Jontavious Willis

Instrumentalist-Bass

Instrumentalist-Drums

Willie J. Campbell

Tony Braunagel

Patrick Rynn

Cedric Burnside

Bill Stuve

June Core

Larry Taylor

Derrick D’Mar Martin

Michael “Mudcat” Ward

Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith

Instrumentalist - Guitar

Instrumentalist - Harmonica

Christoffer “Kid” Andersen

Billy Branch

Laura Chavez

Rick Estrin

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Dennis Gruenling

Junior Watson

Brandon Santini

“Monster” Mike Welch

Kim Wilson

Instrumentalist - Horn

Instrumentalist - Piano (Pinetop Perkins Piano Player)

Mindi Abair

Anthony Geraci

Jimmy Carpenter

Bruce Katz

Vanessa Collier

Dave Keyes

Trombone Shorty

Jim Pugh

Nancy Wright

Victor Wainwright

Instrumentalist - Vocals

Shemekia Copeland

Sugaray Rayford

Curtis Salgado

Mavis Staples

Dawn Tyler Watson