Dave Riley and Bob Corritore - Travelin' The Dirt Road

Fruteland Jackson - Tell Me What You Say

Jimmy "Duck" Holmes - Done Got Tired Of Tryin'

Marie Knight - Let Us Get Together

Acoustic Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush

Doug MacLeod

Eric Bibb

Fruteland Jackson

Guy Davis

Mary Flower

Album of the Year
Bettye LaVette - The Scene of the Crime

James Blood Ulmer - Bad Blood in the City

Koko Taylor - Old School

Nick Moss & The Flip Tops - Play It 'Til Tomorrow

Omar Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - On The Jimmy Reed Highway

Sugar Ray & the Bluetones - My Life, My Friends, My Music

Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wheel Man

B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Bettye LaVette

Bobby Rush

Janiva Magness

Tommy Castro

Watermelon Slim

Band of the Year
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials

Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Mannish Boys

Nick Moss &The Flip Tops

Watermelon Slim & The Workers

Best New Artist Debut
Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy - Cotton Field to Coffee House

Gina Sicilia - Allow Me to Confess

Insomniacs - Left Coast Blues

John Nemeth - Magic Touch

The Soul of John Black - The Good Girl Blues

Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
Bryan Lee - Katrina Was Her Name

James Blood Ulmer - Bad Blood in the City

Kilborn Alley Blues Band - Tear Chicago Down

Tommy Castro - Painkiller

Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wheel Man

Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
Bettye LaVette

Candye Kane

Debbie Davies

Fiona Boyes

Teresa James

Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
James Blood Ulmer

Kim Wilson

Ronnie Baker Brooks

Tab Benoit

Watermelon Slim

DVD
Carey & Lurrie Bell - Gettin' Up: Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrrie's Home

Kenny Wayne Shepherd - 10 Days Out: Blues From the Backroads

Pinetop Perkins - Born in the Honey

Son Seals - A Journey Through the Blues - The Son Seals Story

Willie King - Down in the Woods

Historical Album of the Year
Blind Pig - The Essential Magic Slim - Magic Slim

Blue Witch - House Rockin' and Blues Shoutin' - Various Artists

Delmark - Kidney Stew Is Fine - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

Delmark - Steady Rollin' Man - Robert Jr. Lockwood

Epic/Legacy - Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down - Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, James Cotton

Instrumentalist-Bass
Bill Stuve

Bob Stroger

Calvin "Fuzz" Jones

Jeff Turmes

Larry Taylor

Michael "Mudcat" Ward

Instrumentalist-Drums
Jimi Bott

Richard Innes

Robb Stupka

Sam Carr

Sam Lay

Instrumentalist-Guitar
Bob Margolin

Duke Robillard

Kid Ramos

Lurrie Bell

Nick Moss

Instrumentalist-Harmonica
Carey Bell

James Cotton

Kim Wilson

Mark Hummel

Sugar Blue

Sugar Ray Norcia

Instrumentalist-Horn
Big James Montgomery

Calvin Owens

Deanna Bogart

Doug James

Kaz Kazanoff

Instrumentalist-Other
Gerry Hundt - Mandolin

Johnny Sansone - Accordion

Otis Taylor - Banjo

Robert Randolph - Pedal Steel

Sonny Rhodes - Lap Steel

Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Ann Rabson

Bruce Katz

David Maxwell

Henry Butler

Honey Piazza

Song of the Year
"Gonna Buy Me a Mule" - Koko Taylor, Koko Taylor - Old School

"Jimmy Reed Highway" - Omar Kent Dykes & Steve Callif, Omar Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - On the Jimmy Reed Highway

"Poor Man's Paradise" - Johnny Sansone, Johnny Sansone - Poor Man's Paradise

"The Last Words of A Fool" - Sugar Ray Norcia, Sugar Ray & The Bluetones - My Life, My Friends, My Music

"The Wheel Man" - William Homans, Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wheel Man

Soul Blues Album of the Year
Eugene Hideaway Bridges - Eugene Hideaway Bridges

Holmes Brothers - State of Grace

Mem Shannon - A Night At Tipitina's

Root Doctor - Change Our Ways

Tad Robinson - A New Point of View

Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year
Barbara Carr

Denise LaSalle

Irma Thomas

Sharon Jones

Sista Monica Parker

Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush

Eugene Hideaway Bridges

Jackie Payne

Mem Shannon

Tad Robinson

Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year
Diunna Greenleaf

Koko Taylor

Nora Jean Bruso

Ruthie Foster

Sharrie Williams

Traditional Blues Album of the Year
Big George Brock - Live at Seventy Five

Darrell Nulisch - Goin' Back To Dallas

Koko Taylor - Old School

Nappy Brown - Long Time Coming

Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - On The Jimmy Reed Highway

Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
Bob Margolin

Hubert Sumlin

Lurrie Bell

Magic Slim

Nappy Brown

Phillip Walker

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