The 31st annual Blues Music Awards were held on Thursday May 6 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee. In advance of the main event, numerous legends of blues music including master songsmith Lonnie Brooks, harp maestro Charlie Musselwhite and queen of slide Bonnie Raitt were inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Then came over seven hours of appreciation and celebration for one of the most influential forces in modern music: the Blues.
And the Winners are
Without further ado, herewith this year's winners:
The Blues DVD of the year award went to Delmark's "It Aint Over", which celebrates the record label's 55 year history by documenting a show at Buddy Guy's Legends club in Chicago and features Jimmy Johnson, Lurrie Bell and Zora Young amongst others. The next award announced was for Comtemporary Female Blues Artist of the Year, which went to "The Phenomenal" Ruthie Foster.
A couple of album release categories were next on the roster, the Historical Blues Album of year going to "Authorized Bootleg" (Muddy Waters Live) on Chess and Rock Blues Album of the year sliding over to The Derek Trucks Band for "Already Free", Trucks also picking up the Instrumentalist of the Year - Guitar award. Duke Robillard won the Traditional Blues Male Artist and the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year prize, presented by Pinetop himself, went to Eden Brent.
Bob Stroger received the next award for Instrumentalist of the Year - Bass and New Orleans Grammy winner Irma Thomas added another award to her cabinet, picking up the trophy for Soul Blues Female. Said to be the inspiration for much of Belushi/Akroyd's Blues Brother act (and having the first album "Briefcase Full of Blues" dedicated to him), Curtis Salgado secured Soul Blues Male Artist of the year while Cedric Burnside and Buckwheat Zydeco were given Instrumentalist of the Year awards for drums and "other" respectively.
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