The 47th Annual Blues Music Awards were held in Memphis, TN, on May 7.
Here are the Winners:
Acoustic Blues Album, Between Somewhere and Goodbye, Doug Macleod
Acoustic Blues Artist, Kevin Burt
Album of the Year, Talkin’ Heaven, D.K. Harrell
B.B. King Entertainer of the year, Ronnie Baker Brooks
Band of the year, Tedeschi Trucks Band
Best Emerging Artist Album, Have Mercy, Sean McDonald
Contemporary Blues Album, Talkin’ Heaven, D.K. Harrell
Contemporary Blues Female, Danielle Nicole
Contemporary Blues Male, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Instrumentalist Bass, Scot Sutherland
Instrumentalist Drums, Derrick D’Mar Martin
Instrumentalist Guitar, Derek Trucks
Instrumentalist Harmonica, Billy Branch
Instrumentalist Horn, Trombone Shorty
Instrumentalist Piano (Pinetop Perkins), Marcia Ball
Instrumentalist Vocals, Danielle Nicole
International Blues Album, Still be Friends, J.T. Lauritsen & the Buckshot Hunters
Rock Blues Album LP, Help Yourself, Blood Brothers (Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia)
Rock Blues Artist, Tommy Castro
Song of the year, “Can’t Catch a Break”, Tommy Castro & Christoffer Andersen
Soul Blues Album, Make Them Dance, Johnny Rawls
Soul Blues Female, Thornetta Davis
Soul Blues Male, Curtis Salgado
Traditional Blues LP, Ain’t Done With The Blues, Buddy Guy
Traditional Blues Female (Koko Taylor), Eden Brent
Traditional Blues Male, John Primer
47th Annual Blues Music Awards
