More than 6,000 Blues Blast Magazine readers and Blues fans
voted in the 2025 Blues Blast Music Awards.
The winners in the fan voting are listed below:
Contemporary Blues Album-Tommy Castro & The Painkillers – Closer To The Bone
Traditional Blues Album-Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Young Fashioned Ways
Soul Blues Album-Curtis Salgado – Fine By Me
Rock Blues Album-Tab Benoit – I Hear Thunder
Acoustic Blues Album-Giles Robson & John Primer – Ten Chicago Blues Classics
Live Blues Album-Willie Buck – Live at Buddy Guy’s Legends
Historical Or Vintage Recording-Duke Robillard – Roll With Me
New Artist Debut Album – Christopher Wyze & the Tellers – Stuck in the Mud
Blues Band Of The Year – Tab Benoit Band
Male Blues Artist – Tab Benoit
Female Blues Artist – Shemekia Copeland
Sean Costello Rising Star Award – Matt “The Rattlesnake” Lesch
Producer Of The Year – Mike Zito
Electric Guitarist Of The Year – Tab Benoit
Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year – Keb’ Mo’
Slide Guitarist Of The Year – Derek Trucks
Bass Guitarist Of The Year – Danielle Nicole
Keyboard Player Of The Year – Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
Percussionist Of The Year – Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith
Harmonica Player Of The Year – Charlie Musselwhite
Horn Player Of The Year – Vanessa Collier
Vocalist Of The Year – Bobby Rush
Blues Video Of The Year – Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Uncle Esau
