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2021 Blues Music Awards Winners

B.B. King Entertainer of the Year

Shemekia Copeland

Album of the Year

100 Years of Blues - Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite

Band of the Year

Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

Song of the Year

“All Out of Tears” - written by Walter Trout, Marie Trout, and Teeny Tucker

(performed by Walter Trout)

Best Emerging Artist Album

Harlem, King Solomon Hicks

Acoustic Blues Album

Rawer Than Raw, Bobby Rush

Blues Rock Album

Mike Zito and Friends - Rock ‘n’ Roll: A Tribute to Chuck Berry, Mike Zito

Contemporary Blues Album

Uncivil War, Shemekia Copeland

Soul Blues Album

That's What I Heard, Robert Cray Band

Traditional Blues Album

100 Years of Blues, Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite

Acoustic Blues Artist

Keb' Mo'

Blues Rock Artist

Mike Zito

Contemporary Blues Female Artist

Shemekia Copeland

Contemporary Blues Male Artist

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram

Soul Blues Female Artist

Bettye LaVette