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B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Instrumentalist – Bass

Tommy Castro Danielle Nicole
Album of the Year Instrumentalist – Drums

“The Blues Don’t Lie”, Buddy Guy Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith

Band of the Year Instrumentalist – Guitar

Tedeschi Trucks Band Laura Chavez
Song of the Year Instrumentalist – Harmonica

‘The Blues Don’t Lie’ written by Tom John Németh
Hambridge
Instrumentalist – Horn
Best Emerging Artist Album
Deanna Bogart
“Who is He?”, Dylan Triplett
Instrumentalist – Piano (Pinetop Perkins
Acoustic Blues Album Piano Player Award)

“Mississippi Son”, Charlie Musselwhite Anthony Geraci
Blues Rock Album Instrumentalist – Vocals

“I Got Love,” Albert Castiglia Shemekia Copeland

Contemporary Blues Album

“The Blues Don’t Lie”, Buddy Guy The Blues Music Awards represented just one
of the many highlights of the Blues
Soul Blues Album
Foundation’s exciting Blues Music Week,
“In Too Deep”, Sugaray Rayford kicking off on May 10th with its Blues Hall of

Traditional Blues Album Fame induction ceremony. Performers
inducted were: Carey Bell, Junior Kimbrough,
“May Be the Last Time”, John Németh
Esther Phillips, John Primer, Snooky Pryor,
Acoustic Blues Artist Fenton Robinson and Josh White.

Doug MacLeod
Individuals – Business, Production, Media,
Blues Rock Artist Academic inductee was David Evans. This

Albert Castiglia year’s Classic of Blues Literature was: The
Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in
Contemporary Blues Female Artist African American Vaudeville 1899-1926, by

Ruthie Foster Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff (University Press of
Mississippi, 2017)
Contemporary Blues Male Artist
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram The Classic of Blues Recording - Album was
Little Walter: “The Complete Chess Masters
Soul Blues Female Artist
(1950-1967)” (Hip-O Select, 2009.) Classics of
Thornetta Davis Blues Recording – Single or Album Track were:

Soul Blues Male Artist ‘Black Nights’ -- Lowell Fulson (Kent, 1965),
’I'm Tore Down’ -- Freddy King, Federal, 1961),
Curtis Salgado
‘Mojo Hand’ -- Lightnin' Hopkins (Fire, 1960),
Traditional Blues Female Artist (Koko ‘My Black Mama’ -- Son House (Paramount,
Taylor Award) 1930), and ‘The Red Rooster’ (Little Red
Sue Foley Rooster) -- Howlin' Wolf (Chess, 1961)

Traditional Blues Male Artist

John Primer