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Band of the Year
The Cash Box Kings
The Nick Moss Band
featuring Dennis Gruenling
Rick Estrin and the Nightcats
Southern Avenue
Sugaray Rayford Band

Best Emerging Artist Album
Before Me
Ben Levin
And your 2020 Blues Music Awards Nominees are: Folie a deux
Hudspeth & Taylor
Acoustic Blues Album Kingfish
Sponsored by Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Newman, DeCoster Spectacular Class
Catfish Crawl Jontavious Willis
Catfish Keith Through My Eyes
Confessin’ My Dues John “Blues” Boyd
Terry Robb
Good as Your Last Dollar Blues Rock Album
Fruteland Jackson Killin’ It Live
Solo Ride Tommy Castro & The Painkillers
Bruce Katz Masterpiece
This Guitar and Tonight Albert Castiglia
Bob Margolin Reckless Heart
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Acoustic Blues Artist Survivor Blues
Sponsored by Walter Trout
Folk Alliance International Up and Rolling
Eric Bibb North Mississippi Allstars
Guy Davis
Rhiannon Giddens Blues Rock Artist
Fruteland Jackson Sponsored by
Doug MacLeod Landmark Band
Albert Castiglia
Album of the Year Tommy Castro
Sponsored by Tinsley Ellis
Rum Boogie Café & Blues Hall Eric Gales
Church of the Blues Walter Trout
Watermelon Slim
Hail to The Kings! Contemporary Blues Album
The Cash Box Kings Contemporary
Kingfish Rick Estrin and The Nightcats
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Don’t Pass Me By: A Tribute to Sean Costello
The Preacher, The Politician or Various Artists
The Pimp Kingfish
Toronzo Cannon Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Roots and Branches: The Songs of Little Walter The Preacher, The Politician or The Pimp
Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues Toronzo Cannon
Venom & Faith
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Larkin Poe
Sponsored by
B.B. King’s Blues Club Contemporary Blues Female Artist
Billy Branch Diane Blue
Rick Estrin Vanessa Collier
Sugaray Rayford Shemekia Copeland
Bobby Rush Samantha Fish
Mavis Staples Janiva Magness