2024 Blues Music Award Nominees Including Local & Canadian Artists

The Blues Music Awards will be handed out at a ceremony in Memphis on May 9, 2024

Below is a complete list of nominees. Canadian Artists are bolded. 

* signed to Waterdown's Stony Plain Records

Instrumentalist - Pinetop Perkins Piano Player

• Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne (Burlington)*
  
  
  
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• Ben Levin
• Dave Keyes
• Jim Pugh
• Mitch Woods

Contemporary Blues Album

• Ridin', Eric Bibb (ft Hamilton's Harrison Kennedy)*
  
  
  
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• Live In London, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
• Behind The Veil, Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind
• Healing Time, Ruthie Foster
• Exorcist, Selwyn Birchwood

Acoustic Artist

• Eric Bibb*
• Keb’ Mo’
• Catfish Keith
• Doug MacLeod
• Kevin Burt

Instrumentalist - Guitar

• Sue Foley (Ottawa)*
• Christoffer “Kid” Andersen
• Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
• Derek Trucks
• Laura Chavez

Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female Artist)

• Sue Foley (Ottawa)*
• Diunna Greenleaf
• Rhiannon Giddens
• Shaun Murphy
• Teeny Tucker

Traditional Blues Album

• Savoy, Taj Mahal*
• TEARDROPS FOR MAGIC SLIM: John Primer
• Nothing But Time, Monster Mike Welch
• Get Your Back Into It!, Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling
• Oscar's Motel, The Cash Box Kings

Album of the Year

• SoulFunkn'BLUES, Blackburn Brothers (Toronto)
• TEARDROPS FROM MAGIC SLIM, John Primer
• Live In London, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
• Soul Side of Sipp, Mr. Sipp (Castro Coleman)
• Get Your Back Into It!, Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling

Song of the Year

• “Bobby's Blues” performed by the Blackburn Brothers (Toronto), written by Brooke Blackburn
• “Horns Below Her Halo” performed by Selwyn Birchwood, written by Selwyn Birchwood
• “Midnight Heat” performed by Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, written by Tom Hambridge & Richard Fleming
• “The Bait In the Snare” performed by Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling, written by Nick Moss
• “What Kind Of Fool” performed by Ruthie Foster, written by Ruthie Foster, Hadden Sayers & Scottie Miller

Soul Blues Album

• SoulFunkn'BLUES, Blackburn Brothers (Toronto)
• Stuff I've Been Through, Alabama Mike
• All My Love For You, Bobby Rush
• Walking Heart Attack, Johnny Rawls
• Soul Side of Sipp, Mr. Sipp (Castro Coleman)

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Acoustic Album

• Wild Ox Moan, Catfish Keith
• Raw Blues 1, Doug MacLeod
• Sticks & Strings, EG Kight
• Ridin' the Blinds, Hudspeth & Taylor
• Ghost Hymns, William Lee Ellis

B.B. King Entertainer

• Beth Hart
• Bobby Rush
• Lil’ Ed Williams
• Mr. Sipp (Castro Coleman)
• Vanessa Collier

Band of the Year

• Larkin Poe
• Nick Moss Band
• Selwyn Birchwood Band
• Southern Avenue
• Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Emerging Artist Album

• When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie, Candice Ivory
• The Right Man, D.K. Harrell
• Up Next, Mathias Lattin
• Everybody's Buddy, Nic Clark
• Tony Holiday, Tony Holiday

Blues Rock Album

• POWER, Ana Popovic
• Writing On The Wall, Coco Montoya
• Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, Joe Bonamassa
• Blood Brothers, Mike Zito/ Albert Castiglia
• What Key Is Trouble In?, Nick Schnebelen

Blues Rock Artist

• Anna Popovic
• Joe Bonamassa
• Kenny Wayne Shepard
• Mike Zito
• Warren Haynes

Contemporary Blues Female Artist

• Carolyn Wonderland
• Danielle Nicole
• Janiva Magness
• Teresa James
• Vanessa Collier

Contemporary Blues Male Artist

• Chris Cain
• Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
• Marquise Knox
• Mr. Sipp (Castro Coleman)
• Selwyn Birchwood

Instrumentalist - Bass

• Bob Stroger
• Larry Fulcher
• Michael “Mudcat” Ward
• Rodrigo Mantovani
• Willie Weeks

Instrumentalist - Drums

• Derrick D’Mar Martin
• June Core
• Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith
• Tom Hambridge
• Tony Braunagel

Instrumentalist - Harmonica

• Billy Branch
• Bob Corritore
• Dennis Gruenling
• Jason Ricci
• Kim Wilson

Instrumentalist - Horn

• Deanna Bogart
• Jimmy Carpenter
• Mark Kaz Kazanoff
• Trombone Shorty
• Vanessa Collier

Instrumentalist - Vocals

• Billy Price
• Diunna Greenleaf
• John Nemeth
• Ruthie Foster
• Shemekia Copeland

Soul Blues Female Artist

• Annika Chambers
• Kat Riggins
• Terri Odabi
• Thornetta Davis
• Trudy Lynn

Soul Blues Male Artist

• Alabama Mike
• Billy Price
• John Nemeth
• Johnny Rawls
• William Bell

Traditional Blues Male Artist

• Billy Branch
• Cedric Burnside
• John Primer
• Jontavious Willis
• Nick Moss

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

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