In early July, Living Blues Magazine announced their 2025 Living Blues Award winners.
Below is a complete list of winners. Canadian Artists are bolded.
* signed to Waterdown's Stony Plain Records
Reader's Poll
- Best Blues Album (New Recordings): Sue Foley (Ottawa): One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar *
Links: Sue Foley, More Sue Foley Stories, Video above courtesy of Sue Foley - Best Blues Album of 2024 (Reissue Recordings): B.B. King: Live in Japan
- Best Live Performer: Bobby Rush
- Blues Artist of the Year (Female): Shemekia Copeland
- Blues Artist of the Year (Male): Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
- Blues Band of the Year: Southern Avenue
- Blues Book: Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters by Brian Bisesi
- Most Outstanding Blues Singer: Mavis Staples
- Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar): Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
- Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica): Charlie Musselwhite
- Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard): Marcia Ball
Critics' Poll
- Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard): Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne (Burlington) *
Links: Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, More Kenny "Blues Boss" Stories, Video above courtesy of Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne - Topic - Artists Deserving More Attention: Jovin Webb
- Best Blues Album: Shemekia Copeland - Blame It on Eve
- Best Historical Release / Pre-war: Sleepy John Estes - Working Man Blues, 1929–1952
- Best Historical Reissue / Postwar: Jimmy Reed - I’m Jimmy Reed (LP)
- Best Live Performer: Bobby Rush
- Blues Artist of the Year (Female): Shemekia Copeland
- Blues Artist of the Year (Male): Ronnie Baker Brooks
- Blues Band of the Year: Rick Estrin & the Nightcats
- Blues Book: Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories by Elijah Wald
- Comeback Artist of the Year: Daddy Mack Orr
- Contemporary Blues Album: Ronnie Baker Brooks - Blues in My DNA
- Most Outstanding Blues Singer: Shemekia Copeland
- Most Outstanding Musician (Bass): Bob Stroger
- Most Outstanding Musician (Drums): Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith
- Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar): Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
- Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica): Billy Branch
- Most Outstanding Musician (Horns): Vanessa Collier
- Most Outstanding Musician (Other): Sharde Thomas-Mallory (Fife)
- Producer of the Year / New Recording: Will Kimbrough (Shemekia Copeland - Blame It on Eve)
- Soul Blues Album: Sugaray Rayford - Human Decency
- Traditional or Acoustic Blues Album: Jontavious Willis -West Georgia Blues
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