Recently, Living Blues Magazine announced the nominees for their 2024 awards. A few local artists received a nod. The public can vote for their choices by clicking here . Deadline to vote is June 15.
Below is a complete list of nominees (voters are allowed write in choices though).
* signed to Waterdown's Stony Plain Records
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)
Best Blues Album of 2023 (New Recordings)
Eric Bibb: Ridin ' (guest starring Hamilton's Harrison Kennedy )VIDEO Links: Eric Bibb , More Eric Bibb Stories , Harrison Kennedy , More Harrison Kennedy Stories , Video above courtesy of Eric Bibb Official Taj Mahal: Savoy *Cash Box Kings: Oscar's Motel D.K. Harrell: The Right Man Nick Moss Band feat. Dennis Gruenling: Get Your Back Into It! Bobby Rush: All My Love for You Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia: Blood Brothers Ally Venable: Real Gone Selwyn Birchwood: Exorcist Buffalo Nichols: The Fatalist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: Alligator Candice Ivory: When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie Larry Taylor & the Taylor Family with the Soul Blues Healers: Generations of Blues: West Side Legacy Chris Thomas King: Big Grey Sky Arthur Adams: Kick Up Some Dust Jimi "Primetime" Smith & Bob Corritore: The World in a Jug Stan Mosley: No Soul, No Blues Walter "Wolfman" Washington: Feel So at Home
Best Live Performer
Duke Robillard *Bobby Rush Shemekia Copeland Buddy Guy Christone "Kingfish" Ingram Victor Wainwright Cedric Burnside John Primer Mr. Sipp Selwyn Birchwood
Blues Artist of the Year (Female)
Rory Block *Sue Foley (Ottawa)*Diunna Greenleaf Shemekia Copeland Irma Thomas Trudy Lynn Ally Venable Candice Ivory Anne Harris Anna Popović
Blues Artist of the Year (Male)
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)
Duke Robillard *Eric Bibb *Lurrie Bell Christone "Kingfish" Ingram John Primer Buddy Guy Ana Popović Mr. Sipp Joe Louis Walker Kirk Fletcher Best Blues Album of 2023 (Reissue Recordings)
Floyd Dixon: Time Brings About a Change Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos Delmark Records 70th Anniversary Blues Anthology Billy "The Kid" Emerson: My Blues are Red Hot James Booker: Behind the Iron Curtain Plus . . . Ike & Tina Turner: River Deep – Mountain High Down Home Blues – Chicago, Vol. 3: The Special Stuff The Memphis Blues Box: Original Recordings, 1914–1969 Eddie Bo: The Other Side of Eddie Bo Lazy Lester: All Over You Best Blues Book of 2023
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert "Mack" McCormick and John Troutman The Chicago Blues of Washboard Sam by Guido van Rijn The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917–1932 by Scott Blackwood Tell It Like It Is by Aaron Neville Hot Time Blues: On the Trail of Long-Gone Blues and Gospel Singers by Alex van der Tuuk Dynamite! Ike Turner's Recorded Legacy by Fred Rothwell Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews by Margo Cooper The Chicago Blues of Jazz Gillum by By Guido van Rijn Big Joe Turner: Feel So Fine by Derek Coller Notes from the Road by Robert Mugge
Most Outstanding Blues Singer
Shemekia Copeland Trudy Lynn Sugaray Rayford Mavis Staples Diunna Greenleaf Oscar Wilson John Németh Stan Mosley Alabama Mike William Bell
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica)
Billy Branch Bob Corritore Phil Wiggins Big Harp George Mark Hummel Andrew Alli Charlie Musselwhite Rick Estrin Jason Ricci Omar Coleman
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