Blues Music Foundation's Blues Music nominations for 2011

From our friends at the Blues Foundation in Memphis:

 

The 33rd Blues Music Awards will be Thursday May 10, 2012 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee.

Major funding is provided by ArtsMemphis and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
The 33rd Blues Music Awards are sponsored by Blue Mountain Artists, BMI, Catfood Records, Eagle Rock Entertainment, FedEx, First Tennessee Foundation, Gibson Foundation, Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and Sony/Legacy Records.
Once again, The Blues Music Awards will be broadcast live in their entirety on Sirius XM's B.B. King's Bluesville. The next best thing to being there. They will be broadcast on public television later in the year.

The 2012 show will follow the format of the critically-acclaimed shows of recent years. Close to 100 nominees attend and the night is filled with their appearances and performances in a cabaret/dinner setting in the Convention Center's ballroom.

The event brings together Blues performers, industry representatives and fans from all over the world to celebrate the best in Blues recordings and performances from the previous year. Each year, the Foundation presents The Blues Music Awards to the artists selected by its members. They are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists. As always, a pre-party will immediately precede the Awards.

The Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Charter Members' Dinner will be held the night before on Wednesday, May 9. Contact The Blues Foundation about becoming a Charter Member in order to attend this star-studded event.
For more information, contact Jay Sieleman at (901) 527-2583 xt 12 or jay@blues.org.
For up-to-date information, visit http://www.blues.org/bluesmusicawards/nominees.php#ref=bluesmusicawards_index regularly.

Blues Music Awards Nominees

2012 - 33rd Blues Music Awards

The Blues Foundation will present the 33rd Blues Music Awards on May 10, 2012 at the Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. Performers, industry representatives and fans from around the globe gathered to celebrate the best in Blues recording and performance from 2011.
The Blues Music Awards are universally recognized as the highest honor given to Blues artists. The presenting sponsor will once again be The Gibson Foundation. 2012 Blues Music Awards sponsors include ArtsMemphis, BMI, Blue Mountain Artists, Catfood Records, Eagle Rock Entertainment, FedEx, First Tennessee Foundation, Gibson Foundation, Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Sony/Legacy and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Acoustic Album

Brand New Eyes Doug MacLeod

Conversations in Blue David Maxwell & Otis Spann

Misery Loves Company Mary Flower

Shake 'Em on Down Rory Block

Troubadour Live Eric Bibb

Acoustic Artist

David Maxwell

Doug MacLeod

Eric Bibb

Guy Davis

Mary Flower

Rory Block

Album of the Year

Chicago Blues A Living History the (R)evolution Continues Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell, Carlos Johnson

Evening Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

Medicine Tab Benoit

Revelator Tedeschi Trucks Band

Rock and a Hard Place Eugene Hideaway Bridges

The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too Johnny Sansone

B.B. King Entertainer

Candye Kane

Lil' Ed

Ruthie Foster

Tab Benoit

Tommy Castro

Band

Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials

Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

Tedeschi Trucks Band

The Bo-Keys

Tommy Castro Band

Trampled Under Foot

Best New Artist Debut

Bad Girl Demetria Taylor

Choice Cuts Big Pete

Leave The Light On Sena Ehrhardt

Runaway Samantha Fish

The Mighty Mojo Prophets The Mighty Mojo Prophets

Contemporary Blues Album

Don't Explain Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa

Medicine Tab Benoit

The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too Johnny Sansone

The Skinny Ian Siegal & the Youngest Sons

Tommy Castro Presents The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue--Live! Various Artists

Unconditional Ana Popovic

Contemporary Blues Female Artist

Ana Popovic

Bettye LaVette

Candye Kane

Janiva Magness

Susan Tedeschi

Contemporary Blues Male Artist

Joe Louis Walker

Johnny Sansone

JP Soars

Tab Benoit

Tommy Castro

DVD

Live At Antone's Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)

All Jams on Deck Various Artists (Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise & Mug-Shot Productions)

An Evening at Trasimeno Lake Ana Popovic (ArtisteXclusive)

Live at Montreux 2010 Gary Moore (Eagle Rock)

Play the Blues Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton (Rhino)

The Emporium to the Orpheum Trampled Under Foot (Redwood)

Gibson Guitar Award

Derek Trucks

Duke Robillard

Kirk Fletcher

Lurrie Bell

Michael Burks

Historical Album

Bear Family Texas Flyer 1974-76 (Freddie King)

Chess Smokestack Lightning/The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960 (Howlin' Wolf)

Delmark Hoodoo Man Blues (Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy)

Electro-Fi Teardrops Are Falling - Live in 1983 (George "Harmonica" Smith)

Virgin The Essential Modern Records Collection (Etta James)

Instrumentalist-Bass

Biscuit Miller

Danielle Schnebelen

Larry Taylor

Michael "Mudcat" Ward

Patrick Rynn

Instrumentalist-Drums

Chris Layton

Jimi Bott

Kenny Smith

Robb Stupka

Stanton Moore

Tony Braunagel

Instrumentalist-Harmonica

Charlie Musselwhite

Kim Wilson

Lazy Lester

Rick Estrin

Sugar Ray Norcia

Instrumentalist-Horn

Al Basile

Doug James

Keith Crossan

Sax Gordon

Terry Hanck

Instrumentalist-Other

Ben Prestage, diddley bow

Lionel Young, violin

Otis Taylor, banjo

Rich Del Grosso, mandolin

Sonny Rhodes, lap steel guitar

Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)

Diunna Greenleaf

Maria Muldaur

Nora Jean

Ruthie Foster

Tracy Nelson

Pinetop Perkins Piano Player

David Maxwell

Eden Brent

Jon Cleary

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne

Marcia Ball

Victor Wainwright

Rock Blues Album

2120 South Michigan Ave. George Thorogood & the Destroyers

Dust Bowl Joe Bonamassa

Greyhound Mike Zito

Man In Motion Warren Haynes

Shiver Too Slim and the Taildraggers

Song

Appreciate What You Got Terry Hanck (Look Out! - Terry Hanck)

Back to the Blues Hadden Sayers (Hard Dollar - Hadden Sayers)

Memphis Still Got Soul Bob Trenchard & Johnny Rawls (Memphis Still Got Soul - Johnny Rawls)

Thank You for Giving Me the Blues Grady Champion, Zac Harmon & Chris Troy (Dreamin' - Grady Champion)

The Lord is Waiting, the Devil is Too Johnny Sansone (The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too - Johnny Sansone)

The Older I Get the Better I Was Joe Shelton (The Older I Get the Better I Was - Big Joe Shelton)

Soul Blues Album

Dreamin' Grady Champion

Got to Get Back! The Bo-Keys

Memphis Still Got Soul Johnny Rawls

Rock and a Hard Place Eugene Hideaway Bridges

Show You A Good Time Bobby Rush

Soul Blues Female Artist

Alexis P. Suter

Denise LaSalle

Jackie Johnson

Sharrie Williams

Sista Monica Parker

Soul Blues Male Artist

Bobby Rush

Curtis Salgado

Eugene Hideaway Bridges

Johnny Rawls

Otis Clay

Traditional Blues Album

Chicago Blues A Living History the (R)evolution Continues Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell, Carlos Johnson

Evening Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

Trying To Hold On Diunna Greenleaf

Victim Of The Blues Tracy Nelson

You Better Listen Lazy Lester

Traditional Blues Male Artist

Charlie Musselwhite

John Primer

Lazy Lester

Mac Arnold

Magic Slim