Blues

2008 Winners & Nominees

Best Traditional Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Pinetop Perkins On The 88's - Live In Chicago
Pinetop Perkins
[Sagebrush Productions/Vizztone Label Group]

• Live...And In Concert From San Francisco
Otis Rush
[Blues Express, Inc.]

• 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Featuring Various Artists
[Reprise Records]

• Old School
Koko Taylor
[Alligator Records]

• Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas
Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David
"Honeyboy" Edwards
[The Blue Shoe Project]


Best Contemporary Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Into The Blues
Joan Armatrading
[429 Records]

• Is It News
Doyle Bramhall
[Yep Roc Records]

• The Road To Escondido
JJ Cale & Eric Clapton
[Reprise Records/Warner Music Group]

• Truth
Robben Ford
[Concord Records]

• The Scene Of The Crime
Bettye LaVette
[Anti]

2007 Winners & Nominees

Best Traditional Blues Album

(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Brother To The Blues
  Tab Benoit With Louisiana's Leroux
  [Telarc Blues]

• Bronx In Blue
  Dion
  [Razor & Tie / The Orchard]

• People Gonna Talk
  James Hunter
  [Go Records/Rounder]

• Guitar Groove-A-Rama
  Duke Robillard
  [Stony Plain Records]

• Risin' With The Blues
  Ike Turner
  [Zoho Roots]
  
  

Best Contemporary Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Live From Across The Pond
  Robert Cray Band
  [Vanguard Records/Nozzle Records]

• Sippiana Hericane
  Dr.
  John & The Lower 911
  [Blue Note Records]

• Suitcase
  Keb' Mo'
  [Epic/One Haven/Red Ink]

• Hope And Desire
  Susan Tedeschi
  [Verve Forecast]

• After The Rain
  Irma Thomas
  [Rounder]