A complete list of the 2014 Blues Blast Music Award nominees follows:
Contemporary Blues Album
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Soul Blues Album
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Acoustic Blues Album
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Blues Band Male Blues Artist Female Blues Artist |
UPDATE: Jay Sielman, President of the Blues Foundation announces that they’ve raised enough money to begin construction on the Blues Hall of Fame starting June 1st!
Winners are in BOLD
35th Blues Music Award WINNERS
| Contemporary Blues Album Get Up! - Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite This Time Another Year - Brandon Santini Rhythm & Blues - Buddy Guy Magic Honey - Cyril Neville Badlands - Trampled Under Foot | Instrumentalist-Bass Bill Stuve Bob Stroger Danielle Schnebelen Larry Taylor Patrick Rynn |
| Band Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials Rick Estrin & the Night Cats Tedeschi Trucks Band The Mannish Boys Trampled Under Foot | Rock Blues Album Gone to Texas – Mike Zito & the Wheel Made Up Mind – Tedeschi Trucks Band Can’t Get Enough – The Rides John the Conquer Root – Toronzo Cannon Luther’s Blues – Walter Trout |
| Contemporary Blues Female Artist Ana Popovic Beth Hart Bettye LaVette Candye Kane Susan Tedeschi | Best New Artist Debut Double Crossing Blues - Adrianna Marie and Her Groovecutters Rooster - Clay Swafford Proof of Love - Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band What’s the Chance… - Paul Gabriel Daddy Told Me - Shawn Holt & the Teardrops Pushin’ Against a Stone - Valerie June |
| Best New Artist Debut Double Crossing Blues - Adrianna Marie and Her Groovecutters Rooster - Clay Swafford Proof of Love - Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band What’s the Chance… - Paul Gabriel Daddy Told Me - Shawn Holt & the Teardrops Pushin’ Against a Stone - Valerie June | Best New Artist Debut Double Crossing Blues - Adrianna Marie and Her Groovecutters Rooster - Clay Swafford Proof of Love - Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band What’s the Chance… - Paul Gabriel Daddy Told Me - Shawn Holt & the Teardrops Pushin’ Against a Stone - Valerie June |
| Soul Blues Male ArtistBobby Rush Frank Bey John Nemeth Johnny Rawls Otis Clay | Instrumentalist-Drums Cedric Burnside Jimi Bott Kenny Smith Tom Hambridge Tony Braunagel |
| Song “Blues in My Soul” – Lurrie Bell “He Was There” – James Cotton, Tom Hambridge & Richard Fleming “That’s When the Blues Begins” – James Goode “The Entitled Few” – Doug MacLeod “The Night the Pie Factory Burned Down” – Johnny Sansone | Soul Blues Album Down In Louisiana – Bobby Rush Soul Changes – Dave Keller Soul for Your Blues – Frank Bey & Anthony Paule Band Remembering O. V. – Johnny Rawls Truth Is (Putting Love Back Into the Music) – Otis Clay |
| Soul Blues Female Artist Barbara Carr Denise LaSalle Dorothy Moore Irma Thomas Sista Monica | Traditional Blues Male Artist Anson Funderburgh Billy Boy Arnold James Cotton John Primer Lurrie Bell |
| Instrumentalist-Guitar Anson Funderburgh Gary Clark, Jr. Kid Andersen Lurrie Bell Ronnie Earl | Acoustic Artist Doug MacLeod Guy Davis Harrison Kennedy Little G Weevil Rory Block |
| Instrumentalist-Harmonica Brandon Santini Charlie Musselwhite James Cotton Kim Wilson Rick Estrin | Acoustic Album There’s a Time - Doug MacLeod Juba dance - Guy Davis featuring Fabrizio Poggi Soulscape - Harrison Kennedy Avalon - Rory Block Unleashed - The Hound Kings |
| Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Barrellhouse Chuck Dave Keyes Marcia Ball Mike Finnigan Victor Wainwright | Historical The Sun Blues Box (Various Artists) - Bear Family The Original Honeydripper (Roosevelt Sykes) - Blind Pig Records The Jewel/Paula Blues Story (Various Artists) - Fuel Records Death Might Be Your Santa Claus (Various Artists) - Legacy Recordings The Complete King/Federal Singles (Freddie King) - Real Gone Music |
| Instrumentalist-Horn Big James Montgomery Eddie Shaw Jimmy Carpenter Sax Gordon Terry Hanck | Soul Blues Female Artist Barbara Carr Denise LaSalle Dorothy Moore Irma Thomas Sista Monica |
| Traditional Blues Male Artist Anson Funderburgh Billy Boy Arnold James Cotton John Primer Lurrie Bell | Contemporary Blues Male Artist Buddy Guy Gary Clark, Jr. Johnny Sansone Kim Wilson Otis Taylor |
| DVD High John Records - Time Brings About a Change (Floyd Dixon) J&R Adventures - An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House (Joe Bonamassa) Shake-It-Sugar Records – Live (Murali Coryell) Ruf Records - Songs from the Road (Royal Southern Brotherhood) Blue Star Connection - Live at Knuckleheads (The Healers) | Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female) Diunna Greenleaf Lavelle White Teeny Tucker Trudy Lynn Zora Young |
| B.B. King Entertainer Bobby Rush Buddy Guy John Németh Kim Wilson Rick Estrin | Traditional Blues Album Driftin’ from Town to Town – Barrelhouse Chuck & Kim Wilson’s Blues All-Stars Remembering Little Walter – Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia, James Harman Cotton Mouth Man – James Cotton Blues in My Soul – Lurrie Bell Black Toppin’ – The Cash Box Kings |
Blues Definition: blo͞oz plural noun: the blues
Wide genres of melancholic music of American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s. Later, urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
Genres of blues – Acid blues, African blues, Blues-rock, Blues shouter, Boogie-woogie, British blues, Canadian blues, Chicago blues, Classic female blues, Contemporary R&B, Country blues, Delta blues, Detroit blues, Electric Blues, Gospel blues, Hill country blues, Hokum blues, Jazz blues, Jump blues, Kansas City blues, Louisiana blues, Memphis blues, Piano blues, Piedmont blues, Punk blues, Rhythm and blues, Soul blues, St. Louis blues, Swamp blues, Texas blues and West Coast blues
