Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album was awarded from 1983 to 2011 and from 2017 onwards. Until 1992 the award was known as Best Traditional Blues Performance and was twice awarded to individual tracks rather than albums.

The award was discontinued after the 2011 Grammy season in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012 onwards, the category was merged with the Best Contemporary Blues Album category to form the new Best Blues Album category. However, in 2016 the Grammy organisation decided to revert the situation back to the pre-2012 era, with two separate categories for traditional and contemporary blues recordings respectively.^[1]

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year.

2010s

Grammy Awards of 2017

• Bobby Rush for Porcupine Meat

Nominees

• Lurrie Bell for Can't Shake This Feeling
• Joe Bonamassa for Live at the Greek Theatre
• Luther Dickinson for Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook: Volumes I & II)
• Vasti Jackson for The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers

Grammy Awards of 2011

• Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith for Joined at the Hip

Grammy Awards of 2010

• Ramblin' Jack Elliott for A Stranger Here

2000s

• Grammy Awards of 2009
  • B.B. King for One Kind Favor
• Grammy Awards of 2008
  • Henry James Townsend, Pinetop Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David Honeyboy Edwards for Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas
• Grammy Awards of 2007
  • Ike Turner for Risin' with the Blues
• Grammy Awards of 2006
  • B.B. King & Friends for 80
• Grammy Awards of 2005
  • Etta James for Blues to the Bone
• Grammy Awards of 2004
  • Buddy Guy for Blues Singer
• Grammy Awards of 2003
  • Anthony Daigle, John Holbrock (engineers/mixers) & B. B. King (producer & artist) for A Christmas Celebration of Hope
• Grammy Awards of 2002
  • John P. Hampton, Jared Tuten (engineers) & Jimmie Vaughan (producer & artist) for Do You Get the Blues?
• Grammy Awards of 2001
  • Simon Climie (producer), Alan Douglas (engineer), Eric Clapton (producer & artist) & B.B. King for Riding With the King
• Grammy Awards of 2000
  • B.B. King for Blues on the Bayou

1990s

• Grammy Awards of 1999
  • Otis Rush for Any Place I'm Going
• Grammy Awards of 1998
  • John Lee Hooker for Don't Look Back
• Grammy Awards of 1997
  • James Cotton for Deep in the Blues
• Grammy Awards of 1996
  • John Lee Hooker for Chill Out
• Grammy Awards of 1995
  • Eric Clapton for From the Cradle
• Grammy Awards of 1994
  • B. B. King for Blues Summit
• Grammy Awards of 1993
  • Dr. John for Goin' Back to New Orleans
• Grammy Awards of 1992
  • B. B. King for Live at the Apollo
• Grammy Awards of 1991
  • B. B. King for Live at San Quentin
• Grammy Awards of 1990
  • Bonnie Raitt & John Lee Hooker for I'm In the Mood

1980s

• Grammy Awards of 1989
  • Willie Dixon for Hidden Charms
• Grammy Awards of 1988
  • Professor Longhair for Houseparty New Orleans Style
• Grammy Awards of 1987
  • Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland & Robert Cray for Showdown!
• Grammy Awards of 1986
  • B. B. King for My Guitar Sings the Blues
• Grammy Awards of 1985
  • Sugar Blue, John P. Hammond, J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for Blues Explosion
• Grammy Awards of 1984
  • B. B. King for Blues 'N' Jazz
• Grammy Awards of 1983
  • Clarence Gatemouth Brown for Alright Again

References

Sources

• Grammy Awards – Past Winners Search  As noted in this article: search years are offset by one year.