La Blues Foundation presenterà la 32ma Blues Music Awards il 5 maggio 2011, presso il Cook Convention Center a Memphis. Esecutori, rappresentanti del settore e appassionati di tutto il mondo si riuniranno per celebrare le migliori produzioni e performance blues del 2010. Il Blues Music Awards è universalmente riconosciuto come il più alto onore reso ad un artista Blues. I candidati sono elencati di seguito. Per ascoltare il lavoro di molti dei candidati, cliccate qui. Controllate frequentemente nelle prossime settimane in quanto i candidati hanno la possibilità di aggiungere altri samples del loro lavoro.
Album acustico dell'anno
Bet on the Blues, Paul Oscher
Booker's Guitar, Eric Bibb
Home Sweet Home, South Memphis String Band
Last Train to Bluesville, The Nighthawks
You Can Always Turn Around, Lucky Peterson
Artista acustico dell'anno
Doug MacLeod
Eric Bibb
Guy Davis
John Hammond
Paul Oscher
Album dell'anno
Is not Got No Troubles, Eden Brent
Living Proof, Buddy Guy
Shake for Me, The Mannish Boys
The Devil is an Angel Too, Janiva Magness
The Well, Charlie Musselwhite
B.B King Entertainer of the Year
Buddy Guy
Janiva Magness
Joe Louis Walker
Kenny Neal
Super Chikan
Band dell'anno
Magic Slim & the Teardrops
Nick Moss & the Flip Tops
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats
The Derek Trucks Band
The Holmes Brothers
The Kilborn Alley Blues Band
The Mannish Boys
Debuttante dell'anno
Chris O'Leary Band, Mr. Used to Be
Claudette King, We're Onto Something
Matt Hill, On the Floor
Peter Parcek, The Mathematics of Love
The Vincent Hayes Project, Reclamation
Album di blues contemporaneo
Have Blues Will Travel, Smokin 'Joe Kubek & Bnois King
Living Proof, Buddy Guy
Name The Day!, John Nemeth
The Rain Still, Karen Lovely
The Devil is an Angel Too, Janiva Magness
Artista donna di blues contemporaneo
Candye Kane
Janiva Magness
Karen Lovely
Robin Rogers
Shemekia Copeland
Artista uomo di blues contemporaneo
Buddy Guy
Joe Louis Walker
John Nemeth
Kenny Neal
Nick Moss
DVD
Black Hen, The Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Concert, Various Artists
Delmark, Live at Rooster's Place, Tail Dragger
NorthernBlues Music, Live at Ground Zero Blues Club, Watermelon Slim & the Workers
Ruf, Songs From The Road Luther Allison
Woodward Studio, Nothing to Prove, Mac Arnold
Album storico dell'anno
Black Derby, Chicago Blues Buddies, Little Smokey Smothers Elvin Bishop &
Delmark, Jimmy Dawkins Lerici Presents the Story, Various Artists
Delmark, Live in Boston 1966, Junior Wells & the Aces
Delta Groove, Blues Harmonica, Bob Runner & Friends (Koko, Pinetop, Nappy Brown, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, et. Al)
Ruf, Songs from the Road Luther Allison
Bassista
Bill Stuve
Bob Stroger
Larry Taylor
Patrick Rynn
Steve Gomes
Batterista
Cedric Burnside
Jimi Bott
Kenny 'Beedy Eyes' Smith
Robb Stupka
Tony Braunagel
Chitarrista
Derek Trucks
Duke Robillard
Joe Louis Walker
Kirk Fletcher
Ronnie Earl
Armonicista
Bob Runner
Charlie Musselwhite
James Cotton
Kim Wilson
Paul Oscher
Horn-instrumentalist
Big James Montgomery
Doug James
Eddie Shaw
Keith Crossan
Terry Hancke
Altri strumenti
Gerry Hundt, Mandolin
Johnny Sansone, Accordion
Otis Taylor, Banjo
Rich Del Grosso, Mandolin
Sonny Rhodes, Lap Steel Guitar
Album Blues-rock dell'anno
Bingo, Steve Miller Band
Common Ground, Walter Trout
Live! In Chicago, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band featuring Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bryan Lee and Buddy Flett
Privileged, Nick Moss
Roadsongs, Derek Trucks
Canzone dell'anno
Living Proof, Tom Hambridge / Buddy Guy, Living Proof, Buddy Guy
Please Mr. President, Bruce Iglauer / Wyzard / David Kearney, Bare Knuckle, Guitar Shorty
Rained All Night, Steve Gomes, Back In Style, Tad Robinson
Sad and Beautiful World, Charlie Musselwhite, The Well, Charlie Musselwhite
Still the Rain, Dennis Walker / Alan Mirikitani, The Rain Still, Karen Lovely
Album Soul Blues dell'anno
24 Hour Woman, Denise LaSalle
Back in Style, Tad Robinson
Feed My Soul, The Holmes Brothers
Live In San Antonio, Eugene 'Hideaway' Bridges
Nothing's Impossible, Solomon Burke
Stomp the Floor, Arthur Adams
Artista donna Soul Blues dell'anno
Barbara Carr
Claudette King
Denise LaSalle
Irma Thomas
Sista Monica Parker
Artista uomo Soul Blues dell'anno
Bobby Rush
Curtis Salgado
Eugene 'Hideaway' Bridges
Solomon Burke
Tad Robinson
Traditional Blues Album dell'anno
Giant, James Cotton
Joined At The Hip, Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith
Passport to the Blues, Duke Robillard
Shake for Me, The Mannish Boys
The Well, Charlie Musselwhite
Artista uomo di Traditional Blues dell'anno
Alabama Mike
Charlie Musselwhite
James Cotton
Magic Slim
Super Chikan
