- Blues Music Award
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Der Blues Music Award, bis 2005 Handy Award (oder noch kürzer: der „Handy“), ist die gängige Kurzbezeichnung der höchsten Auszeichnung der Blues Foundation, einer Organisation zur Förderung des Blues und seines Erbes, die seit 1980 in Memphis für besondere Verdienste um den Blues vergeben wird. Von vielen wird der Award als höchste Auszeichnung gesehen, die ein Bluesmusiker in den USA erhalten kann.
Bis 2005 hießen die Auszeichnungen offiziell „The W. C. Handy Blues Awards“, nach W. C. Handy, dem „Vater des Blues“. Ab 2006 ist die offizielle Bezeichnung „The Blues Music Awards“.
Ähnlich wie die Grammys werden die „Handys“ in (zur Zeit 25) verschiedenen Kategorien vergeben, etwa „Blues Album of the Year“, „Blues Entertainer of the Year“, „Blues Song of the Year“, und so weiter. Aus jeweils fünf Nominierten wird der Preisträger jeder Kategorie ermittelt.
Die Preisträger werden von einer Gruppe nominiert, die aus verschiedenen Berufsgruppen kommen, die mit Blues in Verbindung stehen. Sie werden von den Mitgliedern der Blues Foundation ausgewählt, wobei auch die regionale Verteilung berücksichtigt wird. Der Großteil kommt aus den USA, doch gibt es auch Nominatoren aus Kanada, Europa und Zentralamerika. Die endgültige Abstimmung erfolgt durch die Mitglieder der Blues Foundation.
Preisträger 2009
Acoustic Album of the Year
Eden Brent - Mississippi Number One
Acoustic Artist of the Year
Album of the Year
Buddy Guy - Skin Deep
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Janiva Magness
Band of the Year
Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials
Best New Artist Debut
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm - 2 Man Wrecking Crew
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
Buddy Guy - Skin Deep
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
Janiva Magness
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
DVD
Broke & Hungry Records, Cathead Blues & Mudpuppy Recordings - M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through The Birthplace of the Blues
Historical Album of the Year
Eagle Records - Albert Collins Live At Montreux 1992
Instrumentalist-Bass
Mookie Brill
Instrumentalist-Drums
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Instrumentalist-Guitar
Instrumentalist-Harmonica
Billy Gibson
Instrumentalist-Horn
Instrumentalist-Other
Otis Taylor - Banjo
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
Rock Blues Album of the Year
Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues
Song of the Year
Kenny Neal - Let Life Flow (Kenny Neal)
Soul Blues Album of the Year
Irma Thomas - Simply Grand
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
B.B. King - One Kind Favor
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year
Koko Taylor
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
B.B. King
Preisträger 2010
Acoustic Album of the Year
- David Maxwell & Louisiana Red, You Got to Move
Acoustic Artist of the Year
Album of the Year
- Joe Louis Walker, Between a Rock and the Blues
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Band of the Year
- Tommy Castro Band
Best New Artist Debut
- Monkey Junk, Tiger in your Tank
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
- Tommy Castro, Hard Believer
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Tommy Castro
DVD
- Delmark Records, It Ain't Over! Delmark Celebrates 55 Years of Blues, Live at Buddy Guy's Legends
Historical Album of the Year
- Chess, Authorized Bootleg (Muddy Waters)
Instrumentalist-Bass
- Bob Stroger
Instrumentalist-Drums
- Cedric Burnside
Instrumentalist-Guitar
Instrumentalist-Harmonica
Instrumentalist-Horn
- Deanna Bogart
Instrumentalist-Other
- Buckwheat Zydeco (Akkordeon)
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
Rock Blues Album of the Year
- Derek Trucks Band, Already Free
Song of the Year
- Cyril Neville & Mike Zito, 'Pearl River' (Pearl River--Mike Zito)
Soul Blues Album of the Year
- Johnny Rawls, Ace Of Spades
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
- Super Chikan, Chikadelic
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Debbie Davies
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
Nominierungen 2011
Die Blues Music Awards werden am 5. Mai 2011 bei einer Gala im Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee vergeben.
Acoustic Album of the Year
- 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
Acoustic Artist of the Year
- Doug MacLeod
- Eric Bibb
- Guy Davis
- John Hammond
- Paul Oscher
Album of the Year
- Ain't 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 of the Year
- 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
Best New Artist Debut
- 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
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
- Have Blues Will Travel, Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King
- Living Proof, Buddy Guy
- Name The Day!, John Nemeth
- Still The Rain, Karen Lovely
- The Devil is an Angel Too, Janiva Magness
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Candye Kane
- Janiva Magness
- Karen Lovely
- Robin Rogers
- Shemekia Copeland
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
- 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
Historical Album of the Year
- Black Derby, Chicago Blues Buddies, Little Smokey Smothers & Elvin Bishop
- Delmark, Jimmy Dawkins Presents the Leric Story, Various Artists
- Delmark, Live in Boston 1966, Junior Wells & the Aces
- Delta Groove, Harmonica Blues, Bob Corritore & Friends (Koko, Pinetop, Nappy Brown, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, et. al)
- Ruf, Songs from the Road, Luther Allison
Instrumentalist-Bass
- Bill Stuve
- Bob Stroger
- Larry Taylor
- Patrick Rynn
- Steve Gomes
Instrumentalist-Drums
- Cedric Burnside
- Jimi Bott
- Kenny 'Beedy Eyes' Smith
- Robb Stupka
- Tony Braunagel
Instrumentalist-Guitar
- Derek Trucks
- Duke Robillard
- Joe Louis Walker
- Kirk Fletcher
- Ronnie Earl
Instrumentalist-Harmonica
- Bob Corritore
- Charlie Musselwhite
- James Cotton
- Kim Wilson
- Paul Oscher
Instrumentalist-Horn
- Big James Montgomery
- Doug James
- Eddie Shaw
- Keith Crossan
- Terry Hanck
Instrumentalist-Other
- Gerry Hundt, Mandolin
- Johnny Sansone, Accordion
- Otis Taylor, Banjo
- Rich Del Grosso, Mandolin
- Sonny Rhodes, Lap Steel Guitar
Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)
- Eden Brent
- Reba Russell
- Ruthie Foster
- Sue Foley
- Teeny Tucker
- Zora Young
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
- David Maxwell
- Dr. John
- Eden Brent
- Henry Butler
- Mitch Woods
Rock Blues Album of the Year
- 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
Song of the Year
- 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, Still The Rain, Karen Lovely
Soul Blues Album of the Year
- 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
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year
- Barbara Carr
- Claudette King
- Denise LaSalle
- Irma Thomas
- Sista Monica Parker
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Bobby Rush
- Curtis Salgado
- Eugene 'Hideaway' Bridges
- Solomon Burke
- Tad Robinson
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
- 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
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
- Alabama Mike
- Charlie Musselwhite
- James Cotton
- Magic Slim
- Super Chikan
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