Living Blues Magazine has announced its 2024 award nominees. Here is a list of the nominees, although voters have a write-in choice in each category. You can vote using the online ballot by clicking here. The deadline to vote is June 15.
Best Blues Album of 2023 (New Recordings)
- Eric Bibb: Ridin’
- Taj Mahal: Savoy
- Cash Box Kings: Oscar’s Motel
- D.K. Harrell: The Right Man
- Nick Moss Band feat. Dennis Gruenling: Get Your Back Into It!
- Bobby Rush: All My Love for You
- Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia: Blood Brothers
- Ally Venable: Real Gone
- Selwyn Birchwood: Exorcist
- Buffalo Nichols: The Fatalist
- Christone “Kingfish” Ingram: Alligator
- Candice Ivory: When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie
- Larry Taylor & the Taylor Family with the Soul Blues Healers: Generations of Blues: West Side Legacy
- Chris Thomas King: Big Grey Sky
- Arthur Adams: Kick Up Some Dust
- Jimi “Primetime” Smith & Bob Corritore: The World in a Jug
- Stan Mosley: No Soul, No Blues
- Walter “Wolfman” Washington: Feel So at Home
Best Live Performer
- Duke Robillard
- Bobby Rush
- Shemekia Copeland
- Buddy Guy
- Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
- Victor Wainwright
- Cedric Burnside
- John Primer
- Mr. Sipp
- Selwyn Birchwood
Blues Artist of the Year (Female)
- Rory Block
- Sue Foley
- Diunna Greenleaf
- Shemekia Copeland
- Irma Thomas
- Trudy Lynn
- Ally Venable
- Candice Ivory
- Anne Harris
- Anna Popović
Blues Artist of the Year (Male)
- Taj Mahal
- Duke Robillard
- Eric Bibb
- Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
- Bobby Rush
- Mr. Sipp
- Bob Corritore
- Cedric Burnside
- John Primer
- Joe Louis Walker
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)
- Duke Robillard
- Eric Bibb
- Lurrie Bell
- Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
- John Primer
- Buddy Guy
- Ana Popović
- Mr. Sipp
- Joe Louis Walker
- Kirk Fletcher
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)
- Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
- Marcia Ball
- Roosevelt Purifoy
- Victor Wainwright
- Eden Brent
- Anthony Geraci
- Ben Levin
- Mitch Woods
- Dave Keyes
- Bruce Katz
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica)
- Billy Branch
- Bob Corritore
- Phil Wiggins
- Big Harp George
- Mark Hummel
- Andrew Alli
- Charlie Musselwhite
- Rick Estrin
- Jason Ricci
- Omar Coleman
Best Blues Album of 2023 (Reissue Recordings)
- Floyd Dixon: Time Brings About a Change
- Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos
- Delmark Records 70th Anniversary Blues Anthology
- Billy “The Kid” Emerson: My Blues are Red Hot
- James Booker: Behind the Iron Curtain Plus . . .
- Ike & Tina Turner: River Deep – Mountain High
- Down Home Blues – Chicago, Vol. 3: The Special Stuff
- The Memphis Blues Box: Original Recordings, 1914–1969
- Eddie Bo: The Other Side of Eddie Bo
- Lazy Lester: All Over You
Best Blues Book of 2023
- Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert “Mack” McCormick and John Troutman
- The Chicago Blues of Washboard Sam by Guido van Rijn
- The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917–1932 by Scott Blackwood
- Tell It Like It Is by Aaron Neville
- Hot Time Blues: On the Trail of Long-Gone Blues and Gospel Singers by Alex van der Tuuk
- Dynamite! Ike Turner’s Recorded Legacy by Fred Rothwell
- Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews by Margo Cooper
- The Chicago Blues of Jazz Gillum by By Guido van Rijn
- Big Joe Turner: Feel So Fine by Derek Coller
- Notes from the Road by Robert Mugge
Most Outstanding Blues Singer
- Shemekia Copeland
- Trudy Lynn
- Sugaray Rayford
- Mavis Staples
- Diunna Greenleaf
- Oscar Wilson
- John Németh
- Stan Mosley
- Alabama Mike
- William Bell
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