Here are the 2025 Grammy nominees and winners in the two major blues categories, plus a pair of roots music awards that also consider blues recordings. The category definitions are taken from the Grammy descriptions. If you’re interested in all the Grammys, you can find them here.

Best Traditional Blues Album — For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental traditional blues recordings.

WINNER — Swingin’ Live at The Church in Tulsa — The Taj Mahal Sextet
Hill Country Love — Cedric Burnside
Struck Down — The Fabulous Thunderbirds
One Guitar Woman — Sue Foley
Sam’s Place — Little Feat

Best Contemporary Blues Album — For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental contemporary blues recordings.

 WINNER — Mileage — Ruthie Foster
Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 — Joe Bonamassa
Blame It On Eve — Shemekia Copeland
Friendlytown — Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour
The Fury — Antonio Vergara

Best American Roots Performance — For new vocal or instrumental American Roots recordings. This is for performances in the style of any of the subgenres encompassed in the American Roots Music field including bluegrass, blues, folk or regional roots.

WINNER — “Lighthouse” — Sierra Ferrell  
“Blame It On Eve” — Shemekia Copeland
“Nothing In Rambling” — The Fabulous Thunderbirds Featuring Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood
“The Ballad Of Sally Anne” — Rhiannon Giddens

Best American Roots Song — Includes Americana, bluegrass, traditional blues, contemporary blues, folk or regional roots songs. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names in parentheses.) Singles or tracks only.

WINNER” — American Dreaming” — Sierra Ferrell & Melody Walker, songwriters (Sierra Ferrell) 
“Ahead Of The Game” — Mark Knopfler, songwriter (Mark Knopfler)
“All In Good Time” — Sam Beam, songwriter (Iron & Wine Featuring Fiona Apple)
“All My Friends” — Aoife O’Donovan, songwriter (Aoife O’Donovan)
“Blame It On Eve” — John Hahn & Will Kimbrough, songwriters (Shemekia Copeland)