2008 Blues Music Awards

The Blues Foundation 2008 Blues Music Awards were held on May 8, 2008. Click here for more information.

Here are the Blues Foundation nominees for the 2008 Blues Music Awards

Click here to see the winners of the Blues Foundation 2008 Awards .

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DVD of the Year

Acoustic Album of the Year

Acoustic Artist of the Year

Album of the Year

B.B. King Entertainer of the Year

Band of the Year

Best New Artist Debut

Contemporary Blues Album of the Year

Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year

Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year

Historical Album of the Year

Other Catagories of Interest

Instrumentalist-Bass

Bob Stroger
Bill Stuve
Michael "Mudcat" Ward
Jeff Turmes
Calvin "Fuzz" Jones
Larry Taylor

Instrumentalist-Drums

Jimi Bott
Sam Carr
Sam Lay
Richard Innes
Robb Stupka

Instrumentalist-Guitar

Lurrie Bell
Duke Robillard
Kid Ramos
Nick Moss
Bob Margolin

Instrumentalist-Harmonica

Kim Wilson
James Cotton
Sugar Ray Norcia
Mark Hummel
Carey Bell
Sugar Blue

Instrumentalist-Horn

Big James Montgomery
Kaz Kazanoff
Deanna Bogart
Doug James
Calvin Owens

Instrumentalist-Other

Sonny Rhodes - Lap Steel
Gerry Hundt - Mandolin
Robert Randolph - Pedal Steel
Johnny Sansone - Accordion
Otis Taylor - Banjo

Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year

Henry Butler
Honey Piazza
Ann Rabson
Bruce Katz
David Maxwell

Song of the Year

'The Wheel Man' - William Homans, Watermelon Slim & The Workers - The Wheel Man
'The Last Words of A Fool' - Sugar Ray Norcia, Sugar Ray & The Bluetones - My Life, My Friends, My Music
'Jimmy Reed Highway' - Omar Kent Dykes & Steve Callif, Omar Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - On the Jimmy Reed Highway
'Gonna Buy Me a Mule' - Koko Taylor, Koko Taylor - Old School
'Poor Man's Paradise' - Johnny Sansone, Johnny Sansone - Poor Man's Paradise

Soul Blues Album of the Year

Tad Robinson - A New Point of View
Mem Shannon - A Night At Tipitina's
Holmes Brothers - State of Grace
Eugene Hideaway Bridges - Eugene Hideaway Bridges
Root Doctor - Change Our Ways

Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year

Irma Thomas
Denise LaSalle
Sista Monica Parker
Sharon Jones
Barbara Carr

Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year

Jackie Payne
Mem Shannon
Eugene Hideaway Bridges
Bobby Rush
Tad Robinson

Traditional Blues Album of the Year

Big George Brock - Live at Seventy Five
Darrell Nulisch - Goin' Back To Dallas
Nappy Brown - Long Time Coming
Koko Taylor - Old School
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan - On the Jimmy Reed Highway

Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year

Koko Taylor
Diunna Greenleaf
Sharrie Williams
Ruthie Foster
Nora Jean Bruso

Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year

Lurrie Bell
Bob Margolin
Phillip Walker
Hubert Sumlin
Nappy Brown
Magic Slim

All Blues Foundation 2008 Awards Winners Announced!

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All Blues Foundation 2007 Awards Nominees and Winners

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