Winners Announced for the 28th Annual Blues Music Awards

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The winners of the 38^th annual Blues Music Awards were announced at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. The event celebrates and honors blues recordings and performances from the past year.

The winners are as follows:

ACOUSTIC ALBUM

The Happiest Man in the World by Eric Bibb

ACOUSTIC ARTIST

Doug MacLeod

ALBUM

Porcupine Meat by Bobby Rush

B.B. KING ENTERTAINER

Joe Bonamassa

BAND

Tedeschi Trucks Band

BEST EMERGING ARTIST ALBUM

Tengo Blues by Jonn Del Toro Richardson

CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM

Bloodline by Kenny Neal

CONTEMPORARY BLUES FEMALE ARTIST

Susan Tedeschi

CONTEMPORARY BLUES MALE ARTIST

Kenny Neal

HISTORICAL ALBUM

Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush

Omnivore Recordings

INSTRUMENTALIST– BASS –

Biscuit Miller

INSTRUMENTALIST– DRUMS –

Cedric Burnside

INSTRUMENTALIST– GUITAR –

Joe Bonamassa

INSTRUMENTALIST– HARMONICA –

Kim Wilson

INSTRUMENTALIST– HORN –

Terry Hanck

KOKO TAYLOR AWARD

Diunna Greenleaf

PINETOP PERKINS PIANO PLAYER

Victor Wainwright

ROCK BLUES ALBUM

Let Me Get By by Tedeschi Trucks Band

SONG

“Walk A Mile In My Blues” written by David Duncan, Curtis Salgado, & Mike Finnigan performed by Curtis Salgado

SOUL BLUES ALBUM

The Beautiful Lowdown by Curtis Salgado

SOUL BLUES FEMALE

Mavis Staples

SOUL BLUES MALE

Curtis Salgado

TRADITIONAL BLUES ALBUM

Can’t Shake This Feeling by Lurrie Bell

TRADITIONAL BLUES MALE ARTIST

Bob Margolin

# # #