Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

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Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album
Awarded forquality traditional blues albums
CountryUnited States
Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1983
Currently held by Taj Mahal & Ry CooderGet On Board (2023)
Website Grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album was awarded from 1983 to 2011 and from 2017 onwards. Until 1992 the award was known as Best Traditional Blues Performance and was twice awarded to individual tracks rather than albums.

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The award was discontinued after the 2011 Grammy season in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012 onwards, the category was merged with the Best Contemporary Blues Album category to form the new Best Blues Album category. However, in 2016 the Grammy organisation decided to revert the situation back to the pre-2012 era, with two separate categories for traditional and contemporary blues recordings respectively. [1]

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year. B.B. King holds the record of most wins in the category with ten.

Recipients

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was the first recipient of the award. Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown.jpg
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was the first recipient of the award.
Ten-time winner B.B. King. B.B. King (46264650642).jpg
Ten-time winner B.B. King.
Three-time winner John Lee Hooker. John Lee Hooker two.jpg
Three-time winner John Lee Hooker.
Two-time winner Eric Clapton. Eric Clapton - Royal Albert Hall - Wednesday 24th May 2017 EricClaptonRAH240517-30 (34987232355) (cropped).jpg
Two-time winner Eric Clapton.
2005 winner Etta James. Etta James.jpg
2005 winner Etta James.
Three-time winner Bobby Rush. Bobby Rush 1999.jpg
Three-time winner Bobby Rush.
2022 winner Cedric Burnside. Cedric burnside-14.jpg
2022 winner Cedric Burnside.
Year [I] Performing artist(s)WorkNomineesRef.
1983 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Alright Again
1984 B.B. King Blues 'N' Jazz
1985 John P. Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson & J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks Blues Explosion
1986 B.B. King "My Guitar Sings the Blues"
1987 Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland Showdown!
1988 Professor Longhair Houseparty New Orleans Style
1989 Willie Dixon Hidden Charms
1990 John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt "I'm in the Mood"
1991 B.B. King Live at San Quentin
1992 B.B. King Live at the Apollo
1993 Dr. John Goin' Back to New Orleans
1994 B.B. King Blues Summit
1995 Eric Clapton From the Cradle
1996 John Lee Hooker Chill Out
1997 James Cotton Deep in the Blues
1998 John Lee Hooker Don't Look Back
1999 Otis Rush Any Place I'm Going
2000 B.B. King Blues on the Bayou
2001 B.B. King & Eric Clapton Riding with the King
2002 Jimmie Vaughan Do You Get the Blues?
2003 B.B. King A Christmas Celebration of Hope
2004 Buddy Guy Blues Singer
2005 Etta James Blues to the Bone
2006 B.B. King & Friends B.B. King & Friends: 80
2007 Ike Turner Risin' with the Blues
2008 Henry James Townsend, Pinetop Perkins, Robert Lockwood Jr. & David "Honeyboy" Edwards Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas
2009 B.B. King One Kind Favor
2010 Ramblin' Jack Elliott A Stranger Here
[2]
2011 Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith Joined at the Hip
[3]
2017 Bobby Rush Porcupine Meat
[4]
2018 The Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome
[5]
2019 Buddy Guy The Blues Is Alive and Well
[6]
2020 Delbert McClinton & the Self-Made Men + Dana Tall, Dark and Handsome [7]
2021 Bobby Rush Rawer than Raw [8] [9]
2022 Cedric Burnside I Be Trying
[10]
2023 Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder Get On Board
[11]
2024 Bobby Rush All My Love for You [12]

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