Living Blues Awards for 2009
Readers’ Poll:
Blues Artist of the Year (Male):
Buddy Guy
Blues Artist of the Year (Female):
Marcia Ball
Best Blues Album of 2008 (New Release):
Buddy Guy – Skin Deep (Silvertone)
Best Blues Album of 2008 (Historical Recording):
Various Artists – Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano (Mosaic Records)
Best Blues DVD of 2008:
M For Mississippi – Broke And Hungry Records, Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, Mudpuppy Recordings
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar):
B.B. King
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica):
Charlie Musselwhite
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard):
Marcia Ball
Best Live Performer:
Buddy Guy
Most Outstanding Blues Singer:
Irma Thomas
Critics’ Poll:
Blues Artist of the Year (Male):
Honeyboy Edwards
Blues Artist of the Year (Female):
Koko Taylor
Most Outstanding Blues Singer:
Buddy Guy
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar):
Lurrie Bell
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica):
Charlie Musselwhite
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard):
Pinetop Perkins
Most Outstanding Musician (Bass):
Bob Stroger
Most Outstanding Musician (Drums):
Kenny Smith
Most Outstanding Musician (Horns):
Big James Montgomery
Most Outstanding Musician (Other):
Stanley Dural Jr. aka. Buckwheat Zydeco – Accordion
Best Live Performer:
Lil’ Ed Williams
Comeback Artist of the Year:
Eddy Clearwater
Artist Deserving More Attention:
John Dee Holeman
Best Blues Albums of 2008:
Album of the Year:
B.B. King – One Kind Favor – (Geffen)
New Recordings/ Southern Soul:
Johnny Rawls – Red Cadillac (Catfood Records)
New Recordings/ Best debut:
Elmore James Jr. – Daddy Gave Me The Blues (JSP Records)
New Recordings/ Contemporary Blues:
Kenny Neal – Let Life Flow (Blind Pig Records)
New Recordings/ Traditional & Acoustic:
Honeyboy Edwards – Roamin’ and Ramblin’ (Earwig Records)
Historical Reissue/ Pre-War:
Various Artists – Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano (Mosaic Records)
Historical Reissue/ Post-War:
Howlin’ Wolf – Rockin’ The Blues – Live In Germany 1964 (Acrobat Records)
DVD:
M For Mississippi – Broke And Hungry Records, Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, Mudpuppy Recordings
Producer of the Year – New Recording:
T-Bone Burnett – B.B. King’s One Kind Favor (Geffen Records)
Producer of the Year – Historical/ Reissue:
Bob Koester (Delmark Records)
