The 22nd Annual Living Blues Awards
Critics’ Poll:
Blues Artist of the Year (Male):
B.B. King
Blues Artist of the Year (Female):
Diunna Greenleaf
Most Outstanding Blues Singer:
Bobby Patterson
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar):
Joe Louis Walker
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica):
James Cotton
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard):
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
Most Outstanding Musician (Drums):
Kenny Smith
Most Outstanding Musician (Horns):
Grady Gaines
Most Outstanding Musician (Other):
Jerron Paxton – Banjo/Fiddle
Best Live Performer:
Bobby Rush
Comeback Artist of the Year:
Shuggie Otis
Artist Deserving More Attention:
Vaneese Thomas
Best Blues Albums of 2014:
Album of the Year:
Billy Boy Arnold, Blues Soul of Billy Boy Arnold (Stony Plain)
New Recordings/ Southern Soul:
Candi Staton, Life Happens (Beracah)
New Recordings/ Best Debut:
Selwyn Birchwood, Don’t Call No Ambulance (Alligator)
New Recordings/ Traditional & Acoustic:
Jerron Paxton, Recorded Music For Your Entertainment (Beaumont)
New Recordings/Contemporary Blues:
Gary Clark, Jr., Live (Warner Bros.)
Historical Pre-War:
Various Artists, Peabody Blues (Nehi)
Historical Post-War:
Various Artists, Classic African American Songsters (Smithsonian/Folkways)
Blues Book of the Year:
Pioneers of the Blues Revival, by Steve Cushing (Univ. of IL Press)
DVD of the Year:
Various Artists, Legendary Country Blues Guitarists (Vestapol)
Readers’ Poll:
Blues Artist of the Year (Male):
Buddy Guy
Blues Artist of the Year (Female):
Shemekia Copeland
Best Blues Album (New Release):
Elvin Bishop, Can’t Even Do Wrong Right (Alligator)
Best Blues Album (Historical Recording):
Johnny Winter, True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story (Columbia/Legacy)
Best Blues DVD:
Various Artists, A Celebration of Blues and Soul: The 1989 Presidential Inaugural Concert (Shout! Factory)
Best Blues Book:
Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story, by Wayne Everett Goins (Univ. of IL Press)
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar):
Buddy Guy
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica):
Charlie Musselwhite
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard):
Marcia Ball
Best Live Performer:
Tab Benoit
Most Outstanding Blues Singer:
Buddy Guy
thank you SO much to all the readers for your support and choosing “Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story” as Best Blues Book!!
Cheers,
Wayne Everett Goins
Where is Robert Cray and his Band???????
Congratulations, Wayne. Well deserved!
And hearty congratulations to all of the winners.
Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Should have been Buddy Guy and Charlie Musselwhite all the way and good choice with Joe Louis Walker.
I think you got the Jerron Paxton for this entry:
Most Outstanding Musician (Other):
Jerry Paxton – Banjo/Fiddle
Thanks for voting the Blues Soul of Billy Boy Arnold the best album of 2014!
Can’t believe that Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart & Janiva Magness received NO awards!
I purchased this book for my husband – he loved it!
Congratulations everyone, and especially James Cotton, Buddy Guy and Charlie Musselwhite who’ve all thrilled me in live performances in Australia. Thanks Living Blues!
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At last not the same people over again. Critics Poll is finally not just the well known names.
Congratulations to Selwynn Birchwood! So proud of our hometown boy! Suncoast Blues Society and INC winner!
Not even ONE category of agreement between readers and editors…
Congratulations on your book Wayne and being nominated… You and your family are very beautiful and I’m very grateful to have met you and again, Thanks…
One of the very best introspective and realistic view of a true Chicago Bluesman, very well written.
Very good book.I learned so much about Rodgers that I thought I already knew.Thanks nephew for all your research !!
Rick Estrin should have won songwriter & harmonica.
Beth Hart is the female blues singer of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay Tab!!!
How good to see Eddy Clearwater on the cover of Living Blues …. again!
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Congrats Tab !!
Loved seeing in the Big Easy !!! The Rock & Bowl &
Ruby’s Roadhouse was a Awesome !!
Congrats Tab!
Loved seeing you in the Big Easy !
All I can say is Awesome !!!!
Beth Hart is the best female singer in ANY genre. Mercy she’s the shit!!
I cannot believe ROBERT CRAY did not make it into this list. I have every album this man has. I love Buddy Guy and Tab. I am crushed. Nashville, TN