Blues Music Awards 2019.

Acoustic Album: 

Journeys to the Heart of the Blues – Joe Louis Walker/Bruce Katz/Giles Robson

Acoustic Artist:  

Rory Block

Album:  

America’s Child – Shemekia Copeland

B.B. King Entertainer: 

Michael Ledbetter

Band: 

Welch-Ledbetter Connection

Best Emerging Artist Album: 

Free – Amanda Fish

Blues Rock Album: 

The Big Bad Blues – Billy F Gibbons

Blues Rock Artist: 

Eric Gales

Contemporary Blues Album: 

America’s Child – Shemekia Copeland

Contemporary Blues Female Artist: 

Danielle Nicole

Contemporary Blues Male Artist: 

Kenny Neal

Instrumentalist-Bass: 

Danielle Nicole

Instrumentalist-Drums: 

Cedric Burnside

Instrumentalist-Guitar: 

Monster Mike Welch

Instrumentalist-Harmonica: 

Dennis Gruenling

Instrumentalist-Horn: 

Vanessa Collier

Instrumentalist- Pinetop Perkins Piano Player: 

Marcia Ball

Instrumentalist-Vocals: 

Michael Ledbetter

Song: 

“No Mercy In This Land” 

Written By Ben Harper 

Performed by Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite

Soul Blues Album: 

I’m Still Around – Johnny Rawls

Soul Blues Female Artist: 

Annika Chambers

Soul Blues Male Artist:  

Sugaray Rayford

Traditional Blues Album: 

The Blues is Alive and Well – Buddy Guy

Koko Taylor Award for Traditional Blues Female Artist: 

Ruthie Foster

Traditional Blues Male Artist: 

Nick Moss