2019 Blues Music Award Winners

Acoustic Album 
“Journeys to the Heart of the Blues” — Joe Louis Walker/Bruce Katz/Giles Robson

Acoustic Artist 
Rory Block

Album of the Year 
“America’s Child” — Shemekia Copeland

B.B. King Entertainer 
Michael Ledbetter

Band of the Year 
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 of the Year 
“No Mercy In This Land” Written By Ben Harper and 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

Traditional Blues Female Artist 
Ruthie Foster

Traditional Blues Male Artist 
Nick Moss