BMI Congratulates its 2022 Blues Music Award Winners and BHoF Inductees

Posted in News on May 17, 2022

BMI proudly congratulates its affiliates who won this year’s Blues Music Awards (BMAs), as well as those who were inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. The renowned awards show took place at the newly renovated Cook Convention Center in Memphis earlier this month. In addition to the Company’s membership in the Blues Foundation, BMI was also the sponsor of this year’s Song of the Year award, which went to Selwyn Birchwood.

Congratulations to all our winners and inductees! Here’s the list:

Blues Music Award Winners

B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Tommy Castro

Album of the Year
Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town - Tommy Castro

Band of the Year
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers

Song of the Year
“I’d Climb Mountains” - written & performed by Selwyn Birchwood

Best Emerging Artist Album
Live On Beale Street: A Tribute To Bobby “Blue” Bland - Rodd Bland and the Members Only Band

Blues Rock Album
Resurrection - Mike Zito

Contemporary Blues Album
662 - Kingfish

Soul Blues Album
Long As I Got My Guitar - Zac Harmon

Acoustic Blues Artist
Keb’ Mo’

Blues Rock Artist
Albert Castiglia

Contemporary Blues Male Artist
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Traditional Blues Male Artist
Taj Mahal

Instrumentalist - Bass
Danielle Nicole

Instrumentalist - Guitar
Eric Gales

Instrumentalist – Harmonica
Jason Ricci

Instrumentalist - Horn
Jimmy Carpenter

Instrumentalist - Piano (Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Award)
Mike Finnigan (given posthumously)

Instrumentalist - Vocals
John Németh

Blues Hall of Fame Inductees

Otis Blackwell – Individual
Ralph Peer – Individual
Sonny Boy Williamson: Classics of Blues Recording – Single for “Eyesight to the Blind”
Bobby “Blue” Bland: Classics of Blues Recording – Single for “Farther Up the Road”
Roy Brown: Classics of Blues Recording – Single for “Good Rocking Tonight”
B.B. King:  Classics of Blues Recording – Single for “Rock Me Baby”
B.B. King: Classics of Blues Recording – Single for “3 O’Clock Blues”
Ruth Brown: Classics of Blues Recording – Single for “Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean”
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup: Classics of Blues Recording – Single for “That’s All Right (Mama)”
Muddy Waters: Classics of Blues Recording – Single for “Roillin’ and Tumblin’”
Howlin’ Wolf: Classics of Blues Recording – Album for “Howlin’ Wolf: The Chess Box”
Bo Didley: Classics of Blues Recording – Album for “Bo Didley” self-titled album
Billy Branch – Performer
Eddie Boyd – Performer
Bettye LaVette – Performer
Syl Johnson – Performer
Victoria Spivey – Performer

 

SOURCENews TAGS Blues Selwyn Birchwood Otis Blackwell Rodd Bland Billy Branch Ruth Brown Jimmy Carpenter Albert Castiglia Tommy Castro Eric Gales Zac Harmon Keb’ Mo’ Bettye LaVette Muddy Waters Danielle Nicole Ralph Peer Pinetop Perkins Jason Ricci Mike Zito