Buddy Guy Leads List of 2011 Blues Music Awards Nominees
BMI blues-slingers accounted for 91 percent of the 2011 Blues Music Awards nominations, announced yesterday. 2010 Blues Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Buddy Guy proves there’s more where that came from, leading the list of nominees with five nods including B.B. King Entertainer and Album of the Year for Living Proof.
2010 B.B. King Entertainer winner Janiva Magness will vie for that crown again, as well as three other awards including Album and Contemporary Blues Album for The Devil is an Angel Too, as well as Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year. The Mannish Boys also earned an Album of the Year nomination, along with two other nods. Joe Louis Walker garnered three nominations as well, including B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, and Super Chikan rounds out the strong list of strong contenders for the B.B. King Entertainer trophy.
Song of the Year nominees include Buddy Guy’s self-penned album title track “Living Proof”; “Please Mr. President,” co-written by Bruce Iglauer for Guitar Shorty’s Bare Knuckle; Karen Lovely’s “Still the Rain,” written by Dennis Walker; and “Rained All Night,” written by Steve Gomes for Tad Robinson’s Back in Style release.
Derek Trucks, Nick Moss, and Paul Oscher all claimed three nods each.
The Blues Music Awards are produced by the Blues Foundation. The Memphis-based non-profit organization, which is dedicated to the past, present and future of blues music, also recently announced the selection of its first-ever permanent home. The Blues Foundation will move into its new headquarters in downtown Memphis March 2011.
The 32nd Blues Music Awards ceremony is slated for May 5 and will be broadcast live on Sirius XM’s B.B. King’s Bluesville. For more information about the 2011 Blues Music Awards and the Blues Foundation, visit blues.org.
2011 Blues Music Awards
Presenting Sponsor: The Gibson Foundation
BMI NOMINEES
Acoustic Album
Booker’s Guitar
Eric Bibb (STIM)
You Can Always Turn Around
Lucky Peterson
Bet on the Blues
Paul Oscher
Home Sweet Home
South Memphis String Band
Last Train to Bluesville
The Nighthawks
Acoustic Artist
Doug MacLeod
Eric Bibb
Guy Davis
John Hammond
Paul Oscher
Album
Living Proof
Buddy Guy
The Devil is an Angel Too
Janiva Magness
Shake for Me
The Mannish Boys
The Well
Charlie Musselwhite
B.B. King Entertainer
Buddy Guy
Janiva Magness
Joe Louis Walker
Kenny Neal
Super Chikan
Band
Derek Trucks Band
Magic Slim & the Teardrops
Nick Moss Band
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats
The Holmes Brothers
The Mannish Boys
Best New Artist Debut
Mr. Used to Be
Chris O’Leary Band
On the Floor
Matt Hill
Reclamation
The Vincent Hayes Project
Contemporary Blues Album
Living Proof
Buddy Guy
The Devil is an Angel Too
Janiva Magness
Name the Day!
John Nemeth
Still the Rain
Karen Lovely
Have Blues Will Travel
Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King
Contemporary Blues Female Artist
Candye Kane
Janiva Magness
Karen Lovely
Robin Rogers
Shemekia Copeland
Contemporary Blues Male Artist
Buddy Guy
Joe Louis Walker
John Nemeth
Kenny Neal
Nick Moss
DVD
Black Hen / Transgrease
The Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Concert
Various Artists
Delmark
Live at Rooster’s Place
Tail Dragger
NorthernBlues Music
Live at Ground Zero Blues Club
Watermelon Slim & the Workers
Ruf
Songs from the Road
Luther Allison (SACEM)
Historical
Black Derby
Chicago Blues Buddies
Little Smokey Smothers
Delmark
Jimmy Dawkins Presents the Leric Story
Various Artists
Delmark
Live in Boston 1966
Junior Wells & the Aces
Delta Groove
Harmonica Blues
Bob Corritore & Friends
Ruf
Songs from the Road
Luther Allison (SACEM)
Instrumentalist-Bass
Bill Stuve
Bob Stroger
Larry Taylor
Steve Gomes
Instrumentalist-Guitar
Derek Trucks
Duke Robillard
Joe Louis Walker
Ronnie Earl
Instrumentalist-Harmonica
Bob Corritore
Kim Wilson
Charlie Musselwhite
Paul Oscher
Instrumentalist-Horn
Big James Montgomery
Doug James
Eddie Shaw
Keith Crossan
Terry Hanck
Instrumentalist-Other
Gerry Hundt (mandolin)
Johnny Sansone (accordion)
Otis Taylor (banjo)
Rich Del Grosso (mandolin)
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
David Maxwell
Dr. John
Henry Butler
Mitch Woods
Rock Blues Album
Roadsongs
Derek Trucks
Live In Chicago
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Privileged
Nick Moss
Song
“Living Proof”
Co-written by Buddy Guy
Living Proof by Buddy Guy
“Sad and Beautiful World”
Written by Charlie Musselwhite
The Well by Charlie Musselwhite
“Please Mr. President”
Co-written by Bruce Iglauer
Bare Knuckle by Guitar Shorty
“Still the Rain”
Written by Dennis Walker
Still the Rain by Karen Lovely
“Rained All Night”
Written by Steve Gomes
Back in Style by Tad Robinson
Soul Blues Album
Stomp the Floor
Arthur Adams
24 Hour Woman
Denise LaSalle
Live In San Antonio
Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges
Nothing’s Impossible
Solomon Burke
Back in Style
Tad Robinson
Feed My Soul
The Holmes Brothers
Soul Blues Female Artist
Denise LaSalle
Irma Thomas
Sista Monica Parker
Soul Blues Male Artist
Bobby Rush
Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges
Solomon Burke
Tad Robinson
Traditional Blues Album
The Well
Charlie Musselwhite
Passport to the Blues
Duke Robillard
Joined at the Hip
Pinetop Perkins and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith
Shake for Me
The Mannish Boys
Koko Taylor Award-Traditional Blues Female
Reba Russell
Ruthie Foster
Teeny Tucker
Zora Young
Traditional Blues Male Artist
Alabama Mike
Charlie Musselwhite
Magic Slim
Super Chikan
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