Blues Music Awards winners announced 2022

Winners have been announced for the 2022 Blues Music Awards, which are voted on by the Blues Foundation. 

Tommy Castro was the big winner of the evening earning three BMA’s including “Album of the Year,” “B.B. King Entertainer of the Year,” and “Band of the Year.”

Fresh off his Grammy win, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram captured “Contemporary Blues Album” and “Contemporary Blues Male Artist.”

 In the Blues Rock categories, Mike Zito wins “Blues Rock Album” with Resurrection and Albert Castiglia earned “Blues Rock Artist.”

See the full list of winners below.

Acoustic Blues Album
Dear America, Eric Bibb

Acoustic Blues Artist
Keb’ Mo’

Album of the Year

Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came to Town, Tommy Castro

B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Tommy Castro

Band of the Year
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers

Best Emerging Artist Album
Live on Beale Street: A Tribute to Bobby “Blue” Bland,
Rodd Bland & the Members Only Band

Blues Rock Album

Resurrection, Mike Zito

Blues Rock Artist
Albert Castiglia

Contemporary Blues Album
662, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Contemporary Blues Female Artist
Vanessa Collier

Contemporary Blues Male Artist

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Instrumentalist-Bass
Danielle Nicole

Instrumentalist-Drums
Tom Hambridge

Instrumentalist-Guitar
Eric Gales

Instrumentalist-Harmonica

Jason Ricci

Instrumentalist-Horn
Jimmy Carpenter

Instrumentalist Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
Mike Finnigan

Instrumentalist-Vocals
John Nemeth

Song of the Year

“I’d Climb Mountains,” written & performed by Selwyn Birchwood

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

Soul Blues Female Artist
Annika Chambers

Soul Blues Male Artist
Curtis Salgado

Traditional Blues Album

Pinky’s Blues, Sue Foley

Traditional Blues Female Artist Koko Taylor Award
Sue Foley

Traditional Blues Male Artist
Taj Mahal

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