2025 Blues Music Awards nominees announced

2025 Blues Music Awards nominees announced The Blues Foundation has announced nominees for the 2025 Blues Music Awards. The 2025 BMAs will be held in Memphis, Tennessee on May 5th. The Blues Music Awards are voted on by members of the Blues Foundation. Here are the nominees:......

Alligator Records Artists Receive 27 Blues Music Award Nominations

Alligator Records Artists Receive 27 Blues Music Award Nominations  On Friday, January 24, 2025, the Blues Foundation announced the nominees for the 46th Annual Blues Music Awards. Alligator Records artists received an astounding 27 nominations. Leading all artists with six nominations is Rick Estrin & The Nightcats. Nominations include the coveted awards for Band Of The Year, Album Of The Year (for The Hits Keep Coming) and, for Estrin, the B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year. Guitarist Christoffer "Kid" Andersen and drummer Derrick "D'Mar" Martin received individual nominations......

Jovin Webb & Sonny Gullage Receive Blues Music Award Nominations

  

The Blues Foundation on Friday announced the nominees for the 46th Annual Blues Music Awards. This year, two Blind Pig artists received first-time nominations in the category of Best Emerging Artist Album......

Sue Foley - Nomination for “Best Traditional Blues Album"

SUE FOLEY RECEIVES GRAMMY® AWARD NOMINATIONSUE FOLEY RECEIVES GRAMMY® AWARD NOMINATION The Recording Academy has announced the 2025 GRAMMY® Award nominees, with Sue Foley receiving a nomination for “Best Traditional Blues Album” for her acclaimed solo acoustic album ONE GUITAR WOMAN, on Stony Plain Records. For this album Sue set aside “Pinky”, her trademark Telecaster, and with her expressive voice and a single nylon-stringed Flamenco guitar, created twelve tracks that pay homage to the female pioneers of guitar who have been her guiding lights and lit the way for her musical journey......

Mitch Woods - Happy Hour

Artiest/Band: Mitch Woods Album: Happy Hour Release 06.09.2024 Label: MoMojo Records Run Time: 49:11 mins On September 6th, MoMojo Records will release Happy Hour, the new album from five-time Blues Music Award nominee Mitch Woods.  The new disc features a baker’s dozen 13 tracks from the San Francisco Bay Area-based Woods, backed by his long-time band, The Rocket 88s.

BLUES BLAST MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS

TEN ALLIGATOR ARTISTS RECEIVE 21 BLUES BLAST MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS

The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, The Cash Box Kings And Southern Avenue All Nominated For Band Of The Year

The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling Leads All Artists
With Five Nominations

Rick Estrin & The Nightcats (4), Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (3), The Cash Box Kings (2) And Tinsley Ellis (2) All Receive Multiple Nominations.

Coco Montoya, Selwyn Birchwood, Billy Branch, Chris O'Leary, Dennis Gruenling and Rodrigo Mantovani (from The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling), Derrick D'Mar Martin And Christoffer "Kid" Andersen (from Rick Estrin & The Nightcats) And Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith (from The Cash Box Kings) Each Receive One Nomination

Alligator Artists Receive 27 Blues Music Award Nominations

Alligator Artists Receive 27  The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling Leads All Artists With Seven Nominations, Followed By Christone "Kingfish" Ingram With Five Selwyn Birchwood Receives Four Nominations The Cash Box Kings And Billy Branch Each Receive Two Nominations Shemekia Copeland, Coco Montoya, Lil' Ed Williams, Carolyn Wonderland, Chris Cain, and Christoffer "Kid" Andersen and Derrick D'Mar Martin (both of Rick Estrin And The Nightcats) Each Receive One Nomination