Os indicados para o 37th Blues Music Awards

            

O Blues Music Awards é a maior premiação para o gênero do blues. A 37ª edição do prêmio será realizada no dia 5 de maio de 2016, em Memphis, Tenneesee. Preparando o terreno para o evento, The Blues Foundation, organização internacional que se encarrega do Blues Music Awards, divulgou no último dia 15 os indicados para a premiação anual. Na lista figuram vários artistas e bandas que já entraram na lista de melhores de 2015 e outros que ainda irei reservar um tempo para conferir.

Os destaques do 37º Blues Music Awards são Buddy Guy, claro, com o lançamento de Born To Play Guitar, que concorre pelo melhor álbum do ano e melhor álbum de blues contemporâneo, junto com Outskirts of Love, de Shemekia Copeland. O Brasil está presente no Blues Music Awards com o disco Way Down South, de Igor Prado Band, na categoria de álbum revelação. Concorrendo com ele estão Mr. Sipp, Eddie Cotton e outros. A categoria de melhor álbum de rock blues está bastante disputada, com Joe Bonamassa, Joe Louis Walker, Tinsey Ellis e Walter Trout disputando o prêmio. No Soul Blues, o destaque vai para Jackie Payne, com seu ótimo álbum I Saw The Blues. A escolha do Filho do Blues para cada categoria está em itálico. 

Segue a lista completa dos indicados para o 37º Blues Music Awards:

37th Blues Music Award Nominees

Acoustic Album

Doug MacLeod – Exactly Like This

Duke Robillard – The Acoustic Blues & Roots of Duke Robillard

Eric Bibb – Blues People

Guy Davis – Kokomo Kidd

The Ragpicker String Band – The Ragpicker String Band

Acoustic Artist

Doug MacLeod

Eric Bibb

Gaye Adegbalola

Guy Davis

Ian Siegal

Album

Anthony Geraci & the Boston Blues All-Stars – Fifty Shades of Blue

Buddy Guy – Born to Play Guitar

James Harman – Bonetime

The Cash Box Kings – Holding Court                 

Wee Willie Walker – If Nothing Ever Changes

Band

Andy T – Nick Nixon Band

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats

Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

The Cash Box Kings

Victor Wainwright & the Wild Roots

B.B. King Entertainer

John Németh

Rick Estrin

Shemekia Copeland

Sugaray Rayford

Victor Wainwright

Best New Artist Album

Eddie Cotton – One at a Time

Igor Prado Band – Way Down South

Mighty Mike Schermer – Blues in Good Hands

Mr. Sipp – The Mississippi Blues Child

Slam Allen – Feel These Blues

Contemporary Blues Album

Buddy Guy – Born to Play Guitar

Eugene Hideaway Bridges – Hold on a Little Bit Longer

Shemekia Copeland – Outskirts of Love

Sonny Landreth – Bound by the Blues

Sugaray Rayford – Southside

Contemporary Blues Female Artist

Beth Hart

Karen Lovely

Nikki Hill

Samantha Fish

Shemekia Copeland

Contemporary Blues Male Artist

Brandon Santini

Eugene Hideaway Bridges

Jarekus Singleton

Joe Louis Walker

Sugaray Rayford

Historical Album 

The Henry Gray/Bob Corritore Sessions, Vol. 1, Blues Won’t Let Me Take My Rest on Delta Groove Records

Hawk Squat by J. B. Hutto & His Hawks on Delmark Records

Southside Blues Jam by Junior Wells on Delmark Records

Buzzin’ the Blues by Slim Harpo on Bear Family Records

Dynamite! The Unsung King of the Blues by Tampa Red on Ace Records

Instrumentalist-Bass

Charlie Wooton

Lisa Mann

Michael “Mudcat” Ward

Patrick Rynn

Willie J. Campbell

Instrumentalist-Drums

Cedric Burnside

Jimi Bott

June Core

Tom Hambridge

Tony Braunagel

Instrumentalist-Guitar

Anson Funderburgh

Kid Andersen

Monster Mike Welch

Ronnie Earl

Sonny Landreth

Instrumentalist-Harmonica

Billy Branch

Brandon Santini

James Harman

Jason Ricci

Kim Wilson

Instrumentalist-Horn

Al Basile

Doug James

Kaz Kazanoff

Sax Gordon

Terry Hanck

Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)

Diunna Greenleaf

Fiona Boyes

Ruthie Foster

Trudy Lynn

Zora Young

Pinetop Perkins Piano Player

Allen Toussaint

Anthony Geraci

Barrelhouse Chuck

John Ginty

Victor Wainwright

Rock Blues Album of the Year

Joe Bonamassa – Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks

Joe Louis Walker – Everybody Wants a Piece

Royal Southern Brotherhood – Don’t Look Back

Tinsley Ellis – Tough Love

Walter Trout – Battle Scars

Song

“Bad Feet/Bad Hair” written and performed by James Harman

“Fifty Shades of Blue” written by Anthony Geraci and performed by Anthony Geraci & the Boston Blues All-Stars

“Gonna Live Again” written and performed by Walter Trout

“Southside of Town” written by Sugaray Rayford and & Ralph Carter and performed by Sugaray Rayford

“You Got It Good (and That Ain’t Bad)” written and performed by Doug MacLeod

Soul Blues Album

Bey Paule Band – Not Goin’ Away

Billy Price & Otis Clay – This Time for Real

Jackie Payne – I Saw the Blues

Tad Robinson – Day into Night

Wee Willie Walker – If Nothing Ever Changes

Soul Blues Female Artist

Bettye LaVette

Dorothy Moore

Missy Anderson

Toni Lynn Washington

Vaneese Thomas

Soul Blues Male Artist

Frank Bey

Jackie Payne

Johnny Rawls

Otis Clay

Wee Willie Walker

Traditional Blues Album

Andy T – Nick Nixon Band – Numbers Man

Anthony Geraci & the Boston Blues All-Stars – Fifty Shades of Blue

Cedric Burnside Project – Descendants of Hill Country

James Harman – Bonetime

The Cash Box Kings – Holding Court

Traditional Blues Male Artist

Cedric Burnside

Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin

James Harman

Jimmy Burns

John Primer