The 33rd Blues Music Awards were given out at a star-studded ceremony in Memphis last week. Big winners included Tab Benoit and the Tedeschi Trucks band, with Tab Benoit winning three awards and Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks receiving four awards between them.
Charlie Musselwhite and Ruthie Foster also had a successful evening, winning two awards each.
See below for the winners in each category.
Acoustic Album: Conversations in Blue – David Maxwell & Otis Spann
Acoustic Artist: Eric Bibb
Album: Revelator – Tedeschi Trucks Band
B.B. King Entertainer: Tab Benoit
Band: Tedeschi Trucks Band
Best New Artist Debut: Runaway – Samantha Fish
Contemporary Blues Album: Medicine – Tab Benoit
Contemporary Blues Female Artist: Susan Tedeschi
Contemporary Blues Male Artist: Tab Benoit
DVD: Live at Antone’s – Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)
Gibson Guitar Award: Derek Trucks
Historical Album: Chess Records – Smokestack Lightning/The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960 (Howlin’ Wolf)
Instrumentalist-Bass: Biscuit Miller
Instrumentalist-Drums: Chris Layton
Instrumentalist-Harmonica: Charlie Musselwhite
Instrumentalist-Horn: Terry Hanck
Instrumentalist-Other: Sonny Rhodes, lap steel guitar
Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female): Ruthie Foster
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player: Marcia Ball
Rock Blues Album: Dust Bowl – Joe Bonamassa
Song: “The Lord is Waiting, the Devil is Too” – Johnny Sansone
Soul Blues Album: Show You a Good Time – Bobby Rush
Soul Blues Female Artist: Denise LaSalle
Soul Blues Male Artist: Curtis Salgado
Traditional Blues Album: Chicago Blues: A Living History – the (R)evolution Continues – Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell, Carlos Johnson
Traditional Blues Male Artist: Charlie Musselwhite
Blues Music Awards 2012. Photo: Joe Dempsey.
