Alligator Records reports that 9 of their artists have received a total of 17 Blues Music Awards (formerly the W.C. Handy Awards) nominations.
The full list of nominees, courtesy of the Blues Foundation, is as follows:
Acoustic Album of the Year
A Ship Called Love - Eric Bibb
Birthright - James Blood Ulmer
Down In The Delta - Paul Oscher
In Your Arms Again - John Hammond
Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul - Maria Muldaur
Acoustic Artist of the Year
Corey Harris
Doug MacLeod
Eric Bibb
Paul Oscher
Rory Block
Album of the Year
About Them Shoes - Hubert Sumlin
Anything Can Happen - Magic Slim & the Teardrops
Sadie Mae - Nick Moss & the Flip Tops
That Represent Man - The Mannish Boys
Think of Me - Little Milton
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Bobby Rush
Buddy Guy
Little Milton
Magic Slim
Marcia Ball *
Band of the Year
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Holmes Brothers *
Little Charlie & the Nightcats *
Magic Slim and the Teardrops
Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers
Best New Artist Debut
Billy Gibson - The Billy Gibson Band
Duwayne Burnside - Under Pressure
Eddie Turner - Rise
Mitch Kashmar - Nickels and Dimes
Zac Harmon - The Blues According to Zacariah
Comeback Album of the Year
Better To Have It - Bobby Purify
Black Coffee - Al Kooper
Club Caravan - Big George Brock
Flash Forward - The Siegel-Schwall Band *
Soul Sanctuary - Hollywood Blue Flames
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
Fever For The Bayou - Tab Benoit
Gettin' My Groove Back - Elvin Bishop
Live! Down The Road - Marcia Ball *
Soul Shaker - Tommy Castro
The Soul Truth - Shemekia Copeland *
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
Debbie Davies
Janiva Magness
Marcia Ball *
Shemekia Copeland *
Susan Tedeschi
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
Alvin Youngblood Hart
Kim Wilson
Sonny Landreth
Tab Benoit
Tommy Castro
Historical Album of the Year
Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Recordings, Volume 2, 1952-1958 - Muddy Waters, (Chess/Hip-O Select)
Stompin' At Mother Blues - J.B. Hutto, (Delmark Records)
Strictly Live... in '85 Plus - James Harman, (Pacific Blues)
The Essential Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal, (Legacy Recordings)
The Great Johnny Adams Blues Album - Johnny Adams, (Rounder Records)
Instrumentalist-Bass
Bill Stuve
Bob Stroger
Larry Taylor
Michael "Mudcat" Ward
Mookie Brill
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