Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album was awarded from 1983 to 2011 and from 2017 onwards. Until 1992 the award was known as Best Traditional Blues Performance and was twice awarded to individual tracks rather than albums.

The award was discontinued after the 2011 Grammy season in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012 onwards, the category was merged with the Best Contemporary Blues Album category to form the new Best Blues Album category. However, in 2016 the Grammy organisation decided to revert the situation back to the pre-2012 era, with two separate categories for traditional and contemporary blues recordings respectively.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year. B.B. King holds the record of most wins in the category with ten.

Recipients

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was the first recipient of the award.

Ten-time winner B.B. King.

Three-time winner John Lee Hooker.

Two-time winner Eric Clapton.

2005 winner Etta James.

Three-time winner Bobby Rush.

YearTemplate:Ref	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1983	Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown	Alright Again	Template:Smalldiv
1984	B.B. King	Blues 'N' Jazz	Template:Smalldiv
1985	John P. Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson & J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks	Blues Explosion	Template:Smalldiv
1986	B.B. King	"My Guitar Sings the Blues"	Template:Smalldiv
1987	Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland	Showdown!	Template:Smalldiv
1988	Professor Longhair	Houseparty New Orleans Style	Template:Smalldiv
1989	Willie Dixon	Hidden Charms	Template:Smalldiv
1990	John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt	"I'm in the Mood"	Template:Smalldiv
1991	B.B. King	Live at San Quentin	Template:Smalldiv
1992	B.B. King	Live at the Apollo	Template:Smalldiv
1993	Dr. John	Goin' Back to New Orleans	Template:Smalldiv
1994	B.B. King	Blues Summit	Template:Smalldiv
1995	Eric Clapton	From the Cradle	Template:Smalldiv
1996	John Lee Hooker	Chill Out	Template:Smalldiv
1997	James Cotton	Deep in the Blues	Template:Smalldiv
1998	John Lee Hooker	Don't Look Back	Template:Smalldiv
1999	Otis Rush	Any Place I'm Going	Template:Smalldiv
2000	B.B. King	Blues on the Bayou	Template:Smalldiv
2001	B.B. King & Eric Clapton	Riding with the King	Template:Smalldiv
2002	Jimmie Vaughan	Do You Get the Blues?	Template:Smalldiv
2003	B.B. King	A Christmas Celebration of Hope	Template:Smalldiv
2004	Buddy Guy	Blues Singer	Template:Smalldiv
2005	Etta James	Blues to the Bone	Template:Smalldiv
2006	B.B. King & Friends	B.B. King & Friends: 80	Template:Smalldiv
2007	Ike Turner	Risin' with the Blues	Template:Smalldiv
2008	Henry James Townsend, Pinetop Perkins, Robert Lockwood Jr. & David "Honeyboy" Edwards	Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas	Template:Smalldiv
2009	B.B. King	One Kind Favor	Template:Smalldiv
2010	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	A Stranger Here	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2011	Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith	Joined at the Hip	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2017	Bobby Rush	Porcupine Meat	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2018	The Rolling Stones	Blue & Lonesome	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
2019	Buddy Guy	The Blues Is Alive and Well	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2020	Delbert McClinton & the Self-Made Men + Dana	Tall, Dark and Handsome	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2021	Bobby Rush	Rawer than Raw	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2022	Cedric Burnside	I Be Trying	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023	Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder	Get On Board	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024	Bobby Rush	All My Love for You	Eric Bibb - Ridin' Mr Sipp - The Soul Side of Sipp Tracy Nelson - Life Don't Miss Nobody John Primer - Teardrops For Magic Slim Live at Rosa's Lounge	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2025	The Taj Mahal Sextet	Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa	Cedric Burnside - Hill Country Love The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down Sue Foley - One Guitar Woman Little Feat - Sam's Place	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2026	Winner TBA on 1 February 2026		Buddy Guy - Ain't Done With The Blues Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' - Room on the Porch Maria Muldaur - One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey Charlie Musselwhite - Look Out Highway Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Bobby Rush - Young Fashioned Ways	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Sources

• Grammy Awards – Past Winners SearchTemplate:SpacesAs noted in this article: search years are offset by one year.