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.

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

right|thumb|upright|[[Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was the first recipient of the award.]]

right|thumb|upright|Ten-time winner [[B.B. King.]]

right|thumb|upright|Three-time winner [[John Lee Hooker.]]

right|thumb|upright|Two-time winner [[Eric Clapton.]]

right|thumb|upright|2005 winner [[Etta James.]]

right|thumb|upright|Three-time winner [[Bobby Rush (musician)|Bobby Rush.]]

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! width="7%" | Year

! width="25%" | Performing artist(s)

! width="25%" | Work

! width="35%" class=unsortable|Nominees

! width="5%" class=unsortable|Ref.

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1983

| Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

| Alright Again

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1984

| B.B. King

| Blues 'N' Jazz

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| 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

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1986

| B.B. King

| "My Guitar Sings the Blues"

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1987

| Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland

| Showdown!

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1988

| Professor Longhair

| Houseparty New Orleans Style

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1989

| Willie Dixon

| Hidden Charms

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1990

| John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt

| "I'm in the Mood"

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1991

| B.B. King

| Live at San Quentin

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1992

| B.B. King

| Live at the Apollo

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1993

| Dr. John

| Goin' Back to New Orleans

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1994

| B.B. King

| Blues Summit

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1995

| Eric Clapton

| From the Cradle

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1996

| John Lee Hooker

| Chill Out

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1997

| James Cotton

| Deep in the Blues

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1998

| John Lee Hooker

| Don't Look Back

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1999

| Otis Rush

| Any Place I'm Going

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2000

| B.B. King

| Blues on the Bayou

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2001

| B.B. King & Eric Clapton

| Riding with the King

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2002

| Jimmie Vaughan

| Do You Get the Blues?

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2003

| B.B. King

| A Christmas Celebration of Hope

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2004

| Buddy Guy

| Blues Singer

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2005

| Etta James

| Blues to the Bone

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2006

| B.B. King & Friends

| B.B. King & Friends: 80

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2007

| Ike Turner

| Risin' with the Blues

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2008

| Henry James Townsend, Pinetop Perkins, Robert Lockwood Jr. & David "Honeyboy" Edwards

| Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2009

| B.B. King

| One Kind Favor

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2010

| Ramblin' Jack Elliott

| A Stranger Here

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2011

| Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

| Joined at the Hip

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2017

| Bobby Rush

| Porcupine Meat

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2018

| The Rolling Stones

| Blue & Lonesome

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2019

| Buddy Guy

| The Blues Is Alive and Well

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2020

| Delbert McClinton & the Self-Made Men + Dana

| Tall, Dark and Handsome

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2021

| Bobby Rush

| Rawer than Raw

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2022

|Cedric Burnside

|I Be Trying

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2023

| Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder

| Get On Board

!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

!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

!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

References

Sources

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