Double Awards For Buddy Guy, Walter Trout & More

The 37th annual Blues Awards in Memphis, Tennessee on Thursday (5) brought double victories for Buddy Guy, Walter Trout and others, and posthumous awards for Allen Toussaint and Otis Clay.
Clay, who died in January, was named Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year, with Bettye LaVette winning the female category; Toussaint, who passed away last November, was honoured with the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player award. Clay’s project with Billy Price, This Time for Real, was Soul Blues Album of the Year. Other winners included Joe Louis Walker as Contemporary Blues Male Artist and Shemekia Copeland in the equivalent female category.
The night before the awards saw John Mayall, Elvin Bishop, the Memphis Jug Band, Eddy Clearwater and Jimmy Johnson receive their previously-announced inductions into the Blues Hall of Fame.


Jeff Kearns
May 9, 2016 at 6:46 pm
The Blues Foundation is a joke… They do nothing for NOBODY in the Blues but hemselves. AND the IBCS is a joke .
rondonna
May 10, 2016 at 2:20 am
I get the blues just reading this