Acoustic Album: Blues Rock Album: A Woman's Soul, Rory Block The Big Bad Blues, Billy F Gibbons Black Cowboys, Dom Flemons High Desert Heat, Too Slim and the Taildraggers Global Griot, Eric Bibb Live At The '62 Center, Albert Cummings Journeys To The Heart Of The Blues, Joe Louis Walker/Bruce Poor Until Payday, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Katz/Giles Robson Winning Hand, Tinsley Ellis Wish The World Away, Ben Rice Blues Rock Artist: Acoustic Artist: Billy F Gibbons Ben Rice Eric Gales Guy Davis J.P. Soars Hadden Sayers Kenny Wayne Shepherd Harrison Kennedy Tinsley Ellis Rory Block Contemporary Blues Album: Album of the Year: America's Child, Shemekia Copeland America's Child, Shemekia Copeland Belle Of The West, Samantha Fish The High Cost Of Low Living, The Nick Moss Band Featuring Chicago Plays The Stones, The Living History Band Dennis Gruenling Hold On, Kirk Fletcher Journeys To The Heart Of The Blues, Joe Louis Walker/Bruce Wild Again, The Proven Ones Katz/Giles Robson Rough Cut, Curtis Salgado and Alan Hager Contemporary Blues Female Artist: Why Did You Have To Go, Anthony Geraci Beth Hart Danielle Nicole B.B. King Entertainer: Samantha Fish Beth Hart Shemekia Copeland Bobby Rush Vanessa Collier Lil' Ed Williams Michael Ledbetter Contemporary Blues Male Artist: Sugaray Rayford Kenny Neal Rick Estrin Band of the Year: Ronnie Baker Brooks Anthony Geraci & The Boston Blues All-Stars Selwyn Birchwood Larkin Poe Toronzo Cannon Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials Nick Moss Band Instrumentalist – Bass: Welch-Ledbetter Connection Danielle Nicole Michael "Mudcat" Ward Best Emerging Artist Album: Patrick Rynn Burn Me Alive, Heather Newman Scot Sutherland Free, Amanda Fish Willie J. Campbell Heartland And Soul, Kevin Burt Tough As Love, Lindsay Beaver Instrumentalist – Drums: Wish The World Away, Ben Rice Cedric Burnside Jimi Bott June Core Tom Hambridge Tony Braunagel Instrumentalist – Guitar: Soul Blues Album: Anson Funderburgh Back In Business, Frank Bey Christoffer "Kid" Andersen Every Soul's A Star, Dave Keller Laura Chavez I'm Still Around, Johnny Rawls Monster Mike Welch Love Makes A Woman, The Knickerbocker All-Stars Ronnie Earl Reckoning, Billy Price Instrumentalist – Harmonica: Soul Blues Female Artist: Billy Branch Annika Chambers Bob Corritore Barbara Blue Dennis Gruenling Candi Staton Kim Wilson Thornetta Davis Mark Hummel Whitney Shay Instrumentalist – Horn: Soul Blues Male Artist: Doug James Frank Bey Jimmy Carpenter Johnny Rawls Mark “Kaz” Kazanoff Sugaray Rayford Mindi Abair Wee Willie Walker Nancy Wright William Bell Vanessa Collier Traditional Blues Album: Pinetop Perkins Piano Player (Instrumentalist – Piano): The Blues Is Alive And Well, Buddy Guy Anthony Geraci The High Cost of Low Living, Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Bruce Katz Gruenling Jim Pugh The Luckiest Man, Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters Marcia Ball Tribute to Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell & the Bell Dynasty Mike Finnigan Why Did You Have To Go, Anthony Geraci Instrumentalist – Vocals: Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female Artist): Beth Hart Fiona Boyes Danielle Nicole Lindsay Beaver Janiva Magness Ruthie Foster Michael Ledbetter Sue Foley Shemekia Copeland Trudy Lynn Song of the Year: Traditional Blues Male Artist: “Ain't Got Time For Hate,” written by John Hahn and Will Anthony Geraci Kimbrough Cedric Burnside “Angelina, Angelina,” written by Anthony Geraci James Harman “Cognac,” written by Buddy Guy, Tom Hambridge, Richard Lurrie Bell Fleming Nick Moss “No Mercy In This Land,” written by Ben Harper “The Ice Queen,” written by Sue Foley .