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Blues Music Award

Index Blues Music Award

The Blues Music Awards are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up to foster blues heritage. [1]

98 relations: Allen Toussaint, Award, Beth Hart, Bettye LaVette, Billy Boy Arnold, Billy Price (singer), Biscuit Miller, Blues, Blues Foundation, BLUESAmericana, Bob Corritore, Bob Margolin, Bob Stroger, Bobby Rush (musician), Born to Play Guitar, Bryan Lee, Buddy Guy, Can't Shake This Feeling, Cedric Burnside, Charlie Musselwhite, Curtis Salgado, Deanna Bogart, Derek Trucks, Diunna Greenleaf, Doug MacLeod (musician), Dr. John, Duke Robillard, Eddie Shaw, Elvin Bishop, Eric Bibb, Gary Clark Jr., Hubert Sumlin, Irma Thomas, James Cotton, James Harman, Janiva Magness, Jason Ricci, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Louis Walker, John Németh, John P. Hammond, John Primer, Johnny Winter, Keb' Mo', Kenny Neal, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Kim Wilson, Lap steel guitar, Let Me Get By, Lisa Mann, ..., Living Proof (Buddy Guy album), Lurrie Bell, Luther Allison, Marcia Ball, Mark Hummel, Matt Hill (musician), Mavis Staples, Memphis, Tennessee, Mike Zito, Mud Morganfield, Nonprofit organization, OffBeat (music magazine), Otis Clay, Pinetop Perkins, Porcupine Meat, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Robert Cray, Ronnie Earl, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Ruthie Foster, Samantha Fish, Selwyn Birchwood, Shawn Holt & the Teardrops, Shemekia Copeland, Sista Monica Parker, Slim Harpo, Solomon Burke, Sonny Landreth, Sonny Rhodes, Southern Avenue (band), Step Back (album), Sugar Ray Norcia, Susan Tedeschi, Taj Mahal (musician), Tedeschi Trucks Band, Terry Hanck, The "5" Royales, The Derek Trucks Band, The Nighthawks, Tom Hambridge, Tony Braunagel, Trampled Under Foot (band), Trombone Shorty, Tunica, Mississippi, Victor Wainwright, W. C. Handy, Walter Trout, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith. Expand index (48 more) »

Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint (January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, who was an influential figure in New Orleans R&B from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music’s great backroom figures."Richard Williams,, The Guardian, November 11, 2015.

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Award

An award is something given to a person, a group of people, like a sports team, or an organization in recognition of their excellence in a certain field.

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Beth Hart

Beth Hart (born January 24, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter and musician from Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Bettye LaVette

Bettye LaVette (born Betty Jo Haskins, January 29, 1946) is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album I've Got My Own Hell to Raise.

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Billy Boy Arnold

William "Billy Boy" Arnold (born September 16, 1935, Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Billy Price (singer)

Billy Price is the stage name of the American soul singer.

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Biscuit Miller

David Leon "Biscuit" Miller (born December 30, 1961) is an American electric blues bassist, singer and songwriter.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues Foundation

The Blues Foundation is an American nonprofit corporation, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, that is affiliated with more than 175 blues organizations from various parts of the world.

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BLUESAmericana

BLUESAmericana is the twelfth studio album by Keb' Mo'.

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Bob Corritore

Bob Corritore (born September 27, 1956) is an American electric blues harmonicist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Bob Margolin

Bob Margolin (born May 9, 1949) is an American electric blues guitarist.

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Bob Stroger

Bob Stroger (born December 27, 1930) is an American electric blues bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Bobby Rush (musician)

Bobby Rush (born November 10, 1933) is a Grammy Award Winning American blues musician, composer and singer.

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Born to Play Guitar

Born to Play Guitar is the 17th studio album by American blues musician Buddy Guy, released in 2015.

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Bryan Lee

Bryan Lee (born March 16, 1943, Two Rivers, Wisconsin) is an American blues guitarist and singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Buddy Guy

George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Can't Shake This Feeling

Can't Shake This Feeling is an album by Lurrie Bell.

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Cedric Burnside

Cedric O. Burnside (born August 26, 1978)Jefferson interview.

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Charlie Musselwhite

Charles Douglas "Charlie" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat.

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Curtis Salgado

Curtis Salgado (born February 4, 1954 in Everett, Washington, United States) is an American from Portland, Oregon, based blues, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter.

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Deanna Bogart

Deanna Bogart (born September 5, 1959, Detroit, MI., United States) is an American blues singer, pianist, and saxophone player.

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Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of the Grammy Award-winningThe Derek Trucks Band.

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Diunna Greenleaf

Diunna Greenleaf (born October 6, 1957) is an African American blues singer and songwriter.

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Doug MacLeod (musician)

Doug MacLeod (born April 21, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American storytelling blues musician.

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Dr. John

Malcolm John Rebennack (born November 21, 1940), better known by his stage name Dr.

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Duke Robillard

Michael John "Duke" Robillard (born October 4, 1948) is an American guitarist and singer.

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Eddie Shaw

Eddie Shaw (March 20, 1937 – January 29, 2018) was an American Chicago blues tenor saxophonist, arranger and bandleader.

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Elvin Bishop

Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter.

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Eric Bibb

Eric Charles Bibb (born August 16, 1951) is an American-born blues singer and songwriter.

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Gary Clark Jr.

Gary Clark Jr. (born February 15, 1984) is an American musician from Austin, Texas.

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Hubert Sumlin

Hubert Charles Sumlin (November 16, 1931 – December 4, 2011) was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf's band.

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Irma Thomas

Irma Thomas (born February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana, United States) is an American singer from New Orleans.

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James Cotton

James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time and with his own band.

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James Harman

James Harman (born June 8, 1946, in Anniston, Alabama) is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.

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Janiva Magness

Janiva Magness (born January 30, 1957) is a Grammy Award nominated American blues, soul and Americana soul singer and songwriter.

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Jason Ricci

Jason Ricci (born February 3, 1974) is an American harmonica player and singer.

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Joe Bonamassa

Joe Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Joe Louis Walker

Joe Louis Walker, also known as JLW (born December 25, 1949) is an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer.

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John Németh

John Németh (born March 10, 1975) is an American electric blues and soul harmonicist, singer, and songwriter.

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John P. Hammond

John Paul Hammond (born November 13, 1942, New York City) is an American singer and musician.

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John Primer

John Primer (born March 5, 1945, Camden, Mississippi, United States) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and guitarist.

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Johnny Winter

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Keb' Mo'

Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and four-time Grammy Award winner.

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Kenny Neal

Kenny Neal (born October 14, 1957 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States), son of Raful Neal, is an American blues guitar player, singer and band member.

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Kim Wilson

Kim Wilson (born January 6, 1951) is an American blues singer and harmonica player.

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Lap steel guitar

The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar which is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position on the performer’s lap or otherwise supported.

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Let Me Get By

Let Me Get By is the third studio album from blues-rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band, released in 2016.

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Lisa Mann

Lisa Mann is an American electric blues bassist, songwriter and singer.

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Living Proof (Buddy Guy album)

Living Proof is Buddy Guy's 15th studio album.

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Lurrie Bell

Lurrie Bell (born Lurrie C. Bell, December 13, 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Luther Allison

Luther Allison (August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997) was an American blues guitarist.

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Marcia Ball

Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas) is an American blues singer and pianist raised in Vinton, Louisiana.

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Mark Hummel

Mark Hummel (born December 15, 1955, New Haven, Connecticut) is a Grammy nominated Blues Music Award winning American blues harmonica player, vocalist, songwriter, and long-time bandleader of The Blues Survivors.

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Matt Hill (musician)

Matt Hill (born June 17, 1985) is an American electric blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Mike Zito

Mike Zito (born November 19, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, producer, and songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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Mud Morganfield

Larry "Mud" Morganfield (born Sept. 27, 1954) is an American blues singer and the eldest son of Muddy Waters.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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OffBeat (music magazine)

OffBeat is a monthly music magazine in New Orleans, Louisiana, first published in 1987.

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Otis Clay

Otis Lee Clay (February 11, 1942 – January 8, 2016) was an American R&B and soul singer, who started in gospel music.

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Pinetop Perkins

Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist.

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Porcupine Meat

Porcupine Meat is an album by blues musician Bobby Rush.

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Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats are an American four-piece electric blues band (formed in 2008 after the dissolution of Little Charlie & The Nightcats, of which three of the band were members), and consisting of harmonicist/lead vocalist and songwriter Rick Estrin, guitarist Kid Andersen, bassist Lorenzo Farrell and drummer Alexander Pettersen.

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Robert Cray

Robert William Cray (born August 1, 1953) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Ronnie Earl

Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath, March 10, 1953, Queens, New York, United States) is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.

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Royal Southern Brotherhood

Royal Southern Brotherhood is an American blues and blues rock supergroup, consisting of singer and percussionist Cyril Neville, vocalist and guitarist Devon Allman, vocalist and guitarist Mike Zito, drummer Yonrico Scott, and bassist Charlie Wooton.

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Ruthie Foster

Ruthie Cecelia Foster (born February 10, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music.

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Samantha Fish

Samantha Fish is an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Selwyn Birchwood

Selwyn Birchwood (born March 9, 1985) is an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from Tampa, Florida.

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Shawn Holt & the Teardrops

Shawn Holt & the Teardrops are an American blues band, which formed in 2013 following the death of the outfit's former leader, Magic Slim.

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Shemekia Copeland

Charon Shemekia Copeland (born April 10, 1979) is an American electric blues vocalist.

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Sista Monica Parker

Sista Monica Parker (born Monica C. Parker, April 27, 1956 – October 9, 2014) was an American electric blues, blues rock, gospel and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Slim Harpo

James Isaac Moore (January 11, 1924 – January 31, 1970), better known by his stage name Slim Harpo, was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day".

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Solomon Burke

Solomon Burke (born James Solomon McDonald, March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American preacher and singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s.

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Sonny Landreth

Clyde Vernon "Sonny" Landreth (born February 1, 1951) is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player.

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Sonny Rhodes

Clarence Smith (born Clarence Edward Mauldin, November 3, 1940), known as Sonny Rhodes, is an American blues singer and lap steel guitar player.

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Southern Avenue (band)

Southern Avenue is an American five-piece blues and soul blues band from Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Step Back (album)

Step Back is an album by blues guitarist and singer Johnny Winter.

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Sugar Ray Norcia

Sugar Ray Norcia (born Raymond Alan Norcia, June 6, 1954, Stonington, Connecticut, United States) is an American electric and soul blues singer and harmonica player.

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Susan Tedeschi

Susan Tedeschi (born November 9, 1970) is an American singer and guitarist.

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Taj Mahal (musician)

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician, a self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica, among many other instruments.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band

The Tedeschi Trucks Band is an American blues rock group based in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Terry Hanck

Terry Hanck (born 1944) is an American electric blues saxophonist, singer, songwriter and record producer, who won a Blues Music Award in 2016 in the 'Instrumentalist - Horn' category.

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The "5" Royales

The "5" Royales was an American rhythm and blues (R&B) vocal group from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, that combined gospel, jump blues and doo-wop, marking an early and influential step in the evolution of rock & roll music.

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The Derek Trucks Band

The Derek Trucks Band is an American jam band founded by young slide guitar prodigy, Derek Trucks, who began playing guitar and touring with some of blues and rock music's elite when he was just nine years old.

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The Nighthawks

The Nighthawks are an American blues and roots music band, based in Washington, D.C. As of 2018, The Nighthawks are Mark Wenner (vocals and harmonica), Paul Bell (lead guitar), Johnny Castle (bass guitar), and Mark Stutso (drums).

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Tom Hambridge

Thomas Jay "Tom" Hambridge (born December 20, 1960) is an American rock, country, and blues, producer, songwriter, musician and vocalist.

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Tony Braunagel

Tony Braunagel is an American drummer, record producer and composer, from Houston, Texas.

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Trampled Under Foot (band)

Trampled Under Foot was an American soul blues and blues rock band.

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Trombone Shorty

Troy Andrews (born January 2, 1986), also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty, is an American musician, producer, actor and philanthropist from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Tunica, Mississippi

Tunica is a town in and the county seat of Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, near the Mississippi River.

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Victor Wainwright

Victor Wainwright (born February 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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W. C. Handy

William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues.

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Walter Trout

Walter Trout (born March 6, 1951, Ocean City, New Jersey, United States) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

Willie Lee "Big Eyes" Smith (January 19, 1936 – September 16, 2011) was a Grammy Award-winning American electric blues vocalist, harmonica player, and drummer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Music_Award

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