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GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Traditional Blues Album - or - Best Traditional Blues Recording
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Best Traditional Blues Album - or - Best Traditional Blues Recording
63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2020)
nominees
All My Dues Are Paid
You Make Me Feel
That's What I Heard
Cypress Grove
62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2019)
nominees
Kingfish
Sitting On Top Of The Blues
Baby, Please Come Home
Spectacular Class
61st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2018)
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nominees
Something Smells Funky 'Round Here
Benton County Relic
No Mercy In This Land
Don't You Feel My Leg (The Naughty Bawdy Blues Of Blue Lu Barker)
60th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2017)
nominees
Migration Blues
Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio
Roll And Tumble
Sonny & Brownie's Last Train
59th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2016)
nominees
Can't Shake This Feeling
Live At The Greek Theatre
Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook: Volumes I & II)
The Soul Of Jimmie Rodgers
53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2010)
winner
Joined At The Hip
Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith
nominees
Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites
Giant
Memphis Blues
The Well
52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2009)
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nominees
Blue Again
The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band Featuring Rick Vito
Rough & Tough
Stomp! The Blues Tonight
Chicago Blues: A Living History
Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch & Lurrie Bell
51st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2008)
nominees
Pinetop Perkins & Friends
Pinetop Perkins & Friends
The Blues Rolls On
Skin Deep
All Odds Against Me
John Lee Hooker Jr.
50th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2007)
winner
Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas
Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David "Honeyboy" Edwards
nominees
Pinetop Perkins On The 88's - Live In Chicago
10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Featuring Various Artists
Old School
49th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2006)
nominees
People Gonna Talk
Guitar Groove-A-Rama
Brother To The Blues
Bronx In Blue
Dion
48th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2005)
nominees
Live! Down The Road
In Your Arms Again
Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul
About Them Shoes
47th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2004)
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nominees
Ladies Man
Me And Mr Johnson
Baby, Don't You Tear My Clothes
Blues With A Vengeance
46th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2003)
nominees
Rock 'N' Roll City
Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater Featuring Los Straitjackets
Goin' To Kansas City
That's Right!
Lookin' For Trouble!
45th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2002)
nominees
Preachin' The Blues: The Music Of Mississippi Fred McDowell
(Various Artists)
Burnside On Burnside
35th Anniversary Jam Of The James Cotton Blues Band
Down In The Alley
44th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2001)
nominees
Richland Woman Blues
Maria Muldaur (& Various Artists)
Here And Now
Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions
Hellhound On My Trail: The Songs Of Robert Johnson
(Various Artists)
Smokin' Joint
43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2000)
nominees
Superharps (Album)
Delta Crossroads (Album)
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Let The Good Times Roll (Album)
Milk Cow Blues (Album)
42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1999)
nominees
A Good Day For The Blues (Album)
Blues Everywhere I Go (Album)
Legends (Album)
Memphis Monday Morning (Album)
41st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1998)
nominees
Got To Find A Way
Luther "Guitar Junior" & The Magic Rockers
I Got To Find Me A Woman (Album)
Long As I Have You (Album)
A Tribute To Howlin' Wolf (Album)
Henry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, Colin Linden And Hubert Sumlin With Special Guests
40th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1997)
nominees
Born In The Delta (Album)
Live At Buddy Guy's Legends (Album)
R + B = Ruth Brown (Album)
Rough News (Album)
39th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1996)
nominees
Found True Love (Album)
Live At The Mint (Album)
You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead And Gone) (Album)
Come On In This House (Album)
Junior Wells With Guest Slide Guitarists
38th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1995)
nominees
Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues (Album)
The Last Real Texas Blues Band Featuring Doug Sahm (Album)
Them Update Blues (Album)
Turn It On! Turn It Up! (Album)
37th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1994)
nominees
In My Time (Album)
Living The Blues
Trouble No More (Album)
Ain't Enough Comin' In (Album)
36th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)
nominees
Boom Boom (Album)
Collins Mix (The Best Of) (Album)
Dancing The Blues (Album)
The Alligator Records 20th Anniversary Tour (Album)
(Various Artists)
35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)
nominees
Got Love If You Want It (Album)
No Looking Back (Album)
Roots Of Rhythm And Blues: A Tribute To The Robert Johnson Era (Album)
(Various Artists)
Someone To Love (Album)
34th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1991)
nominees
All My Life (Album)
Johnnie B. Bad (Album)
Mr. Lucky (Album)
Mule Bone (Album)
33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1990)
nominees
Coming To Town (Track)
Standing My Ground (Album)
T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (Track)
Too Much Pain... (Album)
32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)
, nominees
Ginger Ale Afternoon (Album)
If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It (Track)
Memphis Blues The Paris Sessions (Album)
The Healer (Album)
31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988)
nominees
Ain't Nothin' But A Party (Album)
Live At Antone's Nightclub (Album)
Saturday Night Zydeco (Album)
The Story Of My Life (Album)
30th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1987)
nominees
Take Me Back (Album)
Cold Snap (Album)
Live From Chicago- An Audience With The Queen (Album)
Old Maid Boogie (Track)
29th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1986)
nominees
Jealous (Album)
Live From Chicago - Mr. Superharp Himself! (Album)
Live! Backstage Access (Album)
Pressure Cooker (Album)
28th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1985)
nominees
Serious Business (Album)
When A Guitar Plays The Blues (Album)
Big Joe Turner With Knocky Parker And His Houserockers (Album)
Knocky Parker And His Houserockers Featuring Big Joe Turner
Members Only (Album)
Patcha, Patcha, All Night Long (Album)
Queen Of The Blues (Album)
27th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1984)
winner
, 
, Blues Explosion
John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor & The Blues Machine, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, J.B. Hutto & The New Hawks
nominees
Guitar Slinger (Album)
I'm In A Phone Booth, Baby (Album)
Kansas City Here I Come (Album)
You've Got Me Loving You (Album)
26th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1983)
nominees
Blues Train (Album)
Big Joe Turner And Roomful Of Blues
One More Mile (Album)
San Francisco '83 (Album)
Texas Flood
25th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1982)
nominees
Genuine Houserocking Music (Album)
He Was A Friend Of Mine (Track)
Sippie (Album)
Sippie Wallace
