The Blues Music Awards are presented by the Blues Foundation, an organization to promote the blues music. The Blues Foundation started the awards in 1980 under the name W. C. Handy Awards. In 2006 they were renamed Blues Music Awards. The Blues Music Award is one of the highest honors a blues musician can get in the USA.

Like the Grammys the Blues Music Award is given in different categories. The nominees are chosen by a group of people who are connected with Blues music.

Eden Brent - Mississippi Number One

Eden Brent

Buddy Guy - Skin Deep

Janiva Magness

Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials

Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm - 2 Man Wrecking Crew

Buddy Guy - Skin Deep

Janiva Magness

Buddy Guy

Broke & Hungry Records, Cathead Blues & Mudpuppy Recordings - M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through The Birthplace of the Blues

Eagle Records - Albert Collins Live At Montreux 1992

Mookie Brill

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

Sonny Landreth

Billy Gibson

Deanna Bogart

Otis Taylor - Banjo

Marcia Ball

Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues

Kenny Neal - Let Life Flow (Kenny Neal)

Irma Thomas - Simply Grand

Etta James

Bobby Rush

B. B. King - One Kind Favor

Koko Taylor

B.B. King

• David Maxwell & Louisiana Red, You Got to Move

• Louisiana Red

• Joe Louis Walker, Between a Rock and the Blues

• Tommy Castro

• Tommy Castro Band

• Monkey Junk, Tiger in your Tank

• Tommy Castro, Hard Believer

• Ruthie Foster

• Tommy Castro

• Delmark Records, It Ain't Over! Delmark Celebrates 55 Years of Blues, Live at Buddy Guy's Legends

• Chess, Authorized Bootleg (Muddy Waters)

• Bob Stroger

• Cedric Burnside

• Derek Trucks

• Jason Ricci

• Deanna Bogart

• Buckwheat Zydeco (Akkordeon)

• Eden Brent

• Derek Trucks Band, Already Free

• Cyril Neville & Mike Zito, 'Pearl River' (Pearl River—Mike Zito)

• Johnny Rawls, Ace Of Spades

• Irma Thomas

• Curtis Salgado

• Super Chikan, Chikadelic

• Debbie Davies

• Duke Robillard

• Last Train to Bluesville, The Nighthawks

• John Hammond

• Living Proof, Buddy Guy

• Buddy Guy

• The Derek Trucks Band

• Matt Hill, On the Floor

• Living Proof, Buddy Guy

• Robin Rogers

• Buddy Guy

• Ruf, Songs From The Road, Luther Allison

• Delta Groove, Harmonica Blues, Bob Corritore & Friends (Koko, Pinetop, Nappy Brown, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, et al.)

• Bob Stroger

• Cedric Burnside

• Derek Trucks

• Charlie Musselwhite

• Eddie Shaw

• Sonny Rhodes, Lap Steel Guitar

• Ruthie Foster

• Dr. John

• Live! In Chicago, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band featuring Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bryan Lee and Buddy Flett

• Living Proof, Tom Hambridge/Buddy Guy, Living Proof, Buddy Guy

• Nothing's Impossible, Solomon Burke

• Irma Thomas

• Solomon Burke

• Joined At the Hip, Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith

• Charlie Musselwhite

• Blues Music Awards Homepage Archived 2009-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
• List of past winners of the Blues Music Awards Archived 2012-07-31 at Archive.today