Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

• Johnny Otis – The New Johnny Otis Show
• Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers – Genuine Houserocking Music
• Eddie „Cleanhead“ Vinson & Roomful of Blues – He Was a Friend of Mine
• Sippie Wallace – Sippie

• Clarence „Gatemouth“ Brown – One More Mile
• Albert King – San Francisco '83
• Big Joe Turner & Roomful of Blues – Blues Train
• Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Texas Flood

• Bobby Bland – You’ve Got Me Loving You
• Albert King – I’m in a Phone Booth, Baby
• Big Joe Turner – Kansas City Here I Come
• Johnny Winter – Guitar Slinger

• Bobby Bland – Live from Chicago: Mr. Superharp Himself!
• Roy Buchanan – When a Guitar Plays the Blues
• Koko Taylor – Queen of the Blues
• Big Joe Turner und Jimmy Witherspoon – Patcha, Patcha, All Night Long
• Big Joe Turner with Knocky Parker & His Houserockers – Big Joe Turner with Knocky Parker & His Houserockers
• Johnny Winter – Serious Business

• Clarence „Gatemouth“ Brown – Pressure Cooker
• James Cotton – Live from Chicago: Mr. Superharp Himself!
• Willie Dixon – Live! Backstage Access
• John Lee Hooker – Jealous

• Albert Collins – Cold Snap
• James Cotton – Take Me Back
• Koko Taylor – Live from Chicago: An Audience with the Queen
• Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson – Old Maid Boogie

• Johnny Copeland – Ain’t Nothin’ But a Party
• James Cotton – Live at Antone’s Nightclub
• Guitar Slim Jr. – Story of My Life
• Rockin’ Dopsie – Saturday Night Zydeco

• Ruth Brown – If I Can’t Sell It, I’ll Keep Sitting on It
• Willie Dixon – Ginger Ale Afternoon
• John Lee Hooker – The Healer
• Memphis Slim – Memphis Blues: The Paris Sessions

• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown – Standing My Ground
• Ruth Brown und Linda Hopkins – T’aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
• John Lee Hooker, Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Miles Davis und Roy Rogers – Coming to Town
• Little Milton – Too Much Pain

• Charles Brown – All My Life
• Johnnie Johnson – Johnnie B. Bad
• John Lee Hooker – Mr. Lucky
• Taj Mahal – Mule Bone

• Charles Brown – Someone to Love
• Clarence „Gatemouth“ Brown – No Looking Back
• John P. Hammond – Got Love If You Want It
• Verschiedene Künstler – Roots of Rhythm and Blues: A Tribute to the Robert Johnson Era

• Albert Collins – Collins Mix: The Best Of
• John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
• Taj Mahal – Dancing the Blues
• Verschiedene Künstler – The Alligator Records 20th Anniversary Tour

• James Cotton – Living the Blues
• John P. Hammond – Trouble No More
• Charlie Musselwhite – In My Time
• Otis Rush – Ain’t Enough Comin’ In

• Charles Brown – Charles Brown’s Cool Christmas Blues
• Lowell Fulson – Them Update Blues
• The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm – The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm
• Roomful of Blues – Turn It On! Turn It Up!

• John P. Hammond – Found True Love
• The Muddy Waters Tribute Band – You’re Gonna Miss Me (When I’m Dead & Gone)
• Junior Wells with Guest Slide Guitarists – Come On in This House
• Jimmy Witherspoon – Live at the Mint

• Henry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, Colin Linden und Hubert Sumlin mit Gästen – A Tribute to Howlin’ Wolf
• John P. Hammond – Long as I Have You
• Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson und The Magic Rockers – Got to Find a Way
• Robert Lockwood Jr. – I Got to Find Me a Woman

• Bobby „Blue“ Bland – Memphis Monday Morning
• Ruth Brown – A Good Day for the Blues
• Odetta – Blues Everywhere I Go
• Pinetop Perkins und Hubert Sumlin – Legends

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• James Cotton, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite und Sugar Ray Norcia – Superharps
• B. B. King – Let the Good Times Roll
• Robert Lockwood Jr. – Delta Crossroads
• Willie Nelson – Milk Cow Blues

• Maria Muldaur und verschiedene Künstler – Richland Woman Blues
• Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm – Here and Now
• James Blood Ulmer – Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions
• Verschiedene Künstler – Hellhound on My Trail: The Songs of Robert Johnson

• R. L. Burnside – Burnside on Burnside
• James Cotton Blues Band – 35th Anniversary Jam of the James Cotton Blues Band
• Alvin Youngblood Hart – Down in the Alley
• Verschiedene Künstler – Preachin’ the Blues: The Music of Mississippi Fred McDowell

• Eddy „The Chief“ Clearwater featuring Los Straitjackets – Rock ’n’ Roll City
• Jay McShann – Goin’ to Kansas City
• Roomful of Blues – That’s Right!
• Kim Wilson – Lookin’ for Trouble!

• Eric Clapton – Me and Mr. Johnson
• James Cotton – Baby, Don’t You Tear My Clothes
• John Lee Hooker Jr. – Blues with a Vengeance
• Pinetop Perkins – Ladies Man

• Marcia Ball – Live! Down the Road
• John P. Hammond – In Your Arms Again
• Maria Muldaur – Sweet Lovin’ Ol’ Soul
• Hubert Sumlin – About Them Shoes

• Tab Benoit with Louisiana’s LeRoux – Brother to the Blues
• Dion – Bronx in Blue
• James Hunter – People Gonna Talk
• Duke Robillard – Guitar Groove-A-Rama

• Pinetop Perkins – Pinetop Perkins on the 88’s – Live in Chicago
• Otis Rush – Live … and in Concert from San Francisco
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd und verschiedene Künstler – 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads
• Koko Taylor – Old School

• Elvin Bishop – The Blues Rolls On
• Buddy Guy – Skin Deep
• John Lee Hooker Jr. – All Odds Against Me
• Pinetop Perkins & Friends – Pinetop Perkins & Friends

• The Mick Fleetwood Band featuring Rick Vito – Blue Again!
• John P. Hammond – Rough & Tough
• Duke Robillard – Stomp! The Blues Tonight
• Verschiedene Künstler – Chicago Blues: A Living History

• James Cotton – Giant
• Cyndi Lauper – Memphis Blues
• Charlie Musselwhite – The Well
• Jimmie Vaughan – Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites

• Lurrie Bell – Can’t Shake This Feeling
• Joe Bonamassa – Live at the Greek Theatre
• Luther Dickinson – Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II)
• Vasti Jackson – The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers

• Eric Bibb – Migration Blues
• Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio – Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio
• R. L. Boyce – Roll and Tumble
• Guy Davis und Fabrizio Poggi – Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train

• Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio – Something Smells Funky ’Round Here
• Cedric Burnside – Benton County Relic
• Ben Harper und Charlie Musselwhite – No Mercy in This Land
• Maria Muldaur – Don’t You Feel My Leg (The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker)

• Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Kingfish
• Bobby Rush – Sitting on Top of the Blues
• Jimmie Vaughan – Baby, Please Come Home
• Jontavious Willis – Spectacular Class

• Frank Bey – All My Dues Are Paid
• Don Bryant – You Make Me Feel
• Robert Cray Band – That’s What I Heard
• Jimmy „Duck“ Holmes – Cypress Grove

• Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite – 100 Years of Blues
• Blues Traveler – Traveler’s Blues
• Guy Davis – Be Ready When I Call You
• Kim Wilson – Take Me Back

• Gov’t Mule – Heavy Load Blues
• Buddy Guy – The Blues Don’t Lie
• John Mayall – The Sun Is Shining Down
• Charlie Musselwhite – Mississippi Son

• Eric Bibb – Ridin’
• Mr. Sipp – The Soul Side of Sipp
• Tracy Nelson – Life Don’t Miss Nobody
• John Primer – Teardrops for Magic Slim Live at Rosa’s Lounge