Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album
Grammy Awards · 105 nominations across 37 ceremonies · 37 wins
68th Grammys · 2026
- Winner Ain't Done with the Blues · Buddy Guy
- Nominee Look Out Highway · Charlie Musselwhite
- Nominee One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey · Maria Muldaur
- Nominee Room on the Porch · The Taj Mahal Sextet, Keb' Mo'
- Nominee Young Fashioned Ways · Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Bobby Rush
67th Grammys · 2025
- Winner Swingin' Live at The Church in Tulsa · The Taj Mahal Sextet
- Nominee One Guitar Woman · Sue Foley
- Nominee Hill Country Love · Cedric Burnside Project
- Nominee Sam's Place · Little Feat
- Nominee Struck Down · The Fabulous Thunderbirds
66th Grammys · 2024
- Winner All My Love for You · Bobby Rush
- Nominee Teardrops for Magic Slim Live at Rosa's Lounge · John Primer
- Nominee The Soul Side of Sipp
- Nominee Life Don't Miss Nobody · Tracy Nelson
- Nominee Ridin' · Eric Bibb
65th Grammys · 2023
- Winner Get On Board · Taj Mahal, The Taj Mahal Sextet, Ry Cooder
- Nominee The Blues Don't Lie · Buddy Guy
- Nominee Mississippi Son · Charlie Musselwhite
- Nominee Heavy Load Blues · Gov't Mule
- Nominee The Sun Is Shining Down · John Mayall
64th Grammys · 2022
- Winner I Be Trying · Cedric Burnside Project
- Nominee Traveler's Blues · Blues Traveler
- Nominee 100 Years of Blues · Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite
- Nominee Be Ready When I Call You · Guy Davis
- Nominee Take Me Back · Kim Wilson
63rd Grammys · 2021
- Winner Rawer than Raw · Bobby Rush
- Nominee Cypress Grove · Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
- Nominee You Make Me Feel · Don Bryant
- Nominee All My Dues are Paid · Frank Bey
- Nominee That's What I Heard · Robert Cray Band
62nd Grammys · 2020
- Winner Tall, Dark, and Handsome · Delbert McClinton
- Nominee Baby, Please Come Home · Jimmie Vaughan
- Nominee Spectacular Class · Jontavious Willis
- Nominee Sitting on Top of the Blues · Bobby Rush
- Nominee Kingfish · Christone "Kingfish" Ingram
61st Grammys · 2019
- Winner The Blues Is Alive and Well · Buddy Guy
- Nominee Something Smells Funky 'Round Here · Elvin Bishop
- Nominee Benton County Relic · Cedric Burnside Project
- Nominee Don't You Feel My Leg (The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker) · Maria Muldaur
- Nominee No Mercy in This Land · Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite
60th Grammys · 2018
- Winner Blue & Lonesome · The Rolling Stones
- Nominee Sonny & Brownie's Last Train · Guy Davis, Fabrizio Poggi
- Nominee Roll and Tumble · R.L. Boyce
- Nominee Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio
- Nominee Migration Blues · Eric Bibb
59th Grammys · 2017
- Winner Porcupine Meat · Bobby Rush
- Nominee Live at the Greek Theatre · Joe Bonamassa
- Nominee Can't Shake the Feeling · Lurrie Bell
- Nominee The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers · Vasti Jackson
- Nominee Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook: Volumes I & II) · The Sons Of Mudboy
53rd Grammys · 2011
- Winner Joined at the Hip · Pinetop Perkins, Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith
- Nominee Giant · James Cotton
- Nominee Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites · Jimmie Vaughan
- Nominee Memphis Blues · Cyndi Lauper
- Nominee The Well · Charlie Musselwhite
52nd Grammys · 2010
- Winner A Stranger Here · Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Nominee Blue Again · Rick Vito
- Nominee Stomp! The Blues Tonight · Duke Robillard
- Nominee Chicago Blues: A Living History
- Nominee Rough & Tough · John Hammond
51st Grammys · 2009
- Winner One Kind Favor · B. B. King
- Nominee All Odds Against Me · John Lee Hooker, Jr.
- Nominee Skin Deep · Buddy Guy
- Nominee The Blues Rolls On · Elvin Bishop
- Nominee Pinetop Perkins and Friends · Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Pinetop Perkins
50th Grammys · 2008
- Winner Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas · Henry James Townsend, Pinetop Perkins, Robert Lockwood Jr., David Honeyboy Edwards
- Nominee 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads · Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
- Nominee Pinetop Perkins on the 88's: Live in Chicago · Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Pinetop Perkins
- Nominee Old School · Koko Taylor
- Nominee Live...and in Concert from San Francisco · Otis Rush
49th Grammys · 2007
- Winner Risin' with the Blues · Ike Turner
- Nominee Guitar Groove-A-Rama · Duke Robillard
- Nominee Bronx In Blue · Dion
- Nominee People Gonna Talk · James Hunter
- Nominee Brother To The Blues · Tab Benoit, Louisiana's Leroux
48th Grammys · 2006
- Winner 80 · B. B. King
46th Grammys · 2004
- Winner Blues Singer · Jacquire King, Dennis Herring, Buddy Guy
45th Grammys · 2003
44th Grammys · 2002
- Winner Do You Get The Blues? · Jimmie Vaughan
43rd Grammys · 2001
- Winner Riding with the King · B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton
- Nominee Superharps · James Cotton, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugar Ray Norcia
- Nominee Let the Good Times Roll
- Nominee Delta Crossroads · Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Nominee Milk Cow Blues · Willie Nelson
42nd Grammys · 2000
- Winner Blues on the Bayou · B. B. King
40th Grammys · 1998
- Winner Don't Look Back · John Lee Hooker
39th Grammys · 1997
- Winner Deep in the Blues · James Cotton
38th Grammys · 1996
- Winner Chill Out · John Lee Hooker
37th Grammys · 1995
- Winner From the Cradle · Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton
36th Grammys · 1994
- Winner Blues Summit · B.B. King
35th Grammys · 1993
- Winner Goin' Back to New Orleans · Dr. John
34th Grammys · 1992
- Winner Live at the Apollo · B.B. King
33rd Grammys · 1991
- Winner Live at San Quentin · B. B. King
- Nominee T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do · Ruth Brown, Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins
- Nominee Standing My Ground · Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
- Nominee Too Much Pain · Little Milton
- Nominee Coming to Town · John Lee Hooker, Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Miles Davis, Roy Rogers
32nd Grammys · 1990
- Winner I'm in the Mood · Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker
31st Grammys · 1989
- Winner Hidden Charms · Willie Dixon
30th Grammys · 1988
29th Grammys · 1987
- Winner Showdown! · Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, Robert Cray
28th Grammys · 1986
- Winner My Guitar Sings the Blues · B. B. King
27th Grammys · 1985
26th Grammys · 1984
- Winner Blues 'n Jazz · B.B. King
25th Grammys · 1983
- Winner Alright Again · Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown