W.C. Handy Soul and Blues Award Nominations 2005

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2005 Handy Awards nominees:

Acoustic Blues Album of the Year
Paul Oscher
Alone With The Blues
Billy Branch
Double Take
Corey Harris
Mississippi To Mali
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines
Goin' Home
Carey & Lurrie Bell
Second Nature

Acoustic Blues-Artist of the Year
Paul Oscher
Corey Harris
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines

Blues Album of the Year
W.C. Clark
Deep In The Heart
The Holmes Brothers
Simple Truths
Guitar Shorty
Watch Your Back
Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers
Keepin' It Real

Blues Band of the Year
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Smokin' Joe Kubek Band
Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers
Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets
The Holmes Brothers

Blues Entertainer of the Year
Bobby Rush
Kim Wilson
B.B. King
Pinetop Perkins
Solomon Burke

Blues Song of the Year
"Alone With The Blues"
Written and performed by Paul Oscher
"Run Myself Out Of Town"
Written by Wendell Holmes, performed by The Holmes Brothers
"Piecework Politicians"
Written and performed by James Harman
"Nothin' Ever Hurt Me"
Written and performed by EG Knight

Comeback Blues Album of the Year
Gary U.S. Bonds
Back In 20

Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
Charlie Musselwhite
Sanctuary
The Holmes Brothers
Simple Truths
Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
Now My Soul
Guitar Shorty
Watch Your Back

Contemporary Blues-Female Artist of the Year
Janiva Magness
Marcia Ball
Shemekia Copeland
EG Kight
Deborah Coleman

Contemporary Blues-Male Artist of the Year
Kim Wilson
Chris Thomas King
Charlie Musselwhite
James Harman
Robert Randolph

Historical Blues Album of the Year
Hound Dog Taylor
Release The Hound (Alligator Records)
Charles Brown
A Life In The Blues (Rounder Records)
Muddy Waters
Hard Again (Epic/Legacy)
Johnny Winter
Second Winter (Columbia/Legacy)
Muddy Waters
I'm Ready (Epic/Legacy)

Instrumentalist-Bass
Willie Kent
Bill Stuve
Sherman Holmes

Instrumentalist-Drums
Popsy Dixon
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

Instrumentalist-Guitar
Ronnie Earl
Duke Robillard
Bob Margolin
Roy Rogers

Instrumentalist-Harmonica
Kim Wilson
Charlie Musselwhite
Rod Piazza
James Harman
Paul Oscher

Instrumentalist-Horns
Calvin Owens - Trumpet
Mark Kazanoff - Saxophone
Roomful of Blues - Horns
Greg Piccolo - Saxophone
Sax Gordon - Saxophone

Instrumentalist-Keyboards
Honey Piazza
Dave Maxwell
Marcia Ball
Jon Cleary

Instrumentalist-Other
Robert Randolph - Pedal Steel Guitar
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Fiddle
Otis Taylor - Banjo

Soul/Blues Album of the Year
Bobby Rush
Folk Funk
W.C. Clark
Deep In The Heart

Soul/Blues-Female Artist of the Year
Etta James
Barbara Lynn

Soul/Blues-Male Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush
Little Milton
Solomon Burke
W.C. Clark

Traditional Blues Album of the Year
Jody Williams
You Left Me In The Dark
Duke Robillard
Blue Mood: The Songs Of T-Bone Walker
Pinetop Perkins
Ladies Man
Sam Myers
Coming From The Old School

Traditional Blues-Female Artist of the Year
Ruth Brown
Koko Taylor

Traditional Blues-Male Artist of the Year
Robert Lockwood Jr.
Jody Williams
Sam Myers
Pinetop Perkins

26th Annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards is in May

― steve-k, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Otis Taylor is nominated for best banjo player. I like his truly out-there blues compositions. He'll never be chosen for a beer commercial.

― steve-k, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

what, Marvin Sease didn't make an album last year? Bobby Rush peaked with "Lovin' a Big Fat Woman" a few years back, that was the blues, baby.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

People still make blues music?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the modern blues is so painful. it should have never been dug up and dragged out of its grave at the end of the 50s.

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yea most of it is painful(especially blues-rock), but I'm getting so tired of seeing Bono and U2 and Pitchfork and Arcade Fire blah blah blah threads here on ILM, I thought this might be a nice change of pace. Plus, I like Bobby Rush and Otis Taylor and Tony Lynn as much or more than Kompact 100 or Ghostface or Gretchen Wilson or uh, Arcade Fire.

― steve-k, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Chitlin Circuit Double-entendre -filled Soul 2004 (and onward) Theodis Easley's "Stand Up In It" is a song of the year

― steve-k, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The Holmes Brothers are pretty swell too. They're not doing anything new, but then neither are 'weird america' style psychedelic folksters or noise bands...

― Steve-k, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

And yea many of the people nominated above have not done anything that thrilling in probably decades, which does show how largely lifeless the blues genre is, but there are various exceptions that keep me listening.

I think Living Blues Magazine and someone else who does a soul list(forgot the name) may have put together more interesting year in review nominations.

― steve-k, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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