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Originally from Belgium and now living in the U.S., Volt is a singer and multi-instrumentalist, and current nominee by BluesBlast online magazine for the Rising Star Award

Now 87 years old and still performing, Emmett Ellis Jr. (Rush) has released innumerable albums, gained myriad awards, and is a proficient singer, songwriter, bandleader, guitarist, and harmonica player; this album is nominated as Traditional Album of the Year

The band is nominated as Band of the Year; led by singer and harmonica ace Estrin, with guitarist Kid Andersen, drummer D'Mar, and bassist/keyboardist Lorenzo Farrell

Nominated as Best Soul Blues Album

Geraci is a skilled keyboard player from the Northeast, and current member of The Proven Ones; album nominated for Best Traditional Album

Outstanding guitarist Boyes is from Australia; this album was recorded in 2010 and is nominated for Best Reissued Album by BluesBlast

Nominated as Best Traditional Blues Album; Corritore is an ace harmonica player from Phoenix; vocal by Sugaray Rayford

A piano and singing prodigy from Massachusetts, not yet 20, Lewis is a nominee as Rising Star

Blues rocker extraordinaire Greene hails from Santa Barbara, has had his own band for two decades, toured for seven years with Alan Parsons and then for a year with Sugaray Rayford, and this album on Tab Benoit's new label is nominated as Best Blues Rock Album

Iowa bluesman Burt won the 2018 International Blues Challenge as Best Acoustic Act, Guitarist, and Harmonica Player; this album is a BluesBlast nominee as Best Soul Blues Album

Nominated for Best Acoustic Album; she is known as "the Georgia songbird"

Soul Blues Album of the Year nominee; former singer for the Robert Cray Band and Roomful of Blues, Salgado is a fine harmonica player and outstanding soul blues singer who has won many Blues Music Awards; he and guitarist Alan Hager played a great duo show for the Santa Barbara Blues Society in Jan. 2018

Nominated as Best Contemporary Blues Album; guitarist and singer Spady has overcome substance abuse problems to resume his career; a song about his late son

Acoustic Album of the Year nominee; Keith is a prolific performer from Iowa

What a powerful voice! nominated as Best Contemporary Blues Album

Another Best Contemporary Blues Album nominee; Birchwood is from Florida; his band won the 2013 International Blues Challenge and he won its Best Guitarist award

Nominee for Best Acoustic Album; Harpe, an excellent guitarist who also leads her own band, is helped here by her husband, bassist Jim Countryman; song made famous by Muddy Waters and covered by many others, including Johnny Winter and Bob Dylan

Goldwasser is an excellent guitarist who has lived in Carpinteria, CA, off and on for 20 years; this song was recorded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999, with guitarist Rusty Zinn; Franck will be moving back to France in Sept. 2021; nominee for Best Historic Album

Nominated as Best Contemporary Album; Copeland, daughter of the late Texas bluesman Johnny Clyde Copeland, has won multiple Blues Music Awards

A Howlin' Wolf song (which he called "How Many More Years"); nominee for Best Traditional Blues Album; Wilson grew up near Santa Barbara and was known as "Goleta Slim" before moving to Austin and forming The Fabulous Thunderbirds with Jimmie Vaughan, older brother of Stevie Ray; Wilson has played many times for the S.B. Blues Society, most recently in Nov. 2017

Best Contemporary Blues Album nominee; from San Jose, Cain is a spectacular guitarist and also a fine pianist

Best Acoustic Album nominee; Herula is from Chicago; fiddle by Anne Harris and bass by Jon Shain

Nominated for Best Blues Band, led by singer and harmonica player Sugar Ray Norcia, formerly with Roomful of Blues

Murphy has released many of her own albums and has been backing singer for many performers; she is a nominee for Female Blues Artist of the Year

Kind of a hill country blues power trio; album is a nominee for Best Rock Blues Album

Nominated for Best New Artist Debut Album

Nominated as Best Blues Band; from Florida, led by award-winning pianist Victor Wainwright

Stone is a harmonica expert who frequently tours in Japan; nominated as Best Acoustic Album by BluesBlast online magazine; piano by Elena Kato and bass by Hiroshi Eguchi

Guitarist Trout has been one of the best blues rockers since he left John Mayall's band over 25 years ago to form his own band; nominee for Best Rock Blues Album

Mann is a bassist and singer from Portland, OR, nominated by BluesBlast as Best Female Artist

Album nominee for Best Traditional; Bishop was guitarist along with Mike Bloomfield in the original Paul Butterfield Blues Band and knew harmonica maven Musselwhite from their days together in Chicago in the 1960s; they both now live in northern CA; Charlie is felt by many to be the best living blues harmonica player

A nominee for Best Contemporary Album; from Idaho and now living in Memphis, Nemeth is a fine singer and harmonica player

Cover of a classic song of Robert Johnson, "the King of the Delta Blues"; sometimes called "Dust My Blues"

Candidate for Best Blues Band; from Chicago, where Moss has long been one of its best guitarists; harmonica by recent band member Dennis Gruenling

A cover of an Elmore James song