Living Blues 2017 Awards

Blues Artist of the Year (Female)    
  Trudy Lynn    
  Janiva Magness    
  Ruthie Foster    
  Shemekia Copeland    
  Diunna Greenleaf    
  Rhiannon Giddens    
  Dorothy Moore    
  Valerie June    
  Sharon Lewis    
  Thornetta Davis    
    

Most Outstanding Blues Singer    
  William Bell    
  Buddy Guy    
  Diunna Greenleaf    
  John Németh    
  Shemekia Copeland    
  Irma Thomas    
  Wee Willie Walker    
  Valerie June    
  Trudy Lynn    
  Johnny Rawls    
     

Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar)    
  Lurrie Bell    
  Duke Robillard    
  Joe Louis Walker    
  Buddy Guy    
  Lil' Buck Sinegal    
  Jimmy Burns    
  Toronzo Cannon    
  Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton    
  Billy Flynn    
  Ronnie Baker Brooks    
    

Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica)    
  Harmonica Hinds    
  Bob Corritore    
  Billy Branch    
  Charlie Musselwhite    
  Phil Wiggins    
  Charlie Sayles    
  Sugar Blue    
  Omar Coleman    
  Harmonica Shah    
  Pierre Lacocque    
     

Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)    
  Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne    
  Henry Gray    
  Eden Brent    
  Marcia Ball    
  Jim Pugh    
  Ironing Board Sam    
  David Maxwell    
  Barrelhouse Chuck    
  Victor Wainwright    
  Mitch Woods    
      

Best Live Performer    
  Super Chikan    
  Taj Mahal    
  Bobby Rush    
  Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials    
  Buddy Guy    
  Ruthie Foster    
  Toronzo Cannon    
  Victor Wainwright    
  The Cedric Burnside Project    
  Mr. Sipp    
      

Best Blues Album of 2016 (New Recordings)    
  Toronzo Cannon - The Chicago Way - Alligator    
  Bobby Rush - Porcupine Meat - Rounder    
  Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue - Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue - Electro-Fi    
  Curtis Salgado - The Beautiful Lowdown - Alligator    
  Johnny Rawls - Tiger in a Cage - Catfood    
  Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials - The Big Sound of Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials - Alligator    
  Lurrie Bell - Can't Shake This Feeling - Delmark    
  William Bell - This Is Where I Live - Stax    
  Kenny Neal - Bloodline - Cleopatra Blues    
  Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne - Jumpin' & Boppin' - Stony Plain    
     

Best Blues Album of 2016 (Reissue Recordings)    
  B. B. King - The Complete RPM-Kent Recording Box: The Life, Times, and the Blues of B.B. in All His Glory - P-Vine Records    
  Magic Sam Blues Band - Black Magic - Delmark    
  Various Artists - Back to the River: More Southern Soul Stories 1961-1978 - Kent Soul    
  B. B. King - Here's One You Didn't Know About - Ace Records    
  Ike & Tina Turner - The Complete Pompeii Recordings 1968-1969 - Goldenlane    
  Washington Phillips - Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams - Dust-to-Digital    
  Floyd Dixon - Hey Bartender! His Very Best 1949-1959 - Jasmine    
      

Best Blues DVD of 2016    
  Sherman Robertson - Takin' You to Texas - JSP Records / Blues Archive    
  Jimmy Dawkins - West Side Chicago Blues - JSP Records / Blues Archive    
  David "Honeyboy" Edwards - I'm Gonna Tell You Somethin' That I Know - R.B.I. Media / Pro Sho Bidness    
  Phil Guy - My Blues, Baby - JSP Records / Blues Archive    
    

Best Blues Book of 2016   
  Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll - by Peter Guralnick - Little, Brown  
  Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues - by Albert Murray, edited by Paul Devlin - The University of Minnesota Press  
  Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads - by Alan Harper - University of Illinois Press  
  Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge - by Martin Hawkins - Louisiana State University Press  
  Way Down in Louisiana: Clifton Chenier, Cajun, Zydeco, and Swamp Pop Music - by Todd Mouton - University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press