Grammy Award for Best Blues Album

This award combined the previous categories for Best Contemporary Blues Album and Best Traditional Blues Album, which both existed between 1983 and 2011. The Recording Academy decided to create this new category for 2012 upon stating there were "challenges in distinguishing between.. Contemporary and Traditional Blues". In 2017, the distinction between contemporary and traditional blues albums was reinstated. Both categories returned, while the Best Blues Album category was discontinued.

• Name — Grammy Award for Best Blues Album • Awarded For — quality vocal or instrumental blues albums • Presenter — National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences • Country — United States • Year — 2012 • Year2 — 2016 • Website — Grammy.com The Grammy Award for Best Blues Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the blues genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". According to the 54th Grammy Awards guideline the category was "for albums containing at least 51% playing time of new vocal or instrumental blues recordings". This award combined the previous categories for Best Contemporary Blues Album and Best Traditional Blues Album, which both existed between 1983 and 2011. The Recording Academy decided to create this new category for 2012 upon stating there were "challenges in distinguishing between... Contemporary and Traditional Blues". In 2017, the distinction between contemporary and traditional blues albums was reinstated. Both categories returned, while the Best Blues Album category was discontinued.

• Year — Work — Artist • 2012 • Revelator — Tedeschi Trucks Band • Low Country Blues — Gregg Allman • Man in Motion — Warren Haynes • The Reflection — Keb' Mo' • Roadside Attractions — Marcia Ball • 2013 • Locked Down — Dr. John • 33⅓ — Shemekia Copeland • And Still I Rise — Heritage Blues Orchestra • Bring It on Home — Joan Osborne • Let It Burn — Ruthie Foster • 2014 • Get Up! — Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite • Cotton Mouth Man — James Cotton • Down in Louisiana — Bobby Rush • Remembering Little Walter — Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia and James Harman • Seesaw — Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa • 2015 • Step Back — Johnny Winter • Common Ground: Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy — Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin • Decisions — Bobby Rush with Blinddog Smokin' • Juke Joint Chapel — Charlie Musselwhite • Promise of a Brand New Day — Ruthie Foster • 2016 • Born to Play Guitar — Buddy Guy • Descendants of Hill Country — Cedric Burnside Project • Muddy Waters 100 — John Primer and Various Artists • Outskirts of Love — Shemekia Copeland • Worthy — Bettye LaVette Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.