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2000 W. C. Handy Awards - Winners - The Best of the Blues

The Best of the Blues

By Reverend Keith A. Gordon, About.com

B.B. King was honored with as the Entertainer of the Year at the 2000 W.C. Handy Awards in Memphis, Tennessee Thursday night. Rod Piazza and his great band won the Blues Band of the Year honors. And Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King came back from the dead to win the album of the Year award for thier release "In Session".

Here to this year's winners, who make us all winners in the Blues. Congratulations!

  • Blues Entertainer of the Year
    B.B. King
  • Blues Band of the Year
    Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers
  • Blues Album of the Year
    Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan - "In Session"
  • Soul/Blues - Female Artist of the Year
    Etta James
  • Soul/Blues - Male Artist of the Year
    Wilson Pickett
  • Blues Song of the Year
    "Change in My Pocket" Sam Myers, Anson Funderburgh, Renee Funderburgh, J.P.Whitefield
  • Contemporary Blues - Male Artist of the Year
    Keb' Mo'
  • Contemporary Blues - Female Artist of the Year
    Susan Tedeschi
  • Soul/Blues Album of the Year
    Wilson Pickett
  • Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
    Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Blues Instrumentalist - Drums
    Chris Layton
  • Blues Instrumentalist - Other
    Clarence Gatemouth Brown
  • Blues Instrumentalist - Bass
    Willie Kent
  • Blues Instrumentalist - Keyboards
    Pinetop Perkins
  • Blues Instrumentalist - Harmonica
    Charlie Musselwhite
  • Blues Instrumentalist - Guitar
    Duke Robillard
  • Best New Blues Artist
    Big Bill Morganfield
  • Comeback Blues Album of the Year
    Wilson Pickett - "It's Harder Now"
  • Acoustic Blues Album of the Year
    Paul Rishell and Annie Raines - "Moving to the Country"
  • Acoustic Blues - Artist of the Year
    Keb' Mo'
  • Traditional Blues Album of the Year
    Muddy Waters - "The Lost Tapes of Muddy Waters"
  • Traditional Blues - Male Artist of the Year
    R.L. Burnside
  • Traditional Blues - Female Artist of the Year

  • Koko Taylor
  • Re-issue Blues Album of the Year
    Hound DogTaylor- Deluxe Addition - Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records)

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