2006 Blues Music Award Nominees
Band of the Year
- Fabulous Thunderbirds
- Holmes Brothers
- Little Charlie & the Nightcats
- Magic Slim and the Teardrops
- Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers
- Billy Gibson - The Billy Gibson Band
- Duwayne Burnside - Under Pressure
- Eddie Turner - Rise
- Mitch Kashmar - Nickels and Dimes
- Zac Harmon - The Blues According to Zacariah
- Better To Have It - Bobby Purify
- Black Coffee - Al Kooper
- Club Caravan - Big George Brock
- Flash Forward - The Siegel-Schwall Band
- Soul Sanctuary - Hollywood Blue Flames
- Fever For The Bayou - Tab Benoit
- Gettin' My Groove Back - Elvin Bishop
- Live! Down The Road - Marcia Ball
- Soul Shaker - Tommy Castro
- The Soul Truth - Shemekia Copeland
- Debbie Davies
- Janiva Magness
- Marcia Ball
- Shemekia Copeland
- Susan Tedeschi
- Alvin Youngblood Hart
- Kim Wilson
- Sonny Landreth
- Tab Benoit
- Tommy Castro
- Hoochie Coochie Man: Complete Chess Recordings, Volume 2, 1952-1958 - Muddy Waters, (Chess/Hip-O Select)
- Stompin' At Mother Blues - J.B. Hutto, (Delmark Records)
- Strictly Live... in '85 Plus - James Harman, (Pacific Blues)
- The Essential Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal, (Legacy Recordings)
- The Great Johnny Adams Blues Album - Johnny Adams, (Rounder Records)

