2006 Blues Music Award Nominees
Instrumentalist-Bass
- Bill Stuve
- Bob Stroger
- Larry Taylor
- Michael "Mudcat" Ward
- Mookie Brill
- Jimi Bott
- Popsy Dixon
- Sam Carr
- Sam Lay
- Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
- Bob Margolin
- Charlie (Little Charlie) Baty
- Hubert Sumlin
- Kirk Fletcher
- Ronnie Earl
- Sonny Landreth
- Carey Bell
- Charlie Musselwhite
- James Cotton
- Kim Wilson
- Rick Estrin
- Big James Montgomery
- Calvin Owens
- Eddie Shaw
- Greg Piccolo
- Mark Kazanoff
- Sax Gordon
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Fiddle
- Otis Taylor - Banjo
- Rich DelGrosso - Mandolin
- Robert Randolph - Pedal steel
- Sonny Rhodes - Lap Steel
- Dr. John
- Henry Butler
- Honey Piazza
- Jon Cleary
- Marcia Ball
