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Readers’ Awards Blues Artist of the Year (Male): B.B. King Blues Artist of the Year (Female): Shemekia Copeland Most Outstanding Blues Singer: Shemekia Copeland Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Guitar): B.B. King Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Harmonica): Carey Bell Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Keyboards): Pinetop Perkins Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Guitar): Alvin Youngblood Hart Best Live Performer: Bobby Rush Best Blues Album of 1998 (New Recording): B.B. King, *Blues On the Bayou* (MCA) Best Blues Album of 1998 (Historical Recording): Junior Wells, *Blues Hit Big Town* (Delmark) Blues Artist of the Year (Male): B.B. King Blues Artist of the Year (Female): Shemekia Copeland Most Outstanding Blues Singer: Bobby “Blue” Bland Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Harmonica): Snooky Pryor Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Keyboards): Pinetop Perkins Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Drums): Sam Carr Critics’ Awards Blues Artist of the Year (Male): B.B. King Blues Artist of the Year (Female): Shemekia Copeland Most Outstanding Blues Singer: Bobby “Blue” Bland Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Guitar): Alvin Youngblood Hart Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Harmonica): Snooky Pryor Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Keyboards): Pinetop Perkins Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Drums): Sam Carr Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Bass): Willie Kent Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Other instrument): Otha Turner (fife) Most Outstanding Blues Musician (Sax, Trumpet, or Horn Section): Eddie Shaw Best Live Performer: Bobby Rush Comeback Artist of the Year: Roy Gaines Artist Most Deserving of Wider Recognition: Big Lucky Carter Best Blues Album of 1998 (New Recording-Contemporary): B.B. King, *Blues On the Bayou* (MCA) Best Blues Album of 1998 (New Recording-All Types): Alvin Youngblood Hart, *Territory* (Hannibal) Best Blues Album of 1998 (New Recording-Traditional or Acoustic): Alvin Youngblood Hart, *Territory* (Hannibal) Best Blues Album of 1998 (New Recording-Soul/Blues): Little Milton, *For Real* (Malaco) Best Debut Album of 1998: Shemekia Copeland, *Turn the Heat Up* (Alligator) Best Blues Album of 1998 (Historical-Postwar): Junior Wells, *Blues Hit Big Town* (Delmark) Best Blues Album of 1998 (Historical-Postwar): Various Artists, *Ruckus Juice & Chittlins: The Great Jug Bands, Vols. 1 & 2* (Yazoo) Producers of the Year (New Recordings): Wolf Stephenson & Tommy Couch, Malaco Records Producer/Compiler of the Year (Historical Recordings): Don Kent, Yazoo Records Best Liner Notes, 1998 Blues Release: David Evans & Mike Vernon for Big Lucky Carter, *Lucky 13* (Blueside) Best Cover Art/Photo, 1998 Blues Release: Patterson-Barnes (artists)/Errol Dillon (photographer), Dennis Heckler-DDL (graphic design), for Bobby Bland, *Memphis Monday Morning* (Malaco)