Best Blues Artist (Female):
Shemekia Copeland
Best Blues Artist (Male):
R.L. Burnside
Best Historical Album:
Charley Patton, Screamin’ and Hollerin’ The Blues:
The Worlds of Charley Patton, Revenant Records
Best Musician (keyboards):
Pinetop Perkins
Best Musician (harmonica) (tie):
Snooky Pryor
Wallace Coleman
Best New Album:
Buddy Guy, Sweet Tea, Silvertone
Best Musician (guitar):
Buddy Guy
Best Blues Singer:
Etta James
Best Live Performer:
Bobby Rush
Critics Awards:
Best Blues Artist (Male):
R.L. Burnside
Best Blues Artist (Female):
Myra Taylor
Most Outstanding Blues Musician (other instrument):
Sonny Rhodes, (lap steel)
Best Blues Albums of 2001 (historical/ reissue pre-war):
Charley Patton, Screamin’ and Hollerin’ The Blues:
The Worlds of Charley Patton, Revenant Records
Artist Deserving of More Attention:
Roy Roberts
Producer of the Year (new recordings):
Roy Roberts, Rock House Records
Best Blues Albums of 2001 (new recordings: soul/blues):
Chick Willis, From the Heart and Soul, Rock House
Best Blues Albums of 2001 (historical/reissue post-war):
Various Artists, A Shot in the Dark: Nashville Jumps, Bear Family Records
Best Blues Albums of 2001 (best debut album):
Craig Horton, In My Spirit, Bad Daddy Records
Best Blues Albums of 2001 (new recordings—contemporary blues):
James “Blood” Ulmer, Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions, Hyena
Best Blues Song of 2001 (first release of an original composition):
S.U.V., Mem Shannon
Most Outstanding Blues Musician:
Sam Carr (drums)
Henry Gray (keyboards)
Calvin Owens (sax, trumpet, or horn section)
Snooky Pryor (harmonica)
Willie Kent (bass)
Jody Williams (guitar)
Most Outstanding Blues Singer:
B.B. King
Best Blues Albums of 2001
(new recordings—traditional and acoustic):
George Higgs, Tarboro Blues, Music Maker
Producer of the Year (historical/reissue recordings):
Dean Blackwood, Revenant Records
Best Cover Art/Photo:
Charley Patton, Screamin’ and Hollerin’ The Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton, Revenant Records
Best Blues Album of 2001 (all types):
Buddy Guy, Sweet Tea, Silvertone
Best Live Performer:
Bobby Rush
Best Liner Notes: 2001 Release:
Barry Lee Pearson: Archie Edwards, The Toronto Sessions, Northern Blues
Comeback Artist of the Year (tie):
Myra Taylor and Ike Turner