Inside Living Blues Reader’s Awards:
Blues Artist of the Year (Male):
B.B. King
Blues Artist of the Year (Female):
Etta James
Best Blues Album of 2004 (Historical Recording):
Percy Mayfield, His Tangerine And Atlantic Sides- Rhino Handmade
Best Blues Album of 2004 (New Recording):
Bobby Rush, Folk Funk- Deep Rush Records
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica):
Charlie Musselwhite
Best Live Performer:
Bobby Rush
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar):
Alvin “Youngblood” Hart
Most Outstanding Blues Singer:
Ray Charles
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard):
Pinetop Perkins
Critic’s Awards:
Blues Artist of the Year (Male):
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Blues Artist of the Year (Female):
Mavis Staples
Comeback Artist of the Year:
Mavis Staples
Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica):
Carey Bell
Most Outstanding Blues Singer:
Etta James
Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard):
Pinetop Perkins
Most Outstanding Musician (Guitar):
Jody Williams
Most Outstanding Musician (Horns):
Big James Montgomery
Most Outstanding Musician (Bass):
Willie Kent
Most Outstanding Musician (Drums):
Sam Carr
Most Outstanding Musician (other):
Chuck Campbell—Pedal Steel Guitar
Best Live Performer:
Bobby Rush
Artist Deserving More Attention:
Jimmy Burns
Best Blues Albums of 2004:
Album of the Year
Gatemouth Brown
Timeless
Hightone
New Recordings/Best debut
Michael Powers
Onyx Root
Baryon Records
Historical Reissue/ Pre-war
Lucille Bogan
Shave ‘Em Dry: The Best of Lucille Bogan
Columbia/Legacy
Producer of the Year—New recording:
Greg Preston
Folk Funk
Bobby Rush
Deep Rush Records
Producer of the Year—Hist./ Reissue
Bob Koester
The United Records Series, Delmark
Best Liner Notes
Elijah Wald
Poor Bob’s Blues
Robert Pete Williams
Arhoolie Records
Best Song (original comp., rel. in 2004)
We Meet, We Part, We Remember
Wendell Holmes, Alligator Records
Historical Reissue/ Post-war:
Percy Mayfield
His Tangerine And Atlantic Sides
Rhino Handmade
New Recordings/ Soul-blues
Charles Wilson
If Heartaches Were Nickels
Delmark
New Recordings/Contemporary
Jody Williams
You Left Me in the Dark
Evidence Music
New Recordings/ Trad. & Acoustic:
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
The Legend Live
M.C. Records
