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Best Traditional Blues Album

1991 • 33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1989 and Aug 30, 1990

1991 Winner is B.B. King with "Live At San Quentin"

Live At San Quentin

B.B. King

Nominees 1991

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Buddy Guy Ain’t Done With The Blues All Nominees
2025 Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band, Taj Mahal Swingin' Live At The Church In Tulsa All Nominees
2024 Bobby Rush All My Love For You All Nominees
2023 Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder Get On Board All Nominees
2022 Cedric Burnside I Be Trying All Nominees
2021 Bobby Rush Rawer Than Raw All Nominees
2020 Delbert McClinton, Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men + Dana Tall, Dark, & Handsome All Nominees
2019 Buddy Guy The Blues Is Alive And Well All Nominees
2018 Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome All Nominees
2017 Bobby Rush Porcupine Meat All Nominees
2011 Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith Joined At The Hip All Nominees
2010 Ramblin' Jack Elliott A Stranger Here All Nominees
2009 B.B. King One Kind Favor All Nominees
2008 Henry James Townsend, David "Honeyboy" Edwards Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas All Nominees
2007 Ike Turner Risin' With The Blues All Nominees
2006 B.B. King 80 All Nominees
2005 Etta James Blues To The Bone All Nominees
2004 Buddy Guy Blues Singer All Nominees
2003 B.B. King A Christmas Celebration Of Hope All Nominees
2002 Jimmie Vaughan Do You Get The Blues? All Nominees
2001 B.B. King, Eric Clapton Riding With The King All Nominees
2000 B.B. King Blues On The Bayou All Nominees
1999 Otis Rush Any Place I'm Going All Nominees
1998 John Lee Hooker Don't Look Back All Nominees
1997 James Cotton Deep In The Blues All Nominees
1996 John Lee Hooker Chill Out All Nominees
1995 Eric Clapton From The Cradle All Nominees
1994 B.B. King Blues Summit All Nominees
1993 Dr. John Goin' Back To New Orleans All Nominees
1992 B.B. King Live At The Apollo All Nominees
1991 B.B. King Live At San Quentin All Nominees
1990 Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker I'm In The Mood All Nominees
1989 Willie Dixon Hidden Charms All Nominees
1988 Professor Longhair Houseparty New Orleans Style All Nominees
1987 Robert Cray, Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland Showdown! All Nominees
1986 B.B. King My Guitar Sings The Blues All Nominees
1985 John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson Blues Explosion All Nominees
1984 B.B. King Blues 'N' Jazz All Nominees
1983 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Alright Again All Nominees

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