Independent Blues Awards Announced!
The Independent Blues Award Voting is complete and the results are now IN!!
What Made us different than all the other voting awards is we gave you a chance to listen and learn about the nominees with clickable links to their websites and streams to listen to their music.
This we felt is the only fair way to give the voter a chance to make an informed vote and it gives everyone a chance to discover an artists they may not have known. All the streams in this are either Soundcloud or Spotify which are both free to the user, but also benefits the artist.
The purpose of these awards are to celebrate the diversity and power of the music created by those artists that acknowledge their inspiration and roots are in the blues. These artist are touring and creating new original music that take their inspiration from the blues, but in the true tradition of the genre, they are redefining it’s future.
Making a Scene would like to Congratulate all the Winners and Nominees for the First Independent Blues Awards!
The Independent Blues Awards!
Best Independent Blues Acoustic CD *
- Chris Yakopcic – Next Place I Leave – Listen – Buy
- Les Copeland – To Be in Your Company – Listen – Buy
- Doug MacLeod – Exactly Like This – Listen – Buy
- Wes Lee – Blue Roux – Listen – Buy
- Mick Kolassa – Ghosts of the Riverside Hotel – Listen – Buy
Best Independent Blues Contemporary CD *
- Tommy Castro – Method to My Madness – Listen – Buy
- Samantha Fish – Wild Heart – Listen – Buy
- Danielle Nicole – Wolf Den – Listen – Buy
- Joyann Parker and Sweet Tea – On the Rocks – Listen – Buy
- Victor Wainwright – Boom Town – Listen – Buy
- Jarekus Singleton – Refuse to Lose – Listen – Buy
Best Independent Blues Tradtional CD *
- Buddy Guy – Born to Play Guitar – Listen – Buy
- Benny Turner – When She’s Gone – Listen – Buy
- The Reverend Shawn Amos – Loves You – Listen – Buy
- Bob Margolin – My Road – Listen – Buy
- Eddie Cotton – One at a time – Listen – Buy
- Dave Weld and the Imperial Flames – Slip Into a Dream – Listen – Buy
Best Independent Blues R&B/Soul CD *
- Laura Rain and the Caesars – Gold – Listen – Buy
- Slam Allen – Feel these Blues – Listen – Buy
- Missy Andersen – In the Moment – Listen – Buy
- D.A. Foster – The Real Thing – Listen – Buy
- Beth Hart – Better than Home – Listen – Buy
- Elle King – Love Stuff – Listen – Buy
Best Independent Blues Rock CD *
Best Modern Roots CD *
- Monkey Junk – Moon turns Red – Listen – Buy
- Jeff Jensen – Morose Elephant – Listen – Buy
- The Stone Foxes – Twelve Spells – Listen – Buy
- John Ginty – No Filter – Listen – Buy
- Balkun Brothers – Redova – Listen – Buy
- Eliza Neals – Breaking and Entering – Listen – Buy
Best Indepedent Blues LIVE CD *
- The John Pagano Band – JPBlues – Live at Darwins – Listen – Buy
- Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys – Live at Big Bull Falls – Listen – Buy
- Ben Rice – Live at the Purple Fox Loft – Listen – Buy
- Peter Karp – The Arson’s Match – Listen – Buy
- Mindi Abair and the Boneshakers – Live in Seattle – Listen – Buy
- Thorbjorn Risager – Songs From the Road – Listen – Buy
Best Independent Blues New Artists CD *
- Chris Yakopcic – Next Place I Leave – Listen – Buy
- Joyann Parker and Sweet Tea – On the Rocks – Listen – Buy
- Jack the Radio – Badlands – Listen – Buy
- The John Pagano Band (JPBlues) – LIVE at Darwins – Listen – Buy
- David Michael Miller – Same Soul – Listen – Buy
- Balkun Brothers – Redova – Listen – Buy
Independent Blues Artist Awards
Best Independent Male Blues Artist *
Best Independent Female Blues Artist *
Best Traditional Blues Band *
Best Blues Rock Band *
Best Modern Roots Band *
Best Contemporary Blues Band *
Best New Artist *
- Markey Blue – Listen
- Jack the Radio – Listen
- John Pagano Band (JPBLUES) – Listen
- Eliza Neals – Listen
- The Stone Foxes – Listen
- Balkun Brothers – Listen
Independent Blues Artist Honors
Independent Blues artist Gateway Award *
Best Independent Blues Stage Performance *
Road Warrior Award *
- JP Soars
- Damon Fowler
- Mike Zito
- Samantha Fish
- Victor Wainwright
- Joel DaSilva
Independent Blues Song Awards
Best Traditional Blues Song *
Best R&B/Soul Song *
Best Contemporary Blues Song *
Best Blues Rock Song *
Independent Blues Song Honors
Best Song for the Common Good *
- J.P. Soars – Somethin Ain’t Right – Listen
- Buddy Guy – Crazy World – Listen
- John Mayall – Find a way to Care – Listen
- Doug Macleod – Dubbs Talking Politician Blues – Listen
- Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals – Call it what it is – Listen
Best Music Video *
- JP Soars – Something Ain’t Right – Watch
- Balkun Brothers – Control Yourself – Watch
- John Pagano Band (JPBlues) – Keep on Walkin – Watch
- The Stone Foxes – Everybody Knows – Watch
- Voo Davis – Riverside Blues – Watch
- Danielle Nicole Band – Wolf Den – Watch
If you would like to see the complete voting tabulation CLICK HERE