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Best Traditional Blues Album – or – Best Traditional Blues Recording

2009 • 51st Annual Grammy Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2007 and Aug 30, 2008

2009 Winner is B.B. King with "One Kind Favor"

Nominees 2009

Winners

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