The Grammy Award - Best Traditional Blues Album has been handed out since 1983. The category has been largely dominated by B.B. King, who has won the award ten times. From 2001 to 2003 the recipients - the award included the producers and engineers along with the artists. The award was known as Best Traditional Blues Performance until 1992. It was also twice awarded to individual tracks before the award was renamed Best Traditional Blues Album.
Winners: Best Traditional Blues Album
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Year
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Winner/s
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Album
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2009
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B.B. King
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One Kind Favor
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2008
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Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David Honeyboy Edwards
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Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas
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2007
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Ike Turner
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Risin' with the Blues
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2006
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B.B. King & Friends
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80
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2005
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Etta James
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Blues to the Bone
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2004
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Buddy Guy
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Blues Singer
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2003
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Anthony Daigle, John Holbrock (engineers/mixers) & B. B. King (producer & artist)
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A Christmas Celebration of Hope
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2002
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John P. Hampton, Jared Tuten (engineers) & Jimmie Vaughan (producer & artist)
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Do You Get the Blues?
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2001
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Simon Climie (producer), Alan Douglas (engineer), Eric Clapton (producer & artist) & B. B. King
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Riding With the King
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2000
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B. B. King
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Blues on the Bayou
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1999
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Otis Rush
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Any Place I'm Going
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1998
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John Lee Hooker
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Don't Look Back
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1997
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James Cotton
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Deep in the Blues
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1996
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John Lee Hooker
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Chill Out
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1995
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Eric Clapton
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From the Cradle
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1994
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B. B. King
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Blues Summit
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1993
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Dr. John
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Goin' Back to New Orleans
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1992
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B. B. King
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Live at the Apollo
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1991
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B. B. King
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Live at San Quentin
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1990
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Bonnie Raitt & John Lee Hooker
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"I'm In the Mood"
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1989
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Willie Dixon
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Hidden Charms
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1988
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Professor Longhair
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Houseparty New Orleans Style
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1987
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Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland & Robert Cray
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Showdown!
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1986
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B. B. King
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"My Guitar Sings the Blues"
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1985
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Sugar Blue, John P. Hammond, J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
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Blues Explosion
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1984
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B. B. King
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Blues 'N' Jazz
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1983
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Clarence Gatemouth Brown
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Alright Again
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