| Jahr | Performer | Non-Performer | Classics of Blues Recordings
(Songs) | Classics of Blues Recordings
(Albums) | Classics of Blues Literature |
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| 1980 | | | | | |
| 1981 | | | | | |
| 1982 | | | | | |
| 1983 | | | | | - Blues Who’s Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers
Sheldon Harris
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| 1984 | | | | | |
| 1985 | | | | | |
| 1986 | | | | | - Chicago Breakdown (Chicago Blues)
Mike Rowe
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| 1987 | | | | | |
| 1988 | | | | | - The Blues Fell This Morning (The Meaning of the Blues)
Paul Oliver
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| 1989 | | | | | |
| 1990 | | | | | |
| 1991 | | | | | |
| 1992 | | | | | - I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story
Willie Dixon mit Don Snowden
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| 1993 | | | | | |
| 1994 | | | | - The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker 1940–1954
T-Bone Walker (Mosaic, 1990)
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| 1995 | | | | | |
| 1996 | | | | | - Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Peter Guralnick
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| 1997 | | | | - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra, 1965)
| - Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm & Blues
Arnold Shaw
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| 1998 | | | | | - Blues from the Delta
William Ferris
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| 1999 | | | | | |
| 2000 | | | - Down Home Blues
Z. Z. Hill (Malaco, 1982)
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| 2001 | | | | - The Complete Plantation Recordings
Muddy Waters (MCA Chess, 1993)
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| 2002 | | | | | - Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records
Nadine Cohodas
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| 2003 | | | - Part Time Love
Little Johnny Taylor (Galaxy, 1963)
| | - Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
Robert Gordon
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| 2004 | | | | | - Juke Blues Magazine
Cilla Huggins, John Broven & Bez Turner, 1985
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| 2005 | | | | - Down Home
Z. Z. Hill (Malaco Records, 1982)
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| 2006 | | | | | - Blues & Rhythm Magazine
Paul Vernon, Tony Burke - Chasin’ That Devil’s Music
Gayle Dean Wardlow, Edward Komara
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| 2007 | | | | | - Blues With a Feeling: The Little Walter Story
Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines
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| 2008 | | | | | - 7 Guitars
August Wilson - Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf
James Segrest & Mark Hoffman
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| 2009 | | | | - Amtrak Blues
Alberta Hunter (Columbia, 1978) - Blues With a Feeling Newport Folk Festival Classics
Various Artists (Vanguard, 1993) - T-Bone Blues
T-Bone Walker (Atlantic, 1959)
| - I Hear You Knockin
Jeff Hannusch
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| 2010 | | | | - Hung Down Head
Lowell Fulson (Chess, 1970) - I Hear Some Blues Downstairs
Fenton Robinson (Alligator, 1977) - Strong Persuader
Robert Cray (Mercury, 1986)
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| 2011 | | - Bruce Bromberg
- John W. Work III
- Samuel Charters
- Vivian Carter und
Jimmy Bracken
| | | - Walking to New Orleans: The Story of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues
John Broven
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| 2012 | | | | | |
| 2013 | | | | - Complete Recorded Works/Texas Worried Blues
Henry Thomas (Herwin, 1975/Yazoo, 1989) - Louis Jordan’s Greatest Hits
Louis Jordan (Decca, 1969) - More Real Folk Blues
Howlin’ Wolf (Chess, 1967)
| - Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records
Rob Bowman (Schirmer, 2003)
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| 2014 | | | | | - Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown and Company, 2005)
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| 2015 | | | | | |
| 2016 | | - Tommy Couch und Wolf Stephenson
| | - Blues in the Mississippi Night
Various Artists (Nixa, 1957/United Artists, 1959)
| - Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis
Jeff Todd Titon
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| 2017 | | | | | - Father of the Blues
W.C. Handy
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| 2018 | | | | | - I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
Bob Riesman
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| 2019 | | | | | - Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942
John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, Samuel C. Adams Jr.
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| 2020 | | | | | - Earl Hooker, Blues Master
Sebastian Danchin
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| 2022 | | | | | - Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast
Bruce Bastin (University of Illinois Press, 1986)
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| 2023 | | | | - The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967)
Little Walter (Hip-O Select, 2009)
| - The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville 1899-1926
Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff (University Press of Mississippi, 2017)
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