The Blues Foundation today announced the nominees for the 2010 Blues Music Awards NOMINEES by Award: Acoustic Album David Maxwell & Louisiana Red You Got to Move Maria Muldaur & her Garden of Joy Good Time Music for Hard Times Saffire-the Uppity Blues Women Havin' The Last Word Samuel James For Rosa, Maeve and Noreen Various Artists Things About Comin' My Way - A Tribute to the music of the Mississippi Sheiks Acoustic Artist Annie Raines & Paul Rishell Doug MacLeod Guy Davis Louisiana Red Samuel James Album Duke Robillard's Jumpin’ Blues Revue Stomp! the Blues Tonight Eddie C. Campbell Tear This World Up Joe Louis Walker Between a Rock and the Blues Louisiana Red & Little Victor's Juke Joint Back to the Black Bayou Various Artists Chicago Blues A Living History B.B. King Entertainer Candye Kane Magic Slim Rick Estrin Super Chikan Taj Mahal Tommy Castro Band Duke Robillard's Jumpin' Blues Revue Nick Moss & the Flip Tops Rick Estrin and the Nightcats The Mannish Boys Tommy Castro Band Best New Artist Debut Greg Nagy Walk That Fine Thin Line Joanne Shaw Taylor White Sugar Marquise Knox Man Child Monkey Junk Tiger in your Tank The California Honeydrops Soul Tub! Contemporary Blues Album Candye Kane Superhero Joe Louis Walker Between a Rock and the Blues Rick Estrin and the Nightcats Twisted Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters Living in the Light Tommy Castro Hard Believer Contemporary Blues Female Artist Bettye LaVette Candye Kane Janiva Magness Ruthie Foster Shemekia Copeland Contemporary Blues Male Artist Derek Trucks Joe Louis Walker John Nemeth Michael Burks Tommy Castro DVD Delmark Records It Ain't Over! Delmark Celebrates 55 Years of Blues, Live at Buddy Guy's Legends Eagle Eye Media Live at Montreux 1993 (B.B. King) Jo Films& Roadside Productions Hot Flash - The Documentary (Saffire-the Uppity Blues Women) Mojo Rodeo Records A Night in Woodstock (Paul Rishell & Annie Raines) Vincent Productions Down to the Crossroads Vol. 1 (George Thorogood & the Destroyers w/ Eddie Shaw) Historical Bear Family Records Taking Care of Business (1956-1973) (Freddie King) Chess Authorized Bootleg (Muddy Waters) Eagle Records Essential Montreux (Gary Moore) Hip-O Select The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967) (Little Walter) Landslide Records Sean's Blues (Sean Costello) Instrumentalist-Bass Bill Stuve Bob Stroger Larry Taylor Mookie Brill Patrick Rynn Instrumentalist-Drums Cedric Burnside Jimi Bott Kenny Smith Sam Carr Tony Braunagel Instrumentalist-Guitar Derek Trucks Duke Robillard Joe Louis Walker Lurrie Bell Ronnie Earl Instrumentalist-Harmonica Billy Branch Jason Ricci Kim Wilson Mark Hummel Rick Estrin Instrumentalist-Horn Al Basile Big James Montgomery Deanna Bogart Eddie Shaw Keith Crossan Instrumentalist-Other Buckwheat Zydeco (accordion) Gerry Hundt (mandolin) Johnny Sansone (accordion) Otis Taylor (banjo) Rich Del Grosso (mandolin) Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Bruce Katz David Maxwell Eden Brent Henry Butler Henry Gray Rock Blues Album Derek Trucks Band Already Free Jason Ricci & New Blood Done with the Devil Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat Tijuana Bible Mike Zito Pearl River Tinsley Ellis Speak No Evil Song Cyril Neville & Mike Zito “Pearl River” (Pearl River--Mike Zito) James “Super Chikan” Johnson “Fred's Dollar Store” (Chikadelic--Super Chikan) Joe Louis Walker “I'm Tide” (Between a Rock and the Blues--Joe Louis Walker) John Hahn & Oliver Wood “Never Going Back to Memphis” (Never Going Back--Shemekia Copeland) Vyasa Dodson “At Least I'm Not With You” (At Least I'm Not With You--The Insomniacs) Soul Blues Album Charles Wilson Troubled Child Darrell Nulisch Just for You Johnny Rawls Ace of Spades Latimore All About the Rhythm and the Blues Mighty Sam McClain Betcha Didn't Know Soul Blues Female Artist Barbara Carr Denise LaSalle Irma Thomas Shirley Brown Sista Monica Parker Soul Blues Male Artist Curtis Salgado Darrell Nulisch Jackie Payne Johnny Rawls Latimore Traditional Blues Album John Primer All Original Johnnie Bassett The Gentleman is Back Louisiana Red & Little Victor's Juke Joint Back to the Black Bayou Super Chikan Chikadelic Various Artists Chicago Blues A Living History Traditional Blues Female Artist Ann Rabson Debbie Davies Fiona Boyes Shirley Johnson Zora Young Traditional Blues Male Artist Duke Robillard John Primer Johnnie Bassett Louisiana Red Super Chikan