Tedeschi Trucks Band (na zdjęciu) zostali docenieni podczas wręczania Blues Music Award 2012. Kilka nagród dostał także Tab Benoit.
10 maja w Memphis po raz 33 The Blues Foundation wręczyła doroczne Blues Music Award. Oto pełna lista nagrodzonych.
Acoustic Album of the Year
David Maxwell & Otis Spann - Conversations In Blue
Acoustic Artist of the Year
Eric Bibb
Album of the Year
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year
Tab Benoit
Band of the Year
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Best New Artist Debut
Samantha Fish – Runaway
Contemporary Blues Album
Tab Benoit - Medicine
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year
Susan Tedeschi
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year
Tab Benoit
DVD of the Year
Ruthie Foster - Live At Antone's (Blue Corn)
Gibson Guitar Award
Derek Trucks
Historical Album of the Year
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning (Chess Records)
Best Instrumentalist - Bass
Biscuit Miller
Best Instrumentalist - Drums
Chris Layton
Best Instrumentalist - Harmonica
Charlie Musselwhite
Best Instrumentalist - Horn
Terry Hanck
Best Instrumentalist - Other
Sonny Rhodes (lap steel guitar)
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year
Marcia Ball
Rock Blues Album
Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
Song of the Year
"The Lord Is Waiting The Devil Is Too" - Johnny Sansone (The Lord Is Waiting And The Devil Is Too - Johnny Sansone)
Soul Blues Album of the Year
Bobby Rush - Show You A Good Time
Soul Blues Female Artist
Denise LaSalle
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year
Curtis Salgado
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
Various Artists - Chicago Blues: A Living History - The (R)evolution Continues
Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
Charlie Musselwhite
Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year)
Ruthie Foster
