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Well the 20th annual W. C. Handy Awards has come and gone and it was another fantastic night of Live Blues and a weekend of celebration for the Blues community in general! The hosts for the ceremony were Joe Louis Walker and Rufus Thomas and the event was peppered with performances by several of the best Blues musicians on the scene today such as Kenny Wayne Shepard and Double Trouble, Marcia Ball and Roomful of Blues. Congratulations to all the winners of the awards held Thursday, May 27, 1999 at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis,TN!

Here is a list of the winners in their respective categories:

Blues Entertainer of the Year - B.B. King
Blues Band of the Year - Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year - B.B. King - Blues on the Bayou
Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year - Susan Tedeschi
Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year - Keb Mo
Best New Blues Artist - Susan Tedeschi
Blues Song of the Year - Soon As I Get Paid - Keb Mo

Instrumentalists:
Other - Gatemouth Brown
Harmonica - Charlie Musselwhite
Keyboard - Pinetop Perkins
Guitar - Ronnie Earl
Bass - Willie Kent
Drums - Willie Big Eyes Smith

Soul Blues Album of the Year - Etta James - Life, Love and The Blues
Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year - Bobby Blue Bland
Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year - Etta James
Acoustic Blues Album of the Year - Rory Block - Confessions of a Blues Singer
Traditional Blues Album of the Year - Robert Lockwood, Jr. - I Got to Get Me a Woman
Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year - Keb Mo
Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year - Koko Taylor
Traditional Blues Male Artist - of the Year - Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Comeback Album of the Year - Peter Green - Robert Johnson - Crossroads
Re-Issue Album of the Year - Luther Allison - Hand Me Down My Moonshine
Most Deserving Wider Recognition - W.C. Clark

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