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The 2008 Grammy Award nominations have been announced and published on the Grammy site.

http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards

There are two blues categories and the nominations are pasted below.

Category 66

Best Traditional Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Pinetop Perkins On The 88’s - Live In Chicago
  Pinetop Perkins
  [Sagebrush Productions/Vizztone Label Group]
• Live…And In Concert From San Francisco
  Otis Rush
  [Blues Express, Inc.]
• 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads
  Kenny Wayne Shepherd Featuring Various Artists
  [Reprise Records]
• Old School
  Koko Taylor
  [Alligator Records]
• Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas
  Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David
  “Honeyboy” Edwards
  [The Blue Shoe Project]

Category 67

Best Contemporary Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Into The Blues
  Joan Armatrading
  [429 Records]
• Is It News
  Doyle Bramhall
  [Yep Roc Records]
• The Road To Escondido
  JJ Cale & Eric Clapton
  [Reprise Records/Warner Music Group]
• Truth
  Robben Ford
  [Concord Records]
• The Scene Of The Crime
  Bettye LaVette
  [Anti]

Todays Chicago Blues have a short piece about Chicago nominee Koko Taylor. Their listing of the nominees is also better than mine as each of the nominees has a link to sample or purchase the record.