2000 Handy Winners:
Blues Entertainer of the Year - B.B. King
Blues Band of the Year - Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers
Contemporary Blues - Male Artist of the Year - Keb' Mo'
Contemporary Blues - Female Artist of the Year - Susan Tedeschi
Soul/Blues - Male Artist of the Year - Wilson Pickett
Soul/Blues - Female Artist of the Year - Etta James
Traditional Blues - Male Artist of the Year - R.L Burnside
Traditional Blues - Female Artist of the Year - Koko Taylor
Acoustic Blues - Artist of the Year - Keb' Mo'
Best New Blues Artist - Big Bill Morganfield
Blues Instrumentalist - Guitar - Duke Robillard
Blues Instrumentalist - Harmonica - Charlie Musselwhite
Blues Instrumentalist - Keyboards - Pinetop Perkins
Blues Instrumentalist - Bass - Willie Kent
Blues Instrumentalist - Drums - Chris Layton
Blues instrumentalist - Other - Clarence Gatemouth Brown (fiddle)
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year - Albert King/Stevie Ray
Vaughan, "In Session"
Soul/Blues Album of Year - Wilson Pickett, "It's Harder Now"
Traditional Blues Album of the Year - Muddy Waters, "The Lost
Tapes of Muddy Waters"
Comeback Blues Album - Wilson Pickett, "It's Harder Now"
Acoustic Blues Album of Year - Paul Rishell and Annie Raines,
"Moving to the Country"
Reissue Album of Year - Hound Dog Taylor, "Deluxe Edition"
Blues Song of the Year - "Change in My Pocket" by Sam Myers,
Anson
Funderburgh, Renee Funderburgh (Anson Funderburgh and the
Rockets
with Sam Myers/ "Change in My Pocket")
Blues Album of the Year - Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan, "In
Session"