# Kid Andersen nominated for Blues Music Award: Photos, Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/01/24/kid-andersen-nominated-for-blues-music-award-photos-video/
- Published: 2020-01-24T14:00:32+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Christoffer “Kid” Andersen is again nominated for the Blues Music Award as best
guitarist. The awards from the American Blues Foundation are the highest award in
the international blues community and this year is awarded for the 41st time. **

Interestingly, the Kids band, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats and members of the band
are nominated for a total of eight awards.

Kid Andersen nominated for Blues Music Award
 Kid Andersen at Royal Albert Hall 
November 10, 2019.

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“Entertainer Of The Year” and “Band Of The Year” are awards that are high in the
blues environment, and are among the eight awards to which the band and band members
are nominated. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats are also nominated in the categories “
Contemporary Blues Male Artist Of The Year” and “Contemporary Blues Album Of The
Year”, as well as Rick Estrin as songwriter nominated for “Resentment File” in the“
Song Of The Class” Year “. The band also won three awards last year, in the categories“
Band of the Year”, “Song of the Year” and “Traditional Blues Artist”.

Three of the band members are nominated as instrumentalists. In addition to Kid 
in the guitar class, Rick Estrin (in the harmonica class) and the band’s new drummer,
Derrick D’Mar Martin, were also nominated.

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Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, from v. Rick Estrin, Kid Andersen, Derrick “D’Smar”
Martin and Lorenzo Farrel.

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats are the clear “winner” of the nominees with their eight
nominations, but right behind comes Sugaray Rayford with his six. Last year’s “Soul
Blues Male Artist” has not only been nominated again in this category, but also 
in “BB King Entertainer of the Year”, “Soul Blues Album”, “Instrumentalist: Vocals”,
and with the Sugaray Rayford Band in class ” Band of the Year “. The song “Time 
To Get Movin ‘,” written by producer Eric Corne, is nominated as “Song of the Year”.

The other nominees in the “Band of the Year” category are The Cash Box Kings, Nick
Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling, Southern Avenue and the Sugaray Rayford Band.

In the guitar class, California resident Kid Andersen is in good company with greats
like “Monster” Mike Welch, Junior Watson, Laura Chavez and Christone “Kingfish” 
Ingram. We cross our fingers that Kid gets his much-deserved recognition when the
awards are to be handed out in Memphis on May 7.

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Here are all nominees in the 25 categories:

**Acoustic Blues Album**
 Catfish Crawl – Catfish Keith Confessin’ My Dues – Terry
Robb Good as Your Last Dollar – Fruteland Jackson Solo Ride – Bruce Katz This Guitar
and Tonight – Bob Margolin

**Acoustic Blues Artist**
 Eric Bibb Guy Davis Rhiannon Giddens Fruteland Jackson
Doug MacLeod

**Album of the Year**
 Church of the Blues – Watermelon Slim Hail to The Kings! –
The Cash Box Kings Kingfish – Christone “Kingfish” Ingram The Preacher, The Politician
or The Pimp – Toronzo Cannon Roots and Branches: The Songs of Little Walter – Billy
Branch & the Sons of Blues

**B.B. King Entertainer of the Year**
 Billy Branch Rick Estrin Sugaray Rayford 
Bobby Rush Mavis Staples

**Band of the Year**
 The Cash Box Kings The Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling
Rick Estrin and the Nightcats Southern Avenue Sugaray Rayford Band

**Best Emerging Artist Album**
 Before Me – Ben Levin Folie a deux – Hudspeth & 
Taylor Kingfish – Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Spectacular Class – Jontavious Willis
Through My Eyes – John “Blues” Boyd

**Blues Rock Album**
 Killin’ It Live – Tommy Castro & The Painkillers Masterpiece–
Albert Castiglia Reckless Heart – Joanne Shaw Taylor Survivor Blues – Walter Trout
Up and Rolling – North Mississippi Allstars

**Blues Rock Artist**
 Albert Castiglia Tommy Castro Tinsley Ellis Eric Gales Walter
Trout

**Contemporary Blues Album**
 Contemporary – Rick Estrin and The Nightcats Don’t
Pass Me By: A Tribute to Sean Costello – Various Artists Kingfish – Christone “Kingfish”
Ingram The Preacher, The Politician or The Pimp – Toronzo Cannon Venom & Faith –
Larkin Poe

**Contemporary Blues Female Artist**
 Diane Blue Vanessa Collier Shemekia Copeland
Samantha Fish Janiva Magness

**Contemporary Blues Male Artist**
 Toronzo Cannon Gary Clark Jr. Luther Dickinson
Rick Estrin Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

**Instrumentalist Bass**
 Willie J. Campbell Patrick Rynn Bill Stuve Larry Taylor
Michael “Mudcat” Ward

**Instrumentalist Drums**
 Tony Braunagel Cedric Burnside June Core Derrick D’Mar
Martin Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith

**Instrumentalist Guitar**
 Christoffer “Kid” Andersen Laura Chavez Christone “Kingfish”
Ingram Junior Watson “Monster” Mike Welch

**Instrumentalist Harmonica**
 Billy Branch Rick Estrin Dennis Gruenling Brandon
Santini Kim Wilson

**Instrumentalist Horn**
 Mindi Abair Jimmy Carpenter Vanessa Collier Trombone Shorty
Nancy Wright

**Instrumentalist Piano (Pinetop Perkins Piano Player)**
 Anthony Geraci Bruce Katz
Dave Keyes Jim Pugh Victor Wainwright

**Instrumentalist Vocals**
 Shemekia Copeland Sugaray Rayford Curtis Salgado Mavis
Staples Dawn Tyler Watson

**Song of the Year**
 “Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues,” written by Rebecca Lovell “Lucky
Guy,” written by Nick Moss “Resentment File,” written by Rick Estrin, Joe Louis 
Walker, and JoJo Russo “Time To Get Movin’,” written by Eric Corne “The Wine Talkin’,”
written by Joe Nosek, John Hahn, and Oscar Wilson

**Soul Blues Album**
 Dog Eat Dog – Billy Price Keep On – Southern Avenue Real Street–
Tad Robinson Sitting on Top of the Blues – Bobby Rush Somebody Save Me – Sugaray
Rayford

**Soul Blues Female Artist**
 Annika Chambers Thornetta Davis Bettye LaVette Terrie
Odabi Vaneese Thomas

**Soul Blues Male Artist**
 Billy Price Sugaray Rayford Tad Robinson Curtis Salgado
Wee Willie Walker

**Traditional Blues Album**
 Church of the Blues – Watermelon Slim Hail to the Kings!–
The Cash Box Kings Lucky Guy! – The Nick Moss Band Featuring Dennis Gruenling Roots
and Branches – The Songs of Little Walter – Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues Spectacular
Class – Jontavious Willis

**Traditional Blues Female Artist  (Koko Taylor Award)**
 Rory Block Sue Foley Mary
Lane Trudy Lynn Teeny Tucker

**Traditional Blues Male Artist**
 Lurrie Bell Billy Branch John Primer Jimmie Vaughan
Jontavious Willis

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