1999 Muddy Award Winners

1999 Winners:

Contemporary Blues Act Paul deLay Band Ellen Whyte & Reflex Blue Robbie Laws Band	Traditional Blues Act Bill Rhoades & Alan Hager Sheila Wilcoxson Terry Robb & Albert Reda
Rhythm & Blues Act Lloyd Jones Struggle Norman Sylvester Band Linda Hornbuckle Band	Best New Act Hudson Rocket Band Swingin' Strat Daddies Dover Weinberg Quartet
Performance of the Year Jimmy Vaughan at the WFBF Magic Slim at the WFBF Swingin' Strat Daddies at the WFBF	Best Blues Venue Cascade Tavern Trail's End Saloon Candlelight
Best National Recording BB King "Blues On The Bayou" Johnny Bassett "Party My Blues Away" Robert Cray "Take Your Shoes Off"	Best Northwest Recording CBA "Muddy Awards Hall Of Fame Tribute CD" Duffy Bishop "Fly The Rocket" Ellen Whyte & Reflex Blue "Here & Gone"
Female Vocalist Ellen Whyte Duffy Bishop Linda Hornbuckle	Male Vocalist Curtis Salgado Lloyd Jones Paul deLay
Electric Guitar Jim Mesi (Jim Mesi Band) Garry Meziere (Reflex Blue) Robbie Laws (Robbie Laws Band)	Acoustic Guitar Alan Hager (Rhoades & Hager Duo) Steve Cameron (Blues Police) Terry Robb (Terry Robb Trio)
Blues Harp Curtis Salgado (Curtis Salgado Band) Bill Rhoades (Bill Rhoades & The Party Kings) Paul deLay (Paul deLay Band)	Keyboards Louis Pain (Paul deLay Band) Dover Weinberg (Jim Mesi Band) Janice Scroggins (freelance musician)
Drums Ken Johnson (Hudson Rocket Band) Reinhardt Meltz (Curtis Salgado Band) Jeff Minnieweather (Big Monti)	Bass Albert Reda (Terry Robb Band) Jimmy Lloyd Rea (Strat Daddies) Dave Kahl (Dover Weinberg Quartet)
Horn Renato Caranto (Norman Sylvester Band) Dan Fincher (Paul deLay Band) Peter Moss (freelance musician)	Lifetime Achievement Gavin "Rooster" Fox Jimmy Lloyd Rea Taj Mahal
NW Blues Event of the Year CBA Membership Picnic Blues Day at The Bite Waterfront Blues Festival	Regional Blues Act Henry Cooper Band Swamp Mama Johnson Too Slim and the Taildraggers
Back What You Believe In Award *Ken Johnson*, CBA Board Member and Producer for the CBA Muddy Awards Tribute CD