2022 Blues and Rock Grammy Award winners announced
Winners have been announced for the 64th annual Grammy Awards.
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram captured his first ever Grammy winning Best Contemporary Blues Album for 662. “Kingfish” bested a tough field that included Joe Bonamassa, The Black Keys, Steve Cropper, and Shemekia Copeland.
Ingram’s debut album, Kingfish, was previously nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album.
Cedric Burnside won Best Traditional Blues Album topping a field that included Blues Traveler, Kim Wilson, Elvin Bishop/Charlie Musselwhite, and Guy Davis.
The Foo Fighters won Best Rock Album with Medicine at Midnight. Other nominees included AC/DC, Black Pumas, Paul McCartney, and Chris Cornell.
The Foo Fighters also took home Best Rock Performance for “Making A Fire” over AC/DC, Black Pumas, Deftones, and Chris Cornell.
You can see the full list of Grammy winners here.
Kingfish Ingram is certainly one of the best young, upcoming blues guitarists currently in the blues-rock scene & surely he’s making splashes all over. Kingfish’s guitar playing is just super, well polished & performed. Though I wish, he’d stick to singing & playing his own songs & well-known blues songs since he’s not gifted with a strong voice. Now late Prince was a very talented & and acrobatic performer but he didn’t fit in the blues or blues-rock neighborhood & hence I was surprised to see Kingfish perform “Purple Rain”. Everyone who saw him was shocked to see Kingfish belt out his version of that song. As for me, it didn’t go well at the blues-rock show. Maybe, his Mgr or Coach should advise& all the best. him a bit in this regard . Anyway , I wish Kingfish a long performing life.
Die haben den auf jeden Fall verdient!