Best Rock Album No Name - Jack White
Best Jazz Performance “Phoenix Reimagined (Live)” - John Scofield
Best Jazz Vocal Album Wildflowers Vol. 1, - Kurt Elling
Best American Roots Performance “Blame It on Eve,” - Shemekia Copeland
“Nothing in Rambling,” The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Keb’ Mo’ + Taj Mahal
Best American Roots Song “Blame It on Eve,” - Will Kimbrough, songwriters -Shemekia Copeland
Best Bluegrass Album "Earl Jam", - Tony Trischka
Best Traditional Blues Album....
Hill Country Love, - Cedric Burnside
Struck Down, - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
One Guitar Woman, - Sue Foley
Swingin' Live at The Church in Tulsa — The Taj Mahal Sextet - WINNER
Best Contemporary Blues Album....
Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, - Joe Bonamassa
Blame It on Eve, - Shemekia Copeland
Best Regional Roots Music Album, - New Breed Brass Band