Which Buddy Guy album won Best Traditional Blues Album at the 2026 Grammys?
Answer
Ain't Done with the Blues
Buddy Guy’s album Ain’t Done with the Blues won Best Traditional Blues Album at the 2026 Grammys.
The record is Guy’s 20th studio album and was released on July 30, 2025—his 89th birthday—through Silvertone and RCA. Tom Hambridge produced the sessions, which took place at studios in Nashville, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Guest contributors include Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
The Grammy category is specifically for albums made up of mostly new traditional-blues recordings. Its 2026 nominees also included Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’s Room on the Porch, Charlie Musselwhite’s Look Out Highway, and Young Fashioned Ways by Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bobby Rush. Those titles are plausible mix-ups because they appeared in the same final category.
The win adds to Guy’s long Grammy history. He previously won for The Blues Is Alive and Well, Blues Singer, and other blues albums, while his career also includes a 2015 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.