ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album

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{{Infobox award

| name = ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album

| awarded_for =

| presenter = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)

| country = Australia

| year = 1999

| holder = Mia Dyson, Tender Heart (2024)

| website = {{URL|ariaawards.com.au}}

}}

The ARIA Music Award for Best Blues and Roots Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres",{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-awards.htm|title=ARIA Awards 2011 overview|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|access-date=30 May 2014}} since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation whose aim is "to advance the interests of the Australian record industry."{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/what-we-do.htm |title=What We Do |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=30 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129113827/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/what-we-do.htm |archive-date=29 January 2012 }}

To be eligible, the recording must be an album in the contemporary and traditional blues genres, and contemporary adaptations of Australian traditional music and/or folklore. The submitted work cannot be entered in other genre categories. The accolade is voted for by a judging school, which comprises between 40 and 100 members of representatives experienced in these genres, and is given to a solo artist or group who is either from Australia or an Australian resident.{{cite web|url=http://cp.lacdn.net/ariaawards/uploads/ARIA-2011-Eligibility%20Criteria-and-Category-Definitions.pdf |title=ARIA 2011 - Eligibility Criteria and Category Definitions |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=30 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009010016/http://cp.lacdn.net/ariaawards/uploads/ARIA-2011-Eligibility%20Criteria-and-Category-Definitions.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2014 }}

The award for Best Blues and Roots Album has been won the most times (3) by both The Audreys, for Between Last Night and Us (2006), When the Flood Comes (2008) and Sometimes the Stars (2010);ARIA Award previous winners. {{cite web|url=http://ariaawards.com.au/history/award/best-blues-and-roots-album|title=Winners By Award - 27th ARIA Awards 2013|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|access-date=30 May 2014}} and the John Butler Trio, for Sunrise Over Sea (2004), Grand National (2007) and Flesh & Blood (2014).