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Performers in the blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to big band
Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
s to country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 to rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 to classical music.








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Performers in the blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to big band
Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
s to country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 to rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 to classical music.

Early country blues

  • Alger "Texas" Alexander (1900 - 1954)
  • Pink Anderson
    Pink Anderson

    Pinkney "Pink" Anderson was a blues singer and guitarist, born in Laurens, South Carolina, South Carolina....
     (1900 - 1974)
  • Kokomo Arnold
    Kokomo Arnold

    Kokomo Arnold was an United States blues musician.Born James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, Georgia , Arnold received his nickname in 1934 after releasing "Old Original Kokomo Blues" for the Decca Records record label; it was a cover version of the Scrapper Blackwell blues song about the Kokomo brand of coffee....
  • Barbecue Bob
    Barbecue Bob

    Robert Hicks, better known as Barbecue Bob , was an early United States country blues musician. His nickname came from the fact that he was a chef in a barbecue restaurant....
     Hicks
  • Scrapper Blackwell
    Scrapper Blackwell

    Scrapper Blackwell was an United States blues guitarist and singing. Best known as half of the guitar-piano duet he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was an acoustic single-note picker in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues style, with some music journalism noting that he veered towards jazz....
  • Black Ace
    Black Ace

    Black Ace was the most frequently used stage name of United States blues musician Babe Kyro Lemon Turner , who was also known as B.K. Turner, Black Ace Turner or Babe Turner....
  • Blind Blake
    Blind Blake

    "Blind" Blake was an influential blues singer and guitarist. He is often called "The King Of Ragtime Guitar".Blind Blake recorded about 80 tracks for Paramount Records in the late 1920s and early 1930s....
  • Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy

    Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific United States blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences....
  • Richard "Rabbit" Brown
    Rabbit Brown

    Richard "Rabbit" Brown was a United States blues guitarist and composer. His music was characterized by a mixture of blues, pop songs, and original topical ballads....
  • Willie Brown
    Willie Brown (musician)

    Willie Brown was an United States delta blues guitarist and singer....
  • Bumble Bee Slim
    Bumble Bee Slim

    Amos Easton , better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was a best-selling blues musician in the 1930s....
  • Gus Cannon
    Gus Cannon

    Gus Cannon was an United States blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands in the 1920s and 1930s....
  • Bo Carter
    Bo Carter

    Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon was a popular early blues musician. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in concerts, and on a few of their sound recording and reproduction....
     (1893 - 1964)
  • Sam Collins
    Sam Collins (musician)

    Sam Collins , who was sometimes known as Crying Sam Collins and also, according to one authoritative website, as Jim Foster, Jelly Roll Hunter, Big Boy Woods, Bunny Carter, and Salty Dog Sam, was an early American blues singer and guitarist....
  • Floyd Council
    Floyd Council

    Floyd Council was an United States blues guitarist and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular throughout the southeastern region of the US in the 1930s....
  • Ida Cox
    Ida Cox

    Ida Cox was an African American singer and vaudeville performer, best known for her blues performances and sound recording and reproduction.Cox was born in February, 1896 as Ida Prather in Toccoa, Georgia, Habersham County, Georgia , the daughter of Lamax and Susie Prather, and grew up in Cedartown, Georgia, singing in the local Afr...
     (1896-1967)
  • Gary Davis (1896-1972)
  • Clayton Taliaferro Driver
    Slow Blind Driveway

    Slow Blind Driveway was an influential blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was Clayton Taliaferro Driver or Clinton T. Driver, Jr. according to various sources ....
     (1885-1952)
  • Sleepy John Estes
    Sleepy John Estes

    John Adam Estes , best known as Sleepy John Estes or Sleepy John, was a United States blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, born in Ripley, Tennessee, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, Tennessee....
     (1904-1977)
  • Blind Boy Fuller
    Blind Boy Fuller

    Blind Boy Fuller was an United States blues guitarist and singer. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss....
     (1908-1941)
  • Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller

    Jesse Fuller was an United States one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues". ...
     (1896-1976)
  • Billy Garland
    Billy Garland

    William Jefferson "Billy" Garland was an United States blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.Garland was famous for his falsetto singing combined with gentle guitar playing style....
     (1918-1960)
  • Jazz Gillum
    Jazz Gillum

    William McKinley Gillum , known as Jazz Gillum, was an United States blues harmonica player.He was born in Indianola, Mississippi, Mississippi....
     (1904-1966)
  • Shirley Griffith
    Shirley Griffith

    Shirley Griffith was a Blues singer and guitarist from Indianapolis.External links...
     (1908-1974)
  • Arvella Gray
    Arvella Gray

    Blind Arvella Gray Blues Singer and Guitarist , born in Texas but spending the latter part of his life performing and busking folk music, blues and gospel music at Chicago?s Maxwell Street flea market and at rapid-transit depots....
     (1906-1980)
  • Smokey Hogg
    Smokey Hogg

    Andrew 'Smokey' Hogg was one of the most popular of the post-war Texan country blues musician....
     (1914-1960)
  • Lightnin' Hopkins
    Lightnin' Hopkins

    Sam "Lightnin?" Hopkins was a country blues guitarist, from Houston, Texas, Texas, United States....
     (1912-1982)
  • Son House
    Son House

    Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music....
     (c. 1902-1988)
  • Peg Leg Howell
    Peg Leg Howell

    Joshua Barnes Howell, known as Peg Leg Howell , was an African American blues singer and guitarist, who connected early country blues and the later Twelve bar blues style....
     (1888-1966)
  • Alberta Hunter
    Alberta Hunter

    Alberta Hunter , was an United States blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith....
     (1895-1984)
  • Mississippi John Hurt
    Mississippi John Hurt

    "Mississippi" John Smith Hurt was an influential blues singer and guitarist....
     (c. 1893-1966)
  • Jim Jackson
    Jim Jackson (musician)

    Jim Jackson was an African American blues and hokum singer, songster and guitarist, whose sound recording and reproduction in the late 1920s were popular and influential on later musician....
     (c. 1884-1937)
  • John Jackson
    John Jackson

    John Jackson may refer to:Politics:* John Jackson , mayor of Tampa, Florida* John Jackson , Member of Parliament for Plymouth Devonport 1910 to 1918...
  • Skip James
    Skip James

    Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James was an United States Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter....
     (1902-1969)
  • Blind Lemon Jefferson
    Blind Lemon Jefferson

    "Blind" Lemon Jefferson was an influential blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled "Father of the Texas Blues."...
     (1893-1929)
  • Blind Willie Johnson
    Blind Willie Johnson

    "Blind" Willie Johnson was an United States singer and guitarist whose music straddled the border between blues music and spirituals. While the lyrics of all of his songs were religious, his music drew from both sacred and blues traditions....
     (1897-1945)
  • Lonnie Johnson
    Lonnie Johnson

    Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an United States blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos....
     (1894-1970)
  • Robert Johnson (1911-1938)
  • Tommy Johnson (1896-1956)
  • Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter (c. 1889-1949)
  • Furry Lewis
    Furry Lewis

    Furry Lewis was a country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee. Lewis was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement, and given a new lease of recording life, by the folk blues revival of the 1960s....
     (1899-1981)
  • Charley Lincoln
    Charley Lincoln

    Charlie Lincoln , was an early United States country blues musician. He often recorded with his brother Robert Hicks ....
     (1900-1963)
  • Mance Lipscomb
    Mance Lipscomb

    Mance Lipscomb was an influential blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, Texas, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie ....
     (1895-1976)
  • Cripple Clarence Lofton
    Cripple Clarence Lofton

    Cripple Clarence Lofton , born Albert Clemens in Kingsport, Tennessee, Tennessee, was a noted boogie-woogie pianist and singer.Though Lofton was born with a limp , he actually started his career as a tap-dancer....
     (1887-1957)
  • Robert Lockwood, Jr. (1915-2006)
  • Mississippi Fred McDowell
    Fred McDowell

    Fred McDowell , often known as Mississippi Fred McDowell, was a blues singer and guitar player in the Delta blues style....
     (1904-1972)
  • Brownie McGhee
    Brownie McGhee

    Walter Brown McGhee was a folk music-blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry....
     (1915-1996)
  • Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell

    William Samuel McTell, better known as Blind Willie McTell , was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a 12-string guitar fingerstyle Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956....
     (1901-1959)
  • The Memphis Jug Band
    Memphis Jug Band

    The Memphis Jug Band was an United States band in the late 1920s and early to mid 1930s. The band featured harmonicas, violins, mandolins, banjos, and guitars, backed by washboards, kazoo, and Jug blown to supply the bass; they played in a variety of musical styles....
  • Big Maceo Merriweather
    Big Maceo Merriweather

    Big Maceo Merriweather was a blues pianist and singer active in Chicago in the 1940s....
     (1905-1953)
  • Eugene "Buddy" Moss
    Buddy Moss

    Eugene "Buddy" Moss was, in the estimation of many blues scholars, the most influential East Coast blues guitarist to record in the period between Blind Blake final sessions in 1932 and Blind Boy Fuller debut in 1935....
     (c. 1914-1984)
  • Memphis Minnie
    Memphis Minnie

    Memphis Minnie McCoy-Lawler was an United States Blues guitarist, vocalist, and composer....
     (1897-1973)
  • Charlie Patton
    Charlie Patton

    Charlie Patton, better known as Charley Patton is best known as an United States Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of Delta Blues" and therefore one of the oldest known figures of American popular music....
     (1891-1934)
  • Piano Red
    Piano Red

    William "Willie" Lee Perryman , who was usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood, was an United States blues musician, the first to hit the pop music record chart....
     (1911-1985)
  • Ma Rainey
    Ma Rainey

    Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey , was one of the earliest known United States professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record....
     (1886-1939)
  • Tampa Red
    Tampa Red

    Tampa Red , born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an influential United States musician.Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string bottleneck style....
     (1904-1981)
  • Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith

    Bessie Smith was an United States blues singer.The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists....
     (1894-1937)
  • Victoria Spivey
    Victoria Spivey

    Victoria Spivey was an United States blues singer and songwriter....
     (1908-1976)
  • Frank Stokes
    Frank Stokes

    Frank Stokes was a blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style....
     (c. 1888-1955)
  • Sonny Terry
    Sonny Terry

    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry was a Blindness blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included human voice whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts....
     (1911-1986)
  • Henry Townsend
    Henry Townsend (musician)

    Henry 'Mule' Townsend was an United States blues singer, guitarist and pianist....
     (1909-2006)
  • Sippie Wallace
    Sippie Wallace

    Sippie Wallace was an United States Texas blues singer, and songwriter. Although her recording career stretched throughout most of the 1920s, her best work was done from 1923 to 1927 when she was recording with Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, and Clarence Williams....
     (1898-1986)
  • Washboard Sam
    Washboard Sam

    Robert Brown , known professionally as Washboard Sam, was an American blues singer and musician.Reputedly the half-brother of Big Bill Broonzy, Brown moved to Memphis, Tennessee in the 1920s, performing as a street musician with Sleepy John Estes and Hammie Nixon....
     (1910-1966)
  • Curley Weaver
    Curley Weaver

    Curley James Weaver was an United States blues musician known as the "Georgia Guitar Wizard"....
     (1906-1962)
  • Peetie Wheatstraw
    Peetie Wheatstraw

    For the 1978 film, please see Petey Wheatstraw .Peetie Wheatstraw was the name adopted by singer William Bunch, a greatly influential figure among 1930s blues singers....
     (1902-1941)
  • Bukka White
    Bukka White

    Bukka White was a delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a misspelling of White's Given name by his second record label, ....
     (1909-1977)
  • Josh White
    Josh White

    Joshua Daniel White , best known as Josh White, was a legendary United States of America singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist....
     (1914 or 1915-1969)
  • Sonny Boy Williamson I
    Sonny Boy Williamson I

    Sonny Boy Williamson was an United States blues harmonica player, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson....
     (1914-1948)


Early urban blues

  • Gladys Bentley
    Gladys Bentley

    Gladys Bentley was an United States blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance....
     (1907-1960)
  • Lucille Bogan
    Lucille Bogan

    Lucille Bogan was an United States blues singer, among the first to be sound recording and reproduction. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson....
     (1897-1948)
  • Georgia Tom Dorsey
    Thomas A. Dorsey

    Thomas Andrew Dorsey . He is known as "the father of gospel music". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom....
     (1899-1993)
  • Lil Green
    Lil Green

    Lil Green was an United States blues singer and songwriter....
     (1919-1954)
  • Lucille Hegamin
    Lucille Hegamin

    Lucille Nelson Hegamin was a United States singer and entertainer, and a pioneer African American blues recording artist.Hegamin was born as Lucille Nelson in Macon, Georgia....
     (1894-1970)
  • Alberta Hunter
    Alberta Hunter

    Alberta Hunter , was an United States blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith....
     (1895-1984)
  • Papa Charlie Jackson
    Papa Charlie Jackson

    Papa Charlie Jackson was an early United States bluesman and songster. He played a hybrid Guitar Banjo and ukulele, his sound recording and reproduction career beginning in 1924....
     (c.1890-1938)
  • Ma Rainey
    Ma Rainey

    Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey , was one of the earliest known United States professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record....
     (1886-1939)
  • Clara Smith
    Clara Smith

    Clara Smith was a popular blues singer. She was billed as the "Queen of the Moaners", although Smith actually had a lighter and sweeter voice than her contemporaries and main competitors....
     (c. 1894-1935)
  • Mamie Smith
    Mamie Smith

    Mamie Smith was an United States vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actor, who appeared in several motion pictures late in her career. As a vaudeville singer she performed a number of styles including jazz and blues....
     (1883-1946)
  • Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith

    Bessie Smith was an United States blues singer.The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists....
     (1894-1937)
  • Sippie Wallace
    Sippie Wallace

    Sippie Wallace was an United States Texas blues singer, and songwriter. Although her recording career stretched throughout most of the 1920s, her best work was done from 1923 to 1927 when she was recording with Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, and Clarence Williams....
     (1898-1986)
  • Ethel Waters
    Ethel Waters

    Ethel Waters was an United States blues and jazz vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway theatre stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues....
     (1896-1977)
  • Reverend Gary Davis
    Reverend Gary Davis

    Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, was a blues and gospel music singer and guitarist. His unique Fingerstyle guitar style influenced many other artists and his students in New York City included Stefan Grossman, David Bromberg, Roy Book Binder, Woody Mann, Nick Katzman, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Winslow, and Ernie Hawkins....
     (1896-1972)


Pre-World War II jazz blues

  • Albert Ammons
    Albert Ammons

    Albert Ammons was an United States pianist. Ammons was the king of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style that swept the United States from the late 1930s into the mid 1940s....
     (1907-1949)
  • Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
     (1901-1971)
  • Sidney Bechet
    Sidney Bechet

    Sidney Bechet was an American jazz saxophone, clarinetist, and composer.He was one of the first important soloists in jazz , and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort....
     (1897-1959)
  • Leroy Carr
    Leroy Carr

    Leroy Carr was an United States blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced musician like Nat King Cole and Ray Charles....
     (1905-1935)
  • Walter Davis
    Walter Davis (blues)

    Walter Davis was an African-American blues singer and pianist....
     (1912-1963)
  • Johnny Dodds
    Johnny Dodds

    Johnny Dodds was a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong....
     (1892-1940)
  • Champion Jack Dupree
    Champion Jack Dupree

    William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an United States blues pianist. His birth date is disputed, given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, in the years 1908, 1909, or 1910....
     (c. 1909-1992)
  • Ivory Joe Hunter
    Ivory Joe Hunter

    For the Motown producer-songwriter, see Joe Hunter .Ivory Joe Hunter was an African American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, best known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby " ....
     (1914-1974)
  • St. Louis Jimmy Oden
    St. Louis Jimmy Oden

    James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden , was an United States blues singer and songwriter.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, Jimmy Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood....
     (1903-1977)
  • Meade Lux Lewis
    Meade Lux Lewis

    Meade Anderson "Lux" Lewis was a United States pianist and composer noted for his work in the Boogie Woogie style. His best known work, "Honky Tonk Train Blues", has been recorded in various contexts, often in a big band arrangement....
     (1905-1964)
  • Little Brother Montgomery
    Little Brother Montgomery

    Eurreal Wilford "Little Brother" Montgomery was a jazz and blues pianist and singer.Largely self-taught, Montgomery is often thought of as just a blues pianist, but he was an important blues pianist with an original style....
     (c. 1906-1985)
  • Big Maceo Merriweather
    Big Maceo Merriweather

    Big Maceo Merriweather was a blues pianist and singer active in Chicago in the 1940s....
     (1905-1953)
  • Kansas Joe McCoy
    Kansas Joe McCoy

    Kansas Joe McCoy was an African American blues musician and songwriter....
     (1905-1950)
  • Papa Charlie McCoy
    Papa Charlie McCoy

    Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy was an African American delta blues musician and songwriter....
     (1909-1950)
  • Jay McShann
    Jay McShann

    Jay McShann was an United States blues and swing pianist, bandleader, and singer.Nicknamed "Hootie", McShann was born James Columbus McShann in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Oklahoma....
     (1916-2006)
  • Roy Milton
    Roy Milton

    Roy Milton was an United States Rhythm and blues singer, drummer and bandleader....
     (1907-1983)
  • Jelly Roll Morton
    Jelly Roll Morton

    Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton was an United States ragtime pianist, bandleader and composer.Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902....
     (1890-1941)
  • Jimmy Rushing
    Jimmy Rushing

    James Andrew Rushing was an United States blues shouter and swing music jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948....
     (1902-1972)
  • Roosevelt Sykes
    Roosevelt Sykes

    Roosevelt Sykes was an United States blues musician also known as "Honeydripper".He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player who influenced blues piano playing with his rollicking thundering boogie....
     (1906-1983)
  • Big Joe Turner
    Big Joe Turner

    Big Joe Turner was an United States blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri....
     (1911-1985)
  • Sam Taylor
    Sam Taylor (jazz)

    Sam L. Taylor , best known as the saxophone Sam "The Man" Taylor, was a jazz and blues player, whose honking style set the standard for tenor sax solo in both rock and roll and rhythm and blues....
     (born 1916)
  • T-Bone Walker
    T-Bone Walker

    Aaron Thibeaux Walker or T-Bone Walker or Oak Cliff T-Bone was an United States blues guitarist, singer, pianist and songwriter who was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar....
     (1910-1975)


Postwar Blues

  • Mose Allison
    Mose Allison

    Mose John Allison, Jr. is an United States Jazz piano and singer.Early lifeHe was born in Tallahatchie County, in the Mississippi Delta....
     (born 1927)
  • Charles Brown
    Charles Brown (musician)

    Charles Brown , born in Texas City, Texas was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced the development of blues performance during the 1940s and 1950s....
     (1922-1999)
  • Roy Brown
    Roy Brown (blues musician)

    Roy Brown was a jump blues musician who brought a soul music singing style to the emerging genre of Rock and Roll....
     (1925-1981)
  • Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
     (1930-2004)
  • Pee Wee Crayton
    Pee Wee Crayton

    Connie Curtis Crayton , known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an United States Rhythm and blues and blues guitarist and singer....
     (1914-1985)
  • Floyd Dixon
    Floyd Dixon

    For the American football player see Floyd Dixon Floyd Dixon was an United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer....
     (1929-2006)
  • Champion Jack Dupree
    Champion Jack Dupree

    William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an United States blues pianist. His birth date is disputed, given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, in the years 1908, 1909, or 1910....
     (c. 1909-1992)
  • Wynonie Harris
    Wynonie Harris

    Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris , born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an United States blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics....
     (1915-1969)
  • Louis Jordan
    Louis Jordan

    Louis Jordan was a pioneering United States jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s....
     (1908-1975)
  • Little Willie Littlefield
    Little Willie Littlefield

    Little Willie Littlefield is an United States Rhythm and blues pianist and singer....
     (born 1931)
  • Percy Mayfield (1920-1984)
  • Piano Red
    Piano Red

    William "Willie" Lee Perryman , who was usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood, was an United States blues musician, the first to hit the pop music record chart....
     (1911-1985)
  • Memphis Slim
    Memphis Slim

    John "Memphis Slim" Chatman was a blues music pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump-blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano....
     (1915-1988)
  • Amos Milburn
    Amos Milburn

    Amos Milburn was an United States rhythm and blues singer, and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born and died in Houston, Texas....
     (1927-1980)
  • Pinetop Perkins
    Pinetop Perkins

    Pinetop Perkins is an United States blues musician....
     (1913)
  • Jimmy Witherspoon
    Jimmy Witherspoon

    Jimmy Witherspoon was an United States blues singer.James Witherspoon was born in Gurdon, Arkansas, Arkansas. He first attracted attention singing with Teddy Weatherford's band in Calcutta, India, which made regular radio broadcasts over the U....
     (1923-1997)


Kansas City blues

  • Walter Brown
    Walter Brown (singer)

    Walter Brown was a blues shouter who sang with Jay McShann's band in the 1940s and songwriter their biggest hit record, "Confessin' The Blues"....
     (1917-1956)
  • Jay McShann
    Jay McShann

    Jay McShann was an United States blues and swing pianist, bandleader, and singer.Nicknamed "Hootie", McShann was born James Columbus McShann in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Oklahoma....
      (c.1916-2006)
  • Arnold Moore
    Arnold Moore

    Arnold Moore was a blues singer. Born in Topeka, Kansas, he grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and worked with various Kansas City, Missouri jazz bands, including Bennie Moten's legendary jazz group....
      (1914-2005)
  • Jimmy Rushing
    Jimmy Rushing

    James Andrew Rushing was an United States blues shouter and swing music jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948....
      (c. 1902-1972)
  • Big Joe Turner
    Big Joe Turner

    Big Joe Turner was an United States blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri....
     (1911-1985)


Later styles

  • Little Hatch
    Little Hatch

    Little Hatch was a blues singer, musician and harmonica player.Born Provine Hatch Jr. in Sledge, Mississippi, he learned to play harmonica from his father....
     (1921-2003)
  • Lee McBee
    Lee McBee

    Lee McBee is an United States blues musician, singer and harmonica player.Though he is primarily a regional blues act in the midwest, McBee gained national attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his work with Mike Morgan and the Crawl and for his band the Passions....
     (born 1951)


Chicago/Detroit blues

  • Luther Allison
    Luther Allison

    File:LutherAllison1996.jpgLuther Allison was an United States blues guitarist. He was born in Widener, Arkansas, Arkansas and moved with his family, at age twelve, to Chicago, Illinois in 1951....
     (1939-1997)
  • Paul Butterfield
    Paul Butterfield

    Paul Butterfield was an United States blues vocalist, harmonica player who gained international recognition in part, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, in Woodstock, New York....
     (1942-1987)
  • John Henry Barbee
    John Henry Barbee

    John Henry Barbee was an United States blues singer and guitarist. He was born William George Tucker in Henning, Tennessee, Tennessee, and changed his name with the commencement of his sound recording and reproduction career to reflect his favourite folk music song, "John Henry "....
     (1905-1964)
  • Carey Bell
    Carey Bell

    Carey Bell was an American musician who played the harmonica in the musical style of Chicago blues. Bell played harp and bass for other blues icons for decades, including Earl Hooker, Robert Nighthawk, Lowell Fulson, Eddie Taylor,Louisiana Red and Jimmy Dawkins....
     (1936-2007)
  • Eddie Boyd
    Eddie Boyd

    Edward Riley Boyd known as Eddie Boyd was a blues piano player, born on Stovall's Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, Mississippi....
     (1914–1994)
  • James Cotton
    James Cotton

    James Cotton , is an United States blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter who is the bandleader for the James Cotton Blues Band. He also writes songs alone, and his solo career continues to this day....
     (born 1935)
  • Bo Diddley
    Bo Diddley

    Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
     (1928–2008)
  • Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon

    William James "Willie" Dixon was a well-known United States blues bassist, singing, songwriter, arranger and record producer. His songs, including "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil ", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It on Home"...
     (1915-1992)
  • David Honeyboy Edwards
    David Honeyboy Edwards

    David "Honeyboy" Edwards is an United States delta blues guitarist and singer....
     (born 1915)
  • Buddy Guy
    Buddy Guy

    George "Buddy" Guy is a five-time Grammy Award-winning United States blues and rock music guitarist and singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other guitarists, Guy is considered an important exponent of Chicago blues....
     (born 1936)
  • Earl Hooker
    Earl Hooker

    Earl Hooker was an United States blues guitarist. Hooker was a Chicago slide guitarist in the same league as Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, and his mentor, Robert Nighthawk....
     (1929-1970)
  • J.B. Hutto (1926-1983)
  • Big Walter Horton
    Big Walter Horton

    Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton was an American blues harmonica player.Born Walter Horton in Horn Lake, Mississippi, he was playing a harmonica by the time he was five years old....
     (1918-1981)
  • Floyd Jones
    Floyd Jones

    Floyd Jones was an United States blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, who is significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after the Second World War....
     (1917-1989)
  • Elmore James
    Elmore James

    Elmore James was an United States blues guitarist, singer, song writer and band leader.He was known as "The King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice....
     (1918-1963)
  • Albert King
    Albert King

    Albert King was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
     (1924-1992)
  • Freddie King
    Freddie King

    Freddie "The Texas Cannonball" King was an influential American blues guitarist and singer best known for his recordings from early 1960s including "Hide Away" and "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" and the album Burglar recorded in 1974....
     (1934-1976)
  • John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker

    John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
     (1917-2001)
  • Charlie Musselwhite
    Charlie Musselwhite

    Charlie Musselwhite is an American blues-harp player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield....
     (born 1944)
  • Robert Nighthawk
    Robert Lee McCollum

    Robert Lee McCollum was an United States bluesman who played and recorded under the names Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk.Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering through southern Mississippi settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee....
     (1909–1967)
  • Pinetop Perkins
    Pinetop Perkins

    Pinetop Perkins is an United States blues musician....
     (born 1913)
  • Jimmy Reed
    Jimmy Reed

    Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed was an United States blues singer notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues, as opposed to the more acoustic-based sound of many of his contemporaries....
     (1925-1976)
  • Soko Richardson
    Soko Richardson

    Soko Richardson was an influential rhythm and blues drummer. His career spanned almost fifty years, during which he performed and recorded with seminal groups including John Mayall Bluesbreakers and the Ike Turner....
     (1939 - 2004)
  • Jimmy Rogers
    Jimmy Rogers

    Jimmy Rogers was a blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s....
     (1924-1997)
  • Otis Rush
    Otis Rush

    Otis Rush is a blues music musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound, jazz-style arpeggios and long bent notes....
     (born 1934)
  • Magic Sam
    Magic Sam

    Samuel "Magic Sam" Gene Maghett was an American blues musician. Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter....
     (1937-1970)
  • Johnny Shines
    Johnny Shines

    Johnny Shines was an United States blues singer and guitarist.He was born John Ned Shines in Frayser, Memphis, Tennessee. He spent most of his childhood in Memphis, Tennessee playing slide guitar at an early age in local ?jukes? and for tips on the streets....
     (1915-1992)
  • Magic Slim
    Magic Slim

    Magic Slim is a blues singer and guitarist....
     (born 1937)
  • Otis Spann
    Otis Spann

    Otis Spann was an United States blues musician. Many aficionados considered him then, and now, as Chicago's leading postwar blues pianist....
     (1930-1970)
  • Hound Dog Taylor
    Hound Dog Taylor

    Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
     (1915-1975)
  • Eddie Taylor
    Eddie Taylor

    Edward "Eddie" Taylor was an United States blues guitarist and singer.As a boy Taylor taught himself to play the guitar. He spent his early years playing at venues around Leland, Mississippi, where he taught his friend Jimmy Reed to play guitar....
     (1923-1985)
  • Little Walter
    Little Walter

    Little Walter was a blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist.Jacobs is generally included among blues music greats?his revolutionary harmonica technique has earned comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix in its impact....
     (1930-1968)
  • Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters

    McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
     (1915-1983)
  • Carl Weathersby
    Carl Weathersby

    Carl Weathersby is a blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Weathersby has worked most notably with Albert King and Billy Branch, and is now a solo musician....
     (born 1953)
  • Junior Wells
    Junior Wells

    Junior Wells , born Amos Blakemore, was a Blues music vocalist and harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison among others....
     (1934-1998)
  • Howlin' Wolf
    Howlin' Wolf

    Chester Arthur Burnett , better known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.With a booming voice and looming physical presence, Burnett is commonly ranked among the leading performers in electric blues; musician and critic Cub Koda declared, "no one could match [Howlin' Wolf] for the singular...
     (1910-1976)
  • Sonny Boy Williamson II
    Sonny Boy Williamson II

    Aleck "Rice" Miller , a.k.a. Aleck Ford, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Williamson, Willie Miller, "Little Boy Blue", "The Goat" and "Footsie," was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter....
     (Rice Miller) (c. 1899-1965)


Modern blues (post 1950s)

  • Gaye Adegbalola
    Gaye Adegbalola

    Gaye Adegbalola is a blues singer and guitarist, teacher, lecturer, activist, and photographer. She was born Gaye Todd in Fredericksburg, Virginia on March 21, 1944....
     (1944-)
  • James Anthony
    James Anthony

    James Anthony is a Canadian guitarist.He started playing the guitar at age nine....
     (Pecchia) (born 1955)
  • Back Alley John
    Back Alley John

    Back Alley John was a Canadian blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player....
     (1955-2006)
  • Etta Baker
    Etta Baker

    Etta Baker was a Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina, United States of America....
     (1913-2006)
  • Marcia Ball
    Marcia Ball

    Marcia Ball is an United States blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana, Louisiana....
     (born 1949)
  • Elvin Bishop
    Elvin Bishop

    Elvin Bishop is an United States blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist....
     (born 1942)
  • Bobby Blue Bland (born 1930)
  • Rory Block
    Rory Block

    Aurora "Rory" Block is an United States female blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style....
     (born 1949)
  • Michael Bloomfield
    Michael Bloomfield

    Michael Bloomfield may refer to:* Michael J. Bloomfield, astronaut* Mike Bloomfield, guitarist...
     (1943-1981)
  • Blues Brothers
  • Delaney Bramlett
    Delaney Bramlett

    Delaney Bramlett was an United States singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer....
    (born 1939-2009)
  • Lonnie Brooks
    Lonnie Brooks

    Lonnie Brooks is an United States blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Dubuisson, Louisiana, Louisiana....
     (born 1933)
  • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (1924-2005)
  • Bob Brozman
    Bob Brozman

    Bob Brozman is an USA guitarist and ethnomusicologist.He has performed in a number of styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, Calypso music, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music....
     (born 1954)
  • Roy Buchanan
    Roy Buchanan

    Roy Buchanan was an United States guitarist and blues musician. He is noted for his use of note bending, volume swells, staccato runs, and pinch harmonics....
     (1939-1988)
  • Eric Burdon
    Eric Burdon

    Eric Victor Burdon is best known as a founding member and singer of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and his multi-racial project the Funk rock band War ....
     (born 1941)
  • Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
     (born 1945)
  • Albert Collins
    Albert Collins

    Albert Collins was a blues guitarist, singer and musician. He had many nicknames, such as "The Ice Man", "The Master of the Telecaster" and "The Razor Blade"....
     (1932-1993)
  • Johnny Copeland
    Johnny Copeland

    Johnny Copeland was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
     (1937-1997)
  • Al Copley
    Al Copley

    Al Copley is a blues pianist who co-founded the United States jump blues band Roomful of Blues with guitarist Duke Robillard in Westerly, Rhode Island, Rhode Island in 1967....
     (born 1952)
  • Robert Cray
    Robert Cray

    Robert Cray is an United States blues musician, guitarist, and singer....
     (born 1953)
  • Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon

    William James "Willie" Dixon was a well-known United States blues bassist, singing, songwriter, arranger and record producer. His songs, including "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil ", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It on Home"...
     (1915-1992)
  • Snooks Eaglin
    Snooks Eaglin

    Snooks Eaglin, born Fird Eaglin, Jr. , was a guitarist and singer in New Orleans. He has also been referred to as Blind Snooks Eaglin in this early years....
     (1936-2009)
  • John Fahey
    John Fahey

    John Fahey may refer to:* John Fahey , American guitarist and composer* John Fahey , former state premier of New South Wales, Australia, and later Australian federal Finance Minister...
     (1939-2001)
  • The Fabulous Thunderbirds
    The Fabulous Thunderbirds

    The Fabulous Thunderbirds are a blues-rock band , formed in 1974 in music....
  • Robben Ford
    Robben Ford

    Robben Ford is an United States blues, jazz and rock music guitarist....
     (born 1951)
  • Rory Gallagher
    Rory Gallagher

    Rory Gallagher was an Irish ethnicity blues/Rock and roll guitarist. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, he grew up in Cork City in the south of the country....
     (1948-1995)
  • Peter Green
    Peter Green

    Peter Green may refer to:*Peter Green , English blues guitarist, formerly of Fleetwood Mac*Peter Green , British historian & translator*Peter Green , Australian PR Manager & writer...
     (born 1946)
  • John Hammond
    John P. Hammond

    John P. Hammond , is a blues singer and guitarist. He is the son of the famed record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond, which makes him a great-great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and a member of the Vanderbilt family....
     (born 1942)
  • Alvin Youngblood Hart
    Alvin Youngblood Hart

    Alvin Youngblood Hart is an United States musician....
     (born 1963)
  • Ernie Hawkins
    Ernie Hawkins

    Ernest Leroy Hawkins is an acoustic blues guitar player, singer, recording artist, and educator, who has a Doctor of Philosophy in Phenomenology ....
     (born 1947)
  • Ted Hawkins
    Ted Hawkins

    Ted Hawkins an United States singer-songwriter, was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi on 28 October 1936 and died on 1 January 1995, aged 58....
     (1936-1995)
  • Z. Z. Hill (1935-1984)
  • John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker

    John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
     (1917-2001)
  • Lightnin' Hopkins
    Lightnin' Hopkins

    Sam "Lightnin?" Hopkins was a country blues guitarist, from Houston, Texas, Texas, United States....
     (1912-1982)
  • Hot Tuna
    Hot Tuna

    Hot Tuna is an United States blues-rock band, formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. They play acoustic and electric versions of original and traditional blues songs....
  • Colin James
    Colin James

    Colin James Munn is a Canada singer, guitarist, and songwriter who plays in the blues, Rock and roll, and Swing revival genres....
     (born 1964)
  • Etta James
    Etta James

    Etta James is an American blues, soul music, rhythm and blues, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards....
     (born 1938)
  • Jimmy Johnson
    Jimmy Johnson (musician)

    Jimmy Johnson is a member of the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section that was attached to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for an extended period in the 60s and 70s....
     (born 1928)
  • Jo Ann Kelly
    Jo Ann Kelly

    Jo Ann Kelly was a English people blues singer and guitarist....
     (born 1944)
  • B. B. King
    B. B. King

    B. B. King is an United States blues guitarist and singer-songwriter known for his expressive singing and inimitable guitar playing. As Komara has written, "King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." Critic...
     (born 1925)
  • Freddie King
    Freddie King

    Freddie "The Texas Cannonball" King was an influential American blues guitarist and singer best known for his recordings from early 1960s including "Hide Away" and "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" and the album Burglar recorded in 1974....
     (1934-1976)
  • Taj Mahal
    Taj Mahal (musician)

    Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who goes by the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician who folds various forms of world music into his offerings....
     (born 1942)
  • John Mayall (born 1933)
  • Keb' Mo'
    Keb' Mo'

    Keb' Mo is an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter....
     (born 1951)
  • Sam Myers
    Sam Myers

    Sam Myers was an United States blues musician and songwriter.He was born in Laurel, Mississippi, Mississippi. Myers appeared as an accompanist on dozens of sound recording and reproduction for blues musician over the past five decades, and fronted one of the top blues bands in the world....
     (born 1936)
  • Odetta
    Odetta

    Odetta Holmes, , known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement"....
     (born 1930)
  • Rod Piazza
    Rod Piazza

    Rod Piazza is a blues harmonica player, singer and band leader. He has been the driving force behind Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers since 1979, along with his wife Honey Piazza on piano and upright bass player Bill Stuve, guitarists such as Alex Schultz and Rick Holmstrom and drummer Jimmy Bott....
     (born 1947)
  • Lonnie Pitchford
    Lonnie Pitchford

    Lonnie Pitchford was a blues musician and musical instrument maker from Lexington, Mississippi, Mississippi. He was notable in that he was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from Mississippi who had learned and was continuing the Delta blues and country blues traditions of the older generations....
     (1955-1998)
  • Louisiana Red
    Louisiana Red

    Louisiana Red is a blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who has recorded more than 50 albums. He is best known for his song "Sweet Blood Call"....
     (born 1932)
  • Fenton Robinson
    Fenton Robinson

    Fenton Robinson was a blues singer and exponent of the Chicago Blues guitar.His signature song, "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" was cover version by Boz Scaggs, but attributed to Scaggs himself, resulting in legal battles....
     (1935-1997)
  • Roomful of Blues
    Roomful of Blues

    Roomful of Blues is a horn-driven musical band that plays jump blues. The group was formed in Westerly, Rhode Island, Rhode Island in 1967 by guitarist Duke Robillard and pianist Al Copley....
  • Bobby Rush
    Bobby Rush (musician)

    Bobby Rush is an United States blues and rhythm and blues musician, composer and singer. He was born Emmit Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana....
     (born 1940)
  • Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
    Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

    Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women is a three-woman blues musical group in the Washington, D.C. area. It was founded in 1987 by Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola and Earlene Lewis....
  • Seasick Steve
    Seasick Steve

    Steven Gene Wold, commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American bluesman, although he prefers to be called "a song and dance man". He plays guitars , and sings, usually about his early life living rough and doing casual work....
     (born c.1940)
  • Magic Slim
    Magic Slim

    Magic Slim is a blues singer and guitarist....
     (born 1937)
  • Son Seals
    Son Seals

    Frank "Son" Seals was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
     (1942-2004)
  • Arbee Stidham
    Arbee Stidham

    Arbee Stidham was an American R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist most successful in the late 1940s and 1950s.He was born to a musical family - his father played with Jimmie Lunceford and his uncle with the Memphis Jug Band - and learned to play harmonica, clarinet and saxophone as a child....
     (1917-1988)
  • Koko Taylor
    Koko Taylor

    Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor is an United States blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She is known primarily for her rough and powerful human voice and traditional blues stylings....
     (born 1935)
  • Tabby Thomas
    Tabby Thomas

    Tabby Thomas also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas is an United States blues musician. He singer and plays the piano and guitar, and specializes in a substyle of blues indigenous to southern Louisiana called swamp blues....
     (born 1929)
  • Rufus Thomas
    Rufus Thomas

    Rufus Thomas, Jr. was a rhythm and blues, funk and soul music singer and comedian fromMemphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the...
     (1917-2001)
  • Ali Farka Toure
    Ali Farka Touré

    Ali Ibrahim ?Farka? Tour? was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent?s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Music of Mali and its North American cousin, the blues....
     (1939-2006)
  • Robin Trower
    Robin Trower

    Robin Trower is an England rock music guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the leader of his own power trio....
     (born 1945)
  • Jimmie Vaughan
    Jimmie Vaughan

    James Lawrence "Jimmie Lee" Vaughan is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is the older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan.Jimmie Vaughan's style was influenced by Freddie King who gave him personal advice....
     (born 1951)
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan was an United States blues-rock guitarist, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work have been released....
     (1954-1990)
  • Kazumi Watanabe
    Kazumi Watanabe

    Kazumi Watanabe was born on October 14, 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a jazz fusion and instrumental rock guitarist and composer. He has been chosen Best Jazzman 24 times in a row by Swing Journal's annual poll....
     (born 1953)
  • Johnny Winter
    Johnny Winter

    John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an United States blues guitarist, Vocalist and Record producer.Johnny and Edgar Winter were nurtured at an early age by their parents in their musical pursuits....
     (born 1944)


Blues since 1990

  • Gwyn Ashton
    Gwyn Ashton

    Gwyn Ashton is a blues and Rock music guitarist now living in Australia. He has performed as opening act for Rory Gallagher, B. B. King, Van Morrison, Jeff Healey and Status Quo , among others....
  • Tab Benoit
    Tab Benoit

    Tab Benoit is a blues guitarist, musician and singer. He plays a style that is a combination of Swamp blues, Soul blues and Chicago blues. He plays Fender Musical Instruments Corporation guitars and writes his own music compositions....
     (born 1967)
  • Deanna Bogart
    Deanna Bogart

    Deanna Bogart is a blues singer / pianist / saxophone player.Drawing on a variety of musical sources ranging from boogie-woogie to New Orleans R&B to swing to rock and roll, singer and barrelhouse pianist Bogart emerged as one of the most eclectic performers in contemporary blues....
     (born 1960)
  • Joe Bonamassa
    Joe Bonamassa

    Joe Bonamassa is an United States blues-rock guitarist/singer....
     (born 1977)
  • Kenny Brown
  • R. L. Burnside
    R. L. Burnside

    R. L. Burnside was a North Mississippi hill country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist who lived much of his life in and around Holly Springs, Mississippi, Mississippi....
     (1926-2005)
  • Tommy Castro
    Tommy Castro

    Tommy Castro is a blues guitarist and singer. He began playing guitar at a young age and was influenced and inspired by electric blues, Chicago blues, West Coast blues, soul music, '60's rock and roll and Southern rock....
     (born 1959)
  • Claudia Carawan
    Claudia Carawan

    Claudia Carawan is an United States singer-songwriter and pianist. Although she has been creating and performing music for more than 20 years, it took until 2003 before she released her debut album, Out of the Blue ....
     (born 1959)
  • Joanna Connor
    Joanna Connor

    Joanna Connor is a Chicago-based blues music singer/songwriter/guitarist.Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1962, Joanna was drawn to the Chicago blues scene in the early 1980s, eventually sharing the stage with veteran blues musicians James Cotton, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, and A.C....
     (born 1962)
  • Shemekia Copeland
    Shemekia Copeland

    File:ShemekiaCopeland1996.jpgShemekia Copeland Born in Harlem on April 10, 1979, she is the daughter of blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland....
     (born 1979)
  • Murali Coryell
    Murali Coryell

    Murali Coryell is an American blues guitarist and singer. Best known for performing live in small venues in New York State, Coryell has also opened for George Thorogood, Gregg Allman, B....
     (born 1969)
  • Sean Costello
    Sean Costello

    Sean Costello was an American blues guitarist and singer renowned for his fiery playing and soulful voice.He released five critically-acclaimed albums before his career was cut short by his sudden death at the age of 28....
     (1979-2008)
  • Guy Davis (born 1952)
  • Chris Duarte
    Chris Duarte

    Chris Duarte is an Atlanta-based guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Duarte plays a rhythmic style of Texas blues-rock that draws on elements of jazz, blues, and rock 'n' roll....
     (born 1964)
  • Ronnie Earl
    Ronnie Earl

    File:RonnieEarl1996.jpgRonnie Earl is an United States blues guitarist and music teacher....
     (born 1953)
  • Tinsley Ellis
    Tinsley Ellis

    Tinsley Ellis , a blues musician, was born in Atlanta, Georgia and spent his early years in Florida. Inspired by his idol, B.B. King, he was determined to become a blues guitarist....
     (born 1957)
  • Sue Foley
    Sue Foley

    Sue Foley is a Canada blues singer and guitarist....
     (born 1968)
  • Anson Funderburgh
    Anson Funderburgh

    Anson Funderburgh is a blues guitar player and band leader. He has led Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets since 1979. Their style incorporates both Chicago blues and Texas blues....
     (born 1954)
  • Anthony Gomes
    Anthony Gomes

    Anthony Gomes is a Canada blues and blues-rock guitarist and singer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario to a Portugal father and a Canadian mother....
     (born 1975)
  • Alvin Youngblood Hart
    Alvin Youngblood Hart

    Alvin Youngblood Hart is an United States musician....
     (born 1965)
  • Jeff Healey
    Jeff Healey

    Jeff Healey was a blind Canada jazz and blues music-Rock music guitarist and vocalist....
     (1966-2008)
  • Ron Holloway
    Ron Holloway

    Ronald Edward "Ron" Holloway, born August 24, 1953 in Washington, D.C., is an American tenor saxophonist known for his love of a sweeping breadth and knowledge of jazz, his genial manner sitting in with various bands, his eclectic tastes in music and his ability to adapt his playing to a variety of musical genres....
     (born 1953)
  • Colin James
    Colin James

    Colin James Munn is a Canada singer, guitarist, and songwriter who plays in the blues, Rock and roll, and Swing revival genres....
  • Gene Kelton
    Gene Kelton

    "Mean" Gene Kelton is a guitarist and songwriter currently based out of Houston, Texas, though he was born in Booneville, Mississippi. He plays Americana, Blues-rock, and Rockabilly music....
  • Junior Kimbrough
    Junior Kimbrough

    Junior Kimbrough was a prominent American bluesman from Mississippi....
     (1930-1998)
  • Chris Thomas King
    Chris Thomas King

    Chris Thomas King is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor....
     (born 1964)
  • Jonny Lang
    Jonny Lang

    Jonny Lang is a Grammy Award-winning American blues, Gospel music, and rock music singer, song writer and recording artist. Lang's music is notable both for his unusual voice, which has been compared to that of a 40 year old blues veteran, and for his guitar solo ....
     (born 1981)
  • Harry Manx
    Harry Manx

    Harry Manx is a musician who blends blues, folk music, and Hindustani classical music. He was born in the Isle of Man where he spent his childhood, and now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada....
  • Keb Mo' (born 1951)
  • Coco Montoya
    Coco Montoya

    Coco Montoya is a blues guitarist and former member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers...
  • Kenny Neal
    Kenny Neal

    Kenny Neal , son of Raful Neal, is a blues and swamp blues guitar player, singer and band member. Neal comes from a musical family and has often performed with his sibling in his band ....
     (born 1957)
  • North Mississippi All Stars
  • Blind Mississippi Morris
    Blind Mississippi Morris

    Blind Mississippi Morris is an United States blues musician.Cummings lost his sight at the age of four, but that did not stop him from learning the blues....
     (born 1955)
  • Conrad Oberg (born 1995)
  • Charlie Parr
    Charlie Parr

    Charlie Parr is a country blues musician from Duluth, Minnesota. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, and Dave Van Ronk....
  • Asie Payton
    Asie Payton

    Asie Payton was a blues musician who lived most of his life in Holly Ridge, Mississippi, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta. Born in Washington County, Mississippi, he sang and played the guitar, but made his living as a farmer....
     (1937-1997)
  • Kelly Joe Phelps
    Kelly Joe Phelps

    Kelly Joe Phelps is an United States musician and songwriter. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz....
     (born 1959)
  • Ana Popovic
    Ana Popovic

    Ana Popovic is a Blues-guitarist and singer....
     (born 1976)
  • Roxanne Potvin
    Roxanne Potvin

    Roxanne Potvin is an bilingual Gatineau, Quebec-based singer, blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. Born in Regina, where her father was a TV reporter for CBC, Potvin moved to the Ottawa area when she was two....
     (born 1982)
  • Todd Sharpville
    Todd Sharpville

    Todd Sharpville is a United Kingdom musician/singer-songwriter and lead guitarist, mainly in the rock music/blues field. His father also holds the titles Baron Strange Of Knockin , Baron Hungerford , Baron de Moleyns , Baronet Of Picton Castle , and is a co-heir to the barony of Baron Grey de Ruthyn holding a share of the Abeyance title....
     (born 1970)
  • Kenny Wayne Shepherd
    Kenny Wayne Shepherd

    Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an United States blues guitarist, singer and songwriter....
     (born 1976)
  • Bobby Sowell
    Bobby Sowell

    Bobby Sowell is an United States musician, pianist and composer. He spent much of his early years playing rockabilly piano in the late 1950s, playing electric organ in rock and roll band in the 1960s and playing piano in numerous country music bands in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s....
     (born 1947)
  • Otis Taylor
    Otis Taylor (musician)

    Otis Taylor is an African American blues musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and vocals....
     (born 1948)
  • Susan Tedeschi
    Susan Tedeschi

    Susan Tedeschi is an United States blues and soul music artist, who has risen to fame with multiple Grammy Award nominations, her powerful singing voice, fearless stage presence, and her marriage to Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers Band....
     (born 1970)
  • Jimmy Thackery
    Jimmy Thackery

    Jimmy Thackery is a blues singer and guitarist....
     (born 1953)
  • T-Model Ford
    T-Model Ford

    James Lewis Carter Ford is an American blues musician better known by his stage name, T-Model Ford. Unable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his musical career in his early seventies and has continuously recorded for the Fat Possum Records label....
     (born 1924)
  • Joe Louis Walker
    Joe Louis Walker

    Joe Louis Walker is an United States of America blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer....
     (born 1949)
  • William Elliott Whitmore
    William Elliott Whitmore

    William Elliott Whitmore, born in 1978, is a deep-blues vocalist and musician from Lee County, Iowa. He has recorded a number of albums released on Southern Records....
     (born 1978)
  • Bob Cobb
    Bob Cobb

    Bob Cobb or Robert Cobb may refer to:*Robert W. Cobb, US government official*Robert Cobb , former American football defensive end*Robert H....
     (born 1965)


Blues in conventional pop music

  • Harold Arlen
    Harold Arlen

    Harold Arlen was an United States Jewish composer of popular music.Having written over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook....
    , "Blues in the Night" and "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
  • Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington

    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
     and Billy Strayhorn
    Billy Strayhorn

    William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an United States composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting close to three decades....
    , "I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"
  • George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
     (1898-1937), "Porgy and Bess"
  • John Mayer Trio, "Try!" 2005


Blues in country music

  • Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
     (1932-2003)
  • Merle Haggard
    Merle Haggard

    Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
     (1937)
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
    Jerry Lee Lewis

    Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
      (1937)
  • Jimmie Rodgers
    Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)

    Jimmie Rodgers was a country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"....
     (1897-1933)
  • Hank Williams (1923-1953)
See also: rockabilly
Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a Portmanteau word of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development....


Blues influence in classical music

  • George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
     (1898-1937), "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Concerto in F"
  • Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    , "Pacific 231", the "train song" as concerto.
  • William Grant Still
    William Grant Still

    William Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony of his own performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company, and the first to hav...
    , "Afro-American Symphony"


Blues in contemporary rock and pop music

  • The Black Keys
    The Black Keys

    The Black Keys are an American blues-rock music duo consisting of vocalist/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer/producer Patrick Carney. They were formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001....
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an United States alternative rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. BRMC is known for its brand of garage rock, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia, and often religiously inspired lyrics, and its influences are groups and musicians such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Rolling...
  • Blues Explosion
  • Nick Cave
    Nick Cave

    Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, Painting, and occasional film actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984 in music, who have become critically acclaimed for their fascination with American roots music....
     (born 1957)
  • G. Love & Special Sauce
    G. Love & Special Sauce

    G. Love & Special Sauce is a three member alternative hip hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The trio is known for their unique, "sloppy", and "laid back" blues music sound that encompasses the sound and production of classic R&B....
  • Ben Harper
    Ben Harper

    Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper is an American musician....
     (born 1969)
  • Chris Thomas King
    Chris Thomas King

    Chris Thomas King is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor....
     (born 1962)
  • Lenny Kravitz
    Lenny Kravitz

    Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is a popular United States singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arrangement whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock music, soul music, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic rock, traditional music and ballad ....
     (born 1964)
  • Los Lonely Boys
    Los Lonely Boys

    Los Lonely Boys is a Grammy Award-winning rock music band from San Angelo, Texas. They play a style of music which they dub as Texican Rock n' Roll, combining elements of rock and roll, blues, soul music, country music, and Tejano music....
  • Hans Olson
    Hans Olson

    Hans Olson is an American musician from San Bernardino, CA, he now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona. Olson usually performs solo although he has played with several bands throughout his career....
  • Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
  • Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
    Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise

    Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise was formed in 1994 when former members of the band Second Self came across a blind street performer by the name of Robert Bradley....
  • Tom Waits
    Tom Waits

    Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
     (born 1948)
  • The White Stripes
    The White Stripes

    The White Stripes is an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of songwriter Jack White and Meg White .After releasing several singles and three albums within the Music of Detroit#1990s independent music underground music, The White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock#Revival...


Blues from Europe

  • Alexis Korner
    Alexis Korner

    Alexis Korner , born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner, was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues"....
  • Ana Popovic
    Ana Popovic

    Ana Popovic is a Blues-guitarist and singer....
  • Barrelhouse
    Barrelhouse

    Barrelhouse can refer to:*A Bar or saloon. Originates from the storage of barrels of alcohol.*An early form of jazz with wild, improvised piano, and an accented two-beat rhythm ....
  • Cuby and the Blizzards
  • Cyril Davies
    Cyril Davies

    Cyril Davies was one of the first British blues harmonica players and blues musician.Born at St Mildred's, 15 Hawthorn Drive, Willowbank, Denham, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire, near London, he was the son of William Albert Davies, a labourer, and his wife Margaret Mary ....
  • Christian Dozzler
    Christian Dozzler

    Christian Dozzler is a blues, boogie woogie and zydeco multi-instrumentalist and singer from Austria, now based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area....
  • Elmore D
    Elmore D

    Elmore D., born near liege in 1946, blues musician. His real name is Daniel Droixhe and is also professor at the University of Li?ge where he is giving lectures on the history and culture of Wallonia....
  • Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  • Todd Sharpville
    Todd Sharpville

    Todd Sharpville is a United Kingdom musician/singer-songwriter and lead guitarist, mainly in the rock music/blues field. His father also holds the titles Baron Strange Of Knockin , Baron Hungerford , Baron de Moleyns , Baronet Of Picton Castle , and is a co-heir to the barony of Baron Grey de Ruthyn holding a share of the Abeyance title....
  • Hans Theessink
    Hans Theessink

    Hans Theessink is a Dutch guitarist, singer and songwriter living in Vienna. He performs blues music and American roots music, particularly in a delta blues style....
  • Herman Brood
    Herman Brood

    Herman Brood was a Netherlands musician, Painting and News media personality. Brood was known for his hedonistic lifestyle of "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll"....
  • John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
  • John Kirkbride
    John Kirkbride

    John Kirkbride is a Scottish singer, guitarist, songwriter and entertainer, currently residing in Germany.Kirkbride plays blues and jazz standards from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, as well as compositions of his own....
  • Peter Green
    Peter Green (musician)

    Peter Green is a United Kingdom blues-rock guitarist and founder of the band Fleetwood Mac.A figurehead in the British blues movement, Green inspired B....
  • Rory Gallagher
    Rory Gallagher

    Rory Gallagher was an Irish ethnicity blues/Rock and roll guitarist. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, he grew up in Cork City in the south of the country....
  • Steve Baker
    Steve Baker

    Steve Baker is an England professional association football who is a defender and is currently unattached.Baker has played for a number of clubs including Middlesbrough F.C., Huddersfield Town F.C., Hartlepool United F.C....
  • Yavuz Çetin
    Yavuz Çetin

    Yavuz ?etin was a Turkish people musician. He was born in Samsun, Turkey. His father, Erdal ?etin, was a journalist, Yavuz spent his childhood in many different places in Turkey....
  • Alvin Lee
    Alvin Lee

    Alvin Lee is an English people guitarist and singer. He began playing guitar at the age of 13, and with Leo Lyons formed the core of the band Ten Years After in 1960....


Blues from Latin America

  • Nuno Mindelis
    Nuno Mindelis

    Nuno Mindelis , nicknamed "The Beast", is an Angolan-born Brazilian blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Mindelis was born in Cabinda , Angola....
  • Pappo
    Pappo

    Pappo is the pseudonym of Argentina blues and heavy metal music/rock musician Norberto Napolitano .A native of the middle-class La Paternal, Buenos Aires neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Pappo started playing the guitar at the age of ten, and became active in Argentine rock since its beginnings; Pappo was a force in its transition from E...
  • Carlos Santana
    Carlos Santana

    Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....


Blues from Russia

  • Blackmailers
    Blackmailers

    :ru:Blackmailers?? the wedding and funeral orchestra....


See also

  • Blues
    Blues

    Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
  • List of British blues musicians
    List of British blues musicians

    This is a list of British blues band s and musicians.*Alexis Korner*Alvin Lee*The Animals*Aynsley Dunbar*Aynsley Lister*Billy Nicholls*Blues Incorporated...