List of soul-blues musicians
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  • Tommy Castro
    Tommy Castro
    Tommy Castro is an American blues, R&B and rock guitarist and singer. He has been recording since the mid 1990s. His music has taken him from local stages to national and international touring. His popularity was marked by his winning the 2008 Blues Music Award for Entertainer Of The Year...

  • Otis Clay
    Otis Clay
    Otis Clay is an American R&B and soul singer, who started in gospel music.-Life and career:...

  • Gary B.B. Coleman
    Gary B.B. Coleman
    Gary B.B. Coleman was an American soul blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer.Originally a local-musician turned-blues promoter and session musician, Coleman recorded his debut album in 1986, which was re-released on Ichiban Records...

  • Michael Coleman
    Michael Coleman (blues musician)
    Michael Coleman is an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was voted one of the top 50 bluesmen in the world by Guitar World magazine...

  • Shemekia Copeland
    Shemekia Copeland
    Shemekia Copeland is an American electric blues vocalist.-Career:Copeland was born in Harlem, New York City, United States. She is the daughter of Texas blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland...

  • Robert Cray
    Robert Cray
    Robert Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has led his own band, as well as an acclaimed solo career.-Career:...


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  • Larry Hamilton
    Larry Hamilton (musician)
    Larry Hamilton is an American New Orleans blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. Although he has been a professional musician since the mid 1960s, his solo debut album was not released until 1997.-Biography:...

  • Ted Hawkins
    Ted Hawkins
    Ted Hawkins was an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, United States.Hawkins was an enigmatic figure through most of his career; he split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California where he was a mostly anonymous street performer, and Europe,...

  • Z. Z. Hill
  • The Holmes Brothers
    The Holmes Brothers
    The Holmes Brothers are a vocal and instrumental trio originally from Christchurch, Virginia. Mixing sounds from blues, soul, gospel, and rhythm & blues, they have released nine original albums, with two reaching the top 5 on the Billboard Blues Albums chart. They have gained a following by playing...


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  • J.J. Malone
    J.J. Malone
    John Jacob Malone was an American West Coast blues, electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist. His best known recordings were "It's a Shame" and "Danger Zone"...

  • Jimmy McCracklin
    Jimmy McCracklin
    Jimmy McCracklin is an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contains West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that has spanned seven decades, he says he has written almost a thousand songs and has recorded hundreds of them...

  • Little Milton
    Little Milton
    James Milton Campbell, Jr. , better known as Little Milton, was an American electric blues, rhythm and blues, and soul singer and guitarist, best known for his hit records "Grits Ain't Groceries" and "We're Gonna Make It."-Biography:Milton was born James Milton Campbell, Jr., in the Mississippi...

  • Willie Mitchell

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  • Johnnie Taylor
    Johnnie Taylor
    Johnnie Harrison Taylor was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from rhythm and blues, soul, blues and gospel to pop, doo-wop and disco.-Early years:...

  • Little Johnny Taylor
    Little Johnny Taylor
    Little Johnny Taylor was an American blues and soul singer, who made recordings throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and continued public performances through the 1980s and 1990s....

  • Earl Thomas
  • Ike Turner
    Ike Turner
    Isaac Wister Turner was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk...


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  • Robert Ward
    Robert Ward (blues musician)
    Robert Ward was an American blues and soul guitarist. He was known for founding the Ohio Untouchables, the band that later would become the Ohio Players...

  • Walter "Wolfman" Washington
    Walter "Wolfman" Washington
    Walter "Wolfman" Washington is an American singer and guitarist, based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. While his roots are in blues music, he blends in the essence of funk and R&B to create his own unique sound....

  • Lee "Shot" Williams
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