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List of blues musicians

Index List of blues musicians

Performers in the blues style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to big bands to country music to rock and roll to classical music. [1]

780 relations: Al Copley, Alan Wilson (musician), Albert Ammons, Albert Castiglia, Albert Collins, Albert King, Albert White (musician), Alberta Hunter, Alec Seward, Alexis Korner, Alexis P. Suter, Ali Farka Touré, Alice Leslie Carter, Alto Reed, Alvin Lee, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Amos Milburn, Ana Popović, Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones, Andrew Odom, Andrew Tibbs, Andy Rodgers (musician), Angela Strehli, Anson Funderburgh, Anthony Gomes, Arbee Stidham, Archie Edwards, Aron Burton, Arthur "Big Boy" Spires, Arthur Crudup, Arthur Honegger, Arvella Gray, Asie Payton, Axel Zwingenberger, B.B. King, Baby Boy Warren, Baby Tate, Back Alley John, Backwards Sam Firk, Barbecue Bob, Barkin' Bill Smith, Barrelhouse Chuck, Barry Levenson, Ben Harper, Bernice Edwards, Bertha Idaho, Bessie Brown, Bessie Smith, Bessie Tucker, Big band, ..., Big Bill Broonzy, Big Boy Henry, Big Dave McLean, Big Joe Duskin, Big Joe Turner, Big John Wrencher, Big Maceo Merriweather, Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, Bill Monroe, Billy Flynn (musician), Billy Gibbons, Billy Wright (musician), Biscuit Miller, Bjørn Berge, Black Ace, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Connie Williams, Blind John Davis, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Mississippi Morris, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Blues, Blues in the Night, Bo Diddley, Bob Brozman, Bob Corritore, Bob Dylan, Bob Gaddy, Bob Hite, Bob Kirkpatrick (musician), Bob Stroger, Bobby Bland, Bobby Murray (musician), Bobby Rush (musician), Bobby Sowell, Bobo Jenkins, Bonnie Lee, Bonnie Raitt, Bonny B., Boo Boo Davis, Boogie Bill Webb, Boogie Woogie Red, Booker T. Laury, Boyd Gilmore, Brant Parker, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, Brownie McGhee, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Buddy Guy, Buddy Moss, Bukka White, Bull City Red, Bumble Bee Slim, Buster Benton, Buster Pickens, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, Calvin Frazier, Calvin Leavy, Candye Kane, Carey Bell, Carl Weathersby, Carlos Santana, Carol Fran, Carolina Slim, Carolyn Wonderland, Casey Bill Weldon, Cash McCall (musician), Catfish Keith, Cedric Burnside, Champion Jack Dupree, Charles Brown (musician), Charles Caldwell (bluesman), Charley Lincoln, Charley Patton, Charlie "Specks" McFadden, Charlie Daniels, Charlie Musselwhite, Charlie Parr, Charlie Spand, Chicago Blues All-Stars, Chico Banks, Chris Beard (singer), Chris Duarte, Chris James and Patrick Rynn, Chris Rea, Chris Thomas King, Christian Dozzler, Clara McDaniel, Clara Smith, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Clarence Edwards (blues musician), Clarence Garlow, Classical music, Claudia Carawan, Clutch (band), Coco Montoya, Colin James, Concerto in F (Gershwin), Cool John Ferguson, Coot Grant, Cootie Stark, Country music, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Cuby + Blizzards, Curley Bridges, Curley Weaver, Cyril Davies, Dan Auerbach, Dan Pickett (musician), Dan Sane, Daniel Ivankovich, Darrell Nulisch, Dave Peabody, Dave Specter, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, David Maxwell (musician), Davy Knowles, Deanna Bogart, Debbie Davies, Deborah Coleman, Del Rey (musician), Delaney Bramlett, Delbert McClinton, Dennis Gruenling, Denny Freeman, Derek Trucks, Dexter Allen, Diana Braithwaite, Diunna Greenleaf, Doctor Clayton, Doug MacLeod (musician), Doug Quattlebaum, Drink Small, Duane Allman, Duffy Bishop, Duke Ellington, Duke Henderson, Duke Tumatoe, E.C. Scott, E.G. Kight, Earl Gaines, Earl Hooker, Earring George Mayweather, Ed Bell (musician), Eddie "Guitar" Burns, Eddie Boyd, Eddie Cusic, Eddie King (musician), Eddie Mapp, Eddie Shaw, Eddie Taylor, Edith North Johnson, Edmonia Henderson, Eli Cook (musician), Elizabeth Cotten, Elmore D, Elmore James, Elvie Thomas, Elvin Bishop, Elvis Presley, Elzadie Robinson, Eric Bibb, Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, Ernie Hawkins, Ernie Lancaster, Ethel Finnie, Ethel Waters, Etta Baker, Etta James, Fabio Treves, Fannie May Goosby, Fenton Robinson, Floyd Council, Floyd Dixon, Floyd Jones, Floyd Miles, Forest City Joe, Frank Stokes (musician), Frankie Lee (musician), Frankie Lee Sims, Fred McMullen, Freddie Brooks (musician), Freddie King, Freddie Roulette, Freddie Spruell, Fruteland Jackson, Furry Lewis, G. Love & Special Sauce, Gabriel Brown, Gary B.B. Coleman, Gary Moore, Gary Primich, Gatemouth Moore, Gaye Adegbalola, Geeshie Wiley, Gene "Birdlegg" Pittman, Gene Kelton, George "Mojo" Buford, George Gershwin, George Higgs, George Thorogood, Gladys Bentley, Golden "Big" Wheeler, Good Rockin' Charles, Grady Champion, Grady Gaines, Grego Anderson, Guitar Nubbit, Guitar Pete Franklin, Guitar Slim Jr., Gus Cannon, Guy Davis (musician), Gwyn Ashton, Hamilton Loomis, Hank Williams, Hans Olson, Hans Theessink, Harmonica Shah, Harmonica Slim, Harold Arlen, Harrison Kennedy (musician), Harry Manx, Hattie Hart, Hayes McMullan, Hazel Meyers, Helen Gross, Henry "Rufe" Johnson, Henry "Son" Sims, Henry Gray (musician), Henry Qualls, Henry Sloan, Henry Thomas (blues musician), Henry Townsend (musician), Herman Brood, Hip Linkchain, Holle Thee Maxwell, Hound Dog Taylor, Houston Stackhouse, Howlin' Wolf, Hugh Laurie, I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good), Ian Siegal, Ida Cox, Ida Goodson, Ida May Mack, Indian blues, Innes Sibun, Irene Scruggs, Iron Mike Norton, Ironing Board Sam, Isaac Scott (musician), Ivory Joe Hunter, J. B. Hutto, J. T. Smith (musician), J.D. Short, J.J. Malone, Jabo Williams, Jack White, James "Stump" Johnson, James "Thunderbird" Davis, James Anthony (musician), James Armstrong (musician), James Cotton, James Crutchfield, James Harman, James Hunter (singer), James Montgomery (singer), Janis Joplin, Janiva Magness, Jay Hooks, Jay McShann, Jay Owens (musician), Jazz Gillum, Jeff Healey, Jelly Roll Morton, Jeremiah Johnson (blues musician), Jerry Lee Lewis, Jesse Fuller, Jim Allchin, Jim Byrnes (actor), Jim Jackson (musician), Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmie Gordon, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), Jimmie Smith, Jimmie Vaughan, Jimmy Burns, Jimmy Dotson, Jimmy Johnson (blues guitarist), Jimmy Page, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmy Rushing, Jimmy Thackery, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jo Ann Kelly, Joanna Connor, Jody Williams (blues musician), Joe Asselin, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Louis Walker, Joe Pullum, Joe Weaver, Joe Willie Wilkins, Joey Gilmore, John "Juke" Logan, John Altenburgh, John Dee Holeman, John Fahey (musician), John Henry Barbee, John Jackson (blues musician), John Kirkbride (musician), John Lee Hooker, John Long (blues musician), John Mayall, John Mayer, John Németh, John P. Hammond, Johnnie Bassett, Johnnie Marshall, Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, Johnny "Man" Young, Johnny "Yard Dog" Jones, Johnny B. Moore, Johnny Cash, Johnny Copeland, Johnny Dodds, Johnny Drummer, Johnny Dyer, Johnny Fuller (musician), Johnny Heartsman, Johnny Laws, Johnny Mars, Johnny Otis, Johnny Rawls, Johnny Sansone, Johnny Shines, Johnny Williams (blues musician), Johnny Winter, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jonny Lang, Josh White, Julian Fauth, Junior Kimbrough, Junior Parker, Junior Wells, Kansas City Red, Kansas Joe McCoy, Karen Carroll, Karen Lovely, Katherine Henderson, Keb' Mo', Keith Richards, Kelley Hunt, Kelly Joe Phelps, Ken Saydak, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, Kenny Brown (guitarist), Kenny Neal, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Kevin McKendree, Kid Ramos, King Solomon Hill, Kip Anderson, Kitty Brown, Koko Taylor, Kokomo Arnold, Krissy Matthews, L. C. Ulmer, L.C. Green, L.V. Banks, L.V. Johnson, Lacy Gibson, Lady Bianca, Larry Davis (blues musician), Larry Garner, Larry Hamilton (musician), Larry McCray, Laura Smith (blues singer), Laurence Jones (musician), Lavelle White, Lavinia Turner, Lazy Lester, Lead Belly, Led Zeppelin, Lee Gates, Lee McBee, Lefty Bates, Lefty Dizz, Lenny Kravitz, Leroy Carr, Leroy Dallas, Leroy Foster, Lester Williams (musician), Lightnin' Hopkins, Lightnin' Slim, Lightnin' Wells, Lightnin' Willie & the Poorboys, Lil Green, Lil McClintock, Lil' Dave Thompson, Lil' Ed Williams, Lillian Glinn, Linsey Alexander, Lisa Mann, List of Chicago blues musicians, List of Piedmont blues musicians, Lists of blues musicians by genre, Lists of musicians, Little Arthur Duncan, Little Brother Montgomery, Little Buddy Doyle, Little Freddie King, Little Hat Jones, Little Hatch, Little Jimmy King, Little Mack Simmons, Little Mike and the Tornadoes, Little Sammy Davis, Little Smokey Smothers, Little Sonny, Little Sonny Jones, Little Walter, Little Willie Littlefield, Little Willy Foster, Liz Mandeville, Lonesome Sundown, Long John Hunter, Lonnie Brooks, Lonnie Donegan, Lonnie Johnson (musician), Lonnie Mack, Lonnie Pitchford, Lonnie Shields, Los Lonely Boys, Lottie Kimbrough, Lou Ann Barton, Lou Pride, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Louisiana Red, Lovie Lee, Lucille Bogan, Lucille Hegamin, Lucky Peterson, Luke "Long Gone" Miles, Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson, Luther Allison, Ma Rainey, Mac Arnold, Madlyn Davis, Maggie Jones (blues musician), Magic Sam, Magic Slim, Mamie Smith, Mance Lipscomb, Marcia Ball, Marcus Bonfanti, Margie Evans, Marion James, Martha Copeland, Mary Flower, Mary Johnson (singer), Mason Ruffner, Matt Hill (musician), Matt Schofield, Mattie Delaney, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, Meade Lux Lewis, Memphis Minnie, Memphis Slim, Memphis Willie B., Merle Haggard, Michael Burks, Michael Coleman (blues musician), Michael Messer, Mick Taylor, Mighty Mo Rodgers, Mike Bloomfield, Mike Morgan (musician), Mike Wheeler (musician), Miss Frankie, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mississippi John Hurt, Mitch Woods, Monster Mike Welch, Moody Jones, Moon Mullican, Mose Allison, Mose Vinson, Moses "Whispering" Smith, Mozelle Alderson, Muddy Waters, Murali Coryell, Neal Pattman, Nick Cave, Nick Jonas & the Administration, Nick Moss, Nora Jean Bruso, Norah Jones, Norman Beaker, North Mississippi Allstars, Nuno Mindelis, Odessa Harris, Odetta, Odie Payne, Oli Brown, Ora Alexander, Oscar "Buddy" Woods, Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, Otis Grand, Otis Rush, Otis Spann, Otis Taylor (musician), Pacific 231, Papa Charlie Jackson, Papa Charlie McCoy, Pappo, Pat Boyack, Paul "Wine" Jones, Paul Butterfield, Paul Geremia, Paul Lamb (musician), Pee Wee Crayton, Peetie Wheatstraw, Peg Leg Howell, Percy Mayfield, Percy Strother, Pete Mayes, Peter Green (musician), Phil Guy, Philip Sayce, Piano Red, Pierre Lacocque, Pinetop Perkins, Pinetop Sparks, Piney Brown, Pink Anderson, Porgy and Bess, Preston Shannon, Professor Eddie Lusk, Pyeng Threadgill, R. L. Burnside, R.J. Mischo, Rabbit Brown, Ralph Willis (blues musician), Ramblin' Thomas, Ramon Goose, Randy McAllister, Ray Charles, Red Nelson (musician), Redd Velvet, Reggie Sears, Reneé Austin, Reverend Gary Davis, Rhapsody in Blue, Richard Johnston (musician), Richard Ray Farrell, Richard Trice, Rick Franklin, Rick Holmstrom, Robben Ford, Robert "Big Mojo" Elem, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, Robert Cray, Robert Curtis Smith, Robert Ealey, Robert Johnson, Robert Lockwood Jr., Robert Nighthawk, Robert Plant, Robert Shaw (blues musician), Robin Trower, Rock and roll, Rockin' Johnny Burgin, Rod Piazza, Roger "Hurricane" Wilson, Ron Holloway, Ron Thompson (blues guitarist), Ronnie Baker Brooks, Ronnie Earl, Roomful of Blues, Roosevelt Sykes, Rory Block, Rory Gallagher, Roscoe Shelton, Roxanne Potvin, Roy Book Binder, Roy Brown (blues musician), Roy Buchanan, Roy Gaines, Roy Milton, Roy Rogers (guitarist), Rubin Lacey, Ruby Smith, Rufus Thomas, Rusty Zinn, Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, Sam Collins (musician), Sam Myers, Sam Taylor (saxophonist), Sammy Lawhorn, Sandra Hall, Scott H. Biram, Scott Henderson, Scrapper Blackwell, Sean Costello, Seasick Steve, Seth Walker, Shakey Jake Harris, Shemekia Copeland, Sherman Robertson, Shirley Griffith, Sidney Bechet, Sidney Maiden, Silas Hogan, Sippie Wallace, Sista Monica Parker, Skeeter Brandon, Skip James, Slash (musician), Sleepy John Estes, Smokey Hogg, Smokey Wilson, Smoky Babe, Snooks Eaglin, Snooky Pryor, Soko Richardson, Son Bonds, Son House, Son Seals, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sonny Rodgers, Sonny Terry, Southern Avenue (band), Speckled Red, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Stan Webb, Steve Freund, Steve Guyger, Steve Hunter, Steve James (blues musician), Steve Nardella, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sue Foley, Sugar Ray Norcia, Sugaray Rayford, Susan Tedeschi, Sylvester Weaver (musician), Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American", T-Bone Walker, T-Model Ford, Tab Benoit, Tabby Thomas, Tail Dragger Jones, Taj Mahal (musician), Tampa Red, Ted Bogan, Ted Hawkins, Teddy Darby, Teeny Tucker, Terry "Harmonica" Bean, Terry Evans (musician), Terry Garland, Terry Hanck, Terry Robb, Texas Johnny Brown, The Animals, The Black Keys, The Blues Brothers, The Butler Twins, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Kinks, The Legendary Blues Band, The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, The Who, Thin Lizzy, Thomas A. Dorsey, Thornetta Davis, Tinsley Ellis, Titus Turner, Todd Sharpville, Tom Delaney (songwriter), Tommy Castro, Tommy Johnson (musician), Tommy Z, Turner Foddrell, Tutu Jones, U.P. Wilson, Valerie Wellington, Vanessa Collier, Vasti Jackson, Victor Wainwright, Victoria Spivey, Virginia Liston, Walter Brown (singer), Walter Davis (blues), Walter Roland, Walter Trout, Walter Vinson, Washboard Sam, Washboard Willie, Wayne Baker Brooks, Wesley Wilson, Whistlin' Alex Moore, Whitesnake, William Ezell, William Grant Still, William Harris (musician), Willie Brown (musician), Willie D. Warren, Willie Dixon, Willie Love, Willie Trice, Wolf Mail, Woodrow Adams, Wynonie Harris, Yavuz Çetin, Z. Z. Hill, Zucchero Fornaciari, ZZ Top. Expand index (730 more) »

Al Copley

Al Copley (born Alman LeGrande Copley, 1952, Buffalo, New York) is a blues pianist who co-founded the American jump blues band Roomful of Blues with guitarist Duke Robillard in Westerly, Rhode Island in 1967.

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Alan Wilson (musician)

Alan Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was a co-founder, leader, and primary composer for the American blues band Canned Heat.

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Albert Ammons

Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 3, 1949) was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s.

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Albert Castiglia

Albert Castiglia (born August 12, 1969) is an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Albert Collins

Albert Gene Drewery, known as Albert Collins and the Ice Man (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993),Skeely, Richard.

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Albert King

Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American blues guitarist and singer whose playing influenced many other blues guitarists.

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Albert White (musician)

Albert White (born December 1, 1942) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Alberta Hunter

Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American jazz singer and songwriter who had a successful career from the early 1920s to the late 1950s, and then stopped performing.

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Alec Seward

Alec Seward (born Alexander T. Seward, March 16, 1901 – May 11, 1972) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Alexis Korner

Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984) was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a founding father of British blues".

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Alexis P. Suter

Alexis P. Suter (born February 15, 1963) is an American blues, and soul blues singer and songwriter, best known for her nomination in the 'Koko Taylor Award' category at the 33rd Blues Music Awards in 2015.

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Ali Farka Touré

Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré (31 October 1939 – 6 March 2006) was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians.

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Alice Leslie Carter

Alice Leslie Carter was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the early 1920s.

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Alto Reed

Alto Reed (born May 16, 1948) is an American saxophonist best known as a long-time member of Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

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Alvin Lee

Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes; 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English singer and guitarist, best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.

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Alvin Youngblood Hart

Alvin Youngblood Hart (born Gregory Edward Hart, March 2, 1963 in Oakland, California, United States) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician.

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Amos Milburn

Joseph Amos Milburn, Jr. (April 1, 1927 – January 3, 1980) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Ana Popović

Ana Popović (Ана Поповић, born May 13, 1976 in Belgrade) is a blues guitarist and singer from Serbia who currently resides in the United States where she records her albums.

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Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones

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Andrew Odom

Andrew Odom (December 15, 1936 – December 23, 1991) was an African-American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and songwriter, best known for the close resemblance of his singing style to that of Bobby Bland and B.B. King.

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Andrew Tibbs

Andrew Tibbs (February 2, 1929 – May 5, 1991) was an American electric and urban blues singer and songwriter.

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Andy Rodgers (musician)

Andy Rodgers (March 14, 1922 – August 14, 2004) was an American Delta blues harmonicist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Angela Strehli

Angela Strehli (born November 22, 1945, Lubbock, Texas, United States) is an American electric blues singer and songwriter.

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Anson Funderburgh

Anson Funderburgh (born James Anson Funderburgh; November 14, 1954) is an American blues guitar player and bandleader of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets since 1978.

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Anthony Gomes

Anthony Gomes (born May 14, 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian blues and blues rock guitarist and singer.

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Arbee Stidham

Arbee Perkins Stidham (February 9, 1917 – April 26, 1988) was an American blues singer and multi-instrumentalist, active mostly in the late 1940s and 1950s.

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Archie Edwards

Archie L. Edwards (September 4, 1918 – June 18, 1998) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning several decades worked with Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and John Jackson.

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Aron Burton

Aron Burton (June 15, 1938 – February 29, 2016) was an American electric and Chicago blues singer, bass guitarist and songwriter.

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Arthur "Big Boy" Spires

Arthur "Big Boy" Spires (February 25, 1912 – October 22, 1990) was an American blues singer and guitarist who recorded for several record labels in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Arthur Crudup

Arthur William "Big Boy" Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

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Arvella Gray

Blind Arvella Gray (January 28, 1906 – September 7, 1980) was an American blues, folk and gospel singer and guitarist.

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Asie Payton

Asie Reed Payton (April 12, 1937 – May 19, 1997) was an American blues musician, who lived most of his life in Holly Ridge, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.

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Axel Zwingenberger

Axel Zwingenberger (born May 7, 1955) is a blues and boogie-woogie pianist, and songwriter.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Baby Boy Warren

Baby Boy Warren (August 13, 1919 – July 1, 1977) was an American blues singer and guitarist who was a leading figure on the Detroit blues scene in the 1950s.

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Baby Tate

Charles Henry Tate, known as Baby Tate (January 28, 1920 – August 17, 1972) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning five decades worked with the guitarists Blind Boy Fuller and Pink Anderson and the harmonica player Peg Leg Sam.

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Back Alley John

Back Alley John (born John Carl David Wilson),Nicole Wilson,; www.calgarybluesfest.com.

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Backwards Sam Firk

Michael Addison Stewart (September 18, 1943 – October 11, 2007), who performed and recorded as Backwards Sam Firk, was an American country blues singer, fingerstyle guitarist, songwriter, and record collector.

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Barbecue Bob

Robert Hicks, better known as Barbecue Bob (September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931), was an early American Piedmont blues musician.

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Barkin' Bill Smith

Barkin' Bill Smith (August 18, 1928 – April 24, 2000) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and songwriter.

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Barrelhouse Chuck

Barrelhouse Chuck (born Harvey Charles Goering; July 10, 1958 – December 12, 2016) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist, keyboardist, singer, and songwriter.

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Barry Levenson

Barry Levenson is an American electric blues and Chicago blues guitarist, songwriter, singer, father, and record producer.

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Ben Harper

Benjamin Chase Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Bernice Edwards

Bernice Edwards (c. 1907 – February 26, 1969) was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter.

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Bertha Idaho

Bertha Idaho (born c. 1895; date of death unknown) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Bessie Brown

Bessie Brown (1890–1955) also known as "The Original" Bessie Brown, was an American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer.

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Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.

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Bessie Tucker

Bessie Tucker (c. 1906 – January 6, 1933) was an American classic female blues, country blues, and Texas blues singer and songwriter.

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Big Boy Henry

Richard Leslie Henry (born May 26, 1921 – December 5, 2004), better known as Big Boy Henry, was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Big Dave McLean

Big Dave McLean (born August 23, 1952) is a Canadian blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer and songwriter.

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Big Joe Duskin

Big Joe Duskin (February 10, 1921 – May 6, 2007) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist.

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Big Joe Turner

Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri.

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Big John Wrencher

Big John Wrencher (February 12, 1923 – July 15, 1977), also known as One Arm John, was an American blues harmonica player and singer, well known for playing at the Maxwell Street Market in Chicago in the 1960s.

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Big Maceo Merriweather

Major Merriweather (March 31, 1905 – February 23, 1953), better known as Big Maceo Merriweather, was an American pianist and singer.

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Big Mama Thornton

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter.

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Big Walter Horton

Walter Horton, better known as Big Walter (Horton) or Walter "Shakey" Horton (April 6, 1921 – December 8, 1981) was an American blues harmonica player.

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Bill Monroe

William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who helped to create the style of music known as bluegrass.

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Billy Flynn (musician)

Billy Flynn (born August 11, 1956) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Billy Gibbons

William Frederick Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor, best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the American rock band ZZ Top.

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Billy Wright (musician)

William Wright (May 21, 1918 or 1932 – October 28, 1991) was an American jump blues singer.

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Biscuit Miller

David Leon "Biscuit" Miller (born December 30, 1961) is an American electric blues bassist, singer and songwriter.

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Bjørn Berge

Bjørn Berge (born in Sveio, Norway on 23 September 1968) is a Norwegian guitarist and blues artist.

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Black Ace

Black Ace was the most frequently used stage name of the American Texas blues musician born Babe Kyro Lemon Turner (December 21, 1905 – November 7, 1972), who was also known as B. K. Turner, Black Ace Turner, Babe Turner and Buck Turner.

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (often abbreviated as BRMC) is an American rock band from San Francisco, California.

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Blind Blake

Arthur "Blind" Blake (1896 – December 1, 1934) was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.

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Blind Boy Fuller

Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen, July 10, 1904 or 1907February 13, 1941) was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Blind Connie Williams

Blind Connie Williams (born c. 1915) was an American blues guitarist who was a street performer beginning in the early 1930s.

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Blind John Davis

Blind John Davis (December 7, 1913 – October 12, 1985) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer.

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Blind Lemon Jefferson

Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Blind Mississippi Morris

Blind Mississippi Morris (born Morris Cummings; April 6, 1955 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues musician.

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Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American gospel blues singer and guitarist and evangelist.

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Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues in the Night

"Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook.

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Bo Diddley

Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.

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Bob Brozman

Bob Brozman (March 8, 1954 – April 23, 2013) was an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist.

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Bob Corritore

Bob Corritore (born September 27, 1956) is an American electric blues harmonicist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Gaddy

Bob Gaddy (February 4, 1924 – July 24, 1997) was an American East Coast blues and rhythm-and-blues pianist, singer and songwriter.

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Bob Hite

Robert Ernest Hite (February 26, 1943 – April 5, 1981) was the lead singer of the American blues-rock band, Canned Heat, from 1965 to his death in 1981.

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Bob Kirkpatrick (musician)

Bob Kirkpatrick (born January 10, 1934) is an American Texas blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, whose recorded work has been released on three albums.

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Bob Stroger

Bob Stroger (born December 27, 1930) is an American electric blues bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Bobby Bland

Robert Calvin Bland (né Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer.

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Bobby Murray (musician)

Bobby Murray (born June 9, 1953) is an American electric blues guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

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Bobby Rush (musician)

Bobby Rush (born November 10, 1933) is a Grammy Award Winning American blues musician, composer and singer.

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Bobby Sowell

Robert G. Lee Sowell.

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Bobo Jenkins

Bobo Jenkins (January 7, 1916 – August 14, 1984) was an American Detroit blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Bonnie Lee

Bonnie Lee (June 11, 1931 – September 7, 2006) was an American Chicago blues singer known as "The Sweetheart of the Blues".

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Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, musician, and activist.

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Bonny B.

Bonny B. (born Su Pheaktra Bonnyface Chanmongkhon, July 20, 1974, Cambodia) is a Cambodian-Swiss blues musician and harmonica player.

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Boo Boo Davis

James "Boo Boo" Davis (born November 4, 1943) is an American electric blues musician.

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Boogie Bill Webb

Boogie Bill Webb (March 24, 1924 – August 22, 1990) was an American Louisiana blues and rhythm-and-blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Boogie Woogie Red

Boogie Woogie Red (October 18, 1925 – July 2, 1992) was an American Detroit blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.

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Booker T. Laury

Lawrence (Booker T.) Laury (September 2, 1914 – September 23, 1995) was an American boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer.

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Boyd Gilmore

Boyd Gilmore (June 1, 1905 – December 23, 1976) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Brant Parker

Brant Julian Parker (August 26, 1920 – April 15, 2007) was an American cartoonist.

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", also sung as "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?", is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression.

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Brownie McGhee

Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an African-American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

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Buddy Boy Hawkins

Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins was an American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Buddy Guy

George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Buddy Moss

Eugene "Buddy" Moss (January 16, 1914 – October 19, 1984) was an American blues musician.

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Bukka White

Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White (November 12, 1906 or 1909February 26, 1977) was an African-American Delta blues guitarist and singer.

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Bull City Red

Bull City Red (born George Washington, February 19, 1917 – October 1958) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and predominately washboard player, most closely associated with Blind Boy Fuller and the Reverend Gary Davis.

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Bumble Bee Slim

Admiral Amos Easton (May 7, 1905 – June 8, 1968), better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was an American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist.

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Buster Benton

Arley "Buster" Benton (July 19, 1932 – January 20, 1996) was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Buster Pickens

Buster Pickens (June 3, 1916 – November 24, 1964) was an American blues pianist.

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Calvin "Fuzz" Jones

Calvin "Fuzz" Jones (June 9, 1926 August 9, 2010) was an American electric blues bassist and singer.

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Calvin Frazier

Calvin H. Frazier (February 16, 1915 – September 23, 1972) was an American Detroit blues and country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Calvin Leavy

Calvin Leavy (April 20, 1940 – June 6, 2010) was an African-American soul-blues and electric blues singer and guitarist.

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Candye Kane

Candace Hogan (November 13, 1961 – May 6, 2016), known professionally as Candye Kane, was an American blues singer and entertainer.

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Carey Bell

Carey Bell (November 14, 1936 – May 6, 2007) was an American blues musician who played harmonica in the Chicago blues style.

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Carl Weathersby

Carl Weathersby (born Carlton Weathersby, 24 February 1953, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American electric blues vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American jazz.

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Carol Fran

Carol Fran (born October 23, 1933) is an African American soul blues singer, pianist and songwriter.

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Carolina Slim

Edward P. Harris (August 22, 1923 – October 22, 1953), known as Carolina Slim, was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer.

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Carolyn Wonderland

Carolyn Wonderland (born November 9, 1972) is an American blues singer-songwriter and musician.

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Casey Bill Weldon

William "Casey Bill" Weldon (December 10, 1909 – c. 1970) was an American country blues musician.

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Cash McCall (musician)

Cash McCall (born Morris Dollison Jr., January 28, 1941) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Catfish Keith

Catfish Keith (born February 9, 1962) is an American acoustic blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Cedric Burnside

Cedric O. Burnside (born August 26, 1978)Jefferson interview.

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Champion Jack Dupree

William Thomas "Champion Jack" Dupree (July 23, 1909 or July 4, 1910 – January 21, 1992) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer.

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Charles Brown (musician)

Tony Russell "Charles" Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced blues performance in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Charles Caldwell (bluesman)

Charles W. Caldwell (May 18, 1943 – September 3, 2003) was an American musician from Mississippi, known for a raw and fiery brand of electric North Mississippi hill country blues.

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Charley Lincoln

Charley Lincoln (born Charlie Hicks, Jr., March 11, 1900 – September 28, 1963),.

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Charley Patton

Charley Patton (died April 28, 1934), also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician.

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Charlie "Specks" McFadden

Charles Pertum, known professionally as Charlie "Specks" McFadden (April 24, 1895 – November 15, 1966), was an American country blues singer and songwriter.

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Charlie Daniels

Charles Edward Daniels (born October 28, 1936) is an American multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, and singer, known for his contributions to Southern rock, country and bluegrass.

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Charlie Musselwhite

Charles Douglas "Charlie" Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat.

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Charlie Parr

Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician.

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Charlie Spand

Charlie Spand (born May 8, 1893; died after 1958) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer, noted for his barrelhouse style.

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Chicago Blues All-Stars

Chicago Blues All-Stars is an American blues band based in Chicago that incorporates elements of funk, soul, R&B and hip hop.

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Chico Banks

Chico Banks (March 7, 1962 – December 3, 2008) was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.

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Chris Beard (singer)

Chris Beard (born August 29, 1957) is an American electric blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Chris Duarte

Chris Duarte (born February 16, 1963) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Chris James and Patrick Rynn

Chris James and Patrick Rynn are an American electric blues and Chicago blues duo, comprising James on lead guitar and vocals and Rynn on bass guitar and backing vocals.

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Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951) is a British rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, recognisable for his distinctive, husky-gravel voice and slide guitar playing.

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Chris Thomas King

Chris Thomas King (born Durwood Christopher Thomas, October 14, 1962) is an American New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor.

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Christian Dozzler

Christian Dozzler (born September 22, 1958, Vienna, Austria) is a blues, boogie woogie and zydeco multi-instrumentalist and singer from Austria, now based in the Dallas/Fort Worth (Texas) area.

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Clara McDaniel

Clara McDaniel (born November 26, 1948) is an American blues singer and songwriter.

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Clara Smith

Clara Smith (c. 1894 – February 2, 1935) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005) was an American musician from Louisiana and Texas.

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Clarence Edwards (blues musician)

Clarence Edwards (March 25, 1933 – May 20, 1993) was an American blues musician from Louisiana, best known for his recordings of "Lonesome Bedroom Blues" and "I Want Somebody".

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Clarence Garlow

Clarence Garlow (February 27, 1911 – July 24, 1986) was an American R&B, jump blues, Texas blues and cajun guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Claudia Carawan

Claudia Carawan (born April 19, 1959, Alexandria, Virginia, United States) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Clutch (band)

Clutch is an American rock band from Frederick, Maryland, originating in Germantown, Maryland.

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Coco Montoya

Coco Montoya (born Henry Montoya, October 2, 1951, Santa Monica, California) is an American blues guitarist and singer and former member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers.

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Colin James

Colin James (born Colin James Munn, August 17, 1964) is a Canadian rock and blues singer and songwriter.

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Concerto in F (Gershwin)

Concerto in F is a composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and orchestra which is closer in form to a traditional concerto than the earlier jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue.

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Cool John Ferguson

Cool John Ferguson (born December 3, 1953) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Coot Grant

Coot Grant (June 11 or 17, 1893 – December 26, 1970) was an American classic female blues, country blues, and vaudeville singer and songwriter.

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Cootie Stark

Cootie Stark (December 27, 1927 – April 14, 2005) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Cripple Clarence Lofton

Clarence Lofton (March 28, 1887, 1896 or 1897 – January 9, 1957), credited as Cripple Clarence Lofton, was an American boogie-woogie pianist and singer born in Tennessee.

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Cuby + Blizzards

Cuby + Blizzards – also known as Cuby & the Blizzards were a Dutch blues group, founded in 1964 by vocalist Harry Muskee, and guitarist Eelco Gelling.

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Curley Bridges

Curley Wilson Bridges (February 7, 1934 – November 27, 2014) was an American electric blues, rock-and-roll, and rhythm-and-blues singer, pianist and songwriter.

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Curley Weaver

Curley James Weaver (March 25, 1906 – September 20, 1962) was an American blues musician, also known as Slim Gordon.

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Cyril Davies

Cyril Davies (23 January 1932 – 7 January 1964) was an English blues musician, and one of the first blues harmonica players in England.

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Dan Auerbach

Daniel Quine "Dan" Auerbach (born May 14, 1979) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio.

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Dan Pickett (musician)

James Founty (August 31, 1907 – August 16, 1967), better known as Dan Pickett, was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Dan Sane

Dan Sane (possibly September 22, 1896 – February 18, 1956) was an American Memphis blues and country blues guitarist and songwriter.

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Daniel Ivankovich

Daniel Anthony Ivankovich, MD (born November 23, 1963) is an American orthopedic surgeon, humanitarian, media personality and blues musician with the Chicago Blues All-Stars.

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Darrell Nulisch

Darrell Nulisch (born September 14, 1952, Dallas, Texas) is an American electric blues singer and harmonica player.

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Dave Peabody

Dave Peabody (born David Peabody, 20 April 1948, Southall, Middlesex, London, England) is an English singer-songwriter, blues and folk musician, record producer and photographer, active since the late 1960s, who has appeared on more than 60 albums.

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Dave Specter

Dave Specter (born May 21, 1963, Chicago, Illinois) is an American Chicago blues and jazz guitarist.

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David "Honeyboy" Edwards

David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi.

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David Maxwell (musician)

David Maxwell (March 10, 1943 – February 13, 2015) was an American blues pianist, songwriter, and singer.

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Davy Knowles

Davy Knowles (born 30 April 1987) is a Manx blues guitarist and singer.

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Deanna Bogart

Deanna Bogart (born September 5, 1959, Detroit, MI., United States) is an American blues singer, pianist, and saxophone player.

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Debbie Davies

Debbie Davies (born August 22, 1952) is an American blues guitarist.

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Deborah Coleman

Deborah Coleman (October 3, 1956 – April 12, 2018) was an American blues musician.

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Del Rey (musician)

Del Rey (born December 22, 1959) is an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Delaney Bramlett

Delaine Alvin "Delaney" Bramlett (July 1, 1939 – December 27, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer.

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Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940) is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.

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Dennis Gruenling

Dennis Gruenling is an American electric blues harmonicist, songwriter, record producer and radio DJ.

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Denny Freeman

Denny Freeman (born Dennis Edward Freeman, August 7, 1944, Orlando, Florida) is an American Texas and electric blues guitarist.

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Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of the Grammy Award-winningThe Derek Trucks Band.

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Dexter Allen

Dexter Allen (born July 10, 1970) is an American blues musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Diana Braithwaite

Diana Braithwaite is a Canadian electric blues singer, songwriter and screenwriter.

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Diunna Greenleaf

Diunna Greenleaf (born October 6, 1957) is an African American blues singer and songwriter.

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Doctor Clayton

Doctor Clayton (born Peter Joe Clayton; April 19, 1898 – January 7, 1947) was an American blues singer and songwriter.

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Doug MacLeod (musician)

Doug MacLeod (born April 21, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American storytelling blues musician.

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Doug Quattlebaum

Elijah Douglas Quattlebaum (January 22, 1929 – March 1, 1996), better known as Doug Quattlebaum, was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Drink Small

Drink Small (born January 28, 1933) is an African-American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Duane Allman

Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American guitarist, session musician, and co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band until his death following a motorcycle crash in 1971, at the age of 24.

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Duffy Bishop

Duffy Bishop is an American electric blues singer and songwriter.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Duke Henderson

Sylvester C. Henderson (April 5, 1925 – April 9, 1973), known as Duke Henderson, was an American blues shouter and jazz singer in the West Coast blues and jump blues styles in the mid-1940s.

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Duke Tumatoe

Duke Tumatoe, born William “Bill" Severen Fiorio in 1947, is an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.

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E.C. Scott

E.C. Scott (born September 14, 1951 or late 1950s) is an American electric blues, soul blues, gospel and soul singer, songwriter, record producer and television host.

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E.G. Kight

E.G. Kight (born January 17, 1966) is an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Earl Gaines

Earl Gaines, Jr. (August 19, 1935 – December 31, 2009) was an American soul blues and electric blues singer.

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Earl Hooker

Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing.

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Earring George Mayweather

Earring George Mayweather (September 27, 1927 – February 12, 1995) was an American electric blues and Chicago blues harmonica player, songwriter and singer.

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Ed Bell (musician)

Ed Bell (born May 1905, died 1960, 1965 or 1966) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter whose identity has only recently been verified by historians.

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Eddie "Guitar" Burns

Eddie "Guitar" Burns (February 8, 1928 – December 12, 2012) was an American Detroit blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Eddie Boyd

Edward Riley "Eddie" Boyd (November 25, 1914 – July 13, 1994)Dahl, Bill.

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Eddie Cusic

Eddie Cusic (January 4, 1926 – August 11, 2015) was an American Mississippi blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Eddie King (musician)

Eddie King (April 21, 1938 – March 14, 2012) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Eddie Mapp

Eddie Mapp (c. 1910 – November 14, 1931) was an American country blues harmonicist.

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Eddie Shaw

Eddie Shaw (March 20, 1937 – January 29, 2018) was an American Chicago blues tenor saxophonist, arranger and bandleader.

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Eddie Taylor

Eddie Taylor (January 29, 1923 – December 25, 1985) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.

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Edith North Johnson

Edith North Johnson (January 2, 1903 – February 28, 1988) was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter.

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Edmonia Henderson

Edmonia Henderson (c. 1898 or 1900 – February 17, 1947) was an African-American classic female blues singer.

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Eli Cook (musician)

Eli Cook (born April 24, 1986) is an American blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer.

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Elizabeth Cotten

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (née Nevills) (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Elmore D

Elmore D (born Daniel Droixhe, 1946, near Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian blues musician.

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Elmore James

Elmore James (January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader.

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Elvie Thomas

L.V. Thomas (née L.V. Grant, August 7, 1891 – May 20, 1979), better known as Elvie Thomas, was an American country blues singer and guitarist from Houston, Texas.

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Elvin Bishop

Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Elzadie Robinson

Elzadie Robinson (possibly April 24, 1897 – January 17, 1975) was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter.

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Eric Bibb

Eric Charles Bibb (born August 16, 1951) is an American-born blues singer and songwriter.

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Eric Burdon

Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Ernie Hawkins

Ernie Hawkins (born Ernest Leroy Hawkins, 1947, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American acoustic blues guitar player, singer, song writer, recording artist, and educator.

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Ernie Lancaster

Ernie Lancaster (November 30, 1953 – July 17, 2014) was an American electric blues and blues rock guitarist and songwriter.

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Ethel Finnie

Ethel V. Finnie (January 7, 1898 – May 1, 1981) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress.

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Etta Baker

Note: For the African American civil rights activist, see Ella Baker.

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Etta James

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel.

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Fabio Treves

Fabio Treves (born 27 November 1949) is an Italian blues musician.

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Fannie May Goosby

Fannie May Goosby (born 1902, died after 1934) also known as Fannie Mae Goosby was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter.

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Fenton Robinson

Fenton Lee Robinson (September 23, 1935 – November 25, 1997) was an American blues singer and exponent of the Chicago blues guitar.

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Floyd Council

Floyd Council (September 2, 1911 – May 9, 1976) was an American blues guitarist, mandolin player, and singer.

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Floyd Dixon

Floyd Dixon (February 8, 1929 – July 26, 2006) was an American rhythm-and-blues pianist and singer.

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Floyd Jones

Floyd Jones (July 21, 1917 – December 19, 1989) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Floyd Miles

Floyd Miles (April 13, 1943 – January 25, 2018) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Forest City Joe

Joe Bennie Pugh (July 10, 1926 – April 3, 1960), known as Forrest City Joe or Forest City Joe, was an American blues musician who is mainly remembered for his ability as a harmonica player.

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Frank Stokes (musician)

Frank Stokes (January 1, 1877 or 1888 – September 12, 1955) was an American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel, who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style.

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Frankie Lee (musician)

Frankie Lee (April 29, 1941 – April 24, 2015) was an American soul blues and electric blues singer and songwriter who released six albums.

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Frankie Lee Sims

Frankie Lee Sims (April 30, 1917, New Orleans, Louisiana – May 10, 1970, Dallas, Texas) was an American singer-songwriter and electric blues guitarist.

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Fred McMullen

Fred McMullen (born c. 1905; date of death unknown) was an American blues singer and guitarist known to be active in the 1930s.

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Freddie Brooks (musician)

Freddie Brooks is an American singer-songwriter and blues harmonica player.

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Freddie King

Freddie King (September 3, 1934 – December 28, 1976) was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Freddie Roulette

Frederick Martin "Freddie" Roulette (born May 3, 1939) is an American electric blues lap steel guitarist and singer.

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Freddie Spruell

Freddie Spruell (December 28, 1893 – June 19, 1956) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer, variously billed as Papa Freddie or Mr.

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Fruteland Jackson

Fruteland Jackson (born June 9, 1953) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Furry Lewis

Walter E. "Furry" Lewis (March 6, 1893 or 1899 – September 14, 1981) was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee.

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G. Love & Special Sauce

G.

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Gabriel Brown

Gabriel Brown (1910–1972) was an American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist.

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Gary B.B. Coleman

Gary B.B. Coleman (January 1, 1947February 14, 1994) was an American soul blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Gary Moore

Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011) was an Irish rock guitarist.

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Gary Primich

Gary Primich (April 20, 1958 – September 23, 2007) was an American blues harmonica player, singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Gatemouth Moore

Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore (November 8, 1913 – May 19, 2004) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter, radio disc jockey, community leader and pastor, later known as Reverend Gatemouth Moore.

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Gaye Adegbalola

Gaye Adegbalola (born Gaye Todd, March 21, 1944, Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States), All Media Guide (2007); retrieved August 2, 2008.

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Geeshie Wiley

Geeshie Wiley was an American country blues singer and guitar player who recorded six songs for Paramount Records, issued on three records in April 1930.

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Gene "Birdlegg" Pittman

Eugene P. Pittman (born May 10, 1947), better known as Gene "Birdlegg" Pittman, is an American blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter.

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Gene Kelton

Gene Kelton (10 April 1953 – 28 December 2010) was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas.

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George "Mojo" Buford

George Carter Buford, Jr. (November 10, 1929 – October 11, 2011), known as Mojo Buford, was an American blues harmonica player best known for his work in Muddy Waters's band.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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George Higgs

George Higgs (March 9, 1930 – January 29, 2013) was an American Piedmont blues acoustic guitarist, harmonicist, singer and songwriter.

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George Thorogood

George Lawrence Thorogood (born February 24, 1950) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware.

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Gladys Bentley

Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.

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Golden "Big" Wheeler

Golden "Big" Wheeler (December 15, 1929 – July 20, 1998) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter.

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Good Rockin' Charles

Good Rockin' Charles (March 4, 1933 – May 17, 1989) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter.

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Grady Champion

Grady Champion (born October 10, 1969) is an American electric blues harmonicist, singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Grady Gaines

Grady Gaines (born May 14, 1934, Waskom, Texas) is an American electric blues, Texas blues and jazz blues tenor saxophonist, who performed and recorded with Little Richard in the 1950s.

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Grego Anderson

Grego Anderson (born 1968) is an American blues musician and folk artist, living in Austin, Texas.

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Guitar Nubbit

Alvin Hankerson (November 23, 1923 – June 30, 1995), better known as Guitar Nubbit, was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Guitar Pete Franklin

Guitar Pete Franklin (January 16, 1928 – July 31, 1975) was an African American blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.

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Guitar Slim Jr.

Guitar Slim Jr. (born Rodney Glenn Armstrong, August 24, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American New Orleans blues guitarist and singer.

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Gus Cannon

Gustavus "Gus" Cannon (September 12, 1883 or 1884 – October 15, 1979) was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Guy Davis (musician)

Guy Davis (born May 12, 1952) is an American blues guitarist and banjo player, and actor.

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Gwyn Ashton

Gwyn Ashton (born 1961, Wales) is a Welsh-Australian blues/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Hamilton Loomis

Hamilton Michael Loomis (born November 1, 1975) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Hank Williams

Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Hans Olson

Hans Olson (born July 3, 1952), is an American musician and songwriter.

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Hans Theessink

Hans Theessink (born 5 April 1948, Enschede, Netherlands) is a Dutch guitarist, mandolinist, singer and songwriter, living in Vienna, Austria.

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Harmonica Shah

Seward Daward Shah, known as Harmonica Shah (March 31, 1946) is an American Detroit and electric blues harmonicist and singer.

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Harmonica Slim

Travis Leonard Blaylock (December 21, 1934 – June 16, 1984), better known as Harmonica Slim, was an American blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter.

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Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide.

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Harrison Kennedy (musician)

Harrison Kennedy (born March 9, 1942) is a Black Canadian electric blues, R&B, and soul blues, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Harry Manx

Harry Manx is a Canadian musician who blends blues, folk music, and Hindustani classical music.

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Hattie Hart

Hattie Hart was an American Memphis blues singer and songwriter.

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Hayes McMullan

Hayes McMullan (January 29, 1902 – May 1986) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Hazel Meyers

Hazel Meyers was an American classic female blues and country blues singer.

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Helen Gross

Helen Gross (born Hellen R. Gross, May 1896 – unknown) was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the mid-1920s.

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Henry "Rufe" Johnson

Henry "Rufe" Johnson (October 2, 1908 – February 4, 1974), was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, harmonica player, pianist, singer and songwriter.

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Henry "Son" Sims

Henry "Son" Sims (August 22, 1890 – December 23, 1958) was an American Delta blues fiddler and songwriter.

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Henry Gray (musician)

Henry Gray (born January 19, 1925, in Kenner, Louisiana) is an African-American blues piano player and singer.

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Henry Qualls

Henry Qualls (July 8, 1934 – December 7, 2003) was an American Texas and country blues guitarist and singer.

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Henry Sloan

Henry Sloan (January 1870 – possibly March 13, 1948) was an African American musician, one of the earliest figures in the history of Delta Blues.

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Henry Thomas (blues musician)

Henry Thomas (18741930?) was an American country blues singer, songster and musician, who had a brief recording career in the late 1920s which has latterly been influential.

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Henry Townsend (musician)

Henry "Mule" Townsend (October 27, 1909 – September 24, 2006) was an American blues singer, guitarist and pianist.

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Herman Brood

Hermanus "Herman" Brood (5 November 1946 – 11 July 2001) was a Dutch musician and painter.

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Hip Linkchain

Hip Linkchain (November 10, 1936 – February 13, 1989) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Holle Thee Maxwell

Holle Thee Maxwell (born October 17, 1945) is an American vocalist and songwriter who performs opera, jazz, soul music, blues, R&B, pop, and country music.

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Hound Dog Taylor

Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor (April 12, 1915 – December 17, 1975) was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.

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Houston Stackhouse

Houston Stackhouse (September 28, 1910 – September 23, 1980) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer.

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Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi.

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Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, musician, comedian, and author.

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I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)

"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941.

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Ian Siegal

Ian Siegal (born 1971) is a British blues singer and guitarist.

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Ida Cox

Ida Cox (born Ida M. Prather, February 26, 1888 or 1896 – November 10, 1967) was an American singer and vaudeville performer, best known for her blues performances and recordings.

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Ida Goodson

Ida Goodson (November 23, 1909 – January 5, 2000) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer and pianist.

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Ida May Mack

Ida May Mack or Ida Mae Mack was an American classic female blues, country blues, and Texas blues singer and songwriter.

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Indian blues

Although traditional jazz has had a sizeable following for a long time in India, with the yearly Jazz Yatra festivals and the frequent collaboration between Indian classical and Western jazz musicians, the interest in the blues has more or less been incidental due to the shared ancestry with jazz.

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Innes Sibun

Innes Sibun (born 1968) is a British blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Irene Scruggs

Irene Scruggs (born Irene Smith, December 7, 1901 – July 20, 1981) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, who was also billed as Chocolate Brown and Dixie Nolan.

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Iron Mike Norton

Iron Mike Norton (born October 20, 1973) is an American blues musician who plays slide guitar.

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Ironing Board Sam

Samuel Moore (born July 17, 1939), who performs and records as Ironing Board Sam, is an American electric blues keyboardist, singer and songwriter, who has released a small number of singles and albums.

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Isaac Scott (musician)

Isaac Scott III (June 11, 1945 – November 16, 2001), was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Ivory Joe Hunter

Ivory Joe Hunter (October 10, 1914 – November 8, 1974) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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J. B. Hutto

J.

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J. T. Smith (musician)

John T. Smith (c. 1890 – c. 1940), variously known as the Howling Wolf, "Funny Paper" Smith, "Funny Papa" Smith, and Howling Smith, was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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J.D. Short

J.D. Short (December 26, 1902 – October 21, 1962) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist and harmonicist with a distinctive vibrato-laden singing voice.

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J.J. Malone

John Jacob (J.J.) Malone (August 20, 1935 – February 20, 2004) was an American West Coast blues, electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist.

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Jabo Williams

Jabo Williams (c. 1895 – 1953 or 1954) was an African-American boogie-woogie and blues pianist and songwriter.

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Jack White

John Anthony White (né Gillis; born July 9, 1975) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.

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James "Stump" Johnson

James "Stump" Johnson (January 17, 1902 – December 5, 1969) was an American blues pianist and singer from St. Louis.

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James "Thunderbird" Davis

James Louis Huston, better known as James "Thunderbird" Davis (November 10, 1938 – January 24, 1992), was an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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James Anthony (musician)

James Anthony (born James Anthony Pecchia, 1955) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer.

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James Armstrong (musician)

James Armstrong (born April 22, 1957, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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James Cotton

James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time and with his own band.

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James Crutchfield

James Crutchfield (May 25, 1912 – December 7, 2001) was a St. Louis barrelhouse blues singer, piano player and songwriter whose career spanned seven decades.

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James Harman

James Harman (born June 8, 1946, in Anniston, Alabama) is an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.

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James Hunter (singer)

James Hunter (born 2 October 1962, Colchester, Essex) is an English R&B musician and soul singer.

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James Montgomery (singer)

James Montgomery (born May 12, 1949) is an American blues musician, best known as the lead singer, blues harp player, frontman, and bandleader of The James Montgomery Blues Band (a.k.a. The James Montgomery Band).

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) nicknamed The Pearl, was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely-known female rock stars of her era.

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Janiva Magness

Janiva Magness (born January 30, 1957) is a Grammy Award nominated American blues, soul and Americana soul singer and songwriter.

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Jay Hooks

Jay Hooks (born January 10, 1959) is an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Jay McShann

James Columbus "Jay" McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.

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Jay Owens (musician)

Jay Owens (September 6, 1947 – November 26, 2005) was a blind American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Jazz Gillum

William McKinley "Jazz" Gillum (September 11, 1902 or 1904 – March 29, 1966) was an American blues harmonica player.

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Jeff Healey

Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey (March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008) was a Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter who attained musical and personal popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Jeremiah Johnson (blues musician)

Jeremiah Johnson (born 1972) is an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and pianist, often known by his nickname, The Killer.

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Jesse Fuller

Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".

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Jim Allchin

James Edward Allchin (born 1951, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States) is an American blues rock guitarist, philanthropist, and a former Microsoft executive.

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Jim Byrnes (actor)

James Thomas Kevin Byrnes (born September 22, 1948) is an American blues musician, guitarist, and actor.

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Jim Jackson (musician)

Jim Jackson (June 1876 – December 18, 1933) was an African-American blues and hokum singer, songster, and guitarist, whose recordings in the late 1920s were popular and influential on later musicians.

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Jim Morrison

James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer-songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead vocalist of the Doors.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmie Gordon

Jimmie Gordon was an American Chicago blues pianist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmie Lee Robinson

Jimmie Lee Robinson (April 30, 1931 – July 6, 2002), also known as Lonesome Lee, was an American blues musician who was predominantly known for his involvement in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)

James Charles Rodgers (September 8, 1897 – May 26, 1933), professionally Jimmie Rodgers, was an American country, blues and folk singer, songwriter and musician in the early 20th century, known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling.

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Jimmie Smith

James Howard Smith (born January 27, 1938, Newark, New Jersey) is an American jazz drummer.

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Jimmie Vaughan

Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan (born March 20, 1951, Oak Cliff, Dallas County, Texas, United States) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer based in Austin, Texas.

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Jimmy Burns

Jimmy Burns (born February 27, 1943) is an American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Jimmy Dotson

James Dent Dotson (October 19, 1933 – March 26, 2017), sometimes known as Jimmy "Louisiana" Dotson, was an American blues singer, guitarist and drummer.

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Jimmy Johnson (blues guitarist)

James Earl Thompson (born November 25, 1928), known professionally as Jimmy Johnson, is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Jimmy Reed

Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter.

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Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s.

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Jimmy Rushing

James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972) was an American blues shouter, balladeer, swing jazz singer, and pianist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.

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Jimmy Thackery

Jimmy Thackery (born May 19, 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Jimmy Witherspoon

James Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer.

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Jo Ann Kelly

Jo Ann Kelly (5 January 1944 – 21 October 1990) was an English blues singer and guitarist.

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Joanna Connor

Joanna Connor (born August 31, 1962) is an American Chicago-based blues singer, songwriter, and a virtuoso guitarist.

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Jody Williams (blues musician)

Joseph Leon Williams (born February 3, 1935), better known as Jody Williams, is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Joe Asselin

Joe Asselin (born Manchester, New Hampshire, United States) is a Chicago blues and electric blues musician based out of Champaign, Illinois.

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Joe Bonamassa

Joe Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Joe Louis Walker

Joe Louis Walker, also known as JLW (born December 25, 1949) is an American musician, best known as an electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer.

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Joe Pullum

Joe Pullum (December 25, 1905 — January 7, 1964) was an American blues singer and songwriter.

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Joe Weaver

Joe Weaver (August 27, 1934 – July 5, 2006) was an American Detroit blues, electric blues and R&B pianist, singer and bandleader.

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Joe Willie Wilkins

Joe Willie Wilkins (January 7, 1921 or 1923O'Neal, Jim (1979). "Joe Willie Wilkins – 1923–1979". Living Blues 42 (January–February 1979), pp. 8–9. – March 28, 1979)Huggins, Cilla (1979).

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Joey Gilmore

Joshua Gilmore (born July 6, 1944), better known as Joey, is an American electric blues and soul blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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John "Juke" Logan

John "Juke" Logan (September 11, 1946 – August 30, 2013) was an American electric blues harmonica player, musician, singer, pianist and songwriter.

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John Altenburgh

John Altenburgh (born John Altenburg, April 20, 1960, Wausau, Wisconsin, United States) is an American jazz and blues pianist, composer, arranger and producer who has made his home in Mosinee, Wisconsin.

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John Dee Holeman

John Dee Holeman (born April 4, 1929) is an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.

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John Henry Barbee

John Henry Barbee (November 14, 1905 – November 3, 1964Wynn, Ron.. Alllmusic.com) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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John Jackson (blues musician)

John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) was an American Piedmont blues musician.

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John Kirkbride (musician)

John Kirkbride (born 17 February 1946, Ullapool, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, guitarist, songwriter and entertainer, currently residing in Germany.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917; retrieved August 22, 2017. – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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John Long (blues musician)

John Long (born 1950), is an American country blues singer, fingerstyle guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter.

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John Mayall

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years.

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John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

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John Németh

John Németh (born March 10, 1975) is an American electric blues and soul harmonicist, singer, and songwriter.

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John P. Hammond

John Paul Hammond (born November 13, 1942, New York City) is an American singer and musician.

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Johnnie Bassett

Johnnie Alexander Bassett (October 9, 1935 – August 4, 2012) was a Detroit-based American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Johnnie Marshall

Johnnie B. Marshall Jr. (born June 2, 1961) is an American electric blues guitarist, songwriter, and singer.

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Johnny "Big Moose" Walker

Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (June 27, 1927 November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist.

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Johnny "Man" Young

Johnny Young (January 1, 1918 – April 18, 1974)Harris, S. (1981).

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Johnny "Yard Dog" Jones

Johnny "Yard Dog" Jones (June 21, 1941 – September 15, 2015) was an American Chicago blues and soul blues singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and songwriter.

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Johnny B. Moore

Johnny B. Moore (born Johnny Belle Moore, January 24, 1950, Clarksdale, Mississippi) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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Johnny Copeland

John Clyde Copeland (March 27, 1937 – July 3, 1997) was an American Texas blues guitarist and singer.

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Johnny Dodds

Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940).

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Johnny Drummer

Johnny Drummer (born Thessex Johns, March 1, 1938) is an American Chicago blues and soul blues singer, keyboardist, drummer, harmonica player, and songwriter.

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Johnny Dyer

Johnny Dyer (December 7, 1938 – November 11, 2014) was an American electric blues harmonicist and singer.

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Johnny Fuller (musician)

Johnny Fuller (April 20, 1929 – May 20, 1985) was an American West Coast and electric blues singer and guitarist.

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Johnny Heartsman

John Leroy "Johnny" Heartsman (February 9, 1936 – December 27, 1996) was an American electric blues and soul blues musician and songwriter.

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Johnny Laws

Johnny Laws (born July 12, 1943) is an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Johnny Mars

Johnny Mars (born December 7, 1942) is an American electric blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.

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Johnny Otis

Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes; December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario.

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Johnny Rawls

Johnny Rawls (born September 10, 1951) is an American soul blues singer, guitarist, arranger, songwriter and record producer.

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Johnny Sansone

John "Johnny" Sansone (born September 27, 1957), also known as Jumpin' Johnny Sansone, is an American electric blues singer, songwriter, harmonicist, accordionist, guitarist and piano player.

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Johnny Shines

John Ned "Johnny" Shines (April 26, 1915 – April 20, 1992) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Johnny Williams (blues musician)

Johnny Williams (May 15, 1906 – March 6, 2006) was an American blues guitar player and singer based in Chicago, who was one of the first of the new generation of electric blues players to record after World War II.

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Johnny Winter

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is an alternative rock trio from U.S.A., formed in 1991 and based in New York City, New York.

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Jonny Lang

Jon Gordon Langseth Jr. (born January 29, 1981), known as Jonny Lang, is an American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist.

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Josh White

Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist.

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Julian Fauth

Julian Fauth is a Canadian blues pianist, singer and songwriter.

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Junior Kimbrough

David "Junior" Kimbrough (July 28, 1930 – January 17, 1998) was an American blues musician.

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Junior Parker

Herman "Junior" Parker (March 27, 1932November 18, 1971).

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Junior Wells

Junior Wells (born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., December 9, 1934January 15, 1998) was an American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist.

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Kansas City Red

Arthur Lee Stevenson (May 7, 1926 – May 7, 1991), known as Kansas City Red, was an American blues drummer and vocalist who played a major role in the development of urban blues.

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Kansas Joe McCoy

Wilbur "Kansas Joe" McCoy (May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950) was an American Delta blues singer, musician and songwriter.

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Karen Carroll

Karen Lynn Carroll (January 30, 1958 – March 9, 2016) was an American singer.

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Karen Lovely

Karen Patricia Lovely (born November 23, 1959) is an American electric blues singer and songwriter.

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Katherine Henderson

Katherine Henderson (born June 23, 1909; date of death unknown) was an African-American classic female blues singer.

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Keb' Mo'

Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and four-time Grammy Award winner.

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Keith Richards

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as a guitarist and founder member of the Rolling Stones.

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Kelley Hunt

Kelley Hunt is an American blues pianist, singer, and songwriter.

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Kelly Joe Phelps

Kelly Joe Phelps (born October 5, 1959, Sumner, Washington, United States) is an American musician and songwriter.

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Ken Saydak

Ken Saydak (born Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American Chicago blues pianist and singer-songwriter.

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Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne

Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne (born Kenneth Wayne Spruell, November 13, 1944) is an American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.

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Kenny Brown (guitarist)

Kenny Brown (born July 5, 1953 on the Air Force base in Selma, Alabama) is an American blues slide guitarist skilled in the North Mississippi Hill Country blues style.

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Kenny Neal

Kenny Neal (born October 14, 1957 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States), son of Raful Neal, is an American blues guitar player, singer and band member.

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Kevin McKendree

Kevin McKendree (born April 27, 1969) is an American electric blues pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Kid Ramos

Kid Ramos (born January 13, 1959) is an American electric blues and blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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King Solomon Hill

King Solomon Hill is the name assigned to a blues singer and guitarist who recorded a handful of songs in 1932.

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Kip Anderson

Kip Anderson (January 24, 1938 – August 29, 2007) was an American soul blues and R&B singer and songwriter.

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Kitty Brown

Catherine Brown, known as Kitty Brown (born October 1899, died after 1990), was an American classic female blues singer.

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Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor (born Cora Anna Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American singer whose style encompassed many genres, including Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues.

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Kokomo Arnold

James "Kokomo" Arnold (February 15, 1896 or 1901 – November 8, 1968) was an American blues musician.

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Krissy Matthews

Krissy Matthews (born 25 May 1992) is a British-Norwegian blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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L. C. Ulmer

Lee Chester "L.

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L.C. Green

L.C. Greene (October 23, 1921 – August 24, 1985), better known as L.C. Green, was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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L.V. Banks

L.V. Banks (October 28, 1932 – May 2, 2011) was an American Chicago blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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L.V. Johnson

L.V. Johnson (December 25, 1946 – November 22, 1994) was an American Chicago blues and soul-blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Lacy Gibson

Lacy Gibson (May 1, 1936 – April 11, 2011) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Lady Bianca

Lady Bianca (born August 8, 1953) is an American electric blues singer, songwriter and arranger.

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Larry Davis (blues musician)

Larry Davis (December 4, 1936 – April 19, 1994) was an American electric Texas blues and soul blues musician.

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Larry Garner

Larry Garner (born July 8, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American Louisiana blues musician best known for his 1994 album Too Blues.

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Larry Hamilton (musician)

Larry James Hamilton (March 23, 1951 – December 28, 2011) was an American New Orleans blues, rhythm-and-blues and soul blues singer and songwriter.

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Larry McCray

Larry McCray (born April 5, 1960, Magnolia, Arkansas, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Laura Smith (blues singer)

Laura Smith (March 1882 – February 1932) was an American classic female blues and country blues singer.

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Laurence Jones (musician)

Laurence Jones (born 13 February 1992, Liverpool, England) is an English blues rock guitarist, and singer-songwriter.

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Lavelle White

Lavelle White (born July 3, 1929) is an American Texas blues and soul blues singer and songwriter.

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Lavinia Turner

Lavinia Turner (born c. 1888; died after 1937) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Lazy Lester

Lazy Lester (born Leslie Carswell Johnson, June 20, 1933) is an American blues musician who sings and plays the harmonica and guitar.

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Lead Belly

Huddie William Ledbetter (January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949) was an American folk and blues musician notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lee Gates

Brice Lee Gates (born December 20, 1937) is an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Lee McBee

Lee McBee (March 23, 1951 – June 24, 2014) was an American electric blues musician, singer and harmonica player from Kansas City, Missouri.

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Lefty Bates

Lefty Bates (March 9, 1920 – April 7, 2007)Doc Rock (2007).

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Lefty Dizz

Lefty Dizz (April 29, 1937 – September 7, 1993) was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer whose recorded work was released on eight albums.

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Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.

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Leroy Carr

Leroy Carr (March 27, 1905 – April 29, 1935) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles.

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Leroy Dallas

Leroy Dallas (December 24, 1909 – September, 1967) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Leroy Foster

"Baby Face" Leroy Foster (February 1, 1923 – May 26, 1958) was an American blues singer, drummer and guitarist, active in Chicago from the mid-1940s until the late 1950s.

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Lester Williams (musician)

Lester B. Williams (June 24, 1920 – November 13, 1990) was an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Lightnin' Hopkins

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas.

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Lightnin' Slim

Otis Verries Hicks, known as Lightnin' Slim (March 13, 1913 – July 27, 1974), was an African-American Louisiana blues musician, who recorded for Excello Records and played in a style similar to its other Louisiana artists.

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Lightnin' Wells

Lightnin' Wells is an American Piedmont blues multi-instrumentalist and singer.

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Lightnin' Willie & the Poorboys

Lightnin' Willie & the Poorboys is an American blues band.

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Lil Green

Lillian Green (December 22, 1919, (some sources give 1901 or 1910) – April 14, 1954) professionally better known as Lil Green, was an American blues singer and songwriter.

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Lil McClintock

Lil McClintock was an American country blues songster who accompanied himself on acoustic guitar.

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Lil' Dave Thompson

David Lonzo Thompson (May 21, 1969 – February 14, 2010) was an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known by his stage name Lil' Dave Thompson.

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Lil' Ed Williams

Lil' Ed Williams (born April 8, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues slide guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Lillian Glinn

Lillian Glinn (May 10, 1902 – July 22, 1978) was an American classic female blues and country blues singer and songwriter.

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Linsey Alexander

Linsey Alexander (born July 23, 1942) is a blues songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist.

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Lisa Mann

Lisa Mann is an American electric blues bassist, songwriter and singer.

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List of Chicago blues musicians

Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.

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List of Piedmont blues musicians

The Piedmont blues (also known as Piedmont fingerstyle) is a type of blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bassline pattern supports a melody using the treble strings.

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Lists of blues musicians by genre

This page contains lists of blues musicians by their respective genres and styles. Category:Lists of musicians by genre Category:Blues musicians by genre.

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Lists of musicians

This is a list of lists of musicians.

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Little Arthur Duncan

Little Arthur Duncan (February 5, 1934 – August 20, 2008) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.

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Little Brother Montgomery

Eurreal Wilford "Little Brother" Montgomery (April 18, 1906 – September 6, 1985) was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer.

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Little Buddy Doyle

Little Buddy Doyle (born March 20, 1911; died c. 1960) was an American Memphis blues and country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Little Freddie King

Little Freddie King (born Fread Eugene Martin, July 19, 1940) is an American Delta blues guitarist.

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Little Hat Jones

George "Little Hat" Jones (October 5, 1899 – March 7, 1981) was an American Texas blues musician.

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Little Hatch

Little Hatch (October 25, 1921 – January 14, 2003)Doc Rock.

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Little Jimmy King

Emmanuel Lynn Gales (December 4, 1964 – July 19, 2002), known professionally as Little Jimmy King, was an American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Little Mack Simmons

Malcolm "Little Mack" Simmons (January 25, 1933 – October 24, 2000) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.

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Little Mike and the Tornadoes

Little Mike and the Tornadoes are an American blues and rock and roll band from New York City.

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Little Sammy Davis

Little Sammy Davis (November 28, 1928 – February 16, 2018) was an American blues musician based in New York's Hudson Valley.

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Little Smokey Smothers

Little Smokey Smothers (January 2, 1939 – November 20, 2010) was an African-American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.

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Little Sonny

Little Sonny (born Aaron Willis, October 6, 1932, Greensboro, Alabama) is an American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Little Sonny Jones

Johnny "Little Sonny" Jones (April 15, 1931 – December 17, 1989) was an American New Orleans blues singer and songwriter.

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Little Walter

Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica and impact on succeeding generations earned comparisons for him to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.

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Little Willie Littlefield

Willie Littlefield, Jr., billed as Little Willie Littlefield (September 16, 1931 – June 23, 2013), was an American R&B and boogie-woogie pianist and singer whose early recordings "formed a vital link between boogie-woogie and rock and roll".

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Little Willy Foster

Little Willy Foster or Little Willie Foster (April 20, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American Chicago blues harmonicist, singer, and songwriter.

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Liz Mandeville

Liz Mandeville is an American vocalist, songwriter, and Chicago blues musician known for her versatile voice, high-voltage performances, insightful songs, and traditional blues guitar playing.

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Lonesome Sundown

Cornelius Green III (December 12, 1928 – April 23, 1995), known professionally as Lonesome Sundown, was an American blues musician, best known for his recordings for Excello Records in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Long John Hunter

John Thurman Hunter Jr. (July 13, 1931 – January 4, 2016), known by the stage name Long John Hunter, was an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Lonnie Brooks

Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr., December 18, 1933 – April 1, 2017) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Lonnie Donegan

Anthony James Donegan (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002), known as Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop musicians.

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Lonnie Johnson (musician)

Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter.

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Lonnie Mack

Lonnie McIntosh (July 18, 1941 – April 21, 2016), known by his stage name Lonnie Mack, was an American rock musician whose recordings drew from a wide variety of Southern roots music influences.

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Lonnie Pitchford

Lonnie Pitchford (October 8, 1955 – November 8, 1998) was an American blues musician and instrument maker from Lexington, Mississippi.

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Lonnie Shields

Lonnie Shields (born April 17, 1956) is an American electric blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Los Lonely Boys

Los Lonely Boys are an American Chicano rock power trio from San Angelo, Texas.

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Lottie Kimbrough

Lottie Kimbrough (born 1893 or 1900; date of death unknown) was an American country blues singer, who was also billed as Lottie Beaman (her married name), Lottie Kimborough, and Lena Kimbrough (among several other names).

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Lou Ann Barton

Lou Ann Barton (born February 17, 1954, Fort Worth, Texas, United States) is an American blues singer based in Austin, Texas since the 1970s.

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Lou Pride

Lou Pride (May 24, 1944 - June 5, 2012) was an American blues and soul singer and songwriter.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Louis Jordan

Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American musician, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Louisiana Red

Iverson Minter (March 23, 1932 – February 25, 2012), known as Louisiana Red, was an African-American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who recorded more than 50 albums.

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Lovie Lee

Lovie Lee (March 17, 1909 – May 23, 1997) Various birth years have been reported for Lee, including 1917 and 1923.

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Lucille Bogan

Lucille Bogan (April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948) was an American singer-songwriter, among the first to be recorded.

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Lucille Hegamin

Lucille Nelson Hegamin (November 29, 1894 – March 1, 1970) was an American singer and entertainer and an early African-American blues recording artist.

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Lucky Peterson

Lucky Peterson (born Judge Kenneth Peterson; December 13, 1964 in Buffalo, New York) is an American musician who plays contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll.

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Luke "Long Gone" Miles

Luke "Long Gone" Miles (May 8, 1925 – November 22, 1987) was an American Texas blues and electric blues singer and songwriter.

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Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson

Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson (August 30, 1934 – March 18, 1976) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Luther Allison

Luther Allison (August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997) was an American blues guitarist.

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Ma Rainey

"Ma" Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett, September 1882 or April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record.

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Mac Arnold

Mac Arnold (born June 30, 1942), is an American blues musician from South Carolina.

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Madlyn Davis

Madlyn Davis was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the late 1920s.

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Maggie Jones (blues musician)

Maggie Jones (born March 1894; date of death unknown) was an American blues singer and pianist who recorded thirty-eight songs between 1923 and 1926.

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Magic Sam

Samuel Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 – December 1, 1969), known as Magic Sam, was an American Chicago blues musician.

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Magic Slim

Morris Holt (August 7, 1937 – February 21, 2013), known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Mamie Smith

Mamie Smith (née Robinson; May 26, c. 1883 – September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress.

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Mance Lipscomb

Mance Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songster.

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Marcia Ball

Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas) is an American blues singer and pianist raised in Vinton, Louisiana.

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Marcus Bonfanti

Marcus Bonfanti is a British blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Margie Evans

Margie Evans (born July 17, 1940) is an American blues and gospel singer and songwriter.

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Marion James

Marion Agness James (October 8, 1934 – December 31, 2015) was an American blues singer and songwriter.

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Martha Copeland

Martha Copeland (born c. 1891–1894; date of death unknown) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Mary Flower

Mary Flower is an American musician and music educator on the independent Yellow Dog Records label.

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Mary Johnson (singer)

Mary Johnson (March 29, 1898 or 1900 – July 20, 1983) was an American classic female blues singer, accordionist and songwriter.

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Mason Ruffner

Mason Ruffner (born 1953) is an American blues and rock singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Matt Hill (musician)

Matt Hill (born June 17, 1985) is an American electric blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Matt Schofield

Matt Schofield (born 21 August 1977, Manchester, England) is an English blues guitarist and singer.

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Mattie Delaney

Mattie Delaney (born c. 1905; date of death unknown) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist active in the 1930s.

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Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis

Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis (March 2, 1925 – December 28, 1995) was an American electric blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Meade Lux Lewis

Anderson Meade Lewis (September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964), known as Meade Lux Lewis, was an American pianist and composer, noted for his playing in the boogie-woogie style.

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Memphis Minnie

Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Memphis Slim

Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer.

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Memphis Willie B.

Memphis Willie B. (November 4, 1911 – October 5, 1993) was an American Memphis blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.

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Michael Burks

Michael Burks (July 30, 1957 – May 6, 2012) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Michael Coleman (blues musician)

Michael Coleman (June 24, 1956 – November 2, 2014) was a Chicago blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Michael Messer

Michael Messer (born 28 February 1956) is an English singer, songwriter, slide guitarist and record producer.

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Mick Taylor

Michael Kevin Taylor (born 17 January 1949) is an English musician, best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1966–69) and the Rolling Stones (1969–74).

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Mighty Mo Rodgers

Mighty Mo Rodgers (born July 24, 1942) is an American electric blues musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, who has released six albums to date.

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Mike Bloomfield

Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American guitarist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, since he rarely sang before 1969.

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Mike Morgan (musician)

Mike Morgan (born November 30, 1959 in Dallas, Texas) is an American Texas and electric blues musician.

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Mike Wheeler (musician)

Mike Wheeler (born June 30, 1961) is a Chicago blues songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist.

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Miss Frankie

Miss Frankie was an American classic female blues singer.

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Mississippi Fred McDowell

Fred McDowell (January 12, 1906 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American hill country blues singer and guitar player.

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Mississippi John Hurt

John Smith Hurt (possibly March 3, 1892 – November 2, 1966), better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer and guitarist.

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Mitch Woods

Mitch Woods (born April 3, 1951, Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American modern day boogie-woogie, jump blues and jazz pianist and singer.

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Monster Mike Welch

Monster Mike Welch (born June 11, 1979) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Moody Jones

Moody Jones (April 8, 1908 – March 23, 1988) was an American blues guitarist, bass player, and singer who contributed to the development of the postwar Chicago blues sound in the late 1940s.

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Moon Mullican

Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1909 – January 1, 1967), known as Moon Mullican and "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players", was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Mose Allison

Mose John Allison Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter.

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Mose Vinson

Mose Vinson (June 2 or August 7, 1917 – November 16, 2002) was an American boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist and singer.

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Moses "Whispering" Smith

Moses "Whispering" Smith (January 25, 1932 – April 28, 1984) was an American blues harmonicist and singer.

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Mozelle Alderson

Mozelle Alderson (November 20, 1904 – February 15, 1994) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Murali Coryell

Murali Coryell (born October 27, 1969) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Neal Pattman

Neal Pattman (January 10, 1926 – May 4, 2005) was an American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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Nick Jonas & the Administration

Nick Jonas & the Administration is a band formed in late 2009 as a side project by Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers.

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Nick Moss

Nick Moss (born December 15, 1969, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues musician.

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Nora Jean Bruso

Nora Jean Bruso (born June 21, 1956) is an American Chicago and electric blues singer and songwriter.

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Norah Jones

Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Norman Beaker

Norman Beaker (born Norman Hume, 21 June 1950, Manchester, England) is a blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, band leader and record producer who has been involved in the British blues scene since the early 1970s.

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North Mississippi Allstars

North Mississippi Allstars is an American southern rock/blues band from Hernando, Mississippi, United States, founded in 1996.

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Nuno Mindelis

Nuno Mindelis (born August 7, 1957, in Cabinda, Angola), nicknamed "The Beast from Brazil", is an Angolan-born Brazilian blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Odessa Harris

Dessie Mae Williams, known professionally as Odessa Harris (June 8, 1936 – August 18, 2007) was an American blues and jazz singer.

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Odetta

Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".

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Odie Payne

Odie Payne (August 27, 1926 – March 1, 1989) was an American Chicago blues drummer.

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Oli Brown

Oli Brown is a British blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Ora Alexander

Ora Alexander (born c. 1896) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Oscar "Buddy" Woods

Oscar "Buddy" Woods (born c. 1900–1903, died December 14, 1955) was an American Texas blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers

Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers (March 21, 1929 – July 23, 1993) was an African-American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.

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Otis Grand

Otis Grand (born February 14, 1950, Beirut, Lebanon) is an American blues musician, best known for his album, Perfume and Grime (1996).

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Otis Rush

Otis Rush (born April 29, 1934) is a blues guitarist and singer.

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Otis Spann

Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930 – April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist.

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Otis Taylor (musician)

Otis Taylor (born July 30, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American blues musician.

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Pacific 231

Pacific 231 is an orchestral work by Arthur Honegger, written in 1923.

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Papa Charlie Jackson

Papa Charlie Jackson (November 10, 1887 – May 7, 1938) was an early American bluesman and songster who accompanied himself with a banjo guitar, a guitar, or a ukulele.

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Papa Charlie McCoy

Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy (May 26, 1909 – July 26, 1950) was an African-American Delta blues musician and songwriter.

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Pappo

Norberto Aníbal Napolitano, known by his stage name Pappo (La Paternal, 10 March 1950 – Luján, 24 February 2005), was an Argentine electric guitarist, singer-songwriter and composer.

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Pat Boyack

Pat Boyack (born June 26, 1967, Price, Utah, United States) is an American electric blues guitarist and songwriter.

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Paul "Wine" Jones

Paul "Wine" Jones (July 1, 1946 – October 9, 2005) was an American contemporary blues guitarist and singer.

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Paul Butterfield

Paul Vaughn Butterfield (December 17, 1942May 4, 1987) was an American blues harmonica player and singer.

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Paul Geremia

Paul Geremia (born April 21, 1944) is an American blues singer and acoustic guitarist.

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Paul Lamb (musician)

Paul Lamb (born 9 July 1955, Blyth, Northumberland, England) is a British blues harmonica player and bandleader.

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Pee Wee Crayton

Connie Curtis Crayton (December 18, 1914 – June 25, 1985), known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer.

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Peetie Wheatstraw

William Bunch (December 21, 1902 – December 21, 1941), known as Peetie Wheatstraw, was an American musician, an influential figure among 1930s blues singers.

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Peg Leg Howell

Joshua Barnes Howell, known as Peg Leg Howell (March 5, 1888 – August 11, 1966), was an African-American blues singer and guitarist, who connected early country blues and the later 12-bar style.

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Percy Mayfield

Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920 – August 11, 1984) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer with a smooth vocal style.

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Percy Strother

Percy Lee Strother (July 23, 1946 – May 29, 2005) was an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Pete Mayes

Pete Mayes (born Floyd Davis Mayes, March 21, 1938 – December 16, 2008) was an American Texas blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Peter Green (musician)

Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, 29 October 1946) is a British blues rock guitarist.

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Phil Guy

Phil Guy (April 28, 1940 – August 20, 2008) was an American blues guitarist.

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Philip Sayce

Philip Sayce is a Welsh guitarist, singer and songwriter, now residing in Canada.

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Piano Red

Willie Lee Perryman (October 19, 1911 – July 25, 1985), usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr.

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Pierre Lacocque

Pierre Lacocque is an American acclaimed and internationally renowned blues harmonica player.

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Pinetop Perkins

Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist.

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Pinetop Sparks

Aaron "Pinetop" Sparks (born Aaron Gant, May 22, 1910 – November 5, 1935) was an American blues pianist active in St. Louis in the early 1930s.

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Piney Brown

Columbus S. Perry (January 20, 1922 – February 5, 2009), better known as Piney Brown, was an American R&B and blues singer and songwriter, who has been described as a "fine, big-voiced shouter".

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Pink Anderson

Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Preston Shannon

Preston Shannon (October 23, 1947 – January 22, 2018) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Professor Eddie Lusk

Eddie James Lusk, Jr. known professionally as Professor Eddie Lusk (September 21, 1948 – August 26, 1992) was an American Chicago blues musician.

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Pyeng Threadgill

Pyeng Dubra Threadgill (born November 14, 1977) is an American blues, jazz and soul blues singer, songwriter and record producer.

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R. L. Burnside

Robert Lee Burnside, known as R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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R.J. Mischo

R.J. Mischo (born March 18, 1960) is an American electric blues harmonicist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Rabbit Brown

Richard "Rabbit" Brown (c. 1880 – c. 1937) was an American blues guitarist and composer.

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Ralph Willis (blues musician)

Ralph Willis (c. 1910 – June 11, 1957) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Ramblin' Thomas

Willard Thomas, better known as Ramblin' Thomas (c. 1902–c. 1945), was an American country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Ramon Goose

Ramon Goose is an English guitarist, singer and producer, known for his work with the West African Blues Project and the hip hop blues band NuBlues, for his mastery of the slide guitar, and for producing albums for American blues artists.

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Randy McAllister

Randy McAllister is an American blues and Americana drummer, harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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Red Nelson (musician)

Nelson Wilborn (August 31, 1907 – March 1970), better known as Red Nelson or Dirty Red, was an American blues singer and occasional guitarist.

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Redd Velvet

Redd Velvet (born Crystal Tucker, December 29, 1968, Omaha, Nebraska, United States) is an American blues and soul singer, best known for her unconventional entrance into the music industry.

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Reggie Sears

Reggie Sears is an American recording artist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer, and a former child prodigy guitarist known for his songs "Dirty Dancer", "Dip My Dipper", and "You Betrayed Me.".

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Reneé Austin

Reneé Austin is an American soul, R&B, gospel, singer, songwriter, actor and speaker.

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Reverend Gary Davis

Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis (born Gary D. Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972), was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica.

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Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.

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Richard Johnston (musician)

Richard Wayne Johnston is an American country blues musician.

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Richard Ray Farrell

Richard Ray Farrell (born 1956) is an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer and songwriter.

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Richard Trice

Richard Trice (November 16, 1917 – April 6, 2000) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Rick Franklin

Frederick Arlington "Rick" Franklin (born March 16, 1952) is an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Rick Holmstrom

Rick Holmstrom (born May 30, 1965) is an American electric blues and rhythm and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Robben Ford

Robben Ford (born December 16, 1951) is an American blues, jazz, and rock guitarist.

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Robert "Big Mojo" Elem

Robert "Big Mojo" Elem (January 22, 1928 – February 5, 1997) was an American Chicago blues bass guitarist and singer.

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Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise

Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise is an American band.

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Robert Cray

Robert William Cray (born August 1, 1953) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Robert Curtis Smith

Robert Curtis Smith (February 17, 1930 – November 10, 2010) was an African-American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Robert Ealey

Robert Daniel Ealey (December 6, 1925 – March 8, 2001) was an African American electric blues singer, who performed Texas blues.

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Robert Johnson

Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician.

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Robert Lockwood Jr.

Robert Lockwood Jr. (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Robert Nighthawk

Robert Lee McCollum (November 30, 1909 – November 5, 1967) was an American blues musician who played and recorded under the pseudonyms Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk.

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Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Robert Shaw (blues musician)

Robert Shaw (August 9, 1908 – May 18, 1985) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, best known for his 1963 album, The Ma Grinder.

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Robin Trower

Robin Leonard Trower (born 9 March 1945) is an English rock guitarist and vocalist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio known as Robin Trower.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rockin' Johnny Burgin

Johnny Burgin (born July 17, 1969) is an American blues guitarist and harmonica player who learned his craft from the masters of Chicago blues on the city's South and West sides.

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Rod Piazza

Rod Piazza (born December 18, 1947, Riverside, California) is an American blues harmonica player and singer.

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Roger "Hurricane" Wilson

Roger "Hurricane" Wilson (born July 27, 1953) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Ron Holloway

Ronald Edward "Ron" Holloway (born August 24, 1953) is an American tenor saxophonist.

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Ron Thompson (blues guitarist)

Ron Thompson (born July 5, 1953) is an American electric blues and blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Ronnie Baker Brooks

Ronnie Baker Brooks (born January 23, 1967) is an American Chicago blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Ronnie Earl

Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath, March 10, 1953, Queens, New York, United States) is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.

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Roomful of Blues

Roomful of Blues is an American blues and swing revival big band based in Rhode Island.

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Roosevelt Sykes

Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 – July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician, also known as "The Honeydripper".

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Rory Block

Aurora "Rory" Block (born November 6, 1949, Princeton, New Jersey, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style.

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Rory Gallagher

William Rory Gallagher (2 March 1948 – 14 June 1995) was an Irish blues and rock multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer.

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Roscoe Shelton

Roscoe Shelton (August 22, 1931 – July 27, 2002) was an American electric blues and R&B singer.

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Roxanne Potvin

Roxanne Potvin (born March 31, 1982 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian bilingual Gatineau, Quebec-based singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Roy Book Binder

Roy Book Binder (born October 5, 1943) is an American blues guitarist, singer-songwriter and storyteller.

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Roy Brown (blues musician)

Roy James Brown (September 10, 1920 or 1925May 25, 1981) was an American R&B singer, songwriter and musician, who had a significant influence on the early development of rock and roll and the direction of R&B.

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Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician.

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Roy Gaines

Roy James Gaines (born August 12, 1934 or 1937) is an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Roy Milton

Roy Bunny Milton (July 31, 1907 – September 18, 1983) was an American R&B and jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader.

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Roy Rogers (guitarist)

Roy Rogers (born July 28, 1950, Redding, California, United States) is an American blues rock slide guitarist and record producer.

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Rubin Lacey

Rubin "Rube" Lacey (January 2, 1901 – November 14, 1969) was an American country blues musician, who played guitar and was a singer and songwriter.

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Ruby Smith

Ruby Smith (August 24, 1903 – March 24, 1977) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Rufus Thomas

Rufus C. Thomas, Jr. (March 26, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm-and-blues, funk, soul and blues singer, songwriter, dancer, DJ and comic entertainer from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Rusty Zinn

Rusty Zinn (born April 3, 1970 in Long Beach, California) is an American electric blues and reggae guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women

Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women was a three-woman blues musical ensemble in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Sam Collins (musician)

Sam Collins (August 11, 1887 – October 20, 1949),.

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Sam Myers

Samuel Joseph Myers (February 19, 1936 – July 17, 2006) was an American blues musician and songwriter.

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Sam Taylor (saxophonist)

Samuel Leroy Taylor, Jr. (July 12, 1916 – October 5, 1990), known as Sam "The Man" Taylor, was an American jazz and blues tenor saxophonist, whose honking style set the standard for tenor sax solos in both R&B and jazz.

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Sammy Lawhorn

Sammy David Lawhorn (July 12, 1935 – April 29, 1990) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, best known as a member of Muddy Waters's band.

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Sandra Hall

Sandra L. Hall (born September 5, 1951) is an African-American blues and soul blues singer and songwriter.

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Scott H. Biram

Scott H. Biram aka The Dirty Old One Man Band (born April 4, 1974) is an American blues, punk, country, heavy metal musician, record producer, and ordained minister.

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Scott Henderson

Scott Henderson (born August 26, 1954) is an American jazz fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech.

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Scrapper Blackwell

Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962) was an American blues guitarist and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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Sean Costello

Sean Costello (April 16, 1979 – April 15, 2008) was an American blues musician, renowned for his fiery guitar playing and soulful singing.

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Seasick Steve

Steven Gene Wold (born), commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician.

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Seth Walker

Seth Walker (born 1972) is an American electric blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Shakey Jake Harris

Shakey Jake Harris (April 12, 1921 – March 2, 1990) was an American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter.

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Shemekia Copeland

Charon Shemekia Copeland (born April 10, 1979) is an American electric blues vocalist.

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Sherman Robertson

Sherman Robertson (born October 27, 1948, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, United States) is an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer, who has been described as "one part zydeco, one part swamp blues, one part electric blues and one part classic rhythm and blues.".

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Shirley Griffith

Shirley Griffith (April 26, 1907 – June 18, 1974).

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Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an African American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

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Sidney Maiden

Sidney Maiden (April 1917 – c. 1987) was an American country blues musician.

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Silas Hogan

Silas Hogan (September 15, 1911 – January 9, 1994) was an American blues musician.

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Sippie Wallace

Sippie Wallace (born Beulah Belle Thomas, November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Sista Monica Parker

Sista Monica Parker (born Monica C. Parker, April 27, 1956 – October 9, 2014) was an American electric blues, blues rock, gospel and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Skeeter Brandon

Skeeter Brandon (April 22, 1948 – March 20, 2008) was an American blind blues keyboardist, singer and songwriter.

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Skip James

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.

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Slash (musician)

Saul Hudson (born July 23, 1965), better known by his stage name Slash, is an English-American musician and songwriter.

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Sleepy John Estes

John Adams Estes (January 25, 1899 or 1900 – June 5, 1977), known as Sleepy John Estes, was an American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist.

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Smokey Hogg

Andrew "Smokey" Hogg (January 27, 1914 – May 1, 1960) was an American post-war Texas blues and country blues musician.

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Smokey Wilson

Robert Lee "Smokey" Wilson (July 11, 1936 – September 8, 2015) was an American West Coast blues guitarist.

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Smoky Babe

Robert Brown (July 31, 1927 – May 1973), who performed as Smoky Babe, was an American acoustic blues guitarist and singer, whose recording career was restricted to a couple of recording sessions in the early 1960s.

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Snooks Eaglin

Fird Eaglin, Jr. (January 21, 1936 or 1937 – February 18, 2009), known as Snooks Eaglin, was an American guitarist and singer based in New Orleans.

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Snooky Pryor

James Edward "Snooky" Pryor (September 15, 1919 or 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player.

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Soko Richardson

Eulis Soko Richardson (December 8, 1939 – January 29, 2004) was an American rhythm and blues drummer.

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Son Bonds

Abraham John Bond Jr., known as Son Bonds (March 16, 1909 – August 31, 1947), was an American country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Son House

Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902His date of birth is a matter of some debate. House alleged that he was middle-aged during World War I and that he was 79 in 1965, which would make his date of birth around 1886. However, all legal records give his date of birth as March 21, 1902. – October 19, 1988) was an American delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.

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Son Seals

Frank "Son" Seals (August 13, 1942 – December 20, 2004) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.

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Sonny Boy Williamson I

John Lee Curtis "Sonny Boy" Williamson (March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Sonny Boy Williamson II

Alex or Aleck Miller (né Ford, possibly December 5, 1912 – May 24, 1965), known later in his career as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Sonny Rodgers

Oliver Lee "Sonny" Rodgers (December 4, 1939 – May 7, 1990) was an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Sonny Terry

Saunders Teddell, or Saunders Terrell (or other variants, sources differ) (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.

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Southern Avenue (band)

Southern Avenue is an American five-piece blues and soul blues band from Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Speckled Red

Rufus George Perryman (October 23, 1892 – January 2, 1973), known as Speckled Red, was an American blues and boogie-woogie piano player and singer noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that have long been a part of African-American folklore.

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St. Louis Jimmy Oden

James Burke "St.

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Stan Webb

Stanley Frederick "Stan" Webb (born 3 February 1946) is the frontman and lead guitarist with the blues band Chicken Shack.

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Steve Freund

Steve Freund (born July 20, 1952, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States), is an American blues guitarist, singer, bandleader and record producer.

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Steve Guyger

Steve Guyger (born September 12, 1952) is an American Chicago blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.

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Steve Hunter

Stephen John Hunter (born June 14, 1948) is an American guitarist, primarily a session player.

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Steve James (blues musician)

Steve James (born July 15, 1950, Manhattan, New York City, United States) is an American folk blues musician.

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Steve Nardella

Steve Nardella (born June 26, 1948, Providence, Rhode Island, United States) is an American blues, rock and roll, blues rock and rockabilly guitarist and singer.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Sue Foley

Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968) is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist.

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Sugar Ray Norcia

Sugar Ray Norcia (born Raymond Alan Norcia, June 6, 1954, Stonington, Connecticut, United States) is an American electric and soul blues singer and harmonica player.

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Sugaray Rayford

Caron Nimoy "Sugaray" Rayford (born February 13, 1969) is an American electric blues singer and songwriter.

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Susan Tedeschi

Susan Tedeschi (born November 9, 1970) is an American singer and guitarist.

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Sylvester Weaver (musician)

Sylvester Weaver (July 25, 1896 or 1897 – April 4, 1960) was an American blues guitar player and a pioneer of country blues.

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Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"

Symphony No.

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T-Bone Walker

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound.

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T-Model Ford

James Lewis Carter Ford (probably June 24, 1923 – July 16, 2013) was an American blues musician, using the name T-Model Ford.

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Tab Benoit

Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967) is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer.

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Tabby Thomas

Ernest Joseph "Tabby" Thomas, (January 5, 1929 – January 1, 2014), also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas, was an American blues musician.

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Tail Dragger Jones

James Yancey Jones, known professionally as Tail Dragger Jones (born September 30, 1940) is an American Chicago blues singer.

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Taj Mahal (musician)

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician, a self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica, among many other instruments.

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Tampa Red

Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician.

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Ted Bogan

Theodore R. "Ted" Bogan (May 10, 1909 – January 29, 1990) was an American country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for his work with Howard Armstrong and Carl Martin.

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Ted Hawkins

Ted Hawkins (October 28, 1936 – January 1, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter born in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Teddy Darby

Theodore Roosevelt Darby, better known as Blind Teddy Darby (March 2, 1906 – December 1975), was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Teeny Tucker

Regina B. Higginbotham (born January 22, 1958) known professionally as Teeny Tucker is an American electric blues and new blues singer and songwriter.

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Terry "Harmonica" Bean

Terry W. "Harmonica" Bean (born January 26, 1961) is an American blues harmonicist, guitarist and songwriter.

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Terry Evans (musician)

Terry Evans (August 14, 1937 – January 20, 2018) was an African American R&B, blues, and soul singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Terry Garland

Terry Garland (born June 3, 1953, in Johnson City, Tennessee) is an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer.

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Terry Hanck

Terry Hanck (born 1944) is an American electric blues saxophonist, singer, songwriter and record producer, who won a Blues Music Award in 2016 in the 'Instrumentalist - Horn' category.

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Terry Robb

Terry Robb is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist, composer, arranger and record producer living in the United States.

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Texas Johnny Brown

Texas Johnny Brown (February 22, 1928 – July 1, 2013) was an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer, best known for his composition "Two Steps from the Blues".

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The Animals

The Animals are an English rhythm and blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s.

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The Black Keys

The Black Keys are an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001.

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The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band which was founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live.

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The Butler Twins

The Butler Twins were an American Detroit blues and electric blues duo of the twin brothers Clarence (January 21, 1942 – December 22, 2003) and Curtis Butler (January 21, 1942 – April 9, 2004).

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The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Fabulous Thunderbirds is an American blues rock band formed in Texas in 1974.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Legendary Blues Band

The Legendary Blues Band was a Chicago blues band formed in 1980 after the breakup of Muddy Waters' band.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The White Stripes

The White Stripes were an American rock band formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969.

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Thomas A. Dorsey

Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was known as "the father of black gospel music" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as "dorseys".

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Thornetta Davis

Thornetta Davis (born August 11, 1963) is an American Detroit blues and rhythm and blues singer.

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Tinsley Ellis

Tinsley Ellis (born June 4, 1957) is an American blues and rock musician, who grew up in southern Florida.

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Titus Turner

Titus Lee Turner (May 1, 1933 – September 13, 1984) was an American R&B and East Coast blues singer and songwriter.

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Todd Sharpville

Todd Sharpville (born 9 April 1970 as The Hon. Roland Augusto Jestyn Estanislao Philipps) is the younger son of the 3rd Viscount St Davids and younger brother of 4th Viscount St Davids.

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Tom Delaney (songwriter)

Tom Delaney (September 14, 1889 – December 16, 1963) was an African-American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer, who wrote a number of popular songs, mainly in the 1920s.

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Tommy Castro

Tommy Castro (born April 15, 1955, San Jose, California, United States) is an American blues, R&B and rock guitarist and singer.

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Tommy Johnson (musician)

Tommy Johnson (January 1896 – November 1, 1956) was an American Delta blues musician who recorded in the late 1920s and was known for his eerie falsetto voice and intricate guitar playing.

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Tommy Z

Tommy Z is an American electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and audio engineer, who has released three albums to date.

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Turner Foddrell

Turner Foddrell (June 22, 1928 – January 31, 1995) was an American Piedmont blues and folk acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Tutu Jones

Tutu Jones (born September 9, 1966) is an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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U.P. Wilson

Huary Perry "U.P." Wilson (September 4, 1934 – September 22, 2004) was an African-American electric blues guitarist and singer who performed Texas blues.

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Valerie Wellington

Valerie Wellington (November 14, 1959 – January 2, 1993) was an African-American singer who, in her short career, switched from singing opera to singing Chicago blues and electric blues.

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Vanessa Collier

Vanessa N. Collier is an American blues, pop rock, and neo soul saxophonist, singer and songwriter.

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Vasti Jackson

Vasti Jackson (pronounced Vast-eye) (born October 20, 1959) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Victor Wainwright

Victor Wainwright (born February 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Victoria Spivey

Victoria Regina Spivey (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976), sometimes known as Queen Victoria, was an American blues singer and songwriter.

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Virginia Liston

Virginia Liston (c. 1890 – June 1932) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer.

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Walter Brown (singer)

Walter Brown (August 17, 1917 – June 1956) was an American blues shouter who sang with Jay McShann's band in the 1940s and co-wrote their biggest hit, "Confessin' the Blues".

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Walter Davis (blues)

Walter Davis (March 1, 1911 or 1912. Retrieved 17 October 2016. – October 22, 1963) was an African-American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter who was one of the most prolific blues recording artists from the early 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Walter Roland

Walter Roland (possibly December 20, 1902 – October 12, 1972) was an American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, guitarist and singer, noted for his association with Lucille Bogan, Josh White and Sonny Scott.

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Walter Trout

Walter Trout (born March 6, 1951, Ocean City, New Jersey, United States) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Walter Vinson

Walter Vinson (February 2, 1901 – April 22, 1975) was an American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Washboard Sam

Robert Clifford Brown (July 15, 1910 – November 6, 1966), known professionally as Washboard Sam, was an American blues musician and singer.

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Washboard Willie

William Paden Hensley (July 24, 1906 or 1909 – August 24, 1991), known as Washboard Willie, was an American Detroit blues musician, who specialised in playing the washboard.

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Wayne Baker Brooks

Wayne Baker Brooks (born April 30, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues and blues-rock guitarist and singer.

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Wesley Wilson

Wesley Shellie Wilson (October 1, 1893 – October 10, 1958), often credited as Kid Wilson, was an American blues and jazz singer and songwriter.

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Whistlin' Alex Moore

Whistlin' Alex Moore (November 22, 1899 – January 20, 1989) was an American blues pianist, singer and whistler.

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Whitesnake

Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in 1978 by David Coverdale, after his departure from his previous band Deep Purple.

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William Ezell

William Ezell (December 23, 1892 – August 2, 1963), was an American blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and occasional singer, who was also billed as Will Ezell.

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William Grant Still

William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas.

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William Harris (musician)

William Harris was an American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Willie Brown (musician)

Willie Lee Brown (August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952) was an American blues guitar player and vocalist.

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Willie D. Warren

Willie D. Warren (September 11, 1924 – December 30, 2000) was an American electric blues guitarist, bass player and singer.

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Willie Dixon

William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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Willie Love

Willie Love Jr. (November 4, 1906 – August 19, 1953) was an American Delta blues pianist.

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Willie Trice

William Augusta Trice (February 10, 1908 – December 11, 1976) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Wolf Mail

Wolf Mail (born 1972) is a Canadian blues rock guitarist and singer.

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Woodrow Adams

Woodrow Wilson Adams (April 9, 1917 – August 9, 1988) was an American Delta blues guitarist and harmonica player.

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Wynonie Harris

Wynonie Harris (August 24, 1915, Omaha, Nebraska – June 14, 1969), was an American blues shouter and rhythm-and-blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics.

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Yavuz Çetin

Yavuz Hilmi Çetin (25 September 1970 – 15 August 2001) was a Turkish musician as well as songwriter and singer in the blues and psychedelic music genres, who gained renown in his native country for the skill and sensitivity of his guitar performances and, in the wake of his suicide at the age of 30, before the release of his highly praised album, Satılık, has achieved a near-iconic posthumous status as a talent lost on the brink of great achievement.

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Z. Z. Hill

Arzell J. Hill (September 30, 1935 – April 27, 1984),Dahl, Bill.

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Zucchero Fornaciari

Adelmo Fornaciari Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (born 25 September 1955), more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician, with an Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

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ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blues_musicians

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