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1. 520 relations: Adolphus Bell, Alan Wilson (musician), Albert Ammons, Albert Collins, Albert King, Albert White (musician), Alberta Hunter, Alec Seward, Alexis Korner, Alger "Texas" Alexander, All About Jazz, All Music Guide to the Blues, AllMusic, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Amos Milburn, Andrew Odom, Andy Rodgers (musician), Angela Strehli, Anson Funderburgh, Arbee Stidham, Archie Edwards, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Aron Burton, Arthur "Big Boy" Spires, Arthur Crudup, Asie Payton, B. B. King, Baby Boy Warren, Baby Tate (guitarist), Barbecue Bob, Barkin' Bill Smith, Barrelhouse Chuck, Bernice Edwards, Bessie Smith, Bessie Tucker, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Boy Henry, Big Joe Duskin, Big Joe Turner, Big Joe Williams, Big John Wrencher, Big Maceo Merriweather, Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, Billy Wright (musician), Black Ace, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind John Davis, Blind Lemon Jefferson, ... Expand index (470 more) » « Shrink index

Adolphus Bell

Adolphus Bell (June 5, 1944 – October 28, 2013) was an American electric blues musician, best known as a one-man band.

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Alan Wilson (musician)

Alan Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970), nicknamed "Blind Owl", was an American musician, best known as the co-founder, leader, co-lead singer, and primary composer of the blues band Canned Heat.

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Albert Ammons

Albert Clifton Ammons (March 1, 1907 – December 2, 1949) was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a blues style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s.

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Albert Collins

Albert Gene Collins (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 guitarist and singer who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time.

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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 and blues singer and songwriter from the early 1920s to the late 1950s.

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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), known professionally as Alexis Korner, 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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Alger "Texas" Alexander

Alger "Texas" Alexander (September 12, 1900 – April 18, 1954) was an American blues singer from Jewett, Texas.

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All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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All Music Guide to the Blues

All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues is a non-fiction, encyclopedic referencing of blues music compiled under the direction of All Media Guide.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alvin Youngblood Hart

Alvin Youngblood Hart (born Gregory Edward Hart; March 2, 1963) is an American musician.

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Amos Milburn

Joseph Amos Milburn (April 1, 1927 – January 3, 1980) was an American R&B singer and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Andrew Odom

Andrew Odom (December 15, 1936 – December 23, 1991) was an American Chicago blues and electric 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) 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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Arbee Stidham

Arbee William Stidham (February 9, 1917 – April 26, 1988) was an American blues singer and multi-instrumentalist.

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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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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell.

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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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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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B. B. King

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

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Baby Boy Warren

Robert Henry "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 (guitarist)

Charles Henry Tate, known as Baby Tate (January 28, 1916 – 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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Barbecue Bob

Robert Hicks (September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931), known by the stage name Barbecue Bob, 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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Bernice Edwards

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

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Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age.

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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 Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1893 or 1903August 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 Joe Duskin

Joseph L. "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 Joe Williams

Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar.

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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 "Big Maceo" Merriweather (March 31, 1905 – February 23, 1953) was an American pianist and blues singer.

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Big Mama Thornton

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

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Big Walter Horton

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

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Billy Wright (musician)

William Wright (May 21 or 23, 1918, – October 28, 1991) was an American singer.

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Black Ace

Babe Kyro Lemon Turner (December 21, 1905 – November 7, 1972) was an American Texas blues musician most frequently known by the stage name Black Ace.

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Blind Blake

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

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Blind Boy Fuller

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

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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)Some sources indicate Jefferson was born on October 26, 1894.

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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 Pig Records

Blind Pig Records is an American blues independent record label.

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Blind Willie Johnson

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

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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 that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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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 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 Margolin

Bob Margolin (born May 9, 1949) is an American electric blues guitarist.

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Bobby Bland

Robert Calvin Bland (born 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 Rush (musician)

Bobby Rush (born Emmett Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana on November 10, 1933) is an American blues musician, composer, and singer.

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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 Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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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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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since the 1870s.

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Boyd Gilmore

Boyd Gilmore (June 1, 1905 or June 12, 1910 – December 23, 1976) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Brownie McGhee

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

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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 (born on November 12, between 1900 and 1909; died February 26, 1977) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer.

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Bumble Bee Slim

Admirl 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 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 American soul-blues and electric blues singer and guitarist.

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Carey Bell

Carey Bell Harrington (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, in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American electric blues vocalist, guitarist, 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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Casey Bill Weldon

William "Casey Bill" Weldon (February 2, 1901, or December 10, 1909 – September 28, 1972) was an American country blues musician.

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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 singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Charles Caldwell (bluesman)

Charles W. Caldwell (May 18, 1943 – September 3, 2003), AllMusic 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), also known as Laughing Charley, was an early American country blues musician.

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Charley Patton

Charlie Patton (April 1891 (probable) – April 28, 1934), more often spelled Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician and songwriter.

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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 Musselwhite

Charles Douglas Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American blues harmonica player and bandleader, one who came to prominence, along with Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, and Elvin Bishop, as a pivotal figure in helping to revive the Chicago Blues movement of the 1960s.

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Chicago blues

Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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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 Thomas King

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

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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 (March 13, 1894 – February 2, 1935) was an American classic female blues singer, billed as the "Queen of the Moaners", although she had a lighter and sweeter voice than many of her contemporaries.

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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005) was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana.

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Clarence Garlow

Clarence Joseph Garlow (February 27, 1911July 24, 1986) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who performed in the R&B, jump blues, Texas blues and cajun styles.

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Classic female blues

Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s.

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Colin James

Colin James (born Colin James Munn; August 17, 1964) is a Canadian blues rock 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

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

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Country blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music.

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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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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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Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

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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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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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David "Honeyboy" Edwards

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

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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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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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Delta blues

Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues.

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Demetria Taylor

Demetria M. Taylor (born February 28, 1973) is an American Chicago blues singer and songwriter.

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Denny Freeman

Dennis Edward Freeman (August 7, 1944 – April 25, 2021) was an American Texas and electric blues guitarist.

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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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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 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 American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter.

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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 Robillard

Michael John "Duke" Robillard (born October 4, 1948) is an American guitarist and 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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Earl King

Earl Silas Johnson IV (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003), known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music.

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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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Earwig Music Company

Earwig Music Company is an American blues and jazz independent record label, founded by Michael Frank in October 1978 in Chicago.

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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, and singer and songwriter.

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Eddie Boyd

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

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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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Eddie Taylor Jr.

Edward Taylor (March 27, 1972 – March 8, 2019), better known as Eddie Taylor Jr., was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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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 (December 25, 1898 or 1900 – February 17, 1947) was an American classic female blues singer.

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Edna Hicks

Edna Hicks (October 14, 1891 or 1895 – August 16, 1925) was an American blues singer and musician.

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El Paso Times

The El Paso Times is the newspaper for the US city of El Paso, Texas.

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Electric blues

Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments.

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Elizabeth Cotten

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

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Elmore James

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

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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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Eric Bibb

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

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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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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

Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina.

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Etta James

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

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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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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 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 King

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

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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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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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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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George "Harmonica" Smith

George "Harmonica" Smith (born Allen George Smith, April 22, 1924 – October 2, 1983) was an American electric blues harmonica player.

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George "Mojo" Buford

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

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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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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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Gospel blues

Gospel blues (or holy blues) is a form of blues-based gospel music that has been around since the inception of blues music.

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Grady Gaines

Grady Gaines (May 14, 1934 – January 29, 2021) was 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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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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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

Edward Lamonte Franklin (January 16, 1928 – July 31, 1975), better known as Guitar Pete Franklin, was an American blues singer, musician and songwriter.

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Guitar Slim

Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), known as Guitar Slim, was an American guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", for Specialty Records.

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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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Guitar World

Guitar World is a monthly music magazine for guitarists – and fans of guitar-based music and trends – that has been published since July 1980.

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Gus Cannon

Gustavus Cannon (September 12, 1883 – 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, banjo player, and two-time Grammy Award nominee.

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Hambone Willie Newbern

William "Hambone Willie" Newbern (– April 15, 1965) was an American country blues musician who was active from the 1920s to the 1940s.

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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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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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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 (January 19, 1925 – February 17, 2020) was an American blues piano player and singer born in Kenner, Louisiana.

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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 Thomas (blues musician)

Henry Thomas (1874 1930) was an American country blues singer, songster and musician.

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Henry Townsend (musician)

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

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Hill country blues

Hill country blues (also known as North Mississippi hill country blues or North Mississippi blues) is a regional style of country blues.

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Hip Linkchain

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

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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 Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Ida Cox

Ida M. Cox (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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Ike Turner

Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout.

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Indy Week

Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary) and counties (Wake County, Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County).

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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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J. B. Hutto

Joseph Benjamin Hutto (April 26, 1926 – June 12, 1983) was an American blues musician.

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J. B. Lenoir

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J. T. Smith (musician)

John T. Smith (between 1885 and 1890 – possibly 1940, or c. 1910 – 1979), variously known as the Howling Wolf, "Funny Papa" Smith, "Funny Paper" Smith, and Howling Smith, was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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J.D. Short

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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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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 Armstrong (musician)

James Armstrong (born April 22, 1957) 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 fellow blues artists 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 Gary Harman (June 8, 1946 – May 23, 2021) was an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.

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Jay McShann

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

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Jay Owens (musician)

Jay Owens (September 6, 1947 – November 26, 2005) was a blind African-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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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 Jackson (musician)

Jim Jackson (June 1876 – December 18, 1933) was an 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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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 Vaughan

Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan Jr. (born March 20, 1951) 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 Dawkins

James Henry “Jimmy” Dawkins (October 24, 1936 – April 10, 2013) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer.

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Jimmy Johnson (blues guitarist)

James Earl Thompson (November 25, 1928 – January 31, 2022), known professionally as Jimmy Johnson, was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Jimmy McCracklin

James David Walker Jr. (August 13, 1921 – December 20, 2012), better known by his stage name Jimmy McCracklin, was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmy Reed

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

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Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924December 19, 1997) was an American 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 singer and pianist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.

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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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Jody Williams (blues musician)

Joseph Leon "Jody" Williams (February 3, 1935 – December 1, 2018) was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Joe Louis Walker

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

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Joe Pullum

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

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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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John Dee Holeman

John Dee Holeman (April 4, 1929April 30, 2021) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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John Henry Barbee

John Henry Barbee (November 14, 1905 – November 3, 1964)Wynn, Ron.

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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 Lee Hooker

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

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John Littlejohn

John Wesley Funchess (April 16, 1931 – February 1, 1994) known professionally as John (or Johnny) Littlejohn, was an American electric blues slide guitarist.

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John Mayall

John Brumwell Mayall (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024) was an English blues and rock musician, songwriter and producer.

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John P. Hammond

John Paul Hammond (born November 13, 1942) 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 "Man" Young (January 1, 1917 – April 18, 1974) was an American blues singer, mandolin player and guitarist, significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after the Second World War.

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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 Copeland

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

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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 (January 12, 1943 – March 28, 2021) was 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 (Ιωάννης Αλέξανδρος Βελιώτης); December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was a first generation Greek-American singer, musician, composer, bandleader, record producer, and talent scout.

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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 Shines

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

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Johnny Temple (musician)

Johnny Temple (October 18, 1906 – November 22, 1968) was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer, who was active in the 1930s and 1940s.

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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) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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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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Journal Star (Peoria)

The Journal Star is the major daily newspaper for Peoria, Illinois, and surrounding area.

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Jug band

A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a mix of conventional and homemade instruments.

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Jump blues

Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, jazz, and boogie woogie usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments.

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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 singer, 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 Joe "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 blues singer.

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Katherine Henderson (singer)

Katherine Henderson (June 23, 1909 – September 1, 2002) was an 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.

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Kelly Joe Phelps

Kelly Joe Phelps (October 5, 1959 – May 31, 2022) was an American musician and songwriter.

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Kenny Neal

Kenny Neal (born October 14, 1957), 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.

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Kip Anderson

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

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Kirk Fletcher

Kirk Fletcher (born December 23, 1975) is an American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Kitty Brown

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

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Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor (born Cora Ann Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American singer whose style encompassed 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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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 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is a 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), is an American blues guitarist and singer from Magnolia, Arkansas.

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Lavelle White

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

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Lazy Lester

Leslie Johnson (June 20, 1933 – August 22, 2018), known as Lazy Lester, was an American blues musician who sang and played the harmonica and guitar.

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Lead Belly

Huddie William Ledbetter (January 1888 or 1889 – December 6, 1949), better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In the Pines", "Goodnight, Irene", "Midnight Special", "Cotton Fields", and "Boll Weevil".

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Lee Gates

Brice Lee Gates (December 20, 1937 – April 15, 2020) was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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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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Leroy Carr

Leroy Carr (March 27, 1904 or 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 Foster (musician)

"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 (March 13, 1913 – July 27, 1974), known as Lightnin' Slim, was an American blues musician who played Louisiana blues and swamp blues for Excello Records.

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Lil Green

Lil Green (probably born Lillie May Johnson; December 22, 1901 (some sources give 1905, 1910 or 1919) – April 14, 1954) was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter.

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Lil McClintock

Lil McClintock (June 5, 1883 - 1930s or 1940) 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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Linsey Alexander

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

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List of nicknames of blues musicians

The following list of nicknames of blues musicians complements the existing list of blues musicians by referring to their nicknames, stage names and pseudonyms, thereby helping to clarify possible confusion arising over artists with similar or the same nicknames.

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Lists of blues musicians by genre

This article contains lists of blues musicians by their respective genres and styles. List of blues musicians and lists of blues musicians by genre are lists of musicians by genre.

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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 (March 20, 1911 – 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 Joe Blue

Little Joe Blue (September 23, 1934 – April 22, 1990) was an American electric blues singer and guitarist.

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Little Smokey Smothers

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

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Little Sonny

Little Sonny (born Aaron Willis; October 6, 1932, in 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 had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons 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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Living Blues

Living Blues: The Magazine of the African American Blues Tradition is a bi-monthly magazine focused on blues music, and America's oldest blues periodical.

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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 swamp blues 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 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 Pitchford

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

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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 Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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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) is an American blues singer based in Austin, Texas since the 1970s.

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Louis Jordan

Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Louisiana blues

Louisiana blues is a genre of blues music that developed in the period after World War II in the state of Louisiana.

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Louisiana Red

Iverson Minter (March 23, 1932 – February 25, 2012), known as Louisiana Red, was an 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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Lowell Fulson

Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921March 7, 1999) was an American blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition.

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Lucille Bogan

Lucille Bogan (née Anderson; April 1, 1897August 10, 1948) was an American classic female blues singer and 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

Judge Kenneth "Lucky" Peterson (December 13, 1964 – May 17, 2020) was an American musician who played 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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Lurrie Bell

Lurrie Bell (born Lurrie C. Bell, December 13, 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson

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

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Luther Allison

Luther Sylvester Allison (August 17, 1939 – August 12, 1997) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior)

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson (April 11, 1939 – December 25, 2022) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Luther Tucker

Luther Tucker (January 20, 1936 – June 18, 1993) was an American blues guitarist.

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Ma Rainey

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist.

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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 (Robinson; May 26, 1891 – September 16, 1946) was an American singer.

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Mance Lipscomb

Beau De Glen "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) is an American blues singer and pianist raised in Vinton, Louisiana.

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Margie Evans

Margie Evans (born Marjorie Ann Johnson; July 17, 1939 – March 19, 2021) was an American blues and gospel singer and songwriter.

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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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Matt "Guitar" Murphy

Matthew Tyler Murphy (December 29, 1929 – June 15, 2018), known as Matt "Guitar" Murphy, was an American blues guitarist.

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Maurice John Vaughn

Maurice John Vaughn (born May 10, 1952) is an American blues musician from Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis

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

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Meade Lux Lewis

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

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Melvin Taylor

Melvin Taylor (born March 13, 1959) is an American electric blues guitarist, based in Chicago.

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Memphis blues

The Memphis blues is a style of blues music created from the 1910s to the 1930s by musicians in the Memphis area, such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie.

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Memphis Minnie

Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), better known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades.

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Memphis Slim

John Len Chatman (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988), known professionally as Memphis Slim, was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer.

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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 eight albums to date.

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Mike Bloomfield

Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American blues guitarist and composer.

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Mike Wheeler (musician)

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

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Miller Freeman, Inc.

Miller Freeman, Inc., was a San Francisco–based publisher of trade books and business magazines, as well as a manager of trade and industry expositions.

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Mississippi Fred McDowell

Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American singer and guitarist of hill country blues music.

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Mississippi John Hurt

John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966), known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Mississippi Sheiks

The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular and influential American guitar and fiddle group of the 1930s.

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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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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 singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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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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New Orleans blues

New Orleans blues is a subgenre of blues that developed in and around the city of New Orleans, influenced by jazz and Caribbean music.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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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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Odie Payne

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

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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 (April 7, 1903 – 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 a Chicago blues guitarist and singer.

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Otis Grand

Fred Bishti (February 14, 1950 – June 2023), known professionally as Otis Grand, was a Lebanese-born American blues musician, best known for his album, Perfume & Grime (1996) and his exciting live performances.

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Otis Rush

Otis Rush Jr. (April 29, 1934 – September 29, 2018) was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Otis Spann

Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930April 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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Papa Charlie Jackson

William Henry "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 American Delta blues musician 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, singer 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 American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, who connected early country blues and the later 12-bar style.

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Percy Mayfield

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

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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 Allen Greenbaum (29 October 194625 July 2020), known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Phil Guy

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

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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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Piedmont blues

Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others.

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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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Pink Anderson

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

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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

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Ragtime

Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s.

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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 "Ramblin'" Thomas (1901 or 1902 – 1944 or 1945) was an American country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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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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Reverend Gary Davis

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

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard "Hacksaw" Harney

Richard "Hacksaw" Harney (July 16, 1902 – December 25, 1973) was an American Delta blues guitarist and pianist.

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Rick Franklin

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

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Robben Ford

Robben Lee 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 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 a Piedmont blues singer, guitarist and songwriter from Cruger, Mississippi, US.

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Robert Johnson

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

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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 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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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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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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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 jump blues and swing revival big band based in Rhode Island.

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Roosevelt Sykes

Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906July 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, in Princeton, New Jersey) 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 musician and songwriter.

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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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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Roy Book Binder

Roy Book Binder (born October 5, 1943 as Paul Roy Bookbinder) 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 blues singer 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

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

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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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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 (possibly August 11, 1887possibly October 20, 1949), sometimes known as Crying Sam Collins, was an early American blues singer and guitarist.

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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),, AllMusic known as Sam "The Man" Taylor, was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, and blues tenor saxophonist.

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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 American blues and soul blues singer and songwriter.

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Sara Martin

Sara Martin (June 18, 1884 – May 24, 1955) was an American blues singer, in her time one of the most popular of the classic blues singers.

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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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SFGate

SFGate is a news website based out of San Francisco, California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics and sports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii and California.

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Shakey Jake Harris

James D. "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 (October 27, 1948 – January 28, 2021) was an American blues guitarist 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) was an American male blues singer and guitarist, mainly based in Indianapolis.

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Silas Hogan

Silas Hogan (September 15, 1911 – January 9, 1994) was an American blues musician who played swamp blues and Louisiana blues.

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Sippie Wallace

Sippie Wallace (born Beulah Belle Thomas, November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986) was an American blues singer, pianist and 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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Sleepy John Estes

John Adam Estes (January 25, 1899 or 1900June 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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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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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

Edward James "Son" House Jr. (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 (originally 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 Rhodes

Clarence Smith (born Clarence Edward Mauldin; November 3, 1940 – December 14, 2021), known as Sonny Rhodes, was an American blues singer and lap steel guitar player.

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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 Terrell (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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Soul blues

Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music.

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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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Steve James (blues musician)

Steve James (born July 15, 1950January 6, 2023) was an American folk blues musician.A multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, James operated in the fields of acoustic and folk blues.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen Ray Vaughan (also known as SRV; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.

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Sue Foley

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

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Susan Tedeschi

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

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Swamp blues

Swamp blues is a type of Louisiana blues that developed in the Black communities of Southwest Louisiana in the 1950s.

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Sylvester Weaver (musician)

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

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T-Bone Walker

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds.

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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 (September 30, 1940 – September 4, 2023), known professionally as Tail Dragger Jones, was an American Chicago blues singer.

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Taj Mahal (musician)

Henry St.

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Tampa Red

Hudson Whittaker (born Hudson Woodbridge; January 8, 1903March 19, 1981), known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician.

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Ted Bogan

Theodore R. 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 Garland

Terry Ray Garland (June 3, 1953 – September 19, 2021), who was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, was an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer.

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Texas blues

Texas blues is blues music from Texas.

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The Aces (blues band)

The Aces was one of the earliest and most influential of the electric Chicago blues bands in the 1950s, led by the guitarist brothers Louis and Dave Myers, natives of Byhalia, Mississippi.

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The Austin Chronicle

The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States.

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The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate

The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thomas A. Dorsey

Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music.

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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 was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and grew up in South 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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Tom Delaney (songwriter)

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

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Tommy Johnson (musician)

Tommy Johnson (January 1896November 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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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 American electric blues guitarist and singer who performed Texas blues.

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University of Arkansas Press

The University of Arkansas Press is a university press that is part of the University of Arkansas and has been a member of the Association of University Presses since 1984.

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Valerie Wellington

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

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.

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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, songwriter, and record company founder.

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Virginia Liston

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

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WAFB

WAFB (channel 9) is a television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, affiliated with CBS.

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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. FindaGrave.com. Retrieved October 17, 2016. – October 22, 1963) was an 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 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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West Coast blues

West Coast blues is a type of blues music influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues players who relocated to California in the 1940s.

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Whistlin' Alex Moore

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

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William Clarke (musician)

William Clarke (March 29, 1951 – November 2, 1996) was an American blues harmonica player and singer.

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Willie Brown (musician)

Willie Lee Brown (1899 or 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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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 – June 14, 1969) was an American blues shouter best remembered as a singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics.

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Z. Z. Hill

Arzell J. "Z.

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Zora Young

Zora Young (born January 21, 1948, West Point, Mississippi, United States) is an American blues singer.

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References

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

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