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Jazz Gillum
American blues harmonica player
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Lefty Bates
American Chicago blues guitarist
2
Robert Lockwood Jr.
American Delta blues guitarist
3
Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
4
Earl Hooker
American Chicago blues guitarist
5
Pinetop Perkins
American blues pianist
6
Barbara Dane
American singer
7
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
8
Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
9
David Edwards
American blues guitarist and singer
10
Luther Allison
American blues guitarist
11
Junior Wells
American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist
12
Reggie Sears
American Musician
13
Charlie Musselwhite
American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader
14
Roosevelt Sykes
American blues musician
15
Luther Tucker
American musician
16
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
17
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
18
Buddy Guy
American blues guitarist and singer
19
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
20
Willie Dixon
American blues musician, songwriter
21
Howlin' Wolf
American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
22
The Blues Brothers
American blues and soul band
23
Pete Sears
British musician
24
Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers
African American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
25
Carey Bell
American blues musician
26
B. B. King
American blues musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1925-2015)
27
King Curtis
American saxophonist (1934-1971)
28
Paul Filipowicz
American Chicago blues musician
29
Memphis Slim
American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer
30
Dave Van Ronk
American musician
31
Lee Gates
musical artist
32
Jimmie Lee Robinson
American musician
33
Robert Johnson
American blues singer and musician
34
Big Walter Horton
American blues harmonica player
35
Speckled Red
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
36
Nick Gravenites
American musician
37
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
38
James Cotton
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
39
Dexter Allen
musician
40
Freddie Roulette
American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist
41
Phineas Newborn Jr.
American pianist
42
J.P. Soars
musical artist
43
Jimmie Noone
American musician
44
John Lee Hooker
American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
45
Albert King
American blues guitarist and singer
46
Son House
American blues singer and guitarist
47
Tampa Red
American Chicago blues musician
48
Little Sammy Davis
American blues musician
49
Joe Louis Walker
Blues musician
50
Booker T. Jones
American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger
51
R. L. Burnside
American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist
52
Sammy Lawhorn
American Chicago blues guitarist
53
Sonny Boy Williamson II
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
54
Shakey Jake Harris
American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter
55
Joe Sullivan
American musician
56
Walter Davis
African American blues singer and pianist
57
Hound Dog Taylor
American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
58
Big Joe Williams
American Delta blues guitarist, recording artist, singer and songwriter
59
Little Brother Montgomery
American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer
60
Eddie "Guitar" Burns
American Detroit blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter
61
Bob Stroger
American blues singer and bass guitarist
62
Otis Rush
American musician
63
Jackie Brenston
American R&B singer, saxophonist, songwriter
64
Junior Parker
American Memphis blues singer and musician
65
Mezz Mezzrow
American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
66
Leonard Chess
Polish-American record company executive
67
Louis Jordan
American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908-1975)
68
Willie James Lyons
American musician
