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Charlie Musselwhite
American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader
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Brownie McGhee
American folk-blues singer and guitarist
2
Reverend Gary Davis
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
3
Henry Gray
African-American blues piano player and singer
4
The Staple Singers
American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group
5
Johnnie Taylor
American soul-blues and pop singer
6
Memphis Jug Band
band
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Rod Piazza
American musician
8
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
9
Roy Rogers
American blues rock slide guitarist and record producer
10
The Marshall Tucker Band
American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Brook Benton
American singer and songwriter
12
Tracy Nelson
American singer
13
Ben E. King
American soul and R&B singer and record producer
14
Skip James
American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter
15
The 5th Dimension
American popular music vocal group
16
J. Mayo Williams
American football player and coach, music producer (1894-1980)
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Blind Joe Taggart
American blind country blues musician
18
Dorothy Moore
American singer
19
The Blind Boys of Alabama
gospel group from Alabama, United States
20
Lightnin' Hopkins
American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
21
McKinley Mitchell
American soul-blues and rhythm and blues singer
22
Sonny Terry
American Piedmont blues musician
23
Táta Vega
American musician
24
Barry Goldberg
American blues and rock keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer
25
Otis Clay
American R&B and soul singer
26
Arthur Adams
American blues musician
27
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
28
Dobie Gray
American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop and musical theater. (1940-2011)
29
J. B. Hutto
American blues musician
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Mavis Staples
American singer
31
Leroy Foster
American blues singer, drummer and guitarist
32
Lazy Lester
American blues harmonica player
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J. T. Brown
American Chicago blues tenor saxophonist
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Wilson Pickett
American singer and songwriter
35
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
American blues musician
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Magic Slim
American blues musician
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Sam Lay
American drummer and vocalist
38
John Fahey
1939–2001; American fingerstyle guitarist
39
Willie Clayton
American Chicago blues and soul singer and songwriter
40
T-Bone Walker
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
41
Billy Ward and His Dominoes
African American R&B group
42
Pops Staples
American musician
43
R. L. Burnside
American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist
44
Nick Gravenites
American musician
45
Clyde McPhatter
American singer
46
Cousin Joe
American blues and jazz singer
47
Ken Boothe
Jamaican musician
48
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
49
Blind Willie Johnson
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
50
The Weavers
American folk music quartet
51
Sonny Boy Williamson I
American blues musician
52
Ralph Bass
R&B record producer
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Big Maybelle
American R&B singer and pianist
54
Percy Sledge
American singer
55
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
56
Buddy Guy
American blues guitarist and singer
57
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
58
Paul Butterfield
American blues singer and harmonica player
59
L. C. Robinson
American musician
60
Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
61
Sonny Boy Williamson II
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
62
Jack Scott
Canadian singer
63
Lonnie Brooks
American blues singer and guitarist
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Sammy Price
American pianist
65
Blind Lemon Jefferson
American blues singer and guitarist
66
Jimmy Dawkins
American blues musician
