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Georgia Sea Island Singers
American Folk Music Ensemble
1
Vera Hall
American folk singer
2
Alan Lomax
American music historian, field collector, producer and filmmaker
3
Bess Lomax Hawes
American folk musician and folklorist
4
Jean Ritchie
American folk singer
5
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
6
Lizz Wright
American singer
7
Laura Smith
American classic female blues and country blues singer
8
Hally Wood
American singer
9
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
10
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
11
Shirley Collins
British folk singer
12
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
13
Lead Belly
American folk and blues musician
14
Beryl Bryden
English jazz singer
15
Ida Goodson
American classic female blues and jazz singer and pianist
16
Etta Baker
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
17
Elizabeth Cotten
American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter
18
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
19
Guy Carawan
American musician and musicologist
20
Mike Seeger
American singer
21
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
22
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
23
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
24
Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
25
Karen Dalton
American musician
26
Catherine MacLellan
Canadian singer
27
Ruby Smith
American classic female blues singer
28
Hazel Dickens
Activist, singer
29
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
30
Norman Blake
American musician
31
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
32
Sandy Denny
English singer and songwriter
33
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
34
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
35
Diana Jones
American singer-songwriter
36
Barbara Lynn
American rhythm and blues and electric blues guitarist and singer
37
Etta James
American recording artist; singer
38
Cerys Matthews
Welsh singer-songwriter
39
Thomas A. Dorsey
American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
