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Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
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Barbecue Bob
Barbecue Bob
American blues musician
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Fred McMullen
Fred McMullen
American singer
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Curley Weaver
Curley Weaver
American blues musician
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Eddie Mapp
Eddie Mapp
American country blues harmonicist
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Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Boy Fuller
American blues guitarist and singer
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Blind Blake
Blind Blake
American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist
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Reverend Gary Davis
Reverend Gary Davis
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
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Baby Tate
Baby Tate
American Piedmont blues guitarist
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Piano Red
Piano Red
American blues musician
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Hop Wilson
Hop Wilson
American Texas blues steel guitar player (1927-1975)
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J. Mayo Williams
J. Mayo Williams
American football player and coach, music producer (1894-1980)
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Willie Baker
Willie Baker
American Piedmont blues guitarist singer and songwriter
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Henry "Rufe" Johnson
Henry "Rufe" Johnson
musical artist
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Son House
Son House
American blues singer and guitarist
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Bukka White
Bukka White
American Delta blues guitarist and singer
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Big Walter Horton
Big Walter Horton
American blues harmonica player
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Lazy Lester
Lazy Lester
American blues harmonica player
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Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
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Frank Fotusky
Frank Fotusky
musical artist
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Wilmer Watts
Wilmer Watts
American musician
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Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
American blues singer and guitarist
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Floyd Council
Floyd Council
American blues guitarist and singer
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Junior Wells
Junior Wells
American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist
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Bull City Red
Bull City Red
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
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Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry
American Piedmont blues musician
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Ramblin' Thomas
Ramblin' Thomas
American country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
American singer and guitarist
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Mississippi John Hurt
Mississippi John Hurt
American country blues singer and guitarist
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Jesse Fuller
Jesse Fuller
American one-man band musician, songwriter
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Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf
American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
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Lucille Bogan
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
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Bishop Dready Manning
Bishop Dready Manning
American blues musician
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Dan Pickett
Dan Pickett
American musician
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Nick Moss
Nick Moss
American Chicago blues and electric blues musician
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Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
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The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Blind Boys of Alabama
gospel group from Alabama, United States
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Mississippi Sheiks
Mississippi Sheiks
band
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Alan Wilson
Alan Wilson
musician
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Kim Wilson
Kim Wilson
American blues singer and harmonica player
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James Cotton
James Cotton
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
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Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie Musselwhite
American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader
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Jimmy Rogers
Jimmy Rogers
Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
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Lafayette Leake
Lafayette Leake
American musician
Buddy Moss
American East Coast blues guitarist

Buddy Moss

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Eugene "Buddy" Moss (January 16, 1914 – October 19, 1984) was an American blues musician. He is one of two influential East Coast blues guitarists to record in the period between Blind Blake's final sessions in 1932 and Blind Boy Fuller's debut in 1935 (the other being Josh White). A younger contemporary of Blind Willie McTell, Curley Weaver and Barbecue Bob, Moss was part of a coterie of Atlanta bluesmen. He was among the few of his era whose careers were reinvigorated by the blues revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

He began as a musical disciple of Blake. Moss's career was halted in 1935 by a six-year jail term and then by the Second World War, but he lived long enough to be rediscovered in the 1960s, when he revealed that his talent had been preserved through the years. He was reputed to have been cantankerous and mistrusting of others.

In later years, Moss credited his friend and bandmate Barbecue Bob with being a major influence on his playing. Scholars also contend that Blind Blake was a major force in his development, as both share certain mannerisms and inflections. It has also been suggested by Alan Balfour and others that Moss may have been an influence on Blind Boy Fuller, although they never met and Moss's recording career ended before Fuller's began – Moss's first recordings display some inflections and nuances that Fuller did not put down on record until some years later.