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Barbecue Bob
American blues musician
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Willie Baker
American Piedmont blues guitarist singer and songwriter
2
Gus Cannon
American blues musician
3
Ramblin' Thomas
American country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
4
Jimmie Gordon
American musician
5
Cootie Stark
American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
6
Ralph Willis
American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
7
Irene Scruggs
American Piedmont blues and country blues singer
8
Baby Tate
American Piedmont blues guitarist
9
Sonny Terry
American Piedmont blues musician
10
Frankie Jaxon
African American vaudeville singer, female impersonator, stage designer and comedian
11
Kansas Joe McCoy
American Delta blues musician and songwriter
12
Blind Willie Walker
American guitarist
13
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
14
Jim Jackson
African American blues and hokum singer, songster and guitarist
15
Skip James
American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter
16
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
17
Joe Carter
American musician
18
Brownie McGhee
American folk-blues singer and guitarist
19
Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
20
Peetie Wheatstraw
American country blues musician
21
Smokey Hogg
American post-war Texas and country blues musician
22
Bumble Bee Slim
American Piedmont blues musician
23
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
24
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
25
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
26
Jaybird Coleman
American country blues musician
27
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
28
Willie James Lyons
American musician
29
Tutu Jones
American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
30
Richard "Hacksaw" Harney
American musician
31
Dan Pickett
American musician
32
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
American blues pianist, organist, bassist and singer
33
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
34
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
35
Tom Delaney
African American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer
36
Bo Weavil Jackson
American singer-guitarist
37
Willie Love
American Delta blues pianist
38
Bobby Bland
American soul & blues musician
39
Arnett Nelson
American jazz and blues musician
40
Ralph Peer
Talent scout, recording engineer and record producer
41
Blind Lemon Jefferson
American blues singer and guitarist
42
Reverend Gary Davis
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
43
Geeshie Wiley
African-American woman musician
44
Casey Bill Weldon
American country blues musician
45
Blind Blake
American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist
46
Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
47
Johnny Heartsman
American electric blues and soul blues musician
48
The Blind Boys of Alabama
gospel group from Alabama, United States
49
Walter Roland
American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, guitarist and singer
50
Washboard Sam
American blues singer and musician
51
Son House
American blues singer and guitarist
52
Oscar Woods
American Texas blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
53
Jimmie Rodgers
American country singer, songwriter
54
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
55
Sam Lay
American drummer and vocalist
56
T-Bone Walker
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
57
Carey Bell
American blues musician
58
Boo Hanks
musical artist
59
William Ezell
United StatesAmerican blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
60
Carolina Slim
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
61
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
62
Wally Whyton
British musician
63
Henry Thomas
American recording artist; country blues singer, songster and musician.
