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Bob Geddins
American musician and record producer
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Johnny Heartsman
American electric blues and soul blues musician
2
Johnny Copeland
American blues musician
3
Clarence Garlow
American R&B, jump blues, Texas blues and cajun guitarist, singer and songwriter
4
Amos Milburn
American rhythm and blues singer, and pianist
5
Lightnin' Hopkins
American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
6
Johnny Fuller
American electric blues and West Coast blues musician
7
Roy Hawkins
American musician
8
Floyd Dixon
American rhythm and blues pianist and singer
9
Fred Fisher
German-born American songwriter, Tin Pan Alley music publisher
10
Tom Wilson
American record producer (1931-1978)
11
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
12
Barbara Lynn
American rhythm and blues and electric blues guitarist and singer
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
American blues musician
14
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
15
Lloyd Glenn
American musician
16
Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
17
Big Walter Horton
American blues harmonica player
18
Maxwell Davis
American musician
19
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
20
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
21
Lowell Fulson
American musician
22
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
23
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
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Charles Brown
American recording artist; songwriter, blues singer and pianist
25
Jimmy Liggins
American R&B guitarist and bandleader
26
Ian Whitcomb
English singer-songwriter (1941-2020)
27
James Cotton
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
28
Mike Bloomfield
American guitarist and composer
29
Jimmy C. Newman
American singer
30
Sidney Maiden
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
31
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
32
Buddy Guy
American blues guitarist and singer
33
Jimmy Nolen
American guitarist
34
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
35
Peppermint Harris
American rhythm and blues singer and guitarist
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Jimmy Giuffre
American clarinet and saxophone player
37
Dave Bartholomew
American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer
38
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
39
Little Milton
American singer and guitarist
40
Budd Johnson
American musician
41
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
42
Frankie Lee Sims
American singer-songwriter and electric blues guitarist
43
Panama Francis
American musician
44
Doug Sahm
American country music and blues rock musician
45
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
46
Doc Guidry
American fiddle player
47
Bill Doggett
American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist
48
Henry Thomas
American recording artist; country blues singer, songster and musician.
49
Ted Taylor
American soul musician
50
Clifford Scott
American musician & saxophonist
51
Clifton Chenier
American accordion player and Zydeco musician
52
Bob Gaddy
American East Coast blues and rhythm and blues pianist, singer and songwriter
53
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
54
Pee Wee Crayton
American R&B and blues guitarist and singer
55
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
56
Bob Bushnell
musician
57
Big Joe Williams
American Delta blues guitarist, recording artist, singer and songwriter
