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Papa Charlie McCoy

American delta blues musician and songwriter

1

Memphis Minnie

American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter

2

Mississippi Sheiks

band

3

Robert Nighthawk

American blues musician

4

Johnny Temple

American Chicago blues guitarist and singer

5

Rosetta Howard

American blues singer

6

Walter Vinson

American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter

7

Jim Jackson

African American blues and hokum singer, songster and guitarist

8

Casey Bill Weldon

American country blues musician

9

Jimmie Gordon

American musician

10

Lil Green

American blues singer and songwriter

11

Ransom Knowling

American musician

12

Frank Stokes

American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel

13

Bukka White

American Delta blues guitarist and singer

14

Gus Cannon

American blues musician

15

Bull City Red

American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer

16

Charlie Spand

American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer

17

Jazz Gillum

American blues harmonica player

18

Frankie Jaxon

African American vaudeville singer, female impersonator, stage designer and comedian

19

Furry Lewis

blues guitarist and songwriter

20

Bob Margolin

American electric blues guitarist

21

Memphis Jug Band

band

22

Big Walter Horton

American blues harmonica player

23

Tampa Red

American Chicago blues musician

24

Otis Spann

American Chicago blues pianist

25

George "Mojo" Buford

American blues harmonica player

26

Tommy Johnson

American musician

27

Washboard Sam

American blues singer and musician

28

Sunnyland Slim

American blues pianist

29

Junior Kimbrough

american musician

30

Kokomo Arnold

American blues musician

31

Pinetop Perkins

American blues pianist

32

Joe Louis Walker

Blues musician

33

Barbecue Bob

American blues musician

34

John Lee Hooker

American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist

35

Joe Hill Louis

American singer, guitarist, harmonica player and one-man band

36

Bo Carter

American early blues musician

37

The Memphis Horns

American horn section

38

Tommy McClennan

American Delta blues singer and guitarist

39

Alger "Texas" Alexander

American blues singer

40

Bumble Bee Slim

American Piedmont blues musician

41

Roosevelt Sykes

American blues musician

42

James Cotton

American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter

43

Charlie Musselwhite

American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader

44

Charley Patton

American Delta blues musician

45

Sleepy John Estes

American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer

46

George Smith

American electric blues harmonica player

47

David Edwards

American blues guitarist and singer

48

Matt Murphy

American blues guitarist

49

Smokey Wilson

American West Coast blues guitarist

50

Ramblin' Thomas

American country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter

51

Magic Sam

American Chicago blues musician

52

Geeshie Wiley

African-American woman musician

53

Willie Brown

guitar player and vocalist

54

T-Bone Walker

American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

55

Barkin' Bill Smith

Chicago blues and electric blues singer and songwriter

56

Memphis Willie B.

American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter

57

Dan Sane

American Memphis and country blues guitarist and songwriter

58

Eddie Boyd

American blues pianist

59

Victoria Spivey

American blues singer and songwriter

60

Fenton Robinson

American Chicago blues singer and guitarist

61

Papa Charlie Jackson

American bluesman and songster

62

Lucille Bogan

American blues singer

63

Walter Davis

African American blues singer and pianist

64

Eddie Shaw

African American, Chicago blues tenor saxophonist

65

J. B. Lenoir

African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter

66

Hound Dog Taylor

American Chicago blues guitarist and singer

67

Jimmy Dawkins

American blues musician

68

Big Joe Williams

American Delta blues guitarist, recording artist, singer and songwriter

69

Memphis Slim

American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer

70

Elmore James

American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader

71

Willie Love

American Delta blues pianist

72

Richard "Hacksaw" Harney

American musician

73

Little Brother Montgomery

American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer

74

James Govan

American musician