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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
