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Charlie "Specks" McFadden
American singer
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Walter Roland
American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, guitarist and singer
2
Laura Smith
American classic female blues and country blues singer
3
Blind Leroy Garnett
musical artist
4
Fannie May Goosby
American singer
5
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
6
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
7
Kitty Brown
American classic female blues singer
8
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
9
Lovie Austin
American pianist
10
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
11
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
12
Bessie Jones
American folk musician and gospel singer
13
Charlie Green
American jazz trombonist
14
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
15
Irene Scruggs
American Piedmont blues and country blues singer
16
Alice Leslie Carter
United States American classic female blues singer
17
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
18
Dan Sane
American Memphis and country blues guitarist and songwriter
19
William Ezell
United StatesAmerican blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
20
Lavinia Turner
musical artist
21
Pinetop Sparks
American blues pianist
22
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
23
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
24
Jim Jackson
African American blues and hokum singer, songster and guitarist
25
Georgia White
African American blues singer
26
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
27
Bernice Edwards
American musician and singer
28
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
29
Fenton Robinson
American Chicago blues singer and guitarist
30
Kokomo Arnold
American blues musician
31
Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer
32
Frank Stokes
American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel
33
Charlie Burse
American musician
34
Lil Johnson
African American blues singer
35
Sugar Pie DeSanto
American singer
36
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
37
Betty Roché
American blues singer
38
Jack Yellen
Polish-born American lyricist and screenwriter
39
Merline Johnson
African American blues singer
40
Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
41
Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
42
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
43
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
44
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
45
Bull City Red
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
46
Jabo Williams
American boogie-woogie style blues pianist
47
Mary Johnson
American classic female blues singer, accordionist and songwriter
48
Ted Bogan
American country-blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.
49
Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
50
Lucinda Williams
American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer, songwriter and musician
51
Memphis Minnie
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
52
Cleo Gibson
American blues singer
53
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
54
Will Shade
African American Memphis blues musician
55
Robert Petway
African-American blues singer and guitarist
56
Elzadie Robinson
American blues singer
57
Lottie Kimbrough
American country blues singer
58
Lil Green
American blues singer and songwriter
59
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
60
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
61
Vera Hall
American folk singer
62
Kansas Joe McCoy
American Delta blues musician and songwriter
63
Shirley Goodman
American singer
