0
Willie Brown
guitar player and vocalist
1
Louise Johnson
Blues singer and pianist
2
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
3
Fiddlin' Joe Martin
American blues musician
4
Fred McDowell
American Hill country blues singer and guitar player.
5
Tommy McClennan
American Delta blues singer and guitarist
6
Robert Wilkins
American country blues guitarist and singer
7
Robert Lockwood Jr.
American Delta blues guitarist
8
Elmore James
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader
9
Mississippi Joe Callicott
United States Delta blues singer and guitarist
10
Bukka White
American Delta blues guitarist and singer
11
Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
12
Henry Townsend
American musician
13
Skip James
American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter
14
Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
15
David Edwards
American blues guitarist and singer
16
Richard Dyer-Bennet
American musician
17
The Chambers Brothers
American soul music band
18
Dave Van Ronk
American musician
19
Sonny Terry
American Piedmont blues musician
20
Mike Seeger
American singer
21
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
22
Howlin' Wolf
American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
23
New Lost City Ramblers
musical group
24
Johnny B. Moore
American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
25
Charley Booker
American musician
26
Robert Nighthawk
American blues musician
27
Henry "Son" Sims
American Delta blues violinist and songwriter
28
Alan Wilson
musician
29
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
American singer and guitarist
30
Charley Patton
American Delta blues musician
31
Gus Cannon
American blues musician
32
Houston Stackhouse
American Delta blues guitarist and singer
33
Paul Geremia
American musician
34
James Thomas
American Delta blues musician
35
Pinetop Perkins
American blues pianist
36
Bertha Lee Pate
American classic female blues singer
37
Pops Staples
American musician
38
Michael Hurley
American musician
39
Brownie McGhee
American folk-blues singer and guitarist
40
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
41
Elizabeth Cotten
American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter
42
Joe Willie Wilkins
American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
43
Mississippi John Hurt
American country blues singer and guitarist
44
Lead Belly
American folk and blues musician
45
Tommy Johnson
American musician
46
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
American musician and lawyer
47
Little Brother Montgomery
American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer
48
J.D. Short
American Delta blues singer, guitarist and harmonicist
49
Dock Boggs
American musician
50
Barbara Dane
American singer
51
Kings of Rhythm
American musical group; R&B/Soul band led by Ike Turner
52
Guy Carawan
American musician and musicologist
53
Sam Chatmon
American blues musician
54
Willie Love
American Delta blues pianist
