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Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
2
Cliff Jackson
American pianist
3
J. C. Higginbotham
Jazz trombonist
4
Barbara Dane
American singer
5
Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
6
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
7
Big Joe Williams
American Delta blues guitarist, recording artist, singer and songwriter
8
Lightnin' Hopkins
American country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
9
Buster Bailey
American musician
10
Snooks Eaglin
American musician
11
Alice Leslie Carter
United States American classic female blues singer
12
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
13
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
14
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
15
Sonny Terry
American Piedmont blues musician
16
Brownie McGhee
American folk-blues singer and guitarist
17
Henry Townsend
American musician
18
Lead Belly
American folk and blues musician
19
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
20
Warner Williams and Jay Summerour
American folk music duo
21
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
22
Daisy Martin
African American actress and blues singer
23
Lavinia Turner
musical artist
24
Dave Van Ronk
American musician
25
Roosevelt Sykes
American blues musician
26
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
27
Happy Traum
American musician
28
New Lost City Ramblers
musical group
29
Etta Jones
American jazz singer
30
Elizabeth Cotten
American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter
31
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
32
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
33
Suni Paz
Argentine Singer Songwriter
34
Reverend Gary Davis
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
35
Pink Anderson
American singer-guitarist
36
Ella Jenkins
American folk singer
37
Buster Pickens
American blues pianist
38
Charlie Irvis
American musician
39
Jessica Williams
American jazz pianist
40
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
41
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
42
Shakey Jake Harris
American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter
43
Son House
American blues singer and guitarist
44
Richard James Burgess
English studio drummer, music-computer programmer, recording artist, record producer, composer, author, manager, marketer and inventor
45
Lonnie Donegan
Scottish-born skiffle musician
46
Jesse Fuller
American one-man band musician, songwriter
47
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
American singer and guitarist
48
Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson
United StatesAmerican Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
49
Tom Delaney
African American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer
50
Arbee Stidham
American blues singer and multi-instrumentalist
51
Hazel Dickens
Activist, singer
52
Sis Cunningham
American musician
53
Hal Singer
American musician
54
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
55
Sammy Walker
American singer-songwriter
56
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
57
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
