Generated by All in One SEO Pro v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site.

# All About Blues Music

Life is too short for boring music

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [MICK ABRAHAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mick-abrahams/) - Mick Abrahams was a leading Blues-rock guitarist on the British club scene after he left Jethro Tull to pursue a harder Blues sound, and he still rocks today.
- [STEVE CROPPER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/steve-cropper/) - Steve Cropper played on all the big Stax hits in the 60s, many of which he co-wrote, and gained world fame as a Blues Brother.
- [JOE LOUIS WALKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joe-louis-walker/) - Joe Louis Walker played with the Legends as a young man, took 15 years off, then came back as one of the foremost modern Blues players, with a fantastic voice.
- [ZOOT MONEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/zoot-money/) - Zoot Money was a big noise in the 60s with his exuberant R&B show, The Big Roll Band, & he went on to a long career as a producer, actor and solo performer.
- [NICK GRAVENITES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/nick-gravenites/) - Nick Gravenites was one of the few white kids who took up Chicago Blues in the late 50s. He still growls the Blues as an 'elder statesman' in California.
- [JOHN MAYALL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-mayall/) - John Mayall played a crucial role in the development of British music in the 60′s that re-vitalised the Blues and recycled it to the world.
- [CEPHAS & WIGGINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cephas-wiggins/) - Cephas and Wiggins played an authentic Piedmont Blues around the Festival circuit since the early 80s, and wrote some great songs of their own too.
- [WC CLARK](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/wc-clark/) - W C Clark was persuaded to play bass in Stevie Ray Vaughan's first band and is still a mainstay of live music on the Austin Texas Blues scene.
- [DICK WATERMAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dick-waterman/) - Dick Waterman was a prime mover in the Folk/Blues revival, 'discovering' lost talent, managing many older musicians, writing about & photographing his exploits.
- [ROBERT JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-johnson/) - Did Robert Johnson sell his soul to the Devil in return for a unique talent? His playing took the Blues to another level, but the debt was called soon in.
- [Bessie Smith](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bessie-smith/) - Bessie Smith was the original 'wild child', living a life of personal excess tempered with relentless hard work, becoming a big star, but she met a sticky end.
- [VAN MORRISON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/van-morrison/) - Van 'the Man' Morrison is a performer who crosses a lot of boundaries, with a voice that carries the emotional charge to turn a vocal line into an anthem.
- [Blind Lemon Jefferson](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blind-lemon-jefferson/) - Blind 'Lemon' Jefferson led a riotous life with his friend Lead Belly that made no concession to his disability, as he toured The South as a wandering songster.
- [I DESERVE THE CREDIT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/i-deserve-the-credit/) - How does it feel when your best ideas make money for somebody else and not for you? Ask any old Blues player.
- [THE ORIGINS OF BLUES MUSIC](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-origins-of-blues-music/) - The Blues began as a particular type of Black folk music that was first heard around the plantations of the Mississippi at the turn of the 19th century.
- [Christone “Kingfish” Ingram](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/christone-kingfish-ingram/) - Discovering Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: The Rising Blues Talent If you haven't heard of Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, you are in for a treat! This jaw-dropping guitar prodigy from Mississippi has been making waves in the blues world with his unmatched passion, virtuosic skill, and powerful vocals. In this article, we'll explore Kingfish's incredible journey, from his
- [ERIC BIBB](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eric-bibb/) - Eric Bibb is no 'overnight sensation'. His career was slow growing, but his roots are deep, his cover is wide and his music shows the modern face of The Blues.
- [TONY 'TS' McPHEE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tony-ts-mcphee/) - Tony McPhee was a British Blues musician and founder of The Groundhogs, who backed legendary Blues performers like John Lee Hooker and Albert King on tour.
- [THE ROLLING STONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-rolling-stones/) - British Delta Blues? It wasn't from Mississippi- it was the Thames Delta. It's heart wasn't Clarksdale- it was Dartford!
- [KEB MO'](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/keb-mo/) - Keb Mo' is the Blues equivalent of a 'renaissance man' with his superb Blues guitar work, his children's album, film & TV acting career and political activism.
- [MUDDY WATERS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/muddy-waters/) - Muddy Waters electrified Chicago Blues with sounds from rural Mississippi, & shook the world with the power of a simple music that speaks to every human heart.
- [JOHN LEE HOOKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-lee-hooker/) - John Lee Hooker's life closely mirrored the story of The Blues: from acoustic country music to a hard-edged urban sound, & from the Delta to the digital age.
- [T-BONE WALKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/t-bone-walker/) - T-Bone Walker has a claim to be the first electric guitar hero, making him the prototype for everyone that followed, even if they had never heard of him!
- [JACK BRUCE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jack-bruce/) - Jack Bruce played the most thunderous bass you ever heard as Cream took Blues-rock to the world in the 60s, and his later work expanded Jazz and Latin music.
- [CHRIS STRACHWITZ](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chris-strachwitz/) - Chris Strachwitz set up Arhoolie Records in 1960, recording some wonderful old Bluesmen, releasing fine old recordings, and setting up the Arhoolie Foundation.
- [JANIS JOPLIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/janis-joplin/) - With a voice capable of conveying excruciating pain & heartbreaking tenderness, with emotion bleeding from every note Janis put her soul into every performance.
- [Blues Shouters](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-shouters/) - Blues Shouters were the big voiced performers who stood in front of big swing bands & encouraged dancers out onto the floor with their high-energy performances.
- [JOE BONAMASSA](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joe-bonamassa/) - Joe Bonamassa's spectacular guitar work, his sensitive songwriting talents and his genuine Blues voice are taking The Blues to new audiences all over the world.
- [FURRY LEWIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/furry-lewis/) - With his stock of stories, his skill with a guitar and his witty songs, Furry Lewis became a Blues Celebrity on TV, in movies and even in Playboy Magazine.
- [Beth Hart](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/beth-hart/) - Beth Hart’s storied career has undergone a number of changes but every step in her journey has been exhilarating.
- ['FROM SPIRITUALS to SWING' - JOHN HAMMOND Sr.](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/from-spirituals-to-swing-john-hammond-sr/) - 'From Spirituals to Swing' was the billing for a concert at Carnegie Hall which took the best of Afro-American Jazz, Blues and Gospel, to the heart of New York.
- [THE GREAT MIGRATION](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-great-migration/) - 'The Great Migration' describes the movement of African-Americans from the Southern States to the Northern cites after WW1, taking along their music & culture.
- [Blues In London](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-in-london/) - Events - Buy Tickets The BB King Blues Band Under The Bridge, London SW6 New Date - Friday 4th December 2020, 7.30pm Click Here Coming To Under The Bridge is a band that for over 35 years has performed in 90 countries playing behind the Blues legend King of the Blues Mr B B King.
- [Stagger Lee](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/stagger-lee/) - Stagerlee is an example of a blues song that will likely live well beyond those who first created and inspired it.
- [STAN WEBB](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/stan-webb/) - Stan Webb played Chicago West-side guitar with his band Chicken Shack at the heart of the British Blues Boom, and he is still touring almost 50 years later.
- [ETTA JAMES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/etta-james-jamesetta-hawkins/) - Etta James was a beautiful woman and a great singer, whose long career had its ups and downs, but she left a legacy of fantastic Soul/Blues performances.
- [MOSES 'Whispering' SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/moses-whispering-smith/) - 'Whispering' Smith had a voice so rough and deep, his Blues-name must have been a joke, but Lightnin' Slim and host of swamp-Blues were keen play with him.
- [STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/stevie-ray-vaughan/) - A one-man Texas blues revival, his career soared like a rocket and burnt out too soon.
- [LUTHER ALLISON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/luther-allison/) - Perhaps Luther Allison is the missing link between the Chicago West-side sound and flat out Blues-Rock, but he played some great guitar either way.
- [Marcus King Band](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/marcus-king-band/) - From Jerry Lee Lewis to Lynyrd Skynyrd to the Derek Trucks Band, blues-flavored southern rock has earned a special place in the world of American popular music. And the sensational Marcus King Band seem likely candidates to someday garner the praise and popularity of all of this subgenre's successors. Chicken fried blues/rock But things are
- [BUSTER BENTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/buster-benton/) - Buster Benton's Blues was so dance-able, it was called 'Disco-Blues' in the late 70s, but Buster had the soul of a true Chicago legend.
- [LITTLE JIMMY KING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-jimmy-king/) - Little Jimmy King was a Memphis guitarist who added the power of his mentor Albert King's style to the flash of Jimi Hendrix, and borrowed their names too!
- [AN APPRECIATION OF BB KING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/an-appreciation-of-bb-king/) - BB KIng passed away on 14th May 2015, & the world has lost it's best known Bluesman. 'The Thrill is Gone' & that elegant lady called Lucille has fallen silent.
- [Katie Bradley](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/katie-bradley/) - Katie Bradley has compiled an amazing band of collaborators to help deliver her soulful blues.
- [Kaz Hawkins](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kaz-hawkins/) - Kaz Hawkins is poised to set the blues world ablaze with her soul-rattling voice and her highly individualistic songwriting style.
- [HUEY 'PIANO' SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/huey-piano-smith/) - Huey 'Piano' Smith played rockin' boogie woogie R&B in the early 50s, with million selling singles he co-wrote with Johnny Vincent, before retiring in the 60s.
- [I Am The Moon — Tedeschi Trucks Band](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/i-am-the-moon-tedeschi-trucks-band/) - The groundbreaking new project with an impossible array of influences may be the album(s) of 2022
- [Eric Gales](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eric-gales/) - Eric Gales is known for combining the traditional blues with other genres and is one of many blues legends who started as a teenager.
- [LLOYD PRICE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lloyd-price/) - Lloyd Price took 'Stagger-Lee' to the top of the pop charts, wrote 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' for Fats and helped promote 'The Rumble in the Jungle' with Muhammad Ali!
- [John Mayer](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-mayer/) - John Mayer brings a gritty and earthy blues feel to the world of pop music. Mayer is one of many rock guitarists to blend rock with the blues for unforgettable results!
- [DICK TAYLOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dick-taylor/) - Dick Taylor formed The Pretty Things in the British Blues Boom to be 'badder than The Stones' but were banned from America, which hurt their progress.
- [ROY BROWN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/roy-brown/) - Roy Brown wrote some great songs that were big hits for other people, but his R&B records out of New Orleans in the early 50s are pure Rock'n'Roll.
- [FREDDIE ROULETTE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/freddie-roulette/) - Freddie Roulette played his lap-steel guitar with Earl Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite and Harvey Mandel, adding his distinctive & heart-felt Blues to many records.
- [JEFF BECK](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jeff-beck/) - Jeff, a master of early British Blues-Rock guitar, produced his seminal Truth album before exploring jazz-fusion & collaborating on myriad interesting projects.
- [BOBBY 'BLUE' BLAND](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bobby-blue-bland/) - Bobby 'Blue' Bland emerged as a soulful blues man who, along with Ray Charles, defined the Soul/Blues sound of the 50s, but Bobby continued to make hit records.
- [SISTER WYNONA CARR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sister-wynona-carr/) - Sister Wynona Carr would sing her own Gospel lyrics to well-known Blues tunes, and had a debut hit when she launched a career in R&B, but was struck down by TB.
- [ALEX HARVEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/alex-harvey/) - The Sensational Alex Harvey was a Scottish singer who brought theatre to the Rock stage with his dramatic, influential, hilarious and sadly underrated band.
- [JOE COCKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joe-cocker/) - Joe Cocker had one of those unique voices that enriched any song with an unmistakable and gritty, emotional quality that comes straight from the heart.
- [COREY HARRIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/corey-harris/) - Corey Harris studied in the Cameroons, and has spent his career linking up with the music that fertilized the seed that grew into the Blues.
- [PETE WELDING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/pete-welding/) - Pete Weldon set up Testament Records to bring little known Blues players to the public, & his own talents as a writer brought us books, sleeve notes & articles.
- [GOOD ROCKIN' CHARLES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/good-rockin-charles/) - Stalwart Chicago harp player Good Rockin' Charles is most famous for a session he DIDN'T do!
- [FENTON ROBINSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/fenton-robinson/) - Fenton Robinson's fine baritone voice and elegant guitar lines resulted in some great blues recordings, but somehow the time was never right to make him a star.
- [ELVIN BISHOP](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/elvin-bishop/) - Elvin Bishop learned his guitar chops as a student on Chicago's South-side and, with Paul Butterfield's band, made some groundbreaking Blues albums.
- [KOKO TAYLOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/koko-taylor/) - Koko Taylor had a fabulous Blues voice and The Queen of Chicago Blues put it to good use on her big hit 'Wang Dang Doodle' and many other great songs.
- [SON SEALS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/son-seals/) - Son Seals carried on the 60s Chicago West-side tradition of impassioned vocal lines with hard, penetrating guitar licks, and brought it into the modern era.
- [LUTHER 'Guitar Junior' JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/luther-guitar-junior-johnson/) - Luther 'Guitar Junior' (one of THREE Luther Johnsons) played guitar for long spells with Magic Sam & Muddy Waters before leading his own band The Magic Rockers.
- [KIM SIMMONDS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kim-simmonds/) - As leader of Savoy Brown, Kim has kept the flame burning for British Blues-Rock for over 45 years, and has a great solo career too.
- [The blues scale](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-blues-scale/) - The blues scale is a pentatonic scale, with an added note (b5) marked blue. Position 1 Position 2 Position 3 Position 5 This is a minor blues scale in position 1. From E, 12. Fret. Blue notes These notes adds tension and dissonance to the scale, which is an important element in the sound of
- [Jimmy Adler](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-adler/) - The Devil’s Music Everything you need to know about blues guitar master Jimmy Adler and his style as a performer can be understood with a single quote from the Pittsburgh native. “Listening to blues is a spiritual experience. Blues music expresses the emotions of the human condition and makes one feel good. When I play
- [Phil and Dave Alvin](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/phil-and-dave-alvin/) - From the iconic eighties band the Blasters come one of blues’ most dynamic brother act, Dave and Phil Alvin.
- [Stevie Nimmo](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/stevie-nimmo/) - Stevie Nimmo’s tale of recovery should be an inspiration to all musicians! His latest album, Sky Won’t Fall is full of many songs of redemptions.
- [Eugene 'Hideaway' Bridges](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eugene-hideaway-bridges/) - Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Bridges a legendary music figures from the City of New Orleans! After a life of the blues, ‘Hideaway’ may have released his best album ever!
- [Mike Zito](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mike-zito/) - Mike Zito’s life of battling demons has made for a fascinating life in the blues. His blistering guitar provides perfect accompaniment to his hard-edged vocals.
- [Ruzz Guitar](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ruzz-guitar/) - If you’re looking for a blues with a hard rocking soul, you can do no better than Ruzz Guitar’s Blues Revue!
- [Larry Griffith](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/larry-griffith/) - Larry Griffith took a while to find himself on guitar. But now that he’s there, he plays like an old pro.
- [Bad Influence](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bad-influence/) - Over the span of nearly thirty years Bad Influence has become one of the top blues bands in The DC area
- [Benny Turner](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/benny-turner/) - Having blues legend Freddie King as an older brother was a great way into a successful life as a blues musician. But for Benny Turner, the path to the top has contained numerous twists and turns before satisfaction was attainable. In other words, his life has been a lot like a blues song. Coming from
- [Danny Bryant](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/danny-bryant/) - Danny Bryant’s singing, songwriting and guitar playing offers a tasty three-course meal. Blood Money is the UK-born guitarist’s most mature album to date.
- [CURLEY WEAVER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/curley-weaver/) - Curley Weaver was a stalwart of the Atlanta Blues scene in the late 20s & 30s, making a hit record of his own and cutting many tracks with Blind Willie McTell.
- [SYLVESTER WEAVER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sylvester-weaver/) - This talented guitar and banjo player was the first to accompany a single Blues player on a record, and recorded the first Blues instrumental himself.
- [PINK ANDERSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/pink-anderson/) - Pink Anderson played with Medicine Shows back in the 20s. His superb Piedmont guitar work was noticed in England, where some kids called their band Pink Floyd.
- [LOU ANN BARTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lou-ann-barton/) - Lou Ann Barton has fronted some pretty classy Texas Blues bands, like The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Stevie Ray Vaughan's Triple Threat and WC Clark's Blues Revue.
- [ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-pete-williams/) - Robert Pete Williams played astonishingly complex Blues guitar and sang heart-rending but beautiful songs depicting a life of jail-time, poverty and betrayal.
- [BO CARTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bo-carter/) - Bo Carter's real name was Arminter Chapman. He joined his brothers Lonnie and Sam in The Mississippi Sheiks, but was 'Bo' for his rude 'hokum' songs.
- [JACKIE BRENSTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jackie-brenston/) - Jackie Brenston's moment in the sun with Rocket 88 made him a classic one-hit-wonder, but Jackie was more than that because the record revolutionised our music.
- [KEN BURNS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ken-burns/) - Ken Burns is an important and influential film-maker whose choice of material shows a perceptive insight into American society.
- [BREWER PHILLIPS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/brewer-phillips/) - The 'sheet-metal' tone of Brewer Phillips guitar was the driving force behind Hound Dog Taylor, and it came straight from a Mississippi juke-joint.
- [STUDEBAKER JOHN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/studebaker-john/) - Studebaker John took his name from his car and played his Chicago Blues on a slide guitar which he drove straight down the line in a no-nonsense power trio.
- [SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sonny-terry-brownie-mcghee/) - Brownie McGhee, a spectacular guitar picker teamed up with blind harp wizard Sonny Terry and they shared a long partnership that helped to define Folk/Blues.
- [JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joanne-shaw-taylor/) - Joanne Shaw Taylor plays Blues licks like a Chicago veteran, while her seductive voice rises from an intimate whisper to the furious snarl of a cornered vixen.
- [CARLOS SANTANA](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/carlos-santana/) - Carlos Santana brought some Latin swing to West Coast Blues, and then went on to become one of the best selling artists in the world.
- [Music NFTs](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/music-nfts/) - Benefits of Music NFTs to a Musician or Band Here at All About Blues Music we have made it our mission to help new and up and coming bands become more successful and find new audiences. One of the biggest challenges for any musician is to reach a point where they are making enough money
- [BLIND BLAKE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blind-blake/) - Blind Blake played Piedmont style guitar with such verve and invention, his virtuosity is still stunning despite the fact he died 80 years ago.
- [GUITAR SHORTY II](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/guitar-shorty/) - Guitar Shorty would do back-flips and somersaults on stage, playing guitar standing on his head, and showed these tricks to his brother-in-law Jimi Hendrix.
- [ART RUPE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/art-rupe/) - Art Rupe set up Specialty Records in 1946, bringing the talents of Little Richard, Guitar Slim, Lloyd Price, Joe Liggins and Percy Mayfield to world attention.
- [GOSPEL MUSIC](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/gospel-music/) - Gospel music grew up when the African culture of slaves in the Southern States met the white population's Christian faith, forming a foundation of modern music.
- [JOHN PRIMER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-primer/) - John Primer was the go-to guitarist for Muddy Waters and Magic Slim for many years before winning recognition and many awards for his own band.
- [RORY GALLAGHER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rory-gallagher/) - Rory Gallagher was a great front-man for a Blues band, with a great rough voice, astonishing skill & sensitivity as a guitarist, & a brilliant songwriter too.
- [BIG MACEO MERRIWEATHER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-maceo-merriweather/) - Big Maceo was a Chicago pianist with a great voice. He was very influential in transforming rough barrelhouse styles into the Chicago club sound.
- [FATS DOMINO](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/fats-domino/) - Fats Domino, with his warm engaging style and his ever-present smile, was one of the first to cross the race line to appeal to young people everywhere.
- [ERNIE K-DOE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ernie-k-doe/) - Best remembered for his big crossover hit 'Mother-in-Law', Ernie K-Doe produced a string of fine R&B singles and became a New Orleans Legend.
- [MAGIC SAM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/magic-sam/) - Magic Sam was a leading figure in the West-side club scene in the 50s, where his sharp-edged guitar and hysterical vocals marked a sea-change in Chicago Blues.
- [TV SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tv-slim/) - TV Slim had written a few songs of his own when his home-made recording of 'Flatfoot Sam' gave him a national hit, a pretty long career and a lasting legacy.
- [NOAH LEWIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/noah-lewis/) - Noah Lewis played country-style harp in Memphis with The Jug Stompers, showing off his virtuoso talents on many recordings.
- [WILL SHADE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/will-shade/) - Will Shade was the leader and manager of The Memphis Jug Band, his multi-instrumental talents meant he could invite a wide range of guests into his group.
- [LOUIS JORDAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/louis-jordan/) - Louis Jordan could be credited with inventing R&B, as his Tympani Five's up-tempo dance music gave him sixty chart hits. A dozen of those made the top spot.
- [CLARA SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/clara-smith/) - Clara Smith was one of the best-selling artists of her day, recording with the cream of New York's session musicians, and dueting with her namesake, Bessie.
- [WALTER VINSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/walter-vinson/) - Walter Vinson was the singer and guitarist with Memphis jug band The Mississippi Sheiks, and co-wrote their million-selling hit 'Sitting on Top of the World'.
- [Sonny Landreth](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sonny-landreth/) - Sonny Landreth is called 'The King of Slydeco' for his complex slide guitar style, combining elements of his mentor Clifton Chenier's music with Blues & Jazz.
- [LEROY 'Baby Face' FOSTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/leroy-baby-face-foster/) - Leroy 'Baby Face' Foster was one of the original 'Headhunters' along with Muddy Waters & Little Walter, who terrorised South-side club stages in the early 40s.
- [ROOSEVELT SYKES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/roosevelt-sykes/) - ‘The Honeydripper’, Roosevelt Sykes was one of the most important piano Blues innovators, sounding more urbane, jazzy and ‘modern’ that his contemporaries.
- [CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/charlie-musselwhite/) - Charlie Musselwhite mastered the authentic sound of wailing Blues harp, 'made his bones' in the Chicago south-side clubs & taken his music all over the world.
- [SAMANTHA FISH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/samantha-fish/) - Samantha Fish is one of a new generation of talented guitarists, singers and songwriters from all over the world who are taking our music into a bright future.
- [LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lightning-hopkins/) - Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins was a master of Blues guitar. He had an engaging talent for storytelling and improvising humorous lyrics to his vast repertoire of songs.
- [WILLIE DIXON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/willie-dixon/) - Willie Dixon had all the equipment to be a Blues music star, but his true talents were much bigger. He made the Blues into the cultural force that it is today.
- [JONNY LANG](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jonny-lang/) - Jonny Lang was a Blues prodigy when he burst onto the scene as a 14-year-old guitarist with a fine voice, but has matured to become a more rounded figure.
- [JAYBIRD COLEMAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jaybird-coleman/) - Jaybird Coleman was a free spirit who played most of his music for tips on the streets of Alabama towns, but he defined the early country harp style.
- [ELMORE JAMES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/elmore-james/) - Elmore James's work was an example of 'artistic transmission', as he displayed skills learned from Robert Johnson, and passed them on to every slide guitarist.
- [JOOLS HOLLAND](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jools-holland/) - Jools Holland played piano with Squeeze & boogie-woogie as leader of the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra & is loved for his passionate work as a broadcaster on BBC TV.
- ['GEORGIA TOM' DORSEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/georgia-tom-dorsey/) - Rev. Thomas Dorsey, maybe the most famous Gospel composer of all time, started out as Georgia Tom, a rough barrelhouse pianist, playing some rude 'hokum' Blues.
- [BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blind-willie-johnson/) - Blind Willie Johnson was a 'guitar evangelist', whose religious-themed Blues, sung with his wife Evangeline in the 20s, gave us some everlasting classic songs.
- ['CHAMPION JACK' DUPREE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/champion-jack-dupree/) - A barrelhouse and boogie pianist from the 'old school', Champion Jack Dupree turned Europe on to New Orleans style piano Blues in the 60s.
- [SNOOKS EAGLIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/snooks-eaglin/) - Snooks Eaglin was an inventive blind street-guitarist with a soulful voice, who never had a big hit record, but who remained a much-loved figure in New Orleans.
- [GLADYS BENTLEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/gladys-bentley/) - Gladys Bentley was a male impersonator who sang and played piano on the New York gay club scene in the late 20s, singing some very naughty songs indeed!
- [JUNIOR KIMBROUGH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/junior-kimbrough/) - Junior Kimbrough played a rawboned, juke-joint Blues guitar with a hypnotic boogie beat typical of his North Mississippi hill-country homeland.
- [CLARA WARD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/clara-ward/) - Clara Ward took Gospel music out of Church and onto the Vegas stage, and her scintillating voice & superb phrasing influenced generations of Soul and R&B stars.
- [BUDDY MOSS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/buddy-moss/) - Buddy Moss was a leading exponent of the fine fingerpicking style of Piedmont Blues, but whose mistrustful nature halted his career in the Folk/Blues revival.
- [LEFT HAND FRANK](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/left-hand-frank/) - Left-Hand Frank played his tasteful guitar licks on hundreds of great Chicago Blues tracks, before stepping into the spotlight to lead his own band.
- [KID RAMOS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kid-ramos/) - Guitarist Kid Ramos played with the Roomful of Blues and Fabulous Thunderbirds before launching a solo career.
- [LONG JOHN BALDRY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/long-john-baldry/) - Long John Baldry was big man with a fine, soulful voice and a generous heart and the bands he sang for were at the forefront of the 60s British Blues Boom.
- [MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mississippi-fred-mcdowell/) - Mississippi Fred McDowell was a modest, self-effacing man who didn't even own a guitar until he was 37, but his influence is heard all over modern Blues.
- [SLIM HARPO](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/slim-harpo/) - Slim Harpo was an influential Louisiana Bluesman whose infectious songs inspired young British players like The Stones, Yardbirds and Van Morrison.
- [TOMMY McCLENNAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tommy-mcclennan/) - Tommy McClennan was a Delta field hand who made a big noise in the recording studios of Chicago in the early 40s, but disappeared from the business after WWII.
- [SAM CHATMON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sam-chatmon/) - Sam Chatmon had been playing and singing since he was a child, and his repertoire of old Blues and raunchy songs celebrated the Delta Blues in their heyday.
- [HOWLIN' WOLF](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/howlin-wolf-chester-burnett/) - Wolf was a scary man on stage with a voice like gravel, but capable of a falsetto whoop or a pained animal cry, always delivering his Blues with awesome power.
- [ISHMON BRACEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ishman-bracey/) - Ishmon Bracey was a friend of Tommy Johnson's, & was one of the originators of Delta Blues & made a handful of records before giving up the Blues for religion.
- [ARCHIBALD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/archibald/) - Archibald was the performing name of Leon T Gross, whose great voice and barrelhouse piano took 'Stack-a-Lee' into the R&B charts in 1950.
- [TAMPA RED](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tampa-red/) - Tampa Red was an innovative slide guitarist and bandleader in his own right and he wrote some timeless Blues classics, mostly made famous by other people.
- [CYRIL DAVIES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cyril-davies/) - Cyril Davies, a pioneering British harp player, joined with Alexis Korner in Blues Inc. and opened The Ealing Club, where the British Blues Boom got started.
- [SPECKLED RED](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/speckled-red/) - Speckled Red, brother of albino pianist Piano Red, was a great boogie & barrelhouse pianist who played his proto-rap 'The Dirty Dozens' in the bars of St. Louis.
- [JO ANN KELLY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jo-ann-kelly/) - Jo Ann Kelly could play the Blues as hard and deep as any man. Her rich, strong voice and authentic acoustic slide guitar work made her a big attraction.
- [ELIZABETH 'LIBBA' COTTEN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/elizabeth-libba-cotten/) - 'Libba' Cotten wrote the song 'Freight Train' when she was 12 years old. She worked as a nurse for the Seeger family and they recorded her in the 50's.
- [CHARLIE SAYLES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/charlie-sayles/) - Charlie Sayles has spent most of his life as a street musician, sometimes fronting a band around the East-coast, but his small reputation masks a huge talent.
- [ALEXIS KORNER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/alexis-korner/) - Alexis Korner was mentor to a generation of British Blues players. With his deep knowledge of Blues and his sonorous voice he brought the Blues to millions.
- [AMOS MILBURN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/amos-milburn/) - Pianist Amos Milburn sang the up-tempo party music we now call jump-Blues, and his great dance records topped the R&B charts four times in the post-WWII years.
- [JOHNNY YOUNG](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-young/) - Johnny Young was born in the Delta, and when he headed for Chicago, he had a mandolin under his arm! He played with some legendary Bluesmen, and toured Europe.
- [JOHNNY OTIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-otis/) - From the late thirties until the 21st Century, nobody did more to bring R&B to the public than bandleader, producer, writer, politician and preacher Johnny Otis.
- [ETHEL WATERS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ethel-waters/) - Ethel Waters; 'Sweet Mama Stringbean' was a Blues Diva whose smooth, swinging style made her a jazz favourite, then an Oscar nominated actress.
- [Boom Boom](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/boom-boom/) - The Big Boom John Lee Hooker's 1961 recording of Boom Boom is loaded with all the signature trick's of Hooker's trade. It bounces along with a cocky shuffle that could only come from the Mississippi delta. But for all its familiarity, its new approach to the blues made a vital difference. For starters the legendary
- [Carolina Chocolate Drops](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/carolina-chocolate-drops/) - The Right Sound, The Wrong Century A first listen to the Carolina Chocolate drops calls to mind a bye-gone era, days of cotton, genocidal terror and an assortment of stereotypes applied to our friends who reside south of the Maxon-Dixon line. So why does the preservation of such music, when played by people not typically
- [Matty T Wall](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/matty-t-wall/) - Matty T Wall is an up and coming talent from down under! His work has already dazzled his native country of Australia. Now he sets his sights on the world!
- [BOB KOESTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bob-koester/) - Bob Koester's Delmark Records is one of the most important labels in modern Chicago Blues, and his Jazz Record Mart is the biggest record store in the world.
- [FREDDIE KING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/freddy-king/) - Schooled on Chicago's West side club scene, 'The Texas Cannonball' spat out hard splinters of Blues guitar that floated and soared and glittered like stars!
- [ALBERT KING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/albert-king/) - Some guitarists play a million notes and think that's flashy. Albert King didn't play many notes but some of 'em weighed 50 pounds, & each one shone like gold!
- [B.B.KING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/b-b-king/) - BB King was a Delta farm worker who became 'Chairman of the Board'. The world is a sadder place for his passing, but far brighter in the light of his legacy.
- [BO DIDDLEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bo-diddley/) - Bo Diddley was a force of nature! What inspires a man to give the world a new beat, design his own unique guitars and insist on having women in the band?
- [CAROLINA SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/carolina-slim/) - Carolina Slim is the recording name of Edward P Harris, who also appeared as Country Paul, Lazy Slim Jim, Georgia Pine and Jammin' Jim.
- [ERIC BURDON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eric-burdon/) - Eric Burdon was the singer with The Animals who, along with The Rolling Stones, took their revitalised Blues back across the Atlantic in 1964.
- [NAPPY BROWN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/nappy-brown/) - Nappy Brown was a Gospel singer who crossed over into R&B and had a series of hit records in the 50s, and made a great comeback in the 80s.
- [BUSTER BROWN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/buster-brown/) - This Georgia-born singer and harp player had a wild, animated style with whoops and shrieks borrowed from Sonny Terry. Someone said he played harp like he was falling off a cliff! Buster was well into his forties when Fire Records brought him to New York to record 'Fanny Mae' in 1960. It was a big
- [JOHN BRIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-brim/) - John Brim was a talented songwriter who mentored several young Blues players on their way to stardom and enjoyed a late recording career himself.
- [LUCILLE BOGAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lucille-bogan/) - Lucille Bogan was a Blues Diva in the early 20's but under the name Bessie Jackson she recorded her unbelievably explicit lyrics 60 years before rap appeared.
- [CHUCK BERRY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chuck-berry/) - Teenagers cruising in the family car got the soundtrack to their dreams from the first crossover superstar.
- [NATHAN BEAUREGARD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/nathan-beauregard/) - Nathan Beauregard was called 'The Tutankhamun of Blues' when he first appeared, but this bald, blind shrunken figure played electric guitar & sang loud & clear.
- [DAVE BARTHOLOMEW](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dave-bartholemew/) - Dave Bartholemew's mixture of Rock'n'Roll, jump-blues and R&B got the youth of America and the whole world up on their feet and dancing.
- [ALBERT AMMONS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/albert-ammons/) - Albert Ammons played his 'boogie-woogie' piano in the clubs of Chicago, before storming Carnegie Hall and the most prestigious nightclubs in New York.
- [JOHNNY ACE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-ace/) - In the late 40s, Johnny Ace could be found playing piano & singing in clubs around his native Memphis as part of The Beale Streeters with BB King & Rosco Gordon.
- [TOMMY TUCKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tommy-tucker/) - Tommy Tucker came from a background of Jump-Blues and harmony groups, but he hit the groove when he composed 'High Heeled Sneakers'.
- [DUSTER BENNETT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/duster-bennett/) - Duster Bennett was a British one-man-Blues-band who opened shows for many touring Blues stars, and left a legacy of great songs when he died a young man.
- [King King](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/king-king/) - King King are a four-piece Blues band out of Glasgow who are taking the tradition of Free, John Mayall and Fleetwood Mac and rocking it hard.
- [JIMI HENDRIX](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimi-hendrix/) - Jimi Hendrix was a 'Rock God' who invented entirely new sounds for the electric guitar and wrote some fantastic songs, but his career ended in familiar tragedy.
- [Jarekus Singleton](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jarekus-singleton/) - Nobody blends hip-hop and the blues quite like Jarekus Singleton. He is a bright new star in the blues – not to be missed!
- [Marcus Bonfanti](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/marcus-bonfanti/) - Marcus Bonafanti’s special blend of blues-based rock offers a tantalizing mix of rough and lovely sounds.
- [Ian Siegal](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ian-siegal/) - Ian Siegal has captured the imagination of fans worldwide with his folk-based blues style.
- [Ali Farka Toure](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ali-farka-toure/) - Ali Toure’s sound combined the traditional sounds of two different continents of music: The Blues and East African tribal music.
- [Danielle Nicole](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/danielle-nicole/) - Danielle Nicole is just one of many awe-inspiring acts to hail from Kansas City, Missouri.
- [JW Jones](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jw-jones/) - JW Jones and his gifted band have an unmistakable sound that is sure to please the old-school blues fan as well as the newcomer.
- [Cedric Burnside](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cedric-burnside/) - Cedric Burnside is a Grammy-nominated rising star of the blues world and comes from a family rich in the blues, beginning with his grandfather R.L. Burnside.
- [Layla Zoe](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/layla-zoe/) - Layla Zoe’s voice will startle and amaze anyone who thinks blues singers can only come from the Mississippi’s delta.
- [Julian Sas](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/julian-sas/) - Julian Sas combines a number of musical traditions to create his unforgettable blend of the blues.
- [James Armstrong](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/james-armstrong/) - James Armstrong knows all about both heartbreak and joy – and his music makes that clear and combines the best of old and new!
- [Bruce Mississippi Johnson](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bruce-mississippi-johnson/) - Bruce Mississippi Johnson has a soulful and blues-heavy voice that you’d expect from someone of his name.
- [Josh Smith](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/josh-smith/) - Guitar Guru in the Making The six-string guru is a time-honored tradition in the blues like no other instrument player. While many soulful pianists, drummers, bass players and, of course, vocalists have added mightily to mosaic that is the blues, the respect, fascination and awe for the giants on guitar is something special. From Robert
- [Karen Lovely](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/karen-lovely/) - Feeling the bad “This Blues ain’t nothing but a good man feeling bad.” This oft-repeated quote tells a great deal about the cathartic power of the blues and the reason for the genre’s enduring popularity. It also tells a great deal about why some voices have risen to the top. One of those voices belongs
- [Little Red Rooster](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-red-rooster/) - Birth of the Chicago Blues Fewer individuals have played a bigger role in the development and popularity of the blues than Willie Dixon. Born in 1915, Dixon was a man of many talents. He was a songwriter, arranger, producer, lyricist, singer and player of the guitar and upright bass. The best way of summing up
- [Blues In Buckle](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-in-buckle/) - Buy Now From Amazon Buy Now From iTunes As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Blues in the Lone Star State Our story starts deep in the heart of Texas, in a small town called Buckle. A young drummer Named Isaiah Greene (nicknamed ‘Steady’ for the reliable beats her produced) went in search
- [Deep Blue Sea](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/deep-blue-sea/) - If you like your blues updated into contemporary musical language, Deep Blue Sea is the kind of band you’ve been looking for. From their cosmopolitan line-up to their eclectic range of influences, they are stunning proof that the blues — far from being a dead genre, like something you’d find in a jar of ether
- [PETER GREEN'S FLEETWOOD MAC](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/peter-greens-fleetwood-mac/) - Peter Green's use of feedback and sustain, revolutionised the sound of Blues guitar, but his respect for the originators of the Blues echoes in every note.
- [LUCKY PETERSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lucky-peterson/) - Lucky Peterson was a child prodigy of the Blues, and played guitar with some Blues Legends as a teenager, before going on to a fine solo career.
- [Rollin’ and Tumblin’](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rollin-and-tumblin/) - Classic blues songs are often as well travelled as a sturdy set of luggage. They endure untold mileage and years in the hands of different bluesmen and rock stars. But few songs have experienced as tortured and improbable a journey as Rollin’ and Tumblin.’ The First Roll On March 14th, 1929, A mysterious Tennessee bluesman
- [LITTLE RICHARD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-richard/) - Little Richard remains an iconic figure in the crossover from R&B to R'n'R; and in the acceptance of flamboyant Gay performers.
- [PAUL BUTTERFIELD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/paul-butterfield/) - Paul Butterfield learned play Blues harp in Southside Chicago clubs and took it to the world with his performance at the Woodstock Festival with his Blues Band.
- [AMERICAN EXPORTS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/american-exports-2/) - British youth was sick of plastic Tin-Pan-Alley music but when some kids heard the Blues the whole game changed.
- [ANDY FAIRWEATHER-LOW](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/andy-fairweather-low/) - Starting as a teen-idol in the 60s, Andy Fairweather-Low's cracked voice has taken him a long way in the Blues-rock genre.
- [IAN STEWART](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ian-stewart/) - 'Stu' was a founding member of The Rolling Stones, and played onstage and on almost all their albums until his untimely death.
- [BROTHER JOE MAY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/brother-joe-may/) - The Thunderbolt of the Middle-West' had a rich, sweet voice that could have made him a star, but he thought the Blues was Sinful.
- [ROSCO GORDON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rosco-gordon/) - The 'Rosco Shuffle' became a cornerstone of Ska and Reggae music when his records reached Jamaica, but Rosco Gordon had deep roots in the Blues.
- [SMOKEY WILSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/smokey-wilson/) - Smokey Wilson played with the cream of Blues players, because he owned the Pioneer Club in Los Angeles, but he definitely had some chops of his own.
- [LOUIS ARMSTRONG](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/louis-armstrong/) - Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong was a Jazz Musician who showed Blues players how to swing, back when the two musical styles were developing side-by-side.
- [SMILEY LEWIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/smiley-lewis/) - Smiley Lewis was a New Orleans singer/guitarist who had big hits with 'I Hear You Knockin' and 'One Night', but Elvis had to clean up the lyrics on his cover!
- [MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mississippi-john-hurt/) - The unique qualities of Mississippi John Hurt's music left us a valuable legacy and his effortless, delicate playing gave us a taste of original country Blues.
- [LARRY TAYLOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/larry-taylor/) - Larry 'The Mole' Taylor played bass with Canned Heat as they brought Blues into the mainstream in the 60s, & later with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers & Tom Waits.
- [Sari Schorr](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sari-schorr/) - New York City is not typically recognized as a fertile ground for blues performers. While the blues is and has always been alive in the influence of many jazz greats who cut their teeth in the Big Apple (Billie Holiday, Lester Young and Charlie Parker come to mind) the slick and sophisticated city known for
- [DR. JOHN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dr-john/) - Dr. John is the living embodiment of New Orleans. Talented, scary, steeped invoodoo tradition, no stranger to drugs and violence, but always entertaining.
- [WYNONIE HARRIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/wynonie-harris/) - Wynonie Harris was the hip-swivelling, sexually charged jump-Blues singer who paved the way for Rock'n'Roll, but couldn't get a hit record when it went Global.
- [LES PAUL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/les-paul/) - Les Paul designed the first effective electric guitar while working at the Epiphone factory, but it was 10 years before Gibson put his design into production.
- [GARY 'US' BONDS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/gary-us-bonds/) - Gary's hard-driving R&B inspired later generations of rockers like Bruce Springsteen and Southside Johnny.
- [MEMPHIS MINNIE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/memphis-minnie/) - Memphis Minnie, a guitarist, singer & songwriter as steeped in country Blues as any Delta songster, made a huge contribution to the Blues’ urban transformation.
- [OTHA TURNER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/otha-turner/) - Otha Turner's Fife & Drum music showed a link between African traditions and American country styles that fused to make a distinctive contribution to the Blues.
- [100 Club Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/100-club-blues/) - With Erja Lyytinen & Cheri Lyn 26th March 2019 Erja Lyytinen has been described as "The Future" by no less a guitar star than Carlos Santana. Hailing from Finland, Erja was voted European Guitarist of the Year in 2018 and performed to a festival audience of 80,000 in Helsinki as well as playing over
- [JOHN LEE 'Sonny Boy' WILLIAMSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-lee-sonny-boy-williamson/) - John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson, made the harp a featured instrument in the classic Chicago Blues band sound, and wrote some great songs too.
- [PAUL OLIVER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/paul-oliver/) - Paul Oliver is the renowned author of some very important works about The Blues, but he also has another, completely separate career as an architectural expert.
- [BIG JOE TURNER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-joe-turner/) - Big Joe Turner was a mainstay of Kansas City Blues in the inter-war years. This big Blues shouter had the original hit with 'Shake Rattle and Roll' in 1954.
- [CAREY BELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/carey-bell/) - Carey Bell's long career as a side-man has been punctuated by solo albums and spells as a band-leader, sometimes sharing the stage with his son, Lurie Bell.
- [BLIND WILLIE McTELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blind-willie-mctell/) - Blind Willie McTell's rich legacy is the catalogue of superb songs which have enhanced the careers of Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers, Canned Heat and many more.
- [BIG MAYBELLE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-maybelle/) - Big Maybelle was a big star in 50s R&B, with several crossover hits but contract disputes and heroin silenced her remarkable voice.
- [Dani Wilde](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dani-wilde/) - Dani Wilde has been described as a Modern Day Blues Phenomenon. Her performances are full of deep emotion - casting a spell on the audience - winning the hearts and souls of her crowds with her voice and playing. For the last 10 years Dani Wilde has been performing at venues and festivals around the
- [The 100 Club London](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-100-club-london/) - Storm Warning & Felix Rabin at the 100 Club on 30th April Felix had a very interesting experience. At a young age he was playing at the legendary Montreaux Jazz Festival in his native Switzerland. He played his set unaware of anything unusual and was then approached by someone after the show who said "Quincy
- [The Chelsea Rhythm and Blues Festival](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-chelsea-rhythm-and-blues-festival/) - Martin Barre Martin in a Grammy Award winning guitarist and has been the guitarist with Jethro Tull for 43 years, his sound and playing having been a major factor in their success. Album sales have exceeded 60 million units and they continue to be played worldwide, representing an important part of classic rock history. The word
- [PAUL JONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/paul-jones/) - Paul Jones was one of the graduates of the Ealing Blues Club. His radio work and gigging make him a leading light in the modern British Blues scene.
- [ANDREW ODOM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/andrew-odom/) - Andrew Odom had a big, rich voice that got him hired to sing in front of the best guitarists in Chicago, but he never got a real break as a solo artist.
- [CHICAGO BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chicago-blues/) - When you hear that loud slide guitar, amplified harmonica and anguished vocals, you are hearing the classic sound of Chicago Blues.
- [OTIS RUSH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/otis-rush/) - Otis Rush was a hugely emotional performer, with an intense vibrato-heavy style, and his spiky solo lines made a big impact on later generations of guitarists.
- [ROY BUCHANAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/roy-buchanan/) - Roy Buchanan was a massively talented guitarist with a unique style. When he finally got some recognition a world career looked likely, but then tragedy struck.
- [Ball and Chain](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ball-and-chain/) - Big Mama’s Big Song There are times when an artist’s impact is best measured not by their commercial success, but by the influence they had on future artists. This is perhaps the best way to understand the legacy of blues icon Big Mama Thornton. There are a number of reasons to admire the early blues
- [Aynsley Lister](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/aynsley-lister/) - Aynsley Lister’s style as a guitarist and vocalist is at times unrelentingly raw and reassuringly nuanced.
- [BLIND JOE REYNOLDS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blind-joe-reynolds/) - Blind Joe Reynolds was a wandering songster, living most of his life running from the law, but wrote an enduring Blues classic that was part of the Blues Boom.
- [JOSEPH SPENCE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joseph-spence/) - Joseph Spence was a Bahamian guitarist whose complex style & wide range of vocal effects made him an influential figure among Folk and Blues players in the 60s.
- [LAZY LESTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lazy-lester/) - Laid-back Lazy Lester's easy rollin' style will make you want to move your feet, blowing a mellifluous harp & strumming a guitar or even scrubbing a washboard.
- [SWAMP DOGG](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/swamp-dogg/) - Swamp Dogg is a great singer and cult hero, whose off-the wall songs address social issues, but he had a previous incarnation as R&B star Little Jerry Williams.
- [IMELDA MAY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/imelda-may/) - Imelda May's striking image, mature voice and confident rock sensibility creates music with the drive and vitality to cross age and genre barriers.
- [LARRY JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/larry-johnson/) - With a Blues heritage harking back to the early days in Atlanta, Larry Johnson still plays his acoustic country Blues.
- [Crossroads](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/crossroads/) - Crossroads is regarded as a song that set America’s fascination with the blues in motion.
- [St. James Infirmary Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/st-james-infirmary-blues/) - St. James Infirmary Blues represents the finest in New Orleans jazz/blues. This blues classic played a giant role in establishing Louis Armstrong as a national treasure.
- [Texas Flood](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/texas-flood/) - ‘Texas Flood’ is one of many great blues songs with a connection to the lone star state and is the kind of blues classic that will be covered forever.
- [I’d Rather Go Blind](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/id-rather-go-blind/) - The wide range of artists who have covered this classic blues song attests to the universal heartbreak of lost love.
- [Boogie Chillen](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/boogie-chillen/) - The Birth of Boogie The seminal blues classic ‘Boogie Chillen’ began life in 1948, but like many early pillars of the blues world it was built on borrowed riffs, second-hand lyrics and decades of folk tradition. Written and first performed by the legendary John Lee Hooker, the song would influence countless blues guitarists and inspire
- [MATT 'GUITAR' MURPHY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/matt-guitar-murphy/) - Matt 'Guitar' Murphy has played with some of the seminal figures of the Blues and his scintilating guitar breaks added to their work in every instance.
- [OTTILIE PATTERSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ottlie-patterson/) - Ottilie Patterson was an unlikely Blues singer, but her big voice, confident delivery, and great choice of repertoire helped to inspire the British Blues Boom.
- [DANNY KIRWAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/danny-kirwan/) - Danny Kirwan played some great Blues with Peter Green in Fleetwood Mac and wrote a lot of songs in the band's repertoire, but lost his struggle with alcohol.
- [CAT IRON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cat-iron/) - Cat Iron released an album of Blues and Gospel songs in 1958, but no such artist exists, because that was a mis-hearing if William Carradine's name.
- [CHARLEY PATTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/charley-patten/) - Charley Patton's music, his lyrics, his lifestyle and his stagecraft earned him legendary status, and he influenced every Blues player that came after him.
- [TOMMY CASTRO](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tommy-castro/) - Tommy Castro has a devastating West-side guitar technique and the voice of a 60s Soul Legend, so it is little wonder he is King of the Blues Cruisers!
- [THE DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-death-of-bessie-smith/) - One of the most controversial racial incidents of the day sparked a huge myth but the truth was always there to be seen.
- [JAZZ GILLUM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jazz-gillum/) - Jazz Gullum was the most influential harp player in Chicago before WWII. His partnership with Big Bill Broonzy placed him at the heart of the Chicago scene
- [PETE JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/pete-johnson/) - Pete Johnson was a boogie-woogie pianist who shot to fame in 1938 making a career in the clubs of New York. His ‘Roll ‘Em Pete’ became a hit & a piano standard
- [SISTER ROSETTA THARPE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe/) - Sister Rosetta was a sanctified Gospel shouter who played electric guitar! She praised the Lord and belted out the Blues with equal vigour all over the world.
- [YANK RACHELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/yank-rachell/) - Yank Rachell added the unlikely chime of the mandolin to the sound of the Blues in Memphis Jug-bands, classic Chicago records & 60s Folk/Blues revival stages.
- [LONNIE JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lonnie-johnson/) - Lonnie Johnson's single-string guitar runs defined what a 'lead guitar break' would become, & he toured the world with Folk/Blues Festivals in the 60's.
- [ROBIN TROWER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robin-trower/) - Robin Trower played guitar with Procul Harumin the 60s and went on to establish himself as an ace guitarist of the power-trio Blues-Rock genre.
- [BLIND BOY FULLER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blind-boy-fuller/) - Blind Boy Fuller was a powerful singer and superb Piedmont Blues guitarist who made dozens of hit records in the 30s, but died while he was still young.
- [KOKOMO ARNOLD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kokomo-arnold/) - Kokomo Arnold released dozens of records in 30s Chicago, but withdrew in disgust when he found how little he got paid! He never recorded again.
- [EARL KING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/earl-king/) - Earl King wrote great songs back in the hey-day of New Orleans R&B, taking some of them into the charts, and many more in cover versions by legendary artists.
- [BEN POOLE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ben-poole/) - Ben Poole’s guitar assault signal’s the arrival of a fresh new voice in the Blues.
- [Shemekia Copeland](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/shemekia-copeland/) - Shemekia Copeland is blues singer who brashly recalls the very best of the Blues’ vaunted tradition
- [EARL HOOKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/earl-hooker/) - Earl Hooker played some wonderful slide-guitar on the Chicago club scene in the 60s, mastering new devices like the twin-neck guitar and wah-wah with ease.
- [ALLEN TOUSSAINT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/allen-toussaint/) - Allen Toussaint had a worldwide hit album in 1975, but his talent as a songwriter and producer launched the careers of some of New Orlean's greatest stars.
- [JUNIOR WELLS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/junior-wells/) - Junior Wells' wailing harp and soulful voice made him a big star of Chicago Blues, and he later enjoyed a long partnership with Buddy Guy.
- [Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter)](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lead-belly-huddie-ledbetter/) - Lead Belly accompanied himself on guitar, mandolin, accordion and piano, recording hundreds of songs, yet a man so rich in talent lived and died in poverty.
- [ROBBEN FORD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robben-ford/) - Robben Ford is a modern West-coast Blues guitar man with a jazz player's inventiveness & curiousity, a fusion which impressed Miles Davis & many more.
- [BIG MAMA THORNTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-mama-thornton/) - Big Mama Thornton was a big woman with a big voice, a big harmonica sound, a big stage presence and a big hit record that was overshadowed by the Elvis version.
- [PIEDMONT BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/piedmont-blues/) - What defines this distinctive genre of country Blues? And where is Piedmont anyway?
- [New Cross Roads Blues Show](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/new-cross-roads-blues-show/) - A new live music TV style show set in New Cross, London Meet Live Bands, Blues Fans and your new favourite Host, "Johnny Deptford". Episode 7 Of The Show Episode 6 Of The Show Episode 5 Of The Show Episode 4 Of The Show Episode 3 Of The Show Episode 2 Of The Show Watch
- [DUANE ALLMAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/duane-allman/) - Duane Allman's slide-guitar and elegant lead playing defined the Allman's early albums in a career terminated too soon.
- [CLARENCE WILLIAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/clarence-williams/) - Clarence was a gifted composer, pianist & arranger who married Blues Diva Eva Taylor, appeared with her in cabaret & enjoyed a long solo career at Okeh Records.
- [MATT SCHOFIELD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/matt-schofield/) - Matt Schofield listened to Hendrix and Clapton as a kid, and through them he found Muddy, Buddy and more, so he incorporates all of this in his dynamic Blues.
- [T-BELLY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/t-belly/) - Sometimes a band comes along and you wonder where they’ve been all these years. With superb rock-tinged guitar, funky piano and sleazy Blues harp, T-Belly make some fine music, but it is their vocal performance that grabs the ear and engages the spirit. Blues songs can compress deep and complex feelings into a few lines,
- [SHANNON CURFMAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/shannon-curfman/) - ‘Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions’ was the debut album of this 14 year-old girl from Fargo, North Dakota in 1999. Shannon had already opened for Steve Miller and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, heralding the arrival of a major young talent. She toured with Buddy Guy and George Thorogood and released a second album, ‘Fast Lane Addiction’ in 2007 on her own
- [Black History Month Quiz](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/black-history-month-quiz/) - 1. Muddy Waters pioneered what style of Blues? Texas Blues Electric Blues Delta Blues Piano Blues None 2. Where did the first known Blues performers come from? New Orleans Mississippi Delta. Chicago New York None 3. How did the American Blues become popular in England in the 50s? Local radio stations played American Blues American
- [Techniques](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/techniques/) - Bending – stretching a string vertically downwards or upwards to raise the pitch. An effective way to create blue notes. Half bend: bending so that the pitch is raised by a 1/2 tone (sounding like the next fret). If you do a half bend on the 5. fret, the pitch will be like a normal
- [Blues Improvisation and Soloing](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-improvisation-and-soloing/) - Improvisation and soloing is a large part in playing Blues guitar. Not only when playing guitar solos, but also for example when accompanying, playing fills and different chord-voicings and rhythms. In this lesson we will focus on the guitar solos. Blues is very simple harmonically, so it is quite easy to acquire the basic knowledge
- [Blues Rhythm](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-rhythm/) - Ways of playing the chords Now that you got the blues form and chords, we can look at how to actually play these chords. They can be strummed with the pick, or plucked with your fingers. Here is some basic rhythm examples, they are shown with the E5 chord type, but try it out on
- [Blues Riffs](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-riffs/) - Blues riffs is usually repeating patterns, played on the lowest strings on the guitar. They are often based on power-chords, and some of them are more melodic, using the “blues-scale”, which we will take a look at later in the part about improvisation. One thing that is nice about blues riffs, is that they usually
- [The Blues Form](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-blues-form/) - Harmonically the blues is very simple, with only 3 different chords that is divided over a form of 12 bars. There is different types of Blues, 32 bar blues, 16 bar blues, but in this lesson we will focus on the most common 12-bar blues. Let’s take a look at this 12-bar blues in E
- [Guide Tones and Power Chords](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/guide-tones-and-power-chords/) - Guide Tones Another alternative way of playing these chords, is to use something we call “guide-tones”, which is a chord type where we only play 2 notes in each chord. These notes should be near the notes in the next chord, so that there is almost no harmonic movement when changing the chords. In this
- [WEST COAST BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/west-coast-blues/) - California is not the place you expect to find the Blues. With a strong tradition of independent labels the West Coast has become a post-war Blues phenomenon.
- [HOKUM BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hokum-blues/) - Hokum Blues songs were popular in the late 20s & 30s. Their suggestive titles like 'Warm My Wiener' & 'Banana in Your Fruit Basket' promised salacious lyrics.
- [The British Invasion.](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-british-invasion/) - The 'British Invasion' that energised American music in the 60s was fuelled by the Europeans' adoption of the Blues and R&B that was on the Americans' doorstep!
- [ALAN LOMAX](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/alan-lomax/) - When Alan recorded Muddy Waters at Stovell's Plantation and Muddy heard the results, he left for Chicago and 'invented' electric Blues.
- [J MAYO WILLIAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/j-mayo-williams/) - J Mayo Williams was known as 'Ink' because he got so many Blues Artists to sign for his record labels, usually without reading how little they would get paid!
- [LEONARD CHESS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/leonard-chess/) - Leonard Chess set up Chess Records with his brother Phil; spotted great new talents; captured their finest performances and established electric Chicago Blues.
- [LEO FENDER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/leo-fender/) - Leo Fender produced the range of iconic guitars, the Telecaster, Stratocaster and Precision Bass, and amps that have powered Blues and rock music since 1951.
- [JIM MARSHALL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jim-marshall/) - The 'Marshall Stack' is the worlds' favourite sound system, designed & engineered by Jim Marshall. The man behind this vital equipment wanted to be a drummer.
- [JOHN DOPYERA (National Steel Guitar)](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/national-steel-guitar/) - Resonator guitars like the National Steel and Dobro were invented by a 24 year old Slovakian immigrant, John Dopyera
- [WC HANDY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/wc-handy/) - WC Handy was in at the Birth of the Blues. This enterprising band leader, with his keen ear for a tune, turned a local folk music into a world wide phenomenon.
- [LESTER MELROSE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lester-melrose/) - Lester Melrose was the foremost talent scout and producer of Blues records in Chicago in the 30s, launching many great careers and making himself very rich too!
- [BRUCE IGLAUER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bruce-iglauer/) - Bruce Iglauer founded Alligator Records in 1971, and his good taste and shrewd business sense have made it probably the most important Independant Blues label.
- [CONGO SQUARE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/congo-square/) - Congo Square in the vieux carré of New Orleans pounded to the sound of African drums in the days of slavery, but now it's a Heritage Site, Louis Armstrong Park.
- [THE ZOOT SUIT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-zoot-suit/) - The ZOOT SUIT was popular in the blues community before WWII. If you have seen the 3rd photo of Robert Johnson you will have seen a Zoot Suit of the era.
- [THE EALING CLUB](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-ealing-club/) - On March 17th 1962, Blues Incorporated opened the Ealing Blues Club in that small basement room and began a chain of events that changed the musical world.
- [THE PETRILLO BAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-petrillo-ban/) - Can't get your music recorded? Nobody could during the 'Petrillo Ban' of 1941-43, when musicians fought for royalties on radio airtime and juke box plays.
- [Rev. ROBERT WILKINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rev-robert-wilkins/) - Rev. Robert Wilkins gave up 'the Devil's music' re-writing his best-known Blues song as 'Prodigal Son', then sued The Stones for royalties when they covered it!
- [SYD NATHAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/syd-nathan/) - Syd Nathan was an old-school label owner who was prepared to take a chance on fresh talent, starting the careers of James Brown, Hank Ballard and Freddie King.
- [JOHN DELAFOSE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-delafose/) - John Delafose played an old-school button organ and sang his heart out as he led The Eunice Playboys, and his son Geno carries on the family tradition today.
- [JIMMY DAWKINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-dawkins/) - Jimmy Dawkins had a distinctive West-side Chicago guitar style, & used it it to back a host of stars, starting his own label & setting up Living Blues Magazine.
- [JIMMIE VAUGHAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmie-vaughan/) - Emerging from the shadow of his superstar kid-brother, Jimmie's Fabulous Thunderbirds and solo touring have taken Texas roadhouse Blues around the world.
- [JAMES COTTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/james-cotton/) - James Cotton grabbed his chance when Muddy Waters asked him to play harp, and went on to a long solo career, showing off a great set of Blues pipes.
- [RONNIE EARL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ronnie-earl/) - Ronnie Earl leads his band The Broadcasters around the club & Festival circuit, playing his fine Blues-rock, & also taught as a Professor at Berklee College.
- [WALTER TROUT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/walter-trout/) - Walter Trout played with John Mayall and Canned Heat before his solo career as a Blues-rocker, but he honed his chops playing behind some Blues legends.
- [LITTLE WALTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-walter/) - Big swooping notes blasted out when Little Walter's harp wailed. That soulful sound cemented in place a big stone in the foundations of Chicago Blues.
- [BIG JOHN WRENCHER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-john-wrencher/) - Big John Wrencher didn't stop blowing his harp on Maxwell St. when he lost an arm in a car-wreck, he just began touring and recording as 'One-Arm-John'.
- [CECIL GANT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cecil-gant/) - Pianist Cecil Gant got a break when he was in the Army, billed as 'The GI Sing-sation.' His record 'I Wonder' hit the top of the R&B Charts in 1944.
- [HAMMIE NIXON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hammie-nixon/) - Country Blues harp defined the jug-band sound, and Hammie Nixon was an 'original' who played with Sleepy John Estes in the Blues Revival of the 60s.
- [Kirk Fletcher](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kirk-fletcher/) - Kirk Fletcher is a well-traveled blues star who brings his extraordinary talent to a wide range of different projects.
- [Professor Longhair](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/professor-longhair/) - Professor Longhair remains one of New Orleans' most enigmatic and influential figures. His 'rhumba-boogie' piano took the sound of Mardi Gras to the world.
- [AHMET ERTEGUN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ahmet-ertegun/) - Ahmet Ertegun set up Atlantic Records in 1946, and in the 50s it became the hottest R&B label around, as they went on to sign top Soul and Blues-rock stars.
- [R L BURNSIDE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/r-l-burnside/) - RL Burnside played his rhythmic yet lyrical slide-guitar in an archaic juke-joint style but he went on to introduce the Blues to garage and techno audiences.
- [MIKE VERNON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mike-vernon/) - Mike Vernon was the man responsible for getting the best out of Eric Clapton and Peter Green when they were Bluesbreakers, then formed the Blue Horizon label.
- [MOSE ALLISON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mose-allison/) - Mose Allison has a smoky vocal tone & he plays jazz, boogie-woogie and slow blues piano but is best remembered for writing 'Parchman Farm' & 'Summertime Blues'.
- [JOHN HAMMOND Jr.](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-hammond-jr/) - John Hammond Jr.s slashing slide-guitar, his harp in a neck rack and his expressive voice, presents the authentic sound of the Delta as a fresh, vital music.
- [HANK BALLARD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hank-ballard/) - Hank Ballard was the 'bad-boy' delinquent of the 50s, when all his 'Annie' songs were banned, but he sold a lot of R&B records & many crossed into the Hot 100.
- [BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/buckwheat-zydeco/) - Buckwheat Zydeco carried the torch for Zydeco when his friend and mentor Clifton Chenier passed on, and played to billions of people!
- [JAMES BOOKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/james-booker/) - James Booker was called "a black, gay, one-eyed, junkie piano genius." His unique style could fuse a Bach prelude with a Gospel anthem and make you dance to it!
- [DADDY STOVEPIPE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/daddy-stovepipe/) - Daddy Stovepipe was one of the first men to record a Blues song, and this entertaining 'one-man-band' cut many tracks with his wife, Mississippi Sarah.
- [EVA TAYLOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eva-taylor/) - Eva Taylor was one of the original Blues Divas who sold millions of records in the 20s, and she continued her career on the club and cabaret scene in Harlem.
- [TEXAS BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/texas-blues/) - Texas Blues isn't as dark as its Delta cousin, or as exuberant as Piedmont Blues, but its Caribbean, French, Latin, Irish & Scandinavian roots make it special.
- [KENNY NEAL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kenny-neal/) - Kenny Neal comes from a dynasty of Baton Rouge Blues players so talented he had to be brilliant to get noticed in the family, let alone in the music industry!
- [DOROTHY MOORE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dorothy-moore/) - Dorothy Moore's Gospel voice and Soul sensibilities make for a potent mixture, and she had several hit records in the 70s, which sold well all over the world.
- [PAUL 'Wine' JONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/paul-wine-jones/) - Paul 'Wine' Jones played his boogie Blues in the juke-joints in the hills above the Delta; he was almost unknown but finally got the chance to record.
- [Johnny Rawls](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-rawls/) - Johnny Rawls is a road warrior in the old–school sense. He knows how to bring a crowd to its feet and keep them there.
- [SAM CHARTERS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sam-charters/) - Blues-loving writer and academic Sam Charters recorded Lightnin' Hopkins in his flop-house bedroom, and went on to write many volumes on Jazz and Blues.
- [NICKY HOPKINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/nicky-hopkins/) - Nicky Hopkins played on piano on seminal recordings by Jeff Beck, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but lost his life-long battle with health issues aged 50.
- [SUNNYLAND SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sunnyland-slim/) - Pianist Sunnyland Slim was a Chicago institution, playing his heavy left-hand phrases with delicate trills behind all the Legends of the 'Golden Age'.
- [Black History Month Tutorial](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/black-history-month-tutorial/) - Presentations The presentation files can be downloaded, modified and used for your tutorial. If you are using OpenOffice or Libre Office Impress then this is the best file for you to download. In ODF Format Download Now! If you are using Microsoft PowerPoint then use this fie. In PPTX Format Download Now! Videos The Videos
- [WILLIE KENT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/willie-kent/) - Bass player turned band leader Willie Kent learned his trade in the Chicago clubs, but didn't get serious about his Blues until he was over 50.
- [JAMES WHEELER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/james-wheeler/) - A Georgia Blues guitarist who made it in Chicago, James Wheeler spent a long time in other peoples bands before stepping up to lead the line.
- [ROY GAINES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/roy-gaines/) - Roy Gaines picked up some tips from his boyhood hero T-Bone Walker, and he is still ripping out those riffs today.
- [JIMMY WITHERSPOON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-witherspoon/) - Jimmy Witherspoon was a Blues Shouter in the Kansas tradition who explored the borderlands between Jazz and the Blues very successfully over a long career.
- [LADY BIANCA](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lady-bianca/) - Lady Bianca's debut album was called 'Best Kept Secret' for a good reason: a long career as a backing singer preceded unleashing her Gospel voice on the world.
- [FRANKIE FORD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/frankie-ford/) - Frankie Ford had a massive hit in 1959 with 'Sea Cruise' and the man they call New Orleans Dynamo put his stamp on some classic New Orleans material.
- [PIANO RED](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/piano-red/) - Piano Red, was the Blues name of William Perryman, brother of another albino pianist Speckled Red, & later he also performed as Dr. Feelgood after his big hit.
- [BOB GADDY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bob-gaddy/) - Bob Gaddy played his piano around the New York clubs for many decades. He recorded some great songs, and worked with some big stars in the studio.
- [LONNIE MACK](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lonnie-mack/) - Lonnie Mack is not a big star, but his spectacular guitar technique, with his pinkie-finger on the 'whammy bar', & fine voice made a huge contribution to music.
- [PAUL 'Hucklebuck' WILLIAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/paul-hucklebuck-williams/) - Paul 'Hucklebuck' Williams hit record in 1949 gave him a new nick-name, lots of royalties from cover versions and a place in the Hall of Fame.
- [PAUL LAMB](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/paul-lamb/) - Paul is a British Blues harp player whose versatile technique has made him a star of the European Blues club and Festival circuit.
- [LUCKY MILLINDER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lucky-millinder/) - For a man who couldn't sing, couldn't play an instrument & couldn't read music, Lucky did quite a lot. This great bandleader helped to pave the way for R&B.
- [BOOM, BOOM. BRITISH BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/boom-boom-british-blues/) - In the 60's ignored and disenfranchised kids felt like they had the Blues, and when they found a voice it was LOUD.
- [LONESOME WHISTLE- THE BLUES HARP](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lonesome-whistle-the-blues-harp/) - Why did a cheap little German instrument became an essential element of Urban Blues music?
- [CLIFTON CHENIER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/clifton-chenier/) - Clifton Chenier was The King of Zydeco, he played his accordion dressed in a crown and cape playing his happy blend of cajun swamp blues and good-time R&B.
- [Ruby Turner](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ruby-turner/) - Ruby Turner's talent for Blues emerged when she sang with Alexis Korner, and she embraces Jazz, Soul and Gospel in her wide repertoire of emotional songs.
- [CHRIS SPEDDING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chris-spedding/) - Chris Spedding can play just about any guitar style, as his signature 'Guitar Jamboree' shows, he is regularly in the studio & touring the world as a sideman.
- [J B HUTTO](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/j-b-hutto/) - J B Hutto was into flashy suits, ear-splitting slide-guitar and passionate live performance designed to stir your soul, making every JB gig an emotional event.
- [HUGH LAURIE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hugh-laurie/) - Hugh Laurie was a comedy actor at Cambridge Uni, & a wildly successful TV & screen actor in The States, but his true love is the piano Blues of New Orleans.
- [BEN HARPER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ben-harper/) - Ben Harper has won two Grammys, and his fascinating mix of Blues, Reggae and Gospel styles has won over audiences all round the world.
- [LITTLE WILLIE JOHN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-willie-john/) - Little Willie John had a superb Gospel voice and delicate phrasing that set the stage for a generation of Soul singers who followed.
- [BILLY WRIGHT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/billy-wright/) - The man who taught Little Richard how to put on a show had plenty to shout about and enjoyed a short but exciting career.
- [A C REED](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/a-c-reed/) - Sax playing, singing bandleaders are quite rare, but AC Reed led his band like a General after spending years touring with Buddy Guy and Junior Wells.
- [RACE MUSIC](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/race-music/) - 'Race Music' was directed to the African-American population. This music grew and developed in a historical context and helped to shape Blues music today
- [MA RAINEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ma-rainey/) - Ma Rainey had a good claim to be the first Blues singer and she was one of the biggest recording stars of the 20s, leaving a huge legacy for later generations.
- [BABY TATE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/baby-tate/) - Baby Tate was a fine Piedmont guitarist and singer with a huge repertiore of songs that he shared with his friends Blind Boy Fuller, Pink Anderson & Gary Davis.
- [GUITAR SHORTY 1](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/guitar-shorty-1/) - Guitar Shorty (John Henry Fortescue) was a superb guitarist who devised his own tunings, but didn't seem bothered about a career so long as he had a drink!
- [ROD PIAZZA](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rod-piazza/) - Rod Piazza was given his first harp by Jimmy Reed & given years of lessons by George 'Harmonica' Smith, so it's no surprise that he can blow some serious Blues!
- [BLIND JOE HILL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blind-joe-hill/) - Blind Joe Hill got tired of waiting for band members to turn up at gigs, so he set up as a one-man-band, taking his Blues from Akron all over the US & Europe.
- [SMOKIN' JOE KUBEK](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/smokin-joe-kubek/) - The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band has been pounding out those Texas Roadhouse Blues for over 25 years, all over The States and Europe.
- [JOHNNY 'Geechie' TEMPLE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-geechie-temple/) - Johnny 'Geechie' Temple is not well known now, but his fine voice and clever lyrics made him a popular recording artist in Chicago in the years before WWII.
- [BLUE SMITTY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blue-smitty/) - Blue Smitty was a buddy of Muddy Waters back in the day. He showed him some tunings & how to fix a pick-up, but his day-job as an electrician cost him a career.
- [AMÉDÉ ARDUIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/amede-arduin/) - Amédé Arduin's fantastic, lilting accordion work, strong high voice and his songs that made people want to dance, made him a founding father of Zydeco music.
- [GRAHAM BOND](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/graham-bond/) - Graham Bond was a huge force in The British Blues Boom of the 1960s, but the lack of a breakthrough record & involvement with drugs & The Occult led to suicide.
- [MICKEY BAKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mickey-baker/) - Mickey Baker's sharp R&B guitar lines featured on many big 50s hits as a session man, and he had a long career playing clubs when he relocated to Europe.
- [ROBERT PETWAY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-petway/) - Robert Petway was a Delta Bluesman who cut two sessions for Bluebird Records in Chicago before WWII, and left a classic song in the Blues repertoire.
- ['Harmonica' FRANK FLOYD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/harmonica-frank-floyd/) - Harmonica Frank could play Blues harp and sing out of the side of his mouth at the same time, without a neck-brace, while playing guitar. Some one-man-band!
- [JOE CALLICOTT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joe-callicott/) - Joe Callicot was an 'old-school' Delta Blues guitarist who sang and played with his partner Garfield Akers right up until he was 'rediscovered' in the late 60s.
- [LONNIE PITCHFORD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lonnie-pitchford/) - Lonnie Pitchford played a primitive style of Delta Blues, and as a skilled carpenter made his own instruments, specialising in the one-stringed 'diddley bow'.
- [BILLY BRANCH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/billy-branch/) - Billy Branch learned to sound like Chicago's legendary harp players because he learned from them first hand, and continues to blow his 'Mississippi Sax'.
- [RICK ESTRIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rick-estrin/) - Harp player Rick Estrin teamed up with guitarist 'Little Charlie' Baty, to form The Nightcats and blow audiences away with some high-energy Blues and R&B.
- [COCO MONTOYA](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/coco-montoya/) - Coco Montoya's apprenticeship with Albert Collins & time at John Mayall's 'finishing school for guitarists', make it no surprise he is one of today's finest.
- [COUSIN LEROY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cousin-leroy/) - Cousin Leroy was a little known singer and harp player from Georgia who made some fine electric Blues records in New York in the mid 50s.
- [TRIXIE SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/trixie-smith/) - Trixie Smith was one of several unrelated Blues Divas who shared a surname. Trixie's wonderful voice gave her a long career on records, on the stage & in films.
- [CHARLEY BOOKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/charley-booker/) - Charley Booker honed his guitar chops in the Delta juke-joints, recorded with The King Biscuit Boys & cut some of the earliest tracks at Sun Records in Memphis.
- [DUFFY POWER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/duffy-power/) - Duffy Power was a teen-idol who loved the Blues, and sang with some great musicians, but couldn't find that big record to give him the recognition he deserved.
- [FLOYD COUNCIL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/floyd-council/) - Floyd Council was a superb Piedmont guitarist who made several records with Blind Boy Fuller but is now remembered as the inspiration for the name 'Pink Floyd'.
- [LOUIS PRIMA](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/louis-prima/) - Louis Prima was a great singer and bandleader, whose New Orleans swing music got him many hit records after WWII & a film song that got him a Walk of Fame Star.
- ['PAPA' HARVEY HULL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/papa-harvey-hull/) - The Down Home Boys were 'Papa' Harvey Hull and Long Cleeve Reed, two Southern singers who had a brief recording career in Chicago in 1927.
- [JOE HILL LOUIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joe-hill-louis/) - Joe Hill Louis was a Blues-singing one-man-band, in the tradition of Daddy Stovepipe and Driftin' Slim, and he could earn a few bucks on any street corner.
- [ROY MILTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/roy-milton/) - Roy Milton was a swinging drummer, bandleader & singer who had a long run of Jump-Blues hits in the post-WWII decade, & was still putting out albums in the 70s.
- [WASHBOARD WILLIE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/washboard-willie/) - Washboard Willie was 42 when he was banging out a beat behind the band in a Detroit club. They signed him up, and he went on to tour Europe with Lightnin' Slim!
- [SMOKEY SMOTHERS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/smokey-smothers/) - Smokey Smothers was a name used by Otis 'Big Smokey' & Abe 'Little Smokey' Smothers, who were both hot Chicago guitarists, not the Smothers Brothers comedy duo!
- [FLOYD JONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/floyd-jones/) - Floyd Jones was a fine singer, a smooth guitarist & a talented songwriter who was in at the start of the Golden Age of Chicago Blues, but couldn't get a break.
- [JACK WHITE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jack-white/) - Jack White was set to be a priest but, like his hero Son House, his career was saved by The Blues, becoming a huge rock star, playing bottleneck guitar.
- [RONNIE WOOD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ronnie-wood/) - Ronnie Wood is a man of many talents. His work with The Stones and The Faces is only half of it, as he has another career as a painter and fine artist.
- ['St LOUIS JIMMY' ODEN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/st-louis-jimmy-oden/) - 'St. Louis Jimmy' Oden was a pianist, singer and songwriter who helped make St. Louis a centre for piano Blues, and he wrote some classic tunes.
- [FREDDIE SPRUELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/freddie-spruell/) - Freddie Spruell is often cited as the first Delta Bluesmen to make a record, although he was born in Louisiana and lived his whole life in Chicago!
- [BOB HALL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bob-hall/) - Bob Hall is an authority on Blues and Boogie-woogie piano who played in some great bands in the British Blues Boom, and toured with many American legends.
- [HATTIE McDANIEL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hattie-mcdaniel/) - Hattie McDaniel's film acting and radio work each won her a Star on Hollywood Boulevard, but she wrote and recorded several Blues songs in the 20s.
- [DEREK TRUCKS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/derek-trucks/) - Derek Trucks played slide-guitar with The Allmans when he was just 13, & when he wed Susan Tedeschi, the Blues Monster that is Tedeschi Trucks Band resulted.
- [BILLY PRESTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/billy-preston/) - Billy Preston was a child prodigy as a singer and organist, who became a prized side-man, but his voice and songwriting got him to the top of the Hot 100 too.
- [RONNIE LANE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ronnie-lane/) - Ronnie Lane was an British Blues Rocker who wrote some massive hits for The Faces and enjoyed a revival in the USA, but sadly fell victim to a genetic disease.
- [JIMMY ROGERS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-rogers/) - Jimmy Rogers is best remembered as Muddy Waters' 'second' guitar player, but the man had some chops of his own, and a lovely voice to go with it.
- [LAFAYETTE LEAKE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lafayette-leake/) - Lafayette Leake could play any style of Blues piano with exquisite phrasing, which made him a hot session musician & a welcome guest at many special occasions.
- [CHANCE GARDNER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chance-gardner/) - Chance Gardner is an Alabama native who took his Blues to Boston, Hawaii and Daytona, running Blues Jams and rocking with his band The Blue Daddies
- [LARRY DALE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/larry-dale/) - Larry Dale played some rocking guitar on some classic Blues recordings in 50s New York, and his great voice appeared on several hit singles.
- ['Bois Sec' ARDOIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bois-sec-ardoin/) - 'Bois Sec' Ardoin brought pre-WWII button accordion style playing into the Folk/Blues Revival and popularised the swinging dance music we now know as Zydeco.
- [LARRY WILLIAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/larry-williams/) - Larry Williams had some big Rock'n'Roll hits, wrote some enduring songs and re-emerged to record some funky Soul/Blues, but his drug habit got him in the end.
- [BOB MARGOLIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bob-margolin/) - 'Steady Rolling Bob' Margolin learned a lot about The Blues as he spent many years playing alongside Muddy Waters, & he still rips out those guitar licks today.
- [PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/papa-charlie-jackson/) - Papa Charlie, the first man to cut a hit Blues record, played a guitar with a banjo body, giving a unique sound that got him a lot of session work in Chicago.
- [BAYLESS ROSE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bayless-rose/) - Bayless Rose was a skillful guitar picker, who cut several tracks for Gennett Records, & his stylish, ragtime playing got him session work on many other discs.
- ['SMOKEY' HOGG](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/smokey-hogg/) - 'Smokey' Hogg led a double life, playing down-home guitar Blues in post-War Texas & sweet piano Blues in Los Angeles, releasing about 70 records in 10 years.
- [LONESOME SUNDOWN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lonesome-sundown/) - Lonesome Sundown had a fine, deep voice and a talent for a flashy guitar turnaround, but he never had a hit record, despite writing some great songs.
- [CLARENCE 'GATEMOUTH' BROWN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/clarence-gatemouth-brown/) - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown was a total one-off! He played his Blues guitar and fiddle around Texas, then the USA, then Europe and the whole world.
- [ROCKIN' DOPSIE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rockin-dopsie/) - Rockin' Dopsie played high-energy Zydeco music with a big helping of R&B, on Paul Simon's Graceland, on records of his own, & now through his sons' great bands.
- [ROBERT McCOY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-mccoy/) - Robert McCoy was a superb Blues and Boogie-woogie pianist from Birmingham Al. who made his first records with Jaybird Coleman influencing many later players.
- [GARY CLARK Jr.](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/gary-clark-jr/) - Gary Clark Jr. is heir to a legacy of Texas Blues as he mixes the sound of some old masters into a fusion with Blues-rock that may be the Future of the Blues.
- [SUPER CHIKAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/super-chikan/) - With his wierd home-made instruments and his light-hearted take on the Blues, Super Chikan's records and great live shows bring our music a unique new voice.
- [MIKE SANCHEZ](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mike-sanchez/) - London born boogie-woogie pianist Mike Sanchez keeps the flame alive for this up-tempo Blues music on the European club and Festival scene.
- [QUEEN SYLVIA EMBRY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/queen-sylvia-embry/) - Queen Sylvia Embry played bass and sang with her husband Johnny, with Lefty Dizz and Jimmy Dawkins before touring the world with the Mississippi All-Stars.
- [FRANKIE Half-Pint JAXON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/frankie-half-pint-jaxon/) - Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon was a tiny but talented showman who sang the Blues in drag, staged productions for the biggest Blues Divas and worked at The Pentagon!
- ['LITTLE HAT' JONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-hat-jones/) - 'Little Hat' Jones got his Blues name from his popular 1929 record, and he recorded again in the 60s Folk/Blues revival, but his talents remained unappreciated.
- [BOB BROZMAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bob-brozman/) - Bob Brozman was the modern master of the resonator guitar, and his work as a music academic brought influences from all over the world to his superb technique.
- [JACK OWENS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jack-owens/) - Jack Owens was part of the 'Bentonia school' of early Delta Blues players whose minor-key tunings and high 'melismatic' vocals gave a twist to classic Blues.
- [CATFISH KEITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/catfish-keith/) - Catfish Keith plays an acoustic Blues that sounds like he comes from the Delta several generations ago, but his National Steel guitar thrills modern audiences.
- [EDDIE 'Playboy' TAYLOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eddie-playboy-taylor/) - Eddie Playboy Taylor's driving guitar was heard behind all Jimmy Reed's hit records, & when he recorded 'Big Town Playboy' he got a nom-de-Blues of his own.
- [JELLY ROLL MORTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jelly-roll-morton/) - Jelly Roll Morton arrogantly and falsely claimed to have "invented Jazz", but his piano style laid the cornerstones of 'barrelhouse', 'stride' & boogie-woogie.
- [J D SHORT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/j-d-short/) - JD Short was an obscure Bluesman who cut a few great records, but this talented multi-instrumentalist was a powerful and versatile voice of Delta Blues.
- [Kat & Co.](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kat-co/) - Kat & Co is a London based unit combining the Gospel/Blues voice of modern Blues Diva Kat from California, & the superb instrumental skills of a European band.
- [DAN SANE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dan-sane/) - Dan Sane was one of the unsung guitar heroes of early Blues, whose complex flatpicking helped to define the Delta sound, and powered the jug-band craze.
- [SANDI THOM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sandi-thom/) - Sandi Thom became an internet sensation with her early webcam escapades, but has matured into a fine, Bluesy singer/songwriter with some great guitar riffs.
- [EARL BELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/earl-bell/) - Earl Bell had a fine, clear voice, an excellent guitar style & a talent for writing Blues songs, but when it came to recording he just couldn't catch a break!
- [JIMMY THACKERY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-thackery/) - Jimmy Thackery is a highly accomplished guitarist whose wide-ranging style takes in Jazz and Rockabilly as well as a big handful of solid Blues technique.
- [SUGARAY RAYFORD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sugaray-rayford/) - Sugaray Rayford has the voice of a man who has lived the Blues as he sings his heart out in front of his own band & West-coast showcase group The Mannish Boys.
- [JOE WILLIE WILKINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joe-willie-wilkins/) - Joe Willie Wilkins was never a star in his own right, but his guitar solos featured on many hit Blues records and his style influenced a lot of superstars.
- [DON COVAY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/don-covay/) - Don Covay was on the road with Little Richard in the 50s, & in the Soul charts in the 60s, but is best remembered as a songwriter who wrote hits for superstars.
- [JESSE FULLER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jesse-fuller/) - Jesse Fuller, 'The Lone Cat' played a wide repertoire of Blues, Spirituals and work-songs, using his guitar, harp, kazoo, hi-hat and unique 'fotdella'.
- [WILLIE WALKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/willie-walker/) - Willie Walker was a spectacularly good Piedmont guitarist whose career never really got going because he recorded during the depression years and he died young.
- [LAURENCE JONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/laurence-jones/) - Laurence Jones is a young British Blues man who has served an apprenticeship on tour with some Blues-rock legends, and is making his own mark on the genre.
- [BILLIE HOLIDAY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/billie-holiday/) - Billie Holiday's bio-pic was called Lady Sings the Blues, and she had plenty to feel blue about. Billie fronted many big jazz bands but her voice was pure Blues
- [MEL LONDON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mel-london/) - Mel London is remembered as the owner of Chief Records in late 50s Chicago, but unlike a lot of producers who took credits he was an excellent songwriter too.
- [Chantel McGregor](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chantel-mcgregor/) - Chantel McGregor is a young British Blues-rock singer, guitarist & composer whose sensitive interpretation of some classic tunes mark her out for a big future.
- [WILLIAM CLARKE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/william-clarke/) - William Clarke was a West-coast harp player who learned from the masters of the Mississippi Sax & took it to new levels, but passed away before making his name.
- [ROBERT 'JR' LOCKWOOD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-jr-lockwood/) - Robert Jr. Lockwood learned to play Blues guitar from step-father, Robert Johnson, later developing a chilling, jazz influenced 12-string electric style .
- [JEFF HEALEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jeff-healey/) - The blind, blonde Canadian Jeff Healey made a big noise in 80s Blues-Rock, playing his guitar across his lap which allowed huge bends in those blistering notes.
- [LOWELL GEORGE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lowell-george/) - Lowell George played slide guitar, sang and wrote some memorable songs, leading his band Little Feat all over the world as one of the biggest acts of the 70s.
- [MIGHTY JOE YOUNG](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mighty-joe-young/) - Mighty Joe Young started out as a boxer, but made his name as a fine guitarist and soulful singer in a thirty year career on the Chicago club scene.
- [MARCIA BALL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/marcia-ball/) - Marcia Ball is a boogie-woogie pianist and a great songwriting talent, who is a legend around the Gulf Coast and a welcome guest on the world's Festival stages.
- ['PAPA' CHARLIE McCOY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/papa-charlie-mccoy/) - 'Papa' Charlie McCoy was a superb guitar and mandolin player, but even with his sweet voice, he preferred to back others, in Jug Bands, & Chicago house bands.
- ['DOC' CLAYTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/doc-clayton/) - Doc Clayton was a superb entertainer with a great voice, who wrote some Blues classics, but he never had a big record and chronic alcoholism shortened his life
- [The Royal Southern Brotherhood](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-royal-southern-brotherhood/) - The Royal Southern Brotherhood is a supergroup of rock and blues stars who sound as if they’d spent their lives playing as a unit.
- [THE THREE KINGS OF BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-three-kings/) - Behold! Three Kings traveled from the South bearing fabulous gifts. Sustain! Vibrato! Killer phrases! King of the Blues?
- [CHRIS DUARTE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chris-duarte/) - Chris Duarte continues the long line of Texas Blues-rock guitarists, but his free-flowing, jazz influenced style makes for a thrilling live experience.
- [DELTA BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/delta-blues/) - Blues Music began a century ago, when a few folks in an isolated rural area of the South started playing a new style of music. This was 'The Birth of the Blues'
- [GARY MOORE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/gary-moore/) - Gary Moore could capture the emotional essence of a tune on his guitar and express it with an artistry that often left audiences open-mouthed in wonder.
- [MANCE LIPSCOMB](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mance-lipscomb/) - Texas songster Mance Lipscomb emerged as a powerful, versatile guitarist with a huge repertoire of songs, in the 60s Folk/Blues revival, when he was already 65!
- [GEORGE THOROGOOD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/george-thorogood/) - George Thorogood knows how to rock and how to boogie and the fans love it. George and his band The Destroyers helped to kick off the eighties Blues boom
- [DINAH WASHINGTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dinah-washington/) - Dinah Washington was gifted with an immaculate sense of blues phrasing; at home in jazz, blues R&B and pop earned her the title 'Queen of the Blues'.
- [BIG WALTER 'SHAKEY' HORTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-walter-shakey-horton/) - 'Shakey' Horton's big honking harp really did sound like a 'Mississippi Sax', bringing sound of his Memphis youth to the work of some Blues Legends in Chicago.
- [JAY McSHANN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jay-mcshann/) - Jay McShann was a rocking pre-WWII swing-band leader, who helped the music to change into jump Blues and R&B in the post-War years, twice topping the charts.
- [JJ CALE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jj-cale/) - JJ Cale's chilled out boogie guitar and superb songs really did make him a 'Troubadour', and his cool groove was extremely influential.
- [JERRY PORTNOY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jerry-portnoy/) - Jerry Portnoy is the Chicago player who continues to play the huge, fluid-toned harp that compelled Muddy and Buddy to recruit him to their bands.
- [LITTLE JOHNNY JONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-johnny-jones/) - Little Johnny Jones was the original 'Big Town Playboy' as he played his piano behind Tampa Red, Muddy and Wolf in the Chicago clubs, but cancer took his life.
- [SID WHELAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sid-whelan/) - Sid Whelan was born and bred in New York City, and after a lifetime of playing Blues, Country and World music, he has recorded the first part of his Americana Trilogy, 'Flood Waters Rising'. Sid was introduced to the Blues by his Dad, a passionate devotee of New Orleans jazz and traditional Blues, who took
- [ROBERT SHAW](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-shaw/) - Robert Shaw was a renowned Texas barrelhouse pianist who learned his trade in Houston's Fourth Ward, and would have been better known if he had travelled more!
- [SIPPIE WALLACE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sippie-wallace/) - Sippie Wallace was one of the original Blues Divas; a talented young songwriter, a riveting performer and a most respected artist,
- [PEG-LEG SAM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/peg-leg-sam/) - Peg-Leg Sam, the Carolina harp virtuoso spent most of his life travelling the South and was 're-discovered' playing with the Chief Thunder Cloud Medicine Show.
- [CLIFFORD ANTONE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/clifford-antone/) - Clifford Antone was a Blues fan from way-back, who opened his famous club in Austin TX in 1974 and his record label issued albums by some Blues greats.
- [ROSIE LEDET](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rosie-ledet/) - Rosie Ledet is known as 'The First Lady of Zydeco', for her exciting presentation of this good-time dancing Blues.
- [WILBERT HARRISON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/wilbert-harrison/) - Wilbert Harrison was a two-hit-wonder! He topped the charts singing Kansas City in 1959, and wrote Let's Work Together which was a big hit several more times.
- [LESLIE WEST](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/leslie-west/) - Leslie West laid the foundations in Blues Rock playing guitar with his long-running band Mountain, from the stage at Woodstock to the present day.
- [GUITAR SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/guitar-slim/) - Guitar Slim's gospel voice was straight out of Church, but his flashy suits, shimmering guitar and wild stage act made a major contribution to New Orleans R&B.
- [JAMES 'Son' THOMAS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/james-son-thomas/) - James Son Thomas was an old-school Mississippi Bluesman who played at the White House & was also a talented sculptor, who favoured some macabre subject matter.
- [CHRIS THOMAS KING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chris-thomas-king/) - Chris Thomas King played Delta legend Tommy Johnson in a Hollywood movie, but he also combines country Blues, rock and rap in a brand new fusion.
- [RAY CHARLES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ray-charles/) - Ray Charles could sing Gospel and play Jazz piano, & his fusion of the two linked R&B to Soul music. Later, he played Country, & became an American institution.
- [HENRY TOWNSEND](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/henry-townsend/) - Henry Townsend made countless records with his buddy Walter Davis before WWII, & after a long career on the Festival circuit made a Grammy-winning disc in 2006.
- [JIMMY YANCEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-yancey/) - Jimmy Yancey was one of the post WW1 Chicago pianists whose easy-rolling style and latin rhythms laid the groundwork for 'boogie-woogie'.
- [BLUES AT THE CROSSROADS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-at-the-crossroads/) - Once the lunatics had taken over the asylum they began to run wild! All kinds of new music were busy being born.
- [JOHNNY COPELAND](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-copeland/) - Johnny was a hard-rocking, Grammy winning, booming voiced Texas blues player who brought some African influences to his music.
- [EARL GAINES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/earl-gaines/) - Earl Gaines had a Number 1 R&B single in 1955, but after a solid Soul-Blues career, spent 20 years as a trucker before staging a come-back.
- [STICK McGHEE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/stick-mcghee/) - Less famous than his brother 'Brownie', 'Stick' McGhee made his mark on the 50s New York club scene & wrote a classic Blues song "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee".
- [PERCY MAYFIELD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/percy-mayfield/) - Best known now as the writer of 'Hit the Road Jack', Percy Mayfield had a big career as an R&B star before a horrific car crash left him with deep facial scars.
- [MAGIC SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/magic-slim/) - Magic Slim started out as Magic Sam's side-kick, but built a long and successful career of his own, leading his band The Teardrops with a searing guitar sound.
- [LITTLE MILTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-milton/) - Little Milton changed with the times, moving from Blues to Soul, then Funk and back to his roots on the Blues Festival circuit.
- [MERCY DEE WALTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mercy-dee-walton/) - Mercy Dee Walton was a Texas piano player who hit the west-coast, & had many hits with his Jump-Blues, rocking party style and later with straight Blues piano.
- [MIKE BLOOMFIELD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mike-bloomfield/) - Mike Bloomfield was at the cutting edge; in Chicago Blues; Dylan's first electric shows; 'East-West' fusion; in Blues-Rock, but drugs got him while still young.
- [LIGHTNIN' SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lightnin-slim/) - Lightnin' Slim found fame in Baton Rouge, Louisiana playing his guitar in local bars with Big Poppa's band and becoming the Godfather of Swamp Blues.
- [SCREAMING JAY HAWKINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/screaming-jay-hawkins/) - 'I Put a Spell On You' was the best known Screaming Jay Hawkins song, but it was his spine-tingling live performances that made Jay a world star.
- [SEASICK STEVE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/seasick-steve/) - Seasick Steve burst onto the British scene thrashing away on an old red guitar with three strings, he conjured up the authentic sound of a Delta juke-joint.
- [AL 'Blind Owl' WILSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/al-blind-owl-wilson/) - Al 'Blind Owl' Wilson helped 'discover' several 'lost' Bluesmen, was Canned Heat's superb harp player, with big hits in the 60s & played with John Lee Hooker.
- [BIG JACK JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-jack-johnson/) - Big Jack's down and dirty juke-joint Blues would have been common all over the Delta 90 years ago, and you can see it in the 2006 film 'Black Snake Moan'.
- [JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jessie-mae-hemphill/) - Playing her trance-like boogies, Jessie Mae Hemphill shows us the other kind of Mississippi Blues, from the juke-joints of the Northern hill country.
- [BUTTERBEANS and SUSIE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/butterbeans-and-susie/) - This popular husband and wife vaudeville act enjoyed a long and successful stage career based around their suggestive 'hokum' Blues songs.
- [WASHBOARD SAM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/washboard-sam/) - Washboard Sam was a big solo recording star in Chicago in the 30s, playing on hundreds of records as a session man, alongside his half-brother Big Bill Broonzy.
- [SAM 'The Man' TAYLOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sam-the-man-taylor/) - Sam 'The Man' Tayor was 'a certified honkin legend' whose driving sax solos added fire to dozens of Jump-Blues, R&B and Rock'n'Roll hits.
- [EARL PALMER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/earl-palmer/) - Earl Palmer's second-line New Orleans drumming was so funky, he actually invented the word! From Basie to The Flintstones, he played 'em all.
- [FRANK STOKES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/frank-stokes/) - Frank Stokes was an early Delta guitarist who spent many years before WWI working with 'Medicine Shows', helping to spread the Blues throughout the South.
- [DeFORD BAILEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/deford-bailey/) - DeFord Bailey was an old-school harp player, equally at home playing Blues and country music, whose breathy, whoopin' style was much imitated by later players.
- [ROBERT FRANKLIN PALMER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-franklin-palmer/) - Robert Franklin Palmer was a writer, film-maker and teacher whose work on Blues music opened up the world of the originators to the enquiring minds of youth.
- [KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kenny-wayne-shepherd/) - Guitar rocker Kenny was a young prodigy whose seven albums have all topped the Billboard Blues Albums chart as he matures into a genuine star.
- [SARA MARTIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sara-martin/) - Sara was one of the best selling early Blues Diva, with a career that lasted for for a decade, even though she was in her late 30s when she got started.
- [JIMMY RUSHING](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-rushing/) - Mister Five-by-Five, Jimmy Rushing was just about the loudest Blues shouter there ever was. As a front man for Count Basie, he always had the crowds dancing.
- [SLEEPY JOHN ESTES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sleepy-john-estes/) - Sleepy John Estes was an important and influential re-discovery of the Folk/Blues revival of the early 60s, with his clear, authentic country Blues voice.
- [JUNIOR PARKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/junior-parker/) - Junior Parker moved easily from Blues to R&B and Soul, with a smooth vocal style & crisp harp lines, but he died too young to gain the fame his talent deserved.
- [RICE MILLER, SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rice-miller-sonny-boy-williamson-ii/) - 'Sonny Boy Williamson II', was really called Aleck (or Willie) Miller (or possibly Ford). Deception came easily to this man, but his harp playing was superb.
- [KANSAS JOE McCOY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kansas-joe-mccoy/) - This superb slide-guitar player helped to define Chicago Blues, marrying Memphis Minnie and writing an American Classic along the way.
- [JOHNNY 'Guitar' WATSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-guitar-watson/) - Johnny 'Guitar' Watson came West from Texas and moved seamlessly from jump-Blues to rock, funk soul, & rap, playing his loud, aggressive guitar all the way.
- [TAJ MAHAL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/taj-mahal/) - Taj Mahal is more than just a Blues player, as he incorporates musical influences from around the world into a rich melange of influences.
- [ANA POPOVIC](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ana-popovic/) - Ana Popovic is a powerful Blues-rocker whose unlikely origins can't disguise her genuine feel for the music, as she impresses audiences all over the world .
- [MONETTE MOORE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/monette-moore/) - Monette spent her whole life in showbiz, first as a theatre pianist; then a Blues Diva; a cabaret singer and eventually as a Disneyland attraction!
- [FRANKIE LEE SIMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/frankie-lee-sims/) - Texas Bluesman Frankie Lee Sims was fond of the bottle and never made the impact that his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins did, but he played some fine rockin' Blues.
- [Blues Christmas Quiz](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-christmas-quiz/) - Test your knowledge of the Blues with this Christmas Blues Quiz quiz. The twelve questions cover Blues facts and trivia. There are a few picture questions that will keep you amused. Do you know who recorded Christmas Blues songs? Find out here. Click on the [weaver_showhide]Great - You Got It..[/weaver_showhide] sign to reveal the answer. Who
- [LINK WRAY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/link-wray/) - The brooding menace of Link Wray's 'Rumble' is heard in many movies and his power chords are heard all over modern Blues-Rock.
- [HOMESICK JAMES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/homesick-james/) - Elmore James's cousin James Williamson played slide-guitar too with a hit record 'Homesick'; was a respected side-man in the Chicago & still playing in his 90s!
- [J D 'Jay' MILLER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/j-d-jay-miller/) - Jay Miller produced dozens of great 'Swamp Blues' records by Lightnin' Slim, Tabby Thomas & Slim Harpo, & gave Lazy Lester & Lonesome Sundown their Blues-names.
- [PIANO BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/piano-blues/) - Piano Blues was born in the first years of the 20th Century, from the brothels of Storyville & the lumber camps of East Texas, to the stage of Carnegie Hall.
- [MEMPHIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/memphis/) - Memphis is famous for Elvis & Stax Records, but in the early days many Delta Bluesmen went there to record, & it was a powerhouse of R&B in the post War years.
- [JERRY WEXLER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jerry-wexler/) - Jerry Wexler was a music journalist who joined the fledgling Atlantic label in 1953, and as a producer and A&R man, made it an R&B powerhouse.
- [MOE ASCH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/moe-asch/) - Moe Asch's Folkways label was at the centre of the 50s Folk/Blues revival, and his legacy is the vast store of music he lodged with The Smithsonian Institute.
- [Rev. J M GATES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rev-j-m-gates/) - Rev. Gates was a 'hell-fire preacher' who was quick to exploit the new medium of recorded sound in the 20s, releasing over 200 of his fearsome sermons.
- [ALAN LOMAX at STOVALL'S PLANTATION](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/alan-lomax-at-stovalls-plantation/) - Alan Lomax went to Stovall's Plantation in 1942 to record a field hand called Morganfield. When the kid heard the record, he changed his name to Muddy Waters!
- [COSIMO MATASSA](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cosimo-matassa/) - The game-changing, up-tempo R&B coming out of New Orleans in the early 50s was nearly all recorded by Cosimo Matassa in his tiny J&M studio near Congo Square.
- [LEW CHUDD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lew-chudd/) - Lew Chudd was head of Imperial Records, an independent label that released music from many cultures and signed up black executives too.
- [DON ROBEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/don-robey/) - Tough Houston gambler and nightclub owner Don started the Duke/Peacock label and expanded his empire from R&B into Gospel music.
- [SAM PHILLIPS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sam-phillips/) - Sam opened his Memphis Recording Services in 1950 and so much talent poured through the doors, he started Sun Records. Then in came Elvis....
- [LEE 'Shot' WILLIAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lee-shot-williams/) - Lee 'Shot' Williams' big soulful voice got him some great gigs with Earl Hooker & Magic Sam in 60s Chicago, before he rose again as a Southern Soul singer.
- [SAM MYERS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sam-myers/) - Sam Myers worked the Chicago club scene as a teenager and the 'chitlin circuit' with his own band, but as front man for Anson Funderburgh, he hit the big time.
- [PETE SEEGER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/pete-seeger/) - Pete Seeger grew up in a house where Libba Cotten worked, got his first hit with a Lead Belly song, and introduced Josh White, & Rev. Gary Davis on his TV show.
- [JULIUS DANIEL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/julius-daniel/) - Julius Daniel was a little-known early Piedmont Blues singer, whose clear delivery and poetic lyrics on the seven tracks he recorded left an important legacy.
- [CHARLEY LINCOLN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/charley-lincoln/) - Laughing Charley Lincoln was the recording name of Piedmont guitarist Charley Hicks, who also played 'second' guitar on records by his brother 'Barbecue Bob'.
- ['ROCKIN TABBY' THOMAS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rockin-tabby-thomas/) - Tabby Thomas had a 1962 hit with 'Voodoo Party', & went on to start his own record label, radio show & Blues club, where his son Chris Thomas King got started.
- [KID ORY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kid-ory/) - Kid Ory was a New Orleans trombonist and bandleader who issued the first Blues records released on the West-coast, and went on to back Ma Rainey & Bessie Smith.
- [LEE DORSEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lee-dorsey/) - Lee Dorsey's great voice carried the torch for New Orleans funk in the 60s, with worldwide hits like 'Workin' in a Coalmine', 'Holt Cow' and 'Ride Your Pony'.
- [SUGAR BLUE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sugar-blue/) - Sugar Blue is one of the few modern harp players to invoke the spirit of the old Masters, & was hired by The Stones & Willie Dixon to add his magic to the mix.
- [TAL WILKENFELD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tal-wilkenfeld/) - Tal Winkenfeld is a prodigious young talent who has astonished the world with her light, thoughtful bass lines playing with some legends of Blues-rock and Jazz.
- [KEEF HARTLEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/keef-hartley/) - Keef Hartley was a drummer and Blues-rock band leader, whose 'Halfbreed' album got him a big American tour and a spot at the Woodstock Festival.
- [TINY BRADSHAW](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tiny-bradshaw/) - Tiny Bradshaw was a swing-band leader who made the change to Jump-Blues after WWII. He was a great singer, a talent scout and wrote a Blues-rock classic too.
- [WHISTLIN' ALEX MOORE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/whistlin-alex-moore/) - Whistlin' Alex Moore was a Texas pianist who played his wild, barrelhouse piano, learned in 'chock-houses' the 20s, right into the Blues Festival era.
- [LITTLE SONNY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-sonny/) - Little Sonny from Greenville AL was one of five men using the same name! This guy was a superb harp player, recorded for Stax and had his own Speedway label.
- [STEVE MILLER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/steve-miller/) - Steve Miller was one of the biggest rock guitarists of the 70s, filling huge venues around the world, but learned the Blues as a kid and is still touring today.
- [DOCTOR ROSS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/doctor-ross/) - Dr. Ross was an eccentric man who recorded for Sun Records, often played as a one-man-band, and later found a welcome on the European club and Festival scene.
- [LaVERN BAKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lavern-baker/) - La Vern Baker had several R&B and 'crossover' hits on the Atlantic label in the 50s, and sued people who copied her work, but lost the legal argument.
- [JB Long](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jb-long/) - JB Long sold records in his store, but spotted the talents of local men, Blind Boy Fuller, Floyd Council, Gary Davis, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
- [TAB BENOIT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tab-benoit/) - Tab Benoit's style of downhome Blues resonates with the culture of his native Louisiana, & as founder of 'Voice of the Wetlands', he promotes its conservation.
- [BRUCE BASTIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bruce-bastin/) - Bruce Bastin's book 'Red River Blues' coined the term Piedmont Blues for the melodious, lilting Blues fingerpicking typical of the Eastern Seaboard region.
- [FIFE & DRUM MUSIC](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/fife-drum-music/) - Fife and drum music is a branch of country Blues that has survived from the 19th Century in a few remote rural districts of northern Mississippi. With modest home-made instruments and a simple structure, it is neverthless a joyful music, made for dancing and sharing with friends and neighbours, from a time when time itself
- [ADOLPH RICKENBACKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/adolph-rickenbacker/) - Adolph Rickenbacker was a shrewd industrialist who first produced National Steel guitars, then set up the company that made many iconic semi-acoustic guitars.
- [HARRY PACE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/harry-pace/) - Harry Pace set up Black Swan Records in 1921 to discover and promote the best African American singers & musicians, recording some hugely sucessful Blues Divas.
- [PETER GURALNICK](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/peter-guralnick/) - Peter Guralnick writes with passion and affection about the Blues, contributing some fine biographies to as his trilogy of incisive histories of the music.
- [MARTIN SCORSESE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/martin-scorsese/) - In Martin Scorsese's epic TV series 'The Blues', he revealed a life-long passion for "the music behind the music" that is the Blues.
- [BOOKER T JONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/booker-t-jones/) - Booker T Jones and his band The MGs played behind all the Soul stars at Stax, and Bluesmen Albert King & Pops Staples, and he continues to play some fine R&B.
- [BOBBY RUSH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bobby-rush/) - Bobby Rush started off as a West-side Chicago Bluesman in the 50s, & his latest records take him back to his roots, with a massive Funk/Soul career in between.
- [CAROLYN WONDERLAND](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/carolyn-wonderland/) - Carolyn Wonderland carries the torch for modern Texas Blues, with her slide-guitar technique, her talent for songwriting and a voice that recalls Janis Joplin
- [BLACK ACE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/black-ace/) - Black Ace a.k.a. BK Turner took up the lap-steel guitar in the 20s, was a radio DJ in the 30s and got his Blues name from his biggest hit record.
- [CLIMAX BLUES BAND](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/climax-blues-band/) - The Climax Blues Band were big on the club and college circuit in early 70s Britain, but in America they had two huge rock hits, becoming a staple of FM radio.
- [SONNY RHODES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sonny-rhodes/) - Sonny Rhodes has an unforgettable stage presence: resplendent in a turban and playing a lap-steel guitar, he has taken his unique Blues style around the world.
- [TOMMY RIDGLEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tommy-ridgley/) - Tommy Ridgley was the New Orleans 'King of the Stroll', whose rocking piano and soulful Blues ballads never got him the fame he deserved outside his home-town.
- [HADDA BROOKS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hadda-brooks/) - Hadda Brooks had several hit records as she sang and played boogie-woogie piano, then went on to a career in film and TV, returning to the studio in her 70s.
- [BOOZOO CHAVIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/boozoo-chavis/) - Boozoo Chavis learned from 'The King of Zydeco' and had hits in the 50s but retired for thirty years, coming back with an exciting raw, almost primitive style.
- [IRY LeJEUNE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/iry-lejeune/) - Iry LeJeune was the man who brought the accordion back to the centre stage of Cajun music, following the example of Amédé Arduin, but he died tragically young.
- [GEORGE 'Wild Child' BUTLER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/george-wild-child-butler/) - George 'Wild Child' Butler was a hugely talented harp player with a great voice, who made his best records after he left Chicago for Canada and Europe.
- [TOMMY TATE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tommy-tate/) - Southern Soul man Tommy Tate is sometimes called 'The Best Singer You've Never Heard', but he was a big hit on the dance floor.
- [HOUSTON STACKHOUSE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/houston-stackhouse/) - Houston Stackhouse was a Delta guitarist who played with the greats but his reluctance to leave his home turf meant he went undiscovered for many decades.
- [PAT HARE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/pat-hare/) - Pat Hare was a pioneering guitarist who invented the sounds of Hard-rock, Heavy Matal and Rockabilly way back in the early 50s.
- [BILLY BOY ARNOLD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/billy-boy-arnold/) - Billy Boy Arnold got harp lessons from Sonny Boy, started out with Bo Diddley, played with Chicago's best, and is still blowin' the 'Mississippi Sax'.
- [DRIFTIN SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/driftin-slim/) - Driftin' Slim was one of the last one-man-Blues-Bands, who played a part in the Folk/Blues revival, and his harp playing was simply first class.
- [TEXAS ALEXANDER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/texas-alexander/) - Texas Alexander took his young cousin Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins with him, playing around the work-camps of East Texas, as he couldn't play a single note!
- [LEFTY DIZZ](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lefty-dizz/) - A true 'wild man' of The Blues, Lefty's exuberant stage act fronting Shock Treatment was a Chicago institution, but this 'clown' had an Economics Degree too!
- [EDITH WILSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/edith-wilson/) - Perhaps better known as stage, screen and radio actress, Edith was an early Blues Diva who went on to world fame with her hilarious revues.
- [BARKIN' BILL SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/barkin-bill-smith/) - Bill Smith had a baritone voice that gave his Blues songs an urbane, quality which was exactly opposite to his stage-name, Barkin' Bill Smith
- [TONY JOE WHITE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tony-joe-white/) - Swamp Blues is at the heart of Tony Joe's music, but he is also an accomplished songwriter, with a string of worldwide hits for Elvis, Tina Turner and others.
- [T-MODEL FORD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/t-model-ford/) - Hard times and bad women were the main subjects of T-Models songs, which contained a world of experience in a simple one-chord style.
- [JOHNNY LAWS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-laws/) - A Chicago South-side institution for decades, Johnny Laws plays a sweet soulful Blues that deserves a wider audience.
- [JOHNNIE JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnnie-johnson/) - “Johnnie be good” is what Chuck Berry used to say to his rumbunctious pianist, Johnnie Johnson when he was drinking, and somehow it caught on!
- [EDDIE 'Cleanhead' VINSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eddie-cleanhead-vinson/) - Explosive sax player Eddie topped the charts with his Jump Blues, played jazz with Count Basie and wrote for Miles Davis.
- [DAVE VAN RONK](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dave-van-ronk/) - Dave was at the centre of the Folk/Blues scene in 60s New York where his fingerpicking style and gruff voice influenced a whole generation.
- [HELEN HUMES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/helen-humes/) - Helen Humes made her name as the voice of Count Basie's Orchestra, but her soulful voice was always most at home in the Blues, during a remarkably long career.
- [NATHAN ABSHIRE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/nathan-abshire/) - Nathan played his accordion from an early age and made some pre-WWII recordings, but gave his Cajun Blues national prominence in the 70s.
- [CAL GREEN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cal-green/) - Cal Green was a talented guitarist who played cool jazz and funky blues and R&B, co-wrote The Twist, and later turned up in hip-hop. Now that's versatile!
- [SALLIE MARTIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sallie-martin/) - The Mother of Gospel Music' had the kind of strong voice and uninhibited delivery that most Blues artists would envy.
- [MAMIE SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mamie-smith/) - Mamie is most famous as the first artist to record a Blues song and her huge success laid the foundations for 'Race Music' in the 1920s.
- [ARTHUR GUNTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/arthur-gunter/) - Arthur Gunter is best known for his song 'Baby, Let's Play House' which was a national hit on Excello Records, but a much bigger hit when Elvis covered it.
- [DONALD 'DUCK' DUNN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/donald-duck-dunn/) - Bass player with Booker T & the MGs, Donald played sessions for just about everybody, and appeared in both Blues Brothers films.
- [GUY DAVIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/guy-davis/) - Acoustic Blues never goes away and Guy Davis is one of the finest contemporary exponents of traditional Piedmont and Delta styles
- [BUMBLE BEE SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bumble-bee-slim/) - Bumble bee Slim was one of the best-selling artists of the 30s with over 150 tracks to his name, which is all but forgotten today.
- [MICKY WALLER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/micky-waller/) - Jazz-trained drummer Mickey added 'The Waller Wallop' to many seminal British Blues recordings.
- [REV. GARY DAVIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rev-gary-davis/) - Rev. Gary Davis was an exquisite Piedmont guitarist who found religion, then a massive world audience as his 'happy organ' guitar inspired many other players.
- [J B LENOIR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/j-b-lenoir/) - J B Lenior was the most original Blues player whose highly political songs caused trouble, and his African beats gave a new twist to The Blues
- [HOP WILSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hop-wilson/) - Hop Wilson is not well known outside Texas, but he could rip out a mean riff. Non-pedal steel guitar is a rare Blues instrument, & Hop made it rock in the 50s.
- [OTIS SPANN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/otis-spann/) - Otis Spann was the most renowned piano player in Chicago in the 50s with Muddy Waters and the Chess house-band, and a great singer when leading his own band.
- [JOHNNY SHINES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-shines/) - Johnny Shines, a friend and acolyte of Robert Johnson, was a fine singer and an energetic guitarist in his own right, but he just couldn't catch a break.
- [WILLIE MABON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/willie-mabon/) - Willie Mabon was a big star in 50s Chicago with massive hit records on the Chess label, he discovered a new audience in Europe in the 70s.
- [CHRIS BARBER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chris-barber/) - The British Blues Boom was sparked at the Ealing Club, West London, but Chris Barber lit the Fire, with American Blues Stars of the 50s guesting with his band.
- [JOHNNY LITTLEJOHN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-littlejohn/) - Johnny worked the Chicago club scene for 35 years, wielding his slide guitar like a scalpel. but remained almost undiscovered outside his adopted hometown.
- [LIL GREEN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lil-green/) - With a sweet, soulful voice, Lil Green sang the Blues in the clubs and theatres of Chicago and New York, but never cracked the mainstream charts.
- [JOHN MOONEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-mooney/) - John Mooney was New Orleans' adopted son who combines Delta slide-guitar with funky a back-beat to create a distinctive 'Bluesiana' style.
- [JUKE BOY BONNER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/juke-boy-bonner/) - Juke Boy was a highly talented multi-instrumentalist & songwriter who sometimes performed as a one-man-band, but never had a hit, despite some fine songs.
- [BIG DADDY KINSEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-daddy-kinsey/) - Big Daddy Kinsey played Chicago Blues that spoke of his Delta roots, and when he had enough sons to form a band, he brought a taste of the Delta to the city.
- [LOVIE LEE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lovie-lee/) - Pianist Lovie was part of Muddy Waters' band, and enjoyed many years of playing the Chicago club scene, often with his 'adopted son' Carey Bell.
- [ALVIN LEE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/alvin-lee/) - Alvin Lee was the front-man for British hard-rock band Ten Years After, a Blues-based four-piece who became one of the first huge stadium-rock bands.
- [PEG LEG HOWELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/peg-leg-howell/) - Peg-Leg Howell was perhaps first man to record a Blues record, New Prison Blues a song of bitter experience. He was recorded again in the 60s as a very old man.
- [LUCILLE HEGAMIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lucille-hegamin/) - Lucille Hegamin was the best selling Blues Diva of 1921/22, going on to a long career in cabaret and on Broadway, and she returned to recording in the 60s.
- [JOHN FAHEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-fahey/) - The life of John Fahey is a fascinating enigma. He was an influential and innovative Folk/Blues guitarist; an academic and musicologist and abstract painter
- [JOHNNY WINTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-winter/) - Johnny Winter brought his high-powered Texas style to many generations of fans. His skill as a Blues producer was appreciated by some legendary Blues players.
- [JOHN CAMPBELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/john-campbell/) - John Campbell played Texas Blues like his hero Lightnin' Hopkins, especially after he found Lightnin's guitar, singing songs of mystery and supernatural angst.
- [JORMA KAUKONEN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jorma-kaukonen/) - Jorma Kaukonen was world famous as the guitarist with Jefferson Airplane, but he is an accomplished Piedmont style picker too, who learned from Rev. Gary Davis.
- [PEETIE WHEATSTRAW](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/peetie-wheatstraw/) - Peetie Wheatstraw was not a great musician but his fine singing voice and trademark 'Ooh well,well', made him one of the best-selling Blues artists of the 30s.
- [ROEBUCK 'POPS' STAPLES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/roebuck-pops-staples/) - Roebuck Staples was an old-fashioned Blues player who bridged the worlds of the Delta, Gospel and deep urban funk but went back to his roots in his solo career.
- [HOUND DOG TAYLOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hound-dog-taylor/) - Wild man of the Blues, Hound Dog Taylor played his loud, distorted slide-guitar around Chicago for years before his first album made him a Festival favourite.
- [BLIND JOHN DAVIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blind-john-davis/) - Blind John Davis was a Chicago club legend whose brash Blues piano was on many big hits, and took the Blues to Europe with Big Bill Broonzy.
- [HUBERT SUMLIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/hubert-sumlin/) - For more than 20 years Hubert Sumlin's guitar was right behind Howlin' Wolf on stage and on record. 'Killin' Floor', 'Smokestack Lightnin', 'Spoonful' and 'Ain't Superstitious' all had Hubert's razor-sharp guitar lines behind Wolf's rumbling vocals. Hubert played the diddley-bow back in Greenwood MS when he was a kid and he teamed up with local
- ['COW COW' DAVENPORT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cow-cow-davenport/) - Cow Cow Davenport played an up-tempo, walking left-hand style that pre-figured all those 'boogie-woogie' pianists who came along after him.
- [PAPA GEORGE LIGHTFOOT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/papa-george-lightfoot/) - Papa George Lightfoot had a voice like gargling dinosaur, made harsher by singing through his harp mic, & blew some hot tunes when he was re-discovered in 1969.
- [LEROY CARR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/leroy-carr/) - Leroy Carr, with his sophisticated piano Blues, was anything but a 'barrelhouse' player. His melodic style and crooning vocals introduced a new, polished sound.
- [EDDIE BOYD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eddie-boyd/) - Eddie Boyd played piano in Delta juke-joints and Chicago clubs before topping the R&B charts in 1952, & going on to record with British Blues stars in the 60s.
- [ALBERT COLLINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/albert-collins/) - Albert Collins was known as 'The Ice-Man' for his sparse, ringing guitar tone, but others called him 'The Master of the Telecaster', with good reason .
- [ANGELA STREHLI](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/angela-strehli/) - Angela Strehli has played the Blues since she was a teenager, first around her native Texas, and lately on the West-coast as one of the fantastic Blues Broads.
- [RUTH BROWN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ruth-brown/) - Ruth Weston sang Gospel in her father's church before she joined Lucky Millinder's band while still a teenager. On the road, she married trumpeter Jimmy Brown, but a couple of years later she was fired from the band over an alcohol related incident. Ruth was one of Atlantic Records' first signings, but her debut was
- [ANSON FUNDERBURGH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/anson-funderburgh/) - Anson Funderburgh started out playing Texas 'Roadhouse Blues', but when he teamed up with harp maestro Sam Myers they skipped back a generation.
- [IDA COX](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ida-cox/) - Ida Cox was a Blues Diva of the 20s whose songs were addressed to black women. As a talented lyricist her phrases still turn up in songs today.
- [SUSAN TEDESCHI](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/susan-tedeschi/) - Susan Tedeschi was already a force on the New Blues scene before she teamed up with her husband to form the magnificent Tedeschi/Trucks Band.
- [BONNIE RAITT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bonnie-raitt/) - Bonnie Raitt embodies how far Blues music has come in a century, with her singing and playing showing the empathy that Blues music awakens in the human heart.
- [DOUG SAHM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/doug-sahm/) - Doug Sahm was the driving force behind The Sir Douglas Quintet in the 60s, and took a wild musical journey over the decades.
- [IKE TURNER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ike-turner/) - Ike Turner was a big man on the post-WWII Blues scene in Memphis, as a pianist, bandleader & talent scout, but there was drugs and violence before he met Tina.
- [WILLIE LOVE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/willie-love/) - Willie Love was a Delta pianist who played with Elmore James & 'Sonny Boy II' on many great records in the early 50s, but a hard-drinking lifestyle killed him.
- [LONNIE DONEGAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lonnie-donegan/) - Lonnie Donegan opened British ears to the Blues in the 50s with his hit records of the classic 'John Henry' and Leadbelly's 'Rock Island Line'.
- [DAVE MYERS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/dave-myers/) - Dave played his guitar alongside his harp and guitar playing brother Louis in The Aces, one of the most influential backing bands in the classic period of Chicago Blues. The brothers came from Mississippi, where they had played local dates with Robert Nighthawk, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Memphis Minnie. They moved to the Windy
- [WALTER DAVIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/walter-davis/) - Pianist Walter Davis made almost 150 records in the 30s & 40s, with his duet partner, guitarist Henry Townsend, at the centre of the St. Louis Blues scene.
- [SAM COLLINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sam-collins/) - Sam Collins was one of the earliest Delta Bluesman to make a record. 'Cryin' Sam' sang in that high, clear style typical of South Mississippi.
- [ALBERTA HUNTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/alberta-hunter/) - Alberta Hunter had an amazing career; as a Blues Diva in the 20s; three decades as a cabaret artist; a 20 year stint as a nurse, & performed until she was 89!
- [BIG JOE WILLIAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-joe-williams/) - Big Joe Williams wandered the South ‘riding the blinds’; played on street-corners and juke-joints and then wrote some songs that are still played every day.
- [IVORY JOE HUNTER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ivory-joe-hunter/) - Ivory Joe Hunter was a Chart topping R&B singer whose great songs provided material for artists like Elvis and Pat Boone and many country stars.
- [SCRAPPER BLACKWELL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/scrapper-blackwell/) - Scrapper Blackwell made his money bootlegging with Leroy Carr, but when their record 'How Long, How Long' was a hit in 1929, they quit to become Blues stars.
- [SAMMY PRICE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sammy-price/) - Sammy Price was a versatile Texan pianist who played drag-out Blues, Boogie-woogie, jump Blues and swing, playing solo, in a small combo or a full orchestra.
- [DUKE ROBILLARD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/duke-robillard/) - Duke Robillard founded the Roomful of Blues: joined The Fabulous Thunderbirds; was recruited by Dylan, Tom Waits, Snooky Prior, Pinetop Perkins & Jerry Portnoy.
- [GEORGE 'HARMONICA' SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/george-harmonica-smith/) - George 'Harmonica' Smith was an exuberant harp player who played in Muddy Waters band, but preferred the sunshine and settled in LA.
- [CUB KODA](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/cub-coda/) - Cub Koda, was a writer & producer who edited the AllMusic Guide to the Blues, & played guitar in his own band, Brownsville Station, who had a big hit in 1974.
- [ZZ HILL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/zz-hill/) - ZZ Hill was a Texan Bluesman with Soul in his voice, whose album 'Down Home' stayed in the R&B charts for almost two years.
- [ROBERT NIGHTHAWK](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-nighthawk/) - Robert Nighthawk learned slide-guitar in the Delta juke-joints, but later his sound echoed through the clubs and bars of Chicago, affecting many modern players.
- [MAMIE 'GALORE' DAVIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mamie-galore-davis/) - This feisty Mississippi lady knew she wanted to be a Blues singer, even as a schoolgirl. As soon as she was old enough, Mamie joined touring shows with Little Milton and Ike & Tina Turner before picking up her own deal with St. Lawrence Records in Chicago. Her soulful 1966 hit 'It Ain't Necessary' was
- [BOBBY RADCLIFF](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bobby-radcliff/) - Bobby Radcliff is an exciting modern Blues guitarist whose fiery licks echo those of his friend and mentor Magic Sam.
- [FAYE ADAMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/faye-adams/) - Gospel shouter Faye Adams had three No.1 R&B singles in the early 50s and she toured The States many times with Rock'n'Roll shows
- [SNOOKY PRYOR](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/snooky-pryor/) - Snooky Prior may have been the first 'electric' harp player when he was caught blowing the Blues through the PA when he was a bugler in the Army!
- [CHARLES BROWN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/charles-brown/) - Charles Brown's 'Lounge Blues' dominated the R&B Charts just after WWII, & his velvet voice took his records to No.1 many times, often staying there for months.
- [GUS CANNON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/gus-cannon/) - Gus Cannon played banjo with The Memphis Jug Stompers in the 20s, and was 're-discovered' in the 60s, when he was a huge attraction on the Festival circuit.
- [BARBECUE BOB](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/barbecue-bob/) - Barbecue Bob was an early Piedmont Blues guitarist and singer who would cook up a storm at the grill, then entertain his guests with great songs.
- [LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/little-brother-montgomery/) - Li'l Brother Montgomery learned piano from Jelly Roll Morton, recorded Blues in the 20s, backed the West-side Chicago guys, played hot Jazz & sang great Gospel.
- [TOMMY JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tommy-johnson/) - Tommy Johnson's recording career amounted to only 14 tracks, but his contribution to Blues was enormous and his cultural links back to Africa very important.
- [BOBBY PARKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bobby-parker/) - The Beatles owe a debt to Bobby Parker as his riffs inspired several of their songs, and this East-coast legend could play the Blues as easy as breathing.
- [LUTHER 'SNAKE BOY' JOHNSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/luther-snake-boy-johnson/) - There were THREE Luther Johnsons playing the Blues simultaneously in the 60s and 70s. 'Snake Boy' and 'Guitar Junior' both played for Muddy too!
- [CHARLIE BURSE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/charlie-burse/) - Charlie Burse aka 'Kid Uke' was a wild, angry, drunken banjo, mandolin and ukelele player who luckily met steady Will Shade, who played with him for 40 years.
- [ARTHUR' BIG BOY' CRUDUP](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/arthur-big-boy-crudup/) - Arthur wrote some great songs, including Elvis's breakthrough number, 'That's Alright Mama' but barely earned a dollar in royalties.
- [HENRY 'SON' SIMS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/henry-son-simms/) - Country fiddle player Henry 'Son' Sims played on Charley Patton's first records and on Muddy Waters' field recordings for Alan Lomax at Stovall's Plantation.
- [TARHEEL SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tarheel-slim/) - Alden Bunn a.k.a. Tarheel Slim had a lot of hits as singer with The Larks and with his wife Ann as The Lovers, but went back to his Blues roots.
- [BOBBY SHEEHAN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bobby-sheehan/) - Bobby Sheehan played bass in Blues Traveler, a 'jam-band' that didn't play songs, but improvised around themes to form a 'stream of conciousness' medley.
- [CURTIS JONES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/curtis-jones/) - Texas pianist Curtis Jones 'Lonesome Bedroom Blues' made his name in the 30s and again in the 60s, after which he became 'Resident in Europe'.
- [FRED BELOW](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/fred-below/) - For many decades, Fred Below kept “a Blues beat with a Jazz feel” behind some of the greatest Blues Artists ever to come out of Chicago.
- [Jimmy McCracklin](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-mccracklin/) - Jimmy McCracklin played piano and sang in front of his band for over sixty years in styles ranging from West Coast Blues through R&B to Soul.
- [WILLIE BROWN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/willie-brown/) - Willie played a big part in advancing the Blues when he took young Robert Johnson to Dockery Plantation, where Willie played 'second' guitar for Charley Patton.
- [MARK NAFTALIN](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/mark-naftalin/) - Mark Naftalin started out on keyboards in Paul Butterfield's Blues Band, & made a new career as a broadcaster, Festival producer & bandleader on the West coast.
- [PINETOP SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/pinetop-smith/) - Pinetop Smith was a supremely talented pianist who recorded the first boogie-woogie hit in 1929, but was killed a few months later in a dancehall gunfight.
- [PINETOP PERKINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/pinetop-perkins/) - The early career as a guitarist had been cut short by an injury so Joe Willie (Pinetop) Perkins took up piano and developed a rolling Boogie style.
- [JOE LIGGINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/joe-liggins/) - Joe's 'Honeydripper' still holds the joint record for time at the top of the R&B Charts, just after WWII, and he was still playing in the 80s.
- [WEEPIN' WILLIE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/weepin-willie/) - Weepin' Willie, was a Georgia sharecropper who sang the Blues in Trenton NJ and Boston, and cut his first album at the age of 72.
- [SHIRLEY COLLINS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/shirley-collins/) - English folk singer Shirley, met Alan Lomax in 1954 when he was living in London. They became romantically involved and also performed together in a 'skiffle group' with Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger. Five years later, Shirley travelled to The States with Alan to make some field recordings as part of his work for the
- [JEREMY SPENCER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jeremy-spencer/) - Jeremy Spencer contributed his 'Elmore James' slide-guitar to the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac but, like Peter Green, left the band in a psychedelic haze.
- [DAVID 'Honeyboy' EDWARDS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/david-honeyboy-edwards/) - David Honeyboy Edwards was one of the original Delta Bluesmen who brought their authentic music to the 21st Century, winning a Grammy when he was 89 years old.
- [JOHNNY 'Big Moose' WALKER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/johnny-big-moose-walker/) - Johnny 'Big Moose' played his barnstorming piano on hundreds of classic Chicago records and sometimes wore a gorilla mask onstage!
- [WILLIE MAE FORD SMITH](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/willie-ford-mae-smith/) - Willie Mae Ford Smith and Rev. Thomas Dorsey set up the National Convention of Gospel choirs, and she mentored many great singers.
- [MEMPHIS SLIM](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/memphis-slim/) - Memphis Slim, with his clear articulate vocals gave him an unmistakable musical style and made him the Ambassador of the Blues for more than 25 years.
- [JIMMY REED](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/jimmy-reed/) - Jimmy Reed's rock-steady shuffle songs were covered by everyone from Elvis to the Stones and his work was the most influential in Blues history.
- [CLARENCE CLEMONS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/clarence-clemons/) - The Big Man was best known for blowing the saxophone that powered Bruce Springsteen's East Street Band to unbelievable heights of energy, but he had a solo career as a musician and actor. He fronted the Red Bank Rockers and owned the Big Man's West Club. He guested on countless recordings from Ringo Starr to
- [ELLA FITZGERALD](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ella-fitzgerald/) - 'The First Lady of Song' won a talent show at The Apollo in 1934. After fronting Chick Webb's orchestra, she had hits with Louis Jordan's band and The Delta Rhythm Boys. Working with be-bop star Dizzie Gillespie, she developed her 'scat' singing with her influential 1945 recording of 'Flying Home', but when she recorded The
- [DON 'Sugarcane' HARRIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/don-sugarcane-harris/) - Don 'Sugarcane' Harris was given his nick-name (by Johnny Otis) when he was half of Don and Dewey, the vocal duo who co-authored rock'n'roll hits, 'Farmer John', 'Justine' and 'Big Boy Pete'. Playing a Jazz-influenced electric violin, Don featured on several albums and tours by Frank Zappa and John Mayall's bands, before fronting 'The Pure Food
- [VICTORIA SPIVEY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/victoria-spivey/) - Victoria Spivey was one of the Blues Divas who dominated ‘Race Music’, but as a businesswoman, songwriter & performer she remained in the business all her life.
- [JOSH WHITE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/josh-white/) - Josh White is remembered as a popular singer and a political figure, but anyone listening to his early work will surely recognise his contribution to the Blues.
- [MEADE 'LUX' LEWIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/meade-lux-lewis/) - One of the 3 great boogie-woogie pianists who started a dance craze at the 'Spirituals to Swing' concert in 1939 Meade was also unique in playing Blues-celeste!
- [BUDDY GUY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/buddy-guy/) - Buddy Guy has probably played live for more people than anyone else. Even the Prez joined in with 'Sweet Home Chicago' at a White House show in 2012.
- [ROBERT CRAY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/robert-cray/) - Robert Cray is a Blues guitarist and a leader of the 80′s Blues revival with a distinctively economical sustainless style and a set of Soul pipes to die for.
- [SKIP JAMES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/skip-james/) - Skip James was one of the most influential early Bluesmen, His performance was characterised by falsetto vocals and delicate guitar picking in the minor keys.
- [BUKKA WHITE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bukka-white/) - Bukka White's virtuoso slide guitar playing on his National Steel and his deep, agile voice made him a prized discovery of the Folk/Blues revival of the 60s.
- [ERIC CLAPTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/eric-clapton/) - Eric Clapton was an early guitar hero. He helped fuel the Brit Blues Boom, wiped out spectacularly, but earned respect as a sensitive interpreter of the Blues.
- [BIG BILL BROONZY](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-bill-broonzy/) - Big Bill Broonzy was a Gentle Giant of a man, talented & generous of spirit, whose European tour left a profound effect there & opened the way for a Blues Boom.
- [FUJII](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/fuji/) - When Koichi Fujishima (Fujii) was a boy, in the early sixties, he saw a photo of Sleepy John Estes on a record sleeve. Something in the eyes of that old man as he stared out from the picture, guitar in hand - with a pencil for a capo, lit a small fire in the back
- [SON HOUSE](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/son-house/) - Son House was often asked about Charley Patton and Robert Johnson by people who regarded them as Legends, but he was just talking about his friends.
- [BIG CHIEF ELLIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/big-chief-ellis/) - Self-taught pianist Wilbert Ellis played his Blues around Birmingham AL before he was drafted in 1939. He showed up on the Blues scene in New York after WWII, where he played the clubs with many Blues players as they passed through town. 'Big Chief' recorded with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee for Capitol but seems
- [LOWELL FULSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/lowell-fulson/) - Lowell Fulson adapted his music for the times, playing hard Blues, funky soul and driving R&B, but never compromised his fluid yet penetrating style.
- [HARVEY MANDEL](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/harvey-mandell/) - Harvey 'The Snake' Mandel played with Charlie Musselwhite, The Stones, Canned Heat and John Mayall, and developed a distinctive way of tapping on the fretboard.
- [ALVIN 'Youngblood' HART](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/alvin-youngblood-hart/) - Alvin is a country Blues revivalist with a sensitive regard for the original genre, who has also had great success with side projects in jazz and Blues-rock.
- [THE BIHARI BROTHERS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/saul-bihari/) - The Bihari Bros. Lester, Jules, Saul & Joe set up their Modern, RPM and Flair labels in Los Angeles and Meteor in Memphis, to release some fine Blues and R&B.
- [PEE-WEE CRAYTON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/pee-wee-crayton/) - Pee Wee Crayton played Blues guitar in the style of his friend T-Bone Walker, and wrote the classic instrumental, 'Blues After Midnight'.
- [RY COODER](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/ry-cooder/) - Ry Cooder is a superb guitarist, who explores the roots of popular American music. His wise and amusing selection of songs have broadened many horizons.
- [CHRIS ALBERTSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chris-albertson/) - Chris Albertson was an important Jazz and Blues producer, who went on to write the definitive biography of Bessie Smith and much thoughtful work.
- [Rob Mason](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rob-mason/) - Rob Mason spoke to All About Blues Music about his early meetings with some of the great blues musicians. Rob is a British Blues Harp player who has been around since the sixties. He met some of the greatest American Blues legends when they came to play in Britain. The major tours played the big
- [RUFUS THOMAS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rufus-thomas/) - Rufus Thomas was a Soul Superstar in the 60s and a Funkmeister in the 70s, but in the 50s he was at the heart of the Memphis Blues and R&B scene.
- [LOUISIANA RED](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/louisiana-red/) - Louisiana Red was a brilliant songwriter who used the tragedies of his own experience to produce a vivid, visceral Blues, and released more than 50 albums.
- [KIM WILSON](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/kim-wilson/) - Best known as the frontman, singer and harp player with The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Kim also leads his own band The Blues Revue. Born in Detroit but raised in California, Kim was a Blues disciple as a youth, following and learning from the great original Bluesmen who were still gigging in the 60s and 70s. Kim
- [PIANO C RED](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/piano-c-red/) - Piano C Red was born in the South in 1933, and had been playing piano in Atlanta bars for ten years when he moved to Chicago in the mid-50s. He recorded briefly for Chess records in 1963, but his main work came as a backing musician for the big names of the day, working with
- ['BOOGIE BILL' WEBB](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/boogie-bill-webb/) - Swamp Blues with a humorous twist was Boogie Bill Webb's trademark. He was almost 30 before he made his recording debut in 1953.
- [JAMES 'THUNDERBIRD' DAVIS](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/james-thunderbird-davis/) - This gospel sounding Blues singer from Pritchard AL got started in 1957 as an opening act for Guitar Slim, who gave him the 'Thunderbird' tag after a drinking contest. Duke Records of Houston signed James up and his emotive style on 'Blue Monday' and 'Your Turn to Cry' were great examples of the current Blues
- [RECORDING THE BLUES](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/recording-the-blues/) - Bluesmen playing juke-joints and parties spread the Blues around the South: records and radio gave them to the world!

## Pages

- [The Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/) - The World's leading site for Blues Music. Artists' biographies with music, pictures, videos and albums: Blues History; free downloads; Facebook Diary.
- [The Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/) - The World's leading site for Blues Music. Artists' biographies with music, pictures, videos and albums: Blues History; free downloads; Facebook Diary.
- [The Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/) - The World's leading site for Blues Music. Artists' biographies with music, pictures, videos and albums: Blues History; free downloads; Facebook Diary.
- [2025 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2025-blues-albums/) - 2025 Blues Albums The year 2025 is shaping up to be an incredible one for blues enthusiasts! With a wave of fresh talent and seasoned legends returning to the scene, the blues genre is alive and thriving. From gritty, heart-wrenching ballads to foot-stomping grooves, this year promises to deliver albums that will make your soul
- [Modern Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/modern-blues-albums/) - Modern Blues Albums From the fifties onwards, the Blues was an urban music played on electric instruments in a band setting, but many performers still payed homage to their roots in country blues. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ERIC CLAPTON/B.B. KING - RIDING WITH THE KING It's hard to imagine what
- [Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-albums/) - To start your Blues collection first check out our list of Essential Albums, then to help you grow your collection we have given you a recommended album from many of the artists we have featured on the site. We have divided them up into the different types of Blues syles, click on the links below
- [Blues Artists](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-artists/) - A To Z Listing of Blues Artists [table id=24 /] [table id=1 /] [table id=2 /] [table id=3 /] [table id=4/] [table id=5/] [table id=6/] [table id=7/] [table id=8/] [table id=25/] [table id=10/] [table id=11/] [table id=12/] [table id=13/] [table id=14/] [table id=15/] [table id=16/] [table id=17/] [table id=18/] [table id=19/] [table id=21/] [table id=22/]
- [2024 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2024-blues-albums/) - 2024 Blues Albums Here, we'll be exploring the latest pulse of the Blues scene, showcasing a vibrant array of album releases that promise to keep this timeless genre thriving. From the raw, electrifying energy of seasoned legends to the fresh, innovative sounds of emerging talents, we're diving deep into the diverse world of blues music.
- [2023 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2023-blues-albums/) - 2023 Blues Albums Are you a fan of Blues music and looking for the latest albums to add to your collection? You're in luck! We have collected all of the newest releases from across the genre and are here to showcase some awesome blues songs. These albums contain something for everyone passionate about this timeless
- [Essential Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/essential-albums/) - If you were to own only 10 Blues albums, which would they be? From the Delta to Modern Blues-Rock, here is our list of the BEST BLUES RECORDS ever.
- [2021 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2021-blues-albums/) - 2021 Blues Albums A selection of a few of the 2021 Blues Album releases features releases from the time-tested veterans, great stuff from the genre's younger apprentices as well as a lovely dose of surprises. If you have any doubts about the blues' enduring power, these new releases can make a believer of you as
- [2022 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2022-blues-albums/) - As a Blues fan, you will love this roundup of the best new blues albums that have been released in 2022! From traditional sounds to modern vibes, there's something for everyone here.
- [Blues Music](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-music/) - All About Blues Music: History, Artists, Instruments, Origins, Characteristics, Types, and Songs Dive into the world of blues music, a genre that has captivated audiences for generations with its raw emotion, captivating melodies, and heartfelt stories. Uncover its deep roots, explore the evolution of its instruments and styles, and meet the iconic artists who have
- [Rock 'n' Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rock-n-blues-albums/) - This is Rock'n' Roll with the emphasis on Blues rather than Rockabilly. Many Blues artists had crossover hits, and a lot of Rock'n'Roll stars had deep roots in the Blues. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. BO DIDDLEY - BO DIDDLEY All the monster hits are here, showing why this man had
- [The Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/the-blues/) - We need to confirm your email address. To complete the subscription process, please click the link in the email we just sent you. We hope you will enjoy our Newsletter. So much of what we take for granted in music over the years has it's roots in the blues. Classic 12-bar country blues moved to
- [Blues Music Facts](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-music-facts/) - The Blues is full of larger-than-life characters and these thumbnail facts are meant to give a flavour of the person behind the name. They sometimes expose the quirky side to a personality or an interest outside their musical career, and they will often miss out the most interesting, important and well known facts about an
- [Chicago Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/chicago-blues-albums/) - The Blues was born in the Delta and grew up on its journey from the country to the city, but the place it came of age was Chicago. Chicago had a Blues tradition from the 20′s onwards, when the post-WWI 'black diaspora' brought the Blues northwards, as workers left the countryside for the cities. Listed below
- [R&B Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/rb-albums/) - As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ETTA JAMES - HER BEST There are many box-sets around, but this great value 20-track collection has all the essentials from her golden years at Chess. Etta's highly emotional performances sound better than ever and her range, from ballads like 'At Last', Blues like 'I Just
- [Black History Month](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/black-history-month/) - Download This Black History Month Tutorial Today Music of Black Origin How The Blues Ruled The World The tutorial is available for free download. Take it, modify it and use it in your classroom, tutorial or presentation.The resources include; A fully scripted modifiable Powerpoint presentation. Short video clips to elaborate on key points. Class discussion
- [BB King](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/bb-king/) - Get The Best Blues Music, Blues History And Have Access To Blues Legends By Signing Up With Us Now! B B King - The King Of The Blues B B King is renowned by many as the King of The Blues, this may be true but it does not mean that he was alone in
- [West Coast Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/west-coast-blues-albums/) - At the end of the Sunset Route out of Texas, the West Coast developed as a centre for the Blues and R&B after WWII. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. JOHNNY OTIS - MIDNIGHT AT THE BARRELHOUSE This collection starts from the earliest days, and includes all Johnny's chart hits. It also
- [Early Classic Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/early-classic-blues-albums/) - The music of the juke-joints, fish-fries and Medicine Shows was spread all over the Southern States by travelling Blues players and wandering songsters. Recordings and radio made this regional music into a national phenomenon. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. WC HANDY - MEMPHIS BLUES BAND WC Handy, also known as 'The
- [Greatest Blues Songs](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/greatest-blues-songs/) - Greatest Blues Songs See Also Big Mama Thornton Janis Joplin
- [Music Quiz Number 3](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/music-quiz-number-3/) - Music Quiz Number 3 Prison, preachers and producers all feature in our latest Quiz, where even the wrong answers are all right. Click on the answer you think is correct. Even the wrong answers might give you an interesting story! Bo Carter came from a Delta Blues dynasty with which surname? McCoy. Expand No. Robert
- [Delta Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/delta-blues-albums/) - The Mississippi Delta is the fertile alluvial plain in the north-west of the State. Below is a list of albums made by artists from the Delta who, in the early years of the 20th century, played in a quite distinctive style. This local folk idiom became known as 'The Blues' and went on to revolutionise Western
- [Blues-Rock Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-rock-albums/) - Blues Rock Albums Most rock guitarists owe their technique to playing styles that have developed directly out of the Blues. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ALBERT KING - KING OF THE BLUES GUITAR This collection comprises all of Albert King's Stax singles plus the whole of the 'Born Under a Bad
- [2016 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2016-blues-albums/) - 2016 Blues Albums This 2016 Blues Album Round-up features albums from the time-tested veterans, great stuff from the genre's younger apprentices as well as a lovely dose of surprises. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. THE ROLLING STONES - BLUE AND LONESOME The titanic blues influence on the Rolling Stones is something even
- [Memphis Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/memphis-blues-albums/) - Memphis has always been a big Blues town; the home of WC Handy; near the top of the Delta and base for the recording of country Blues; centre of the Jug Band craze; and the wild area around Beale Street with it's clubs and saloons, which gave a start to a huge number of Blues
- [2019 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2019-blues-albums/) - 2019 Blues Albums As the world of mainstream popular music grows more and more focused on technology and its latest trends, the blues gains a new kind of respect among those too young to recall the genre's early days. The respect is mostly earned through a mastery of old-school instruments. Whether's it's Robin Trower's blazing
- [New Orleans Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/new-orleans-blues-albums/) - New Orleans Blues Albums The cradle of American popular music has played a massive role in promoting jazz, Blues and R&B. From Congo Square and Mardi Gras to Tipitina's and the unquenchable spirit shown in response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina the history of New Orleans and the characters who call it home is
- [Folk Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/folk-blues-albums/) - Folk Blues Albums As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. JOHN FAHEY- THE BEST OF JOHN FAHEY 1959-1977 John Fahey's own selection of his remastered early Tacoma recordings plus two extended guitar pieces on an 18 track compilation. Buy From Amazon INSIDE DAVE VAN RONK These 25 tracks show Dave Van Ronk in
- [2020 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2020-blues-albums/) - 2020 Blues Albums Spotify Playlist If 2020 will be forever remembered as the year of a deadly pandemic, it can also be thought of as a year that demonstrated the undying spirit of the blues. Releases from stalwarts like Savoy Brown and Robert Cray as well as newer voices like Whitney Shays and Shemekia Copeland
- [Zydeco and Cajun Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/zydeco-and-cajun-albums/) - As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. IRY LeJEUNE - CAJUN'S GREATEST- THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION. This Iry LeJeune collection is the real thing, with the annoying bass dubs of the 60s releases removed, and it sets a high benchmark for Accordion players. Buy From Amazon ROSIE LEDET - SHOW ME SOMETHING Rosie Ledet
- [Texas Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/texas-blues-albums/) - Texas Blues has a long and varied history and has managed to incorporate many influences, including jazz, Ragtime and country as well as the work songs and juke-joint music that is fundamental to traditional Blues. From the late 60s, Texas became synonymous with hard-rocking 'roadhouse' Blues but it's roots run deep. As an Amazon Associate
- [Swamp Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/swamp-blues-albums/) - Louisiana Blues combine deriving Southern rhythms with tunes from the Bayou, and with distinctive Cajun influences. This infectious, dance-able Swamp Blues inspired later generations of Blues rockers, and the examples we recommend will open your ears to a music that shifted perceptions of the Blues. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. SLIM
- [Piedmont Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/piedmont-blues-albums/) - As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. BUDDY MOSS - ATLANTA BLUES This 23 track compilation traces Buddy's career from blowing harp on Atlanta street-corners to his later work with Josh White and Brownie McGhee. Buy from Amazon JOSH WHITE - IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER VOL 1 This collection of ARC tracks from 1929/33
- [Piano Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/piano-blues-albums/) - As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. JOHNNY 'Big Moose' WALKER - BLUE LOVE Low-key session with Big Moose alone at the piano, this shows the man stripped to the bone. Includes five bonus tracks. Buy from Amazon ROSCO GORDON - LET'S GET HIGH This comprehensive collection samples Rosco's work for Modern and
- [British Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/british-blues-albums/) - British Blues Albums Since the 60’s there has been a steady flow of Blues Music from the small island across the pond. The Brits recognised the power of the Blues originals they heard on records, and used the language of the Blues to write a new chapter in the story of modern music. Here is
- [Blues Women Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-women-albums/) - Blues Women Albums The 'Blues Divas' from the 20s were the best selling African-American artists of their day. These Blues Women are artists who reflect the female take on the Blues form in the decades since then. From Memphis Minnie to the modern 'rock chicks', these women will tell it like it is and put
- [Blues Music For Kids](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-music-for-kids/) - We have selected Blues Albums that our children can enjoy in the hope of sparking an interest in this most expressive and inclusive musical form.
- [Blues Divas](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-divas/) - Blues Divas The term 'Diva' was applied to the generation of female singers who did so much to popularise the Blues in the 20s. Some were cabaret singers who took up the fashion for Blues material, but there is no question that most had a feeling for the Blues that came from deep in the
- [2017 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2017-blues-albums/) - 2017 Blues Albums It may seem odd to consider this moment in time as a ‘golden age of the blues,’ but in some ways it is exactly that. Because of new technology, it is now possible to dive into the waters of a wide range of artists or entire subgenres of the blues that may
- [2018 Blues Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/2018-blues-albums/) - 2018 Blues Albums If there’s one trend best reflected in the key blues recordings of 2018 it is change. In a music industry overwhelmed by a landscape shifting at a dizzying pace, leave it to the blues – perhaps the most traditional of all American musical forms – to embrace change the most eagerly. In
- [Blues In Britain](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-in-britain/) - Blues In Britain A selective list of recommended venues where you will hear great music in a good venue - ran by people who care about music, about live music and about running a place that is conducive to enjoying the live experience. Blues at the Bay, Yarm Ran by Peter Rafferty - this is
- [Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues/) - All About Blues Music is Your Online Blues Loving Community. If You Love The Blues, This Is The Place For You. Are you used to spending hours, surfing the Internet, looking for the best in Blues Music? If so, you are one of the many people who would benefit from the regular news stories from
- [Recording The Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/recording-the-blues/) - “Thank God for recording. It's the best thing that's happened to us since writing” - Keith Richards, in his autobiography, 'Life' (Published 2010) Keef was right. Sound recording is a cultural paradigm shift on a parallel with the rise of literacy. Before recording, music was only available to those within earshot of the musicians: wandering
- [Tickets](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tickets/) - Thank You For Purchasing Tickets From All About Blues Music You will receive a confirmation email shortly and your tickets will be sent to you by post. Any problems with the delivery please send me an email at events@allaboutbluesmusic.com
- [Shop](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/shop/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/privacy-policy/) - PRIVACY POLICY for allaboutbluesmusic.com At All About Blues Music we are committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of our visitors when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us. Our Privacy Policy has been provided and approved by the online solicitors at LegalCentre.co.uk. This Privacy Policy contains an explanation of what happens to personal
- [Gospel Albums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/gospel-albums/) - REV J M GATES - ARE YOU BOUND FOR HEAVEN OR HELL? This is a fascinating document of the times, with the Reverend railing against all kinds of modern opportunities for Sin, like chain-stores, hair products and transportation. Weird! Buy From Amazon BROTHER JOE MAY - THUNDERBOLT OF THE MIDDLE-WEST With several of his own
- [Terms and Conditions](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/terms-and-conditions/) - WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS for allaboutbluesmusic.com These terms and conditions govern your use of our website. Our terms have been provided and approved by legal documents provider LegalCentre.co.uk. Please read the terms in full before you use this Website. If you do not accept these terms, please do not use this Website. Using the Website
- [Blues Music Signup](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-music-signup/) - All About Blues Music is Your Online Blues Loving Community. If You Love The Blues, This Is The Place For You. No need to spend hours surfing the Internet - it's all here at your fingertips. Don't miss out - Keep up to date with who is new and up and coming in the Blues.
- [Blues Stories](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-stories/) - Have you or your favorite up and coming Blues Band or Artist featured on; Allaboutbluesmusic.com Web Site And I love Blues Music Facebook Page Blues Music comes from a long tradition of story telling and defiance in the face of adversary. It is our mission to........ Keep The Blues Live And Alive The new Blues artists to be featured
- [Blues Christmas Quiz](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-christmas-quiz/) - Blues Christmas Quiz Test your knowledge of the Blues with this Christmas Blues Quiz quiz. The twelve questions cover Blues facts and trivia. There are a few picture questions that will keep you amused. Do you know who recorded Christmas Blues songs? Find out here. Click on the answer you think is correct. Who was
- [Music Quiz Number 5](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/music-quiz-number-5/) - Music Quiz Number 5 Who was Sonny Boy? Find out in our latest Quiz, where even the wrong answers are all right! Click on the answer you think is correct. Even the wrong answers might give you an interesting story! Which label put out Albert King's 'Born Under a Bad Sign'? Chess. No. None of
- [Music Quiz Number 4](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/music-quiz-number-4/) - Music Quiz Number 4 The Blues gets played on some strange instruments. Find out more in our latest Quiz, where even the wrong answers are all right! Click on the answer you think is correct. Even the wrong answers might give you an interesting story! Who switched from guitar to piano when his 'pinkie' finger
- [Music Quiz Number 2](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/music-quiz-number-2/) - Music Quiz Number 2 Classic songs, teen crazes, Blues stars and natural disasters. They're all in our latest Quiz, where even the wrong answers are all right! Click on the answer you think is correct. Even the wrong answers might give you an interesting story! Who sang 'Willie and the Hand Jive'? Ray Charles. No.
- [Music Quiz](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/music-quiz/) - Blues Music Quiz Test your knowledge of the Blues with this quick quiz. The ten questions cover different types of Blues, traditional and modern. What do you know about Chess Records, Professor Longhair and Chuck Berry? Click on the answer you think is correct. Even the wrong answers might give you an interesting story! Which
- [Sonny Boy Williamson](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sonny-boy-williamson/) - It could only happen in the Blues! Two men using the same name, playing the same instrument in different cities. Read their story here.
- [Free Music Download](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/free-music-download/) - Brand New Day Written and performed By Mickey V and the Old Gits Blues Band The story of a man on the edge: all his bridges have been burned, and escape is the only option. When there is no going back the only way is forward, and as he faces the dawn there is no
- [Keep Blues Alive](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/keep-blues-alive/) - Have your favorite up and coming Blues Band or Artist featured on; Allaboutbluesmusic.com Web Site And I love Blues Music Facebook Page Blues Music comes from a long tradition of story telling and defiance in the face of adversary. It is our mission to........ Keep The Blues Live And Alive The new Blues artists to be featured on All
- [Blues Primer](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-primer/) - NEW BOOK AVAILABLE FROM THE AUTHORS OF ALLABOUTBLUESMUSIC.COM Who Dat? Blues Musicians' Real Names Download the latest edition of our Blues Primers series today. The names Ellas McDaniel and Mac Rabbenack have never appeared on a billboard or album cover because, like many Blues Artists, they only appear under stage names. 'Who Dat? Blues Musicians'
- [Blues History](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-history/)
- [Play The Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/play-the-blues/) - Free Blues Guitar Lessons For Beginners. THE BASICS OF CHORDS AND HARMONY, BLUES RIFFS AND IMPROVISATION. Why Wait, Start the lessons now These lessons include the basics needed when learning to play blues guitar. The lessons focus on the general use of chords, riffs, and improvisation. The exercises and examples are on a basic level
- [Black History Month Tutorial](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/black-history-month-tutorial/) - Black History Month Tutorial Presentations The presentation files can be downloaded, modified and used for your tutorial. If you are using OpenOffice or Libre Office Impress then this is the best file for you to download. In ODF Format If you are using Microsoft PowerPoint then use this file. In PPTX Format Download Now! Download
- [Newsletter](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/newsletter/) - Welcome to All About Blues Music. You will receive an e-mail with your first newsletter shortly. Then a weekly newsletter will be sent to your e-mail address. Please add bluesman@allaboutbluesmusic.com to your address book or safe list or the updates will be seen as Spam and be sent to your Junk Mail Box. We will
- [Site Map](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/site-map/)
- [Goodbye](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/goodbye/) - We apologize if our emails were an inconvenience to you and hope you are able to find what you were looking for in the near future. Your name and e-mail address has been removed from our mailing list. You will no longer be sent the newsletter from All About Blues Music. Please check back regularly
- [Search Results](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/search-results/)

## Quizzes & Surveys

- [Black History Month Quiz](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/quiz/black-history-month-quiz/) - 1. Blues was in the beginning mostly performed by Black musicians, in which decade did it appeal to a white audience and white musicians? 90's 30's and 40's 70's and 80's 50's and 60's None 2. Which 2 countries or continents were important in the creation of the Blues? Europe and Africa UK and Africa

## Downloads

- [How The Blues Dominated The World PPT](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/how-the-blues-dominated-the-world-ppt/)
- [Web Links](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/web-links/)
- [Follow Up](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/follow-up/)
- [Presentation Notes](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/presentation-notes/)
- [Kirk Fletcher Video](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/kirk-fletcher-video/)
- [Muddy Waters Video](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/muddy-waters-video/)
- [Mamie Smith Video](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/mamie-smith-video/)
- [Robert Johnson Video](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/robert-johnson-video/)
- [How The Blues Dominated The World](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/how-the-blues-dominated-the-world/)
- [Work Songs Video](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/work-songs-video/)
- [I Like Your Guitar](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/i-like-your-guitar/)
- [Bad Boys](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/bad-boys/)
- [Flood Waters Rising](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/flood-waters-rising/)
- [Fool's Gold](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/fools-gold/)
- [Help Me](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/help-me/)
- [Gambling Man](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/gambling-man/)
- [Brand New Day](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/brand-new-day/)
- [Respectable Man](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/respectable-man/)
- [You're Gonna Need Me](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/youre-gonna-need-me/)
- [Devil's Roadhouse](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/sdm_downloads/13215/)

## Tags

- [Memphis](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/memphis/)
- [Singer](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/singer/)
- [R&B](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/rb/)
- [Chicago](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/chicago/)
- [Guitar](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/guitar/)
- [Vocals](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/vocals/)
- [Piano](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/piano/)
- [Blues-rock](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/blues-rock/)
- [Piedmont](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/piedmont/)
- [Cornet](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/cornet/)
- [New York](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/new-york/)
- [Harp](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/harp/)
- [British](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/british/)
- [New Orleans](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/new-orleans/)
- [Trumpet](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/trumpet/)
- [Record Production](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/producer/)
- [Songwriter](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/songwriter/)
- [Drums](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/drums/)
- [Delta](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/delta/)
- [West Coast](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/west-coast/)
- [Texas](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/texas/)
- [Fiddle](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/fiddle/)
- [Film-maker](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/film-maker/)
- [Ukelele](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/ukelele/)
- [Divas](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/divas/)
- [Rock 'n' Blues](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/rock-n-blues/)
- [Banjo](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/banjo/)
- [Jug](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/jug/)
- [Zydeco](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/zydeco/)
- [Accordion](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/accordion/)
- [Sax](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/sax/)
- [St. Louis](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/st-louis/)
- [Bass](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/bass/)
- [Swamp](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/swamp/)
- [Violin](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/violin/)
- [Keyboards](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/keyboards/)
- [Inventor](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/inventor/)
- [Washboard](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/washboard/)
- [Label Owner](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/label-owner/)
- [Trombone](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/trombone/)
- [Bandleader](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/bandleader/)
- [Media](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/media/)
- [Mandolin](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/mandolin/)
- [Band](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/tag/band/)

## Product categories

- [Tickets](https://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/product-category/tickets/)