Wikipedia: List of blues musicians

List of blues musicians
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Performers in the blues style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to big bands to country music to rock and roll to classical music.

Early Styles (Musicians Active before 1930)

Early Country Blues

Richard "Rabbit" Brown

Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Blake
Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie McTell, (1901-1959)
Mississippi John Hurt
Lonnie Johnson
Robert Johnson, (1911-1939)
Mance Lipscomb, (1895-1976)
Brownie McGhee, (1915-1996)
Big Bill Broonzy, (born 1893)
Reverend Gary Davis
Bessie Tucker
Ida Cox
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Memphis Minnie
Frank Stokes
Sippie Wallace
Josh White
Peetie Wheatstraw
Bumble Bee Slim
Charley Patton
Tampa Red
Bo Carter
Sleepy John Estes
Jesse Fuller
Charlie Patton
Son House
Sonny Terry
Lightnin' Hopkins
Leadbelly, (1885-1949)
Skip James, (1902-1969)
Furry Lewis
Memphis Blues Band
Victoria Spivey
Butterbeans & Susie
Son House
Bukka White
Scrapper Blackwell
Gus Cannon, (1883-1979)
Sonny Boy Williamson I

Early Urban Blues

Lucille Bogan
Georgia Tom Dorsey, (1899-1993)
Lil Green
Creole George Gusenon
Lucille Hegamin, (1894-1970)
Mamie Smith, (1883-1946)
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, (1886-1939)
Clara Smith
Bessie Smith, (1894-1937)
Ethel Waters, (1896-1977)
Sippy Wallace

Early Jazz Blues

Jelly Roll Morton
Louis Armstrong, (1901-1971)
Sidney Bechet, (1897-1959)
Johnny Dodds
Otis Spann
Big Joe Turner, (1911-1985)
Big Maceo Merriweather
Champion Jack Dupree
Floyd Dixon
Jay McShann (born 1909)
Charles Brown, (1922-1999)
Ray Charles, (born 1930)
Percy Mayfield
Lux Lewis
Leroy Carr
Albert Ammons
Roy Brown
Pee Crayton
Ivory Joe Hunter
Big Jay McNeely (born 1927)
Little Brother Montgomery, (c. 1906-1985)
Jimmy Rushing, (1902-1972)
Sam Taylor
Roy Milton
Pinetop Perkins
Roosevelt Sykes
Jimmy Witherspoon
Amos Milburn
Kazumi Watanabe
Memphis Slim (1915-1988)
Wynonie Harris
Louis Jordan

Kansas City Blues

Big Joe Turner, (1911-1985)
Jay McShann

Later Styles

Post War Jazz Blues

Mose Allison, (born 1927)

Chicago/Detroit Blues

Willie Dixon, (died 1992)
Buddy Guy, (born 1936)
Elmore James, (1918-1963)
John Lee Hooker, (1917-2001)
Albert King
Freddie King (1934-1976)
Robert Nighthawk
Jimmy Rogers, (born 1924)
Magic Sam
Otis Rush
Johnny Shines, (1915-1992)
Little Walter
Muddy Waters, (1915-1983)
Junior Wells, (1934-1998)
Howlin' Wolf
Bo Diddley, (born 1928)
Sonny Boy Williamson II(Rice Miller)
Jimmy Reed

Modern Blues (post 1950s)

James Anthony (Pecchia)
B.B. King, (born 1925)
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Eric Clapton, (born 1945)
Albert Collins
James Cotton
Willie Dixon, (died 1992)
John Lee Hooker, (1917-2001)
Colin James, (born 1964)
Etta James, (born 1938)
Taj Mahal (born 1942)
John Mayall, (born 1933)
Keb' Mo', (born 1951)
Koko Taylor, (born 1935)
Ali Farka Toure, (born 1939)
Stevie Ray Vaughan, (1954-1990)
Johnny Winter, (born 1944)
Bobby Blue Bland

Blues in late 1960s Rock Music

Blues in conventional pop music

Harold Arlen, "Blues in the Night" and "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime"
George Gershwin, (1898-1937), "Porgy and Bess"
DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson, "Birth of the Blues"
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, "I've Got It Bad And That Ain't Good"

Blues in Country Music

Jimmie Rodgers, (1897-1933)
Hank Williams

Blues influence in classical music

George Gershwin, (1898-1937), 's "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Concerto in F"
Honegger's "Pacific 231", the "train song" as concerto.
William Grant Still, "Afro-American Symphony"

Blues in contemporary rock and pop music

Moby
The White Stripes
The Black Keys
Nick Cave
Tom Waits
Jon Spencer