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John Lee Hooker
American blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001)
Robert Johnson
American blues singer and guitarist
Lead Belly
American folk and blues musician (1888–1949)
Johnny Winter
American blues guitarist and singer (1944–2014)
Son House
American blues singer and guitarist (1902–1988)
Charley Patton
American Delta blues musician (1891–1934)
Mississippi John Hurt
American country blues singer and guitarist (1892-1966)
Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (1893–1958)
Skip James
American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter (1902–1969)
Blind Lemon Jefferson
American blues singer and guitarist (1893–1929)
Memphis Minnie
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1897–1973)
Sonny Terry
American Piedmont blues musician (1911–1986)
Sonny Boy Williamson II
American blues musician (1912–1965)
James Cotton
American blues singer-songwriter (1935–2017)
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
R. L. Burnside
American singer and guitarist (1926–2005)
Pink Anderson
American singer-guitarist (1900–1974)
Lonnie Johnson
American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter (1899–1970)
David Edwards
American blues guitarist and singer (1915–2011)
Sonny Boy Williamson I
American blues musician (1914–1948)
Floyd Council
American blues guitarist and singer (1911-1976)
Blind Boy Fuller
American blues guitarist and singer
Bukka White
American singer-songwriter
Tommy Johnson
American musician (1896–1956)
Josh White
American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist (1914-1969)
Blind Blake
American blues singer and guitarist (1896–1934)
Reverend Gary Davis
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist (1896–1972)
Willie Brown
guitar player and vocalist (1900–1952)
Big Joe Williams
American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (1903–1982)
Robert Lockwood Jr.
American Delta blues guitarist (1915-2006)
Louisiana Red
African American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer
Charlie Musselwhite
American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader
Thomas A. Dorsey
American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
Jesse Fuller
American one-man band musician, songwriter
Etta Baker
American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
Robert Nighthawk
American blues musician (1909-1967)
Bo Carter
American early blues musician
Sonny Landreth
American musician
Rory Block
American blues guitarist and singer
Scrapper Blackwell
American blues guitarist and singer (1903–1962)
Barbecue Bob
American blues musician (1902–1931)
Curley Weaver
American blues musician (1906–1962)
Gus Cannon
American blues musician
Brownie McGhee
American folk-blues singer and guitarist
Ishman Bracey
American singer-guitarist
Kokomo Arnold
American blues musician (1901–1968)
Alger "Texas" Alexander
American blues singer (1900–1954)
Doctor Ross
American blues singer, guitarist, harmonica player and drummer (1925–1993)
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer (1897-1948)
Bob Brozman
American guitarist and ethnomusicologist (1954–2013)
Mississippi Sheiks
band
Frank Stokes
American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel (1888–1955)
Robert Pete Williams
American Louisiana blues musician (1914–1980)
Jessie Mae Hemphill
American country blues guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist (1923–2006)
Junior Kimbrough
American musician (1930-1998)
John Jackson
American blues musician (1924–2002)
DeFord Bailey
American country musician (1899–1982)
Tommy McClennan
American Delta blues singer and guitarist (1905-1961)
Peetie Wheatstraw
American country blues musician (1902-1941)
Henry Thomas
American recording artist; country blues singer, songster and musician. (1874–1930)