Blues singers Blues singers Alberta Hunter ( April 1, 1895 - October 17, 1984), was a celebrated African-American jazz singer, songwriter and nurse. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alberta Hunter"
Alton "Big Al" Carson (Born October 2, 1953) is a United States blues and jazz singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alton "Big Al" Carson"
Alvin "Youngblood" Hart (born 1963 in Oakland, California) is an American musician. Influenced in early childhood by the Mississippi Country Blues performed by older relatives, Hart is known as one of the world's foremost practitioners of that genre. Hart is also known as a faithful torchbearer for the 60's & 70's guitar rock of his youth, as well as Western Swing and vintage Country. His music has been compared to a list of diverse artists ranging from Leadbelly, Spade Cooley to Led Zeppelin and Thin Lizzy. He plays acoustic and electric guitars as well as banjo and sometimes mandolin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alvin Youngblood Hart"
Ana Popovic (born 13 May 1976 in Belgrade, Serbia, formerly Yugoslavia) Blues-guitarist and singer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ana Popović"
Arnold Moore ( 1914 - May 9, 2004) was a blues singer. Born in Topeka, Kansas, he grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and worked with various Kansas City jazz bands, including Bennie Moten's legendary jazz group. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arnold Moore"
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup ( August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs later covered by Elvis Presley (and since covered by dozens of other artists), such as " That's All Right Mama", "My Baby Left Me" and "So glad you`re mine" ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Crudup"
Asie Payton (1937-1997) was a blues musician who lived most of his life in Holly Ridge, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta. He sang and played the guitar, but made his living as a farmer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asie Payton"
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Barbara Dane is an American folk, blues, and Jazz singer. She is a socialist, a fact that caused considerable controversy when she began recording during the McCarthy-era fifties. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Dane"
Barbecue Bob (born Robert Hicks, Walnut Grove, Georgia, September 11, 1902; d. October 21, 1931, Lithonia, Georgia) was an early American blues musician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbecue Bob"
Bessie Brown ( Cleveland, Ohio 1895 - 1955), also known as "The Original" Bessie Brown, was a blues and classic jazz singer. She sometimes recorded under the pseudonyms of Sadie Green and Caroline Lee and should not be confused with her namesake, the Bessie Brown who recorded blues duets with George W. Williams. She was active as a recording artist from 1925 to 1928. She left showbusiness in 1932 and had three children before dying of a heart attack in 1955. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bessie Brown"
Bessie Smith ( April 15, 1894 – September 26 1937) is largely regarded as the most popular and successful blues singer of 1920s and 1930s, and she has had an enormous influence on singers throughout the history of American popular music, including Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin, and Norah Jones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bessie Smith"
Betty Roché ( January 9 1920 – February 16 1999) was an American blues singer who became most famous with her version of the song Take The "A" Train. She started her career by winning a Harlem Apollo Theater amateur contest , sang with the Savoy Sultans from 1941 to 1942 and with Duke Ellington in the 1940s and 1950s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Betty Roché"
Big Bill Broonzy ( 1893 or 1898- 1958) was a prolific United States composer, recorder and performer of blues songs. "Big Bill" was born William Lee Conley Broonzy in Scott County, Mississippi on June 26, 1893 or 1898 (the exact year is unclear). While Broonzy himself claimed to be born in 1893, another source claims that Broonzy had a twin sister name Lannie Broonzy who says she has proof that she was born in 1898, on June 26. During this time, it was common for black men to add years to their actual age in order to get a job or join the military, which may very well have been Broonzy's case as well. Regardless, Broonzy left Mississippi in 1924 and arrived in Chicago, where he met Papa Charlie Jackson, who taught him to play guitar (Broonzy had previously been a fiddler). Broonzy first recorded as a self-accompanied singer in 1929, and continued to record in that style. Around 1936, he became one of the first blues singers to use a small instrumental group, including "traps" (drums) and acoustic bass as well as one or more melody instruments (horns and/or harmonica). These discs were usually issued as Big Bill and his Chicago Five. At that time, Broonzy was recording for the American Record Corporation on their line of less expensive labels ( Melotone, Perfect Records, et al). In 1939, ARC was acquired by CBS, and Broonzy then appeared on Vocalion (later Okeh) and, after 1945, on Columbia Records. One of his best-known songs was written at that time, "Key To the Highway." ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Bill Broonzy"
Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr, on May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues singer from Kansas City, Missouri. Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly " Shake, Rattle and Roll", Turner's career as a performer stretched from the 1930s into the 1980s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Joe Turner"
Big Joe Williams ( October 16, 1903 - December 17, 1982) was an American blues musician and songwriter, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality. He performed frequently, wandering across the United States and playing stores, bars, alleys and work camps, as well as recording for Okeh, Bluebird Records, Delmark Records, Prestige Records and Vocalion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Joe Williams"
Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton ( December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American blues singer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Mama Thornton"
Big Maybelle (born Maybelle Louise Smith, May 1, 1924 in Jackson, Tennessee - January 23, 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio) was one of the most popular R&B singers of the 1950s, recording for Okeh, Savoy and other labels. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Maybelle"
Billie Holiday ( April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), also called Lady Day is generally considered one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, alongside Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. ...more on Wikipedia about "Billie Holiday"
"Blind" Blake (born Arthur Blake, circa 1893, Jacksonville, Florida; died: circa 1933) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. He is often called "The King Of Ragtime Guitar". ...more on Wikipedia about "Blind Blake"
"Blind" Lemon Jefferson (September 1893–December 1929) was an influential blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blind Lemon Jefferson"
"Blind" Willie Johnson (c. 1902- 1945), was an African-American singer and guitarist whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals. While the lyrics of most of his songs were religious, his music drew from both sacred and blues traditions. Among musicians, he is considered one of the greatest slide or bottleneck guitar artists who ever lived, as well as one of the most revered figures of depression-era gospel music. His music is distinguishable by his powerful bass strumming and gravelly false-bass voice, with occasional use of a tenor voice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blind Willie Johnson" Visit again shortopedia
Blind Willie McTell ( May 5, 1901– August 15, 1959) (probably born William Samuel McTear) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Thomson, Georgia and died in Milledgeville, Georgia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blind Willie McTell"
Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon was born March 21, 1893 in Bolton, Mississippi & died in Memphis, Tennessee on September 21, 1964. Bo Carter was and still is one of the more popular early blues musicians, who often played in his brother's band The Mississippi Sheiks. He was popular for recording bawdy songs such as, "Banana in Your Fruit Basket," "Pin in Your Cushion," & "My Pencil Won't Write No More." ...more on Wikipedia about "Bo Carter"
Walter "Brownie" McGhee ( November 30 1915 - February 16 1996) was a folk- blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brownie McGhee"
Bukka White (or Booker T. Washington White, probably born November 12, 1909, near Houston, Mississippi died February 26, 1977) was a delta blues guitarist and singer. He gave his more famous cousin B.B. King his first guitar, a Stella. Bukka himself is remembered as a player of National Steel guitars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bukka White"
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