List of blues musicians

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)

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Country Blues 2 Early Urban Blues 3 Early Jazz Blues 4 Kansas City Blues 5 Post War Jazz Blues 6 Chicago Blues 7 Modern Blues (post 1950s) 8 Blues in conventional pop music 8.1 Blues in Country Music 8.2 Blues influence in classical music

Early Country Blues

• Richard "Rabbit" Brown[?]
• Blind Lemon Jefferson
• Blind Blake
• Blind Boy Fuller[?]
• Blind Willie Johnson[?]
• Lucille Bogan[?]
• Blind Willie McTell, (1901-1959)
• Mississippi John Hurt
• Lonnie Johnson[?]
• Robert Johnson, (1911-1938)
• 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

• Georgia Tom Dorsey, (1899-1993)
• 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

• 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[?]
• 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[?]
• 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)

Kansas City Blues

• Big Joe Turner, (1911-1985)
• Jay McShann[?]

Later Styles

Post War Jazz Blues

• Mose Allison, (born 1927)

Chicago Blues

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

Modern Blues (post 1950s)

• James Anthony[?]
• B.B. King, (born 1925)
• Cream
• John Lee Hooker, (1917-2001)
• Etta James, (born 1938)
• Janis Joplin, (1943-1970)
• Taj Mahal
• Keb' Mo'[?], (born 1951)
• John Mayall, (born 1933)
• Eric Clapton, (born 1945)
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, (1954-1990)
• James Cotton[?]
• Albert Collins[?]
• Clarence Gatemouth Brown[?]
• Led Zeppelin
• Ali Farka Toure, (born 1939)
• Bobby Blue Bland
• Willie Dixon, (died 1992)
• Santana
• Johnny Winter[?], (born 1944)
• Koko Taylor[?], (born 1935)
• The Yardbirds

Blues in conventional pop music

• Harold Arlen[?], "Blues in the Night"
• George Gershwin, (1898-1937), "Porgy and Bess"
• DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson[?], "Birth of the Blues"

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.