Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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 1 Early Country Blues 2 Early Urban Blues 3 Early Jazz Blues 4 Kansas City Blues 5 Post War Jazz Blues 6 Chicago/Detroit Blues 7 Modern Blues (post 1950s) 8 Blues in late 1960s Rock Music 9 Blues in conventional pop music 9.1 Blues in Country Music 9.2 Blues influence in classical music 9.3 Blues in contemporary rock and pop music 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) John Lee Hooker, (1917-2001) Etta James, (born 1938) Taj Mahal (born 1942) Keb' Mo', (born 1951) John Mayall, (born 1933) Eric Clapton, (born 1945) Stevie Ray Vaughan, (1954-1990) James Cotton Albert Collins Clarence Gatemouth Brown Ali Farka Toure, (born 1939) Bobby Blue Bland Willie Dixon, (died 1992) Johnny Winter, (born 1944) Koko Taylor, (born 1935) Blues in late 1960s Rock Music Janis Joplin, (1943-1970) Cream Led Zeppelin The Yardbirds Santana Fleetwood Mac The Rolling Stones Captain Beefheart 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 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.