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Pre-1940 blues Son House Mississippi John Hurt, 1964 Blind Lemon Jefferson Lonnie Johnson, 1941 Lead Belly Robert Jr. Lockwood, 1982 Sara Martin and Sylvester Weaver Mississippi Fred McDowell, 1972 Jay McShann in Edinburgh, c.1995 Memphis Minnie, 1930 Buddy Moss in Georgia prison camp, 1941 Ma Rainey Jimmy Rushing, 1946 Bessie Smith, 1936 Mamie Smith Henry Townsend, 1983 Ethel Waters, 1943 ...
Little Milton. Mississippi Slim (blues musician) McKinley Mitchell. Johnny B. Moore. Blind Mississippi Morris. Muddy Waters. Matt "Guitar" Murphy. Charlie Musselwhite. Sam Myers.
James Cotton (1935–2017) – blues harmonica player and singer-songwriter ( Tunica) Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (1905–1974) – Delta blues singer and guitarist ( Forest) George Cummings (born 1938) – guitarist and songwriter ( Meridian) Rona Barrett (born 1981) Country Singer Violinist Fiddle Player Songwriter ( Pearl River County, Mississippi)
Robert Johnson (May 8, 1911, Hazlehurst, Mississippi – August 16, 1938). Singer-songwriter and guitarist, recognized since the 1960s as a master of Delta blues and an important influence on many rock musicians. [25] Tommy Johnson (1896, near Terry, Mississippi – November 1, 1956). Guitarist, singer-songwriter.
W. Vann "Piano Man" Walls. Sylvester Weaver (musician) J. D. Wilkes. Edith Wilson (singer) Categories: American blues musicians by state. Musicians from Kentucky.
John Henry Barbee (November 14, 1905, Henning, Tennessee – November 3, 1964). Guitarist and singer, an exponent of early country blues and Delta blues. He performed early in his career with Sunnyland Slim. [11] Robert Belfour (September 11, 1940, Holly Springs, Mississippi – February 24, 2015). Country blues and Delta blues guitarist and ...
Music of Mississippi. Mississippi is best known as the home of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. The Delta blues is the style most closely associated with the state, and includes performers like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson (buried in Greenwood, MS ...
Oliver Sain. Alice Carter Simmons. Esther Smith (musician) William Grant Still. Napoleon Strickland.