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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram. Christone " Kingfish " Ingram (born January 19, 1999) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, who became a well-known performer as a teenager. His debut album, Kingfish, was released in May 2019. [3] In addition to his own albums, musicians he has recorded with include ...
Little Milton. Mississippi Slim (blues musician) McKinley Mitchell. Johnny B. Moore. Blind Mississippi Morris. Muddy Waters. Matt "Guitar" Murphy. Charlie Musselwhite. Sam Myers.
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.
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)
1950s–2013. Floyd Lee, also known as Theodore Williams (August 20, 1933 – June 7, 2020), was an American blues musician. A native of Mississippi, Lee traveled around the United States before settling in New York City in 1972. He is best known for his passionate performances of blues music in and around New York's subway stations for almost ...
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
Contents. Blues Hall of Fame. The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame" was not a physical building, but a listing of people who have significantly contributed to blues music. Started in 1980, it honors people who have performed ...