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)
Early Country Blues
Early Urban Blues
Early Jazz Blues
Kansas City Blues
Later Styles
Post War Jazz Blues
Chicago/Detroit Blues
Modern Blues (post 1950s)
- James Anthony (Pecchia)
- B.B. King, (born 1925)
- Clarence Gatemouth Brown
- Eric Clapton, (born 1945)
- Albert Collins
- James Cotton
- Willie Dixon, (died 1992)
- Alvin Hart
- John Lee Hooker, (1917-2001)
- Colin James, (born 1964)
- Etta James, (born 1938)
- Freddie King (1934-1976)
- Taj Mahal (born 1942)
- John Mayall, (born 1933)
- Keb' Mo', (born 1951)
- Koko Taylor, (born 1935)
- Ali Farka Toure, (born 1939)
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, (1954-1990)
- Johnny Winter, (born 1944)
- Bobby Blue Bland
Blues in late 1960s Rock Music
Blues in conventional pop music
Blues in Country Music
See also: rockabilly
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
