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)

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 9.4 Blues from Europe

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, (1930-2004)
• Percy Mayfield
• Lux Lewis
• Leroy Carr
• Albert Ammons
• Roy Brown
• Pee Wee 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
• Otis Spann

Modern Blues (post 1950s)

• Lil' Ed Williams
• 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

• Janis Joplin, (1943-1970)
• Cream
• Led Zeppelin
• The Yardbirds
• Santana
• Fleetwood Mac
• The Rolling Stones
• Captain Beefheart
• Humble Pie
• Van Morrison
• ZZ Top

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
• Johnny Cash
• Jerry Lee Lewis

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

• G. Love & Special Sauce
• Moby
• The White Stripes
• The Black Keys
• Nick Cave
• Tom Waits
• Jon Spencer

Blues from Europe

• Eric Clapton
• Cyril Davies
• Rory Gallagher
• Alexis Korner
• Johnny Winter
• Abi Wallenstein
• Peter Green
• Steve Baker
• Pee Dee River Blues
• Das Dritte Ohr
• Blues Company

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