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Robert Shaw (blues musician) Ollie Shepard (blues pianist) Corky Siegel. John Simon (record producer) Bill Sims. Sunnyland Slim. Pinetop Smith. Sonny Smith (musician)
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 ...
Joe Willie " Pinetop " Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock-and-roll performers of his time and received numerous honors, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame .
Marcia Ball. Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949) [1] is an American blues singer and pianist raised in Vinton, Louisiana. [1] Ball was described in USA Today as "a sensation, saucy singer and superb pianist... where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet." [2] The Boston Globe described her music as "an irresistible celebratory blend of ...
Prairie View A&M College. Tony Russell " Charles " Brown [1] (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1949 and 1952, Brown had seven Top 10 hits in the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. [2]
Piano. Years active. Late 1920s–1953. Labels. Victor, Bluebird. Walter Davis (March 1, 1911 [1] or 1912 [2] – October 22, 1963) [1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter who was one of the most prolific blues recording artists from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. He was unrelated to the jazz pianist Walter Davis, Jr.
Henry Gray (January 19, 1925 – February 17, 2020) was an American blues piano player and singer born in Kenner, Louisiana. He played for more than seven decades and performed with many artists, including Robert Lockwood Jr., Billy Boy Arnold, Morris Pejoe, the Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf.
Joshua Altheimer (May 17, 1910 – November 18, 1940) [1] [2] [note 1] was an American pianist who is remembered for accompanying Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson and others on influential blues recordings made in Chicago in the 1930s. He was described by Broonzy as "the best blues piano player I ever heard", and by blues ...