Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing,guitar skills,and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Although his recording career spanned only seven months,he is recognized as a master of the blues,particularly the Delta blues style,and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as maybe "the first ever rock star".
Robert Lockwood Jr. was an American Delta blues guitarist,who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson. Robert Lockwood was one of the first professional black entertainers to appear on radio in the South,on the King Biscuit Time radio show. Lockwood is known for his longtime collaboration with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter.
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,David "Honeyboy" Edwards,Willie Brown,Tommy Johnson,Ishmon Bracey,Bo Carter,Sam Chatmon,Mississippi John Hurt,Furry Lewis,Son House,Skip James,Muddy Waters,Howlin' Wolf,John Lee Hooker,Pinetop Perkins,and B.B. King. The hip hop scene of Mississippi is rare but includes performers such as David Banner,Dear Silas,and more.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi.
Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins 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.
Henry "Mule" Townsend was an American blues singer,guitarist and pianist.
Jimmy D. Lane is an American electric blues guitarist.
Blues Jam in Chicago is a studio recording by the British rock band Fleetwood Mac,originally released in two single-LP volumes by Blue Horizon in December 1969. It was the result of a recording session in early 1969 at Chess Records in Chicago with Fleetwood Mac,then a young British blues band,and a number of famous Chicago blues artists from whom they drew inspiration. The album has also been released,with slightly different track listings,under the titles Blues Jam at Chess Volumes One and Two and Fleetwood Mac in Chicago,the latter by Sire Records in 1976.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an American guitarist. He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues rock artist.
Bob Margolin is an American electric blues guitarist. His nickname is Steady Rollin'.
10 Days Out:Blues from the Backroads is a CD/DVD and is the fifth release from American blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The documentary film was directed by Noble Jones and produced by Phillipa Davis. It was executive produced by Kelly Norris Sarno,Devin Sarno,Ken Shepherd,and Kristin Forbes. It was edited by Mark Morton. The CD was produced by Jerry Harrison. Tour still photography,CD,DVD,and LP photos by Amanda Gresham. 10 Days Out was nominated for two Grammys,Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video and Grammy Award For Best Traditional Blues Album at the 50th Grammy Awards and won the 2008 Blues Music Award for Best DVD and the 2008 Keeping the Blues Alive Award under the category of Film,Television or Video.
Document Records is an independent record label,founded in Austria and now based in Scotland,that specializes in reissuing vintage blues and jazz. The company has been recognised by The Blues Foundation,being honoured with a Keeping the Blues Alive Award in 2018. Document Records is the only UK-based recipient of the award.
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters –Live is a live album by Muddy Waters,released in January 1979. It was recorded during the 1977–78 tour to support Muddy Waters' album Hard Again (1977) and features the same musicians,including James Cotton and Johnny Winter,who had produced the album.
Joe Willie Wilkins was an American Memphis blues guitarist,singer and songwriter. He influenced his contemporaries Houston Stackhouse,Robert Nighthawk,David Honeyboy Edwards,and Jimmy Rogers,but he had a greater impact on up-and-coming guitarists,including Little Milton,B.B. King,and Albert King. Wilkins's songs include "Hard Headed Woman" and "It's Too Bad."
J. D. Short was an American Delta blues singer,guitarist,and harmonicist with a distinctive vibrato-laden singing voice. Early in his career,he recorded under a number of pseudonyms,including Jelly Jaw Short. His noteworthy works include "Lonesome Swamp Rattlesnake" and "You're Tempting Me".
Willie Richard,who performed as Hip Linkchain,was an American Chicago blues guitarist,singer and songwriter.
Diunna Greenleaf is an American blues singer and songwriter.
Richard "Hacksaw" Harney was an American Delta blues guitarist and pianist. He first entered a recording studio with his brother Maylon in 1928,to wax guitar work backing for separate tracks by Pearl Dickson and Walter Rhodes. However,Harney recorded rarely,until his belated solo album,Sweet Man (1972).
Marquise Knox is an American blues rock singer,guitarist,and songwriter. Knox has performed alongside B.B. King,Pinetop Perkins and David "Honeyboy" Edwards. He has also performed at dozens of festivals,and toured across the US and Europe.
