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Country blues singer, fingerstyle guitarist, songwriter, and record collector [4] DeFord Bailey (December 14, 1899 – July 2, 1982). Early country blues harmonica player from Tennessee. [5] First performer on the Grand Ole Opry [6] and known as 'the Harmonica Wizard', [7] Bailey was an Opry stalwart for 14 years. [8]
Country blues ran parallel to urban blues, which was popular in cities. [2] Historian Elijah Wald notes many similarities between blues, bluegrass, and country & western styles with roots in the American south. [3] Record labels in the 1920s and 1930s carefully segregated musicians and defined styles for racially targeted audiences. [4]
Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
Country blues singers (40 P) Pages in category "Country blues musicians" The following 154 pages are in this category, out of 154 total.
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) refers to all the acoustic, guitar-driven forms of the blues originating in the southern United States, Pages in category "Country blues singers"
Bessie Tucker – (c. 1906 – January 6, 1933) [99] was a classic female blues, country blues, and Texas blues singer and songwriter. Little is known of her life outside the music industry. [100] She is known to have recorded just twenty-four tracks, seven of which were alternate takes.
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later generations of musicians.
This list includes relevant Bluegrass, Rockabilly, Country blues, Country rock, Dobro, Slide Guitar, and Pedal Steel Guitar Chet Atkins Norman Blake Bluegrass , Traditional Country