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Acoustic blues [9] Barbecue Bob: 1902 1931 Georgia Acoustic blues [10] Ed Bell: 1905 1960s Alabama Piedmont blues [11] Gladys Bentley: 1907 1960 Pennsylvania Vaudeville blues [12] Black Ace: 1905 1972 Texas Country blues [13] Scrapper Blackwell: 1903 1962 North Carolina Urban blues [14] Blind Blake: 1896 1934 Florida Piedmont blues [15] Lucille ...
Johnson was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2016. [3] On June 7, 2019, while performing at the 36th annual Chicago Blues Fest, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot officially declared it to be Jimmy Johnson Day. [9] He was honored as "Best Blues Guitar Player" in 2020 by Living Blues, before being named "Blues Artist of the Year" the following ...
C. Chris Cain; Charles Caldwell (bluesman) J. J. Cale; Mississippi Joe Callicott; Blind James Campbell; David Paul Campbell; Eddie C. Campbell; John Campbell (blues guitarist)
Guitarist Buddy Guy performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2006. Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
Virgil Childers (c. 1901 – December 10, 1939) Guitarist and singer, who was recorded in 1938. [18] Jaybird Coleman (May 20, 1896 – January 28, 1950). Born in Gainesville, Alabama, Coleman was a country blues harmonica player, guitarist and singer who performed early Piedmont blues and harmonica blues, active mostly in the 1930s. [19]
Josh Smith (born October 7, 1979) [1] is an American blues guitar player from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He now lives in Los Angeles and is a record producer at his studio Flat V Studios. In 2019 Guitar World magazine put Smith number 16 on their list, "The 30 best blues guitarists in the world today".
His singular guitar playing, marked by flamboyant string-bending, imaginative chord voicings and a distinctive tone, was influential in the Chicago blues scene of the 1950s. In the mid-1950s, Williams was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in Chicago , but he was little known outside the music industry, since his name rarely ...
The Blues Band; Blues Incorporated [2] Bluesology; Chicken Shack [2] Climax Blues Band; Cream [2] [11] Downliners Sect; Dr. Feelgood; Fleetwood Mac [2] Foghat; Free; The Groundhogs; The Hamsters; Jeff Beck Group; The Jimi Hendrix Experience [11] John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers; Juicy Lucy; Keef Hartley Band; King King; Led Zeppelin [2] Love ...