List of blues musicians
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)
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, (born 1930)
- Percy Mayfield
- Lux Lewis
- Leroy Carr
- Albert Ammons
- Roy Brown
- Pee 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
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
- Robert Nighthawk
- Jimmy Rogers, (born 1924)
- Magic Sam
- Otis Rush
- Johnny Shines
- Little Walter
- Muddy Waters, (1915-1983)
- Junior Wells, (1934-1998)
- Howlin' Wolf
- Bo Diddley, (born 1928)
- Sonny Boy Williamson II(Rice Miller)
- Jimmy Reed
Modern Blues (post 1950s)
- James Anthony (Pecchia)
- B.B. King, (born 1925)
- John Lee Hooker, (1917-2001)
- Etta James, (born 1938)
- Taj Mahal (born 1942)
- Keb' Mo', (born 1951)
- John Mayall, (born 1933)
- Eric Clapton, (born 1945)
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, (1954-1990)
- James Cotton
- Albert Collins
- Clarence Gatemouth Brown
- Ali Farka Toure, (born 1939)
- Bobby Blue Bland
- Willie Dixon, (died 1992)
- Johnny Winter, (born 1944)
- Koko Taylor, (born 1935)
Blues in late 1960s Rock Music
- Janis Joplin, (1943-1970)
- Cream
- Led Zeppelin
- The Yardbirds
- Santana
- Fleetwood Mac
- The Rolling Stones
- Captain Beefheart
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
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
- Moby
- The White Stripes
- The Black Keys
- Nick Cave
- Tom Waits
- Jon Spencer