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Delbert McClinton
Delbert McClinton (born 1940, Lubbock, Texas) is an American honky-tonk blues singer, songwriter, and harmonica player. Known for Bruce Channel's "Hey! Baby," advising John Lennon on "Love Me Do," four Grammys, and the Sandy Beaches Cruise.
Delta blues
Delta blues is a regional country blues style from the Mississippi Delta, marked by percussive slide guitar, sparse harmony, and intense vocals; key figures include Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Muddy Waters, whose migration carried the style into Chicago electric blues.
Doyle Bramhall II
Doyle Bramhall II, born 1968, is a Texas blues-rock guitarist, singer, and producer, ex-Arc Angels, longtime Eric Clapton and Roger Waters collaborator, known for playing a right-strung guitar flipped upside down.
Electric blues
Electric blues is a music style defined by amplified instruments, led by the electric guitar. It emerged in American cities in the 1930s, developing most prominently in Chicago.
Elmore James
Elmore James (born Elmore Brooks, 1918–1963), the "King of the Slide Guitar," was a Mississippi-born Chicago blues slide guitarist whose 1951 electric "Dust My Broom" and band the Broomdusters shaped electric blues and blues rock.
Elvin Bishop
Elvin Bishop (born 1942, Glendale, California) is an American blues and rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter, a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, known for the No. 3 hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" and Rock and Roll and Blues Hall of Fame membership.
Eric Gales
Eric Gales, Memphis blues-rock guitarist and singer, plays a right-handed guitar upside down left-handed. Child prodigy signed to Elektra as a teen; returned in 2017 after career problems.
Fleetwood Mac (1968 album)
Fleetwood Mac, also known as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, is the 1968 debut album by the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on the Blue Horizon label.
Fooled Around and Fell in Love
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" is a 1975 song by blues guitarist Elvin Bishop's band, sung by Mickey Thomas, reaching number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976.
Freddie King
Freddie King (born Freddie Christian, 1934–1976) was a Texas-born Chicago blues guitarist, the unrelated "third King" after B.B. and Albert, famous for "Hide Away" and his thumb-and-finger pick style.
Gary Clark Jr.
Gary Clark Jr. (born 1984, Austin, Texas) is a four-time Grammy-winning American blues-rock guitarist and singer. Known for Blak and Blu, This Land, and JPEG RAW, he blends blues with soul, R&B, funk, and hip-hop.
Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf, born Chester Arthur Burnett (1910–1976), was a Mississippi-born electric blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player at Chess Records, known for "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Spoonful", and his influence on British rock.
I'd Rather Go Blind
I'd Rather Go Blind: soul-blues ballad by Ellington Jordan and Billy Foster, first recorded by Etta James in 1967 at FAME Studios, Muscle Shoals, as the B-side of "Tell Mama"; a standard covered by Chicken Shack, Rod Stewart, and Sydney Youngblood.
Jimmie Vaughan
Jimmie Vaughan (born 1951, Dallas) is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer, founder and lead guitarist of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan; known for Tuff Enuff, Family Style, and a restrained traditional blues style.
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa (Joseph Leonard Bonamassa) is an American blues-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter born in 1977 in New Hartford, New York, who opened for B.B. King as a child.
John Mayall
John Mayall (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024), the Godfather of British Blues, led the Bluesbreakers and launched Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor and Fleetwood Mac's founders; his 1966 Beano album reached UK No. 6, and he entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024.
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, English blues band founded by John Mayall in London in 1963, a finishing school for Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor, famed for Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (1966) until the name was retired in 2008.
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Johnny "Guitar" Watson (John Watson Jr., 1935-1996) was a Houston-born blues and funk guitarist and vocalist, not the 1954 Nicholas Ray film Johnny Guitar. Known for Space Guitar, Gangster of Love, and 1970s funk hits, he died onstage in Yokohama in 1996.
Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter (John Dawson Winter III, 1944–2014), Texas blues-rock guitarist and producer, Muddy Waters' Grammy-winning producer, Columbia and Alligator recording artist, Blues Hall of Fame 1988.
Jonny Lang
Jonny Lang (Jon Gordon Langseth Jr., born 1981, Fargo, North Dakota) is an American blues, gospel, and rock singer-guitarist whose 1997 debut Lie to Me went gold when he was a teenager; he won a 2007 Grammy for Turn Around and has paused performing over vocal cord problems.
Jump blues
Jump blues: up-tempo, jazz-tinged blues of the mid-to-late 1940s, horn-driven with shouted vocals and honking tenor sax, pioneered by Louis Jordan; bridge between small-band blues, big-band jazz, and rock and roll.
Keb' Mo'
Keb' Mo', born Kevin Roosevelt Moore in 1951, is an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Compton, California, known for an acoustic, Delta-rooted style and five Grammy Awards.
Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins, born Samuel John Hopkins, was a Texas blues singer and guitarist who carried country blues into the postwar era over more than 50 years.
Little Walter
Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs, 1930–1968), American Chicago blues harmonica virtuoso with Muddy Waters and solo on Chess/Checker; pioneered amplified, distorted harp; hits "Juke" and "My Babe"; Rock and Blues Hall of Fame inductee.
Long John Baldry
Long John Baldry (John William Baldry, 1941-2005), English blues singer and guitarist, Blues Incorporated vocalist on R&B From the Marquee, UK No. 1 with Let the Heartaches Begin, discoverer of Rod Stewart, namesake of Elton John, voice of Dr Robotnik.
Lucille Bogan
about 20 words: Lucille Bogan, also known as Bessie Jackson, was an American blues singer active in the 1920s and 1930s. She was known for her explicit lyrics.
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey (Gertrude Pridgett), billed as the "Mother of the Blues," was one of the earliest American professional blues singers, recording for Paramount Records from 1923 to 1928.
Mike Bloomfield
Mike Bloomfield (Michael Bernard Bloomfield, 1943-1981), Chicago blues-rock guitarist with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Electric Flag founder, and Bob Dylan's Newport 1965 lead guitarist.
Mr. Wonderful (Fleetwood Mac album)
Mr. Wonderful is the second studio album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in August 1968, reaching number 10 on the UK Albums Chart.
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, 1913/1915-1983), American blues singer and slide guitarist, father of modern Chicago blues; Chess Records star whose "Rollin' Stone" named the Rolling Stones and who won seven Grammys.