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Howlin' Wolf (1910–1976) – blues singer, guitarist, harmonica player Cary Hudson – lead singer and guitarist for alternative country band Blue Mountain ( Sumrall ) Mississippi John Hurt (c. 1893–1966) – country blues singer and guitarist ( Teoc )
Johnny "Man" Young (January 1, 1917 – April 18, 1974) [1] was an American blues singer, mandolin player and guitarist, significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after the Second World War. He was one of the few mandolin players active in blues music in the postwar era.
Pages in category "Blues musicians from Mississippi" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 207 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1960 he made his first recordings with his 17-year-old daughter Carla, for the Satellite label in Memphis, which changed its name to Stax the following year. The song, "Cause I Love You", featuring a rhythm borrowed from Jesse Hill's "Ooh Poo Pa Doo", was a regional hit; the musicians included Thomas' son Marvell on keyboards, Steinberg, and the 16-year-old Booker T. Jones.
B. Tommy Bankhead; L.V. Banks; Booba Barnes; Dave Barnes; Terry "Harmonica" Bean; Nathan Beauregard; Robert Belfour; Little Joe Blue; Charley Booker; R. L. Boyce
Son House Mississippi John Hurt, 1964 Blind Lemon Jefferson Lonnie Johnson, 1941 Lead Belly Robert Jr. Lockwood, 1982 Sara Martin and Sylvester Weaver Mississippi Fred McDowell, 1972 Jay McShann in Edinburgh, c.1995 Memphis Minnie, 1930 Buddy Moss in Georgia prison camp, 1941 Ma Rainey Jimmy Rushing, 1946 Bessie Smith, 1936 Mamie Smith Henry Townsend, 1983 Ethel Waters, 1943 Curley Weaver Big ...
John Wesley Funchess (April 16, 1931 – February 1, 1994) [1] known professionally as John (or Johnny) Littlejohn, was an American electric blues slide guitarist. [2] He was active on the Chicago blues circuit from the 1950s to the 1980s. [2]
Acoustic and electric guitarist and singer of North Mississippi hill country blues, Delta blues and juke joint blues. [27] Little Freddie King (born July 19, 1940, McComb, Mississippi). Guitarist. [28] He appears in the 2015 documentary film I Am the Blues. [29] King Solomon Hill (1897, McComb, Mississippi – 1949, Sibley, Louisiana). Singer ...