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Delta blues [100] Bessie Smith: 1894 1937 Tennessee Classic female blues [101] Clara Smith: 1894* 1935 South Carolina Classic female blues [102] J. T. "Funny Papa" Smith: 1885* 1940* U.S. Country blues [103] Mamie Smith: 1883 1946 Ohio Vaudeville blues [45] Pinetop Sparks: 1910 1935 Mississippi Boogie woogie [104] Speckled Red: 1892 1973 ...
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame" was not a physical building, but a listing of people who have significantly contributed to blues music. Started in 1980, it honors people who have performed, recorded, or documented blues.
Maurice John Vaughn (born May 10, 1952) [1] is an American blues musician from Chicago, Illinois, United States. [2] He is a guitarist, saxophonist, keyboardist and singer. [ 1 ]
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the " Empress of the Blues ", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.
Pages in category "American blues singer-songwriters" ... Byther Smith; Preston Smith (musician) ... Stevie Ray Vaughan; Adia Victoria; Eric Von Schmidt; W.
[177] According to music journalist Robert Christgau, Vaughan was "writing blues for AA...he escapes the blues undamaged for the first time in his career." [178] In October 1989, the Boca Raton News described Vaughan's guitar solos as "determined, clear-headed and downright stinging" and his lyrics as "tension-filled allegories". [179]
J. T. Smith – (c. 1890 – c. 1940), variously known as the Howling Wolf, "Funny Paper" Smith, "Funny Papa" Smith, and Howling Smith, was a blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. [93] [94] He released around ten singles in his own name or variants thereof, and recorded with Bernice Edwards, Black Boy Shine, Magnolia Harris, and Dessa Foster ...
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.