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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.
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (born January 19, 1999) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, who became a well-known performer as a teenager. His debut album, Kingfish , was released in May 2019. [ 3 ]
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 )
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 .
The barn and this wellspring of the blues (and jazz, and rock-n-roll, and hip-hop) all sit near the exact geographic center of the Mississippi Delta, in a square of the great American land grid ...
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later generations of musicians.
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 ...
He was selected three times as Blues Performer of the Year in New Orleans. He was honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in McComb, Mississippi. [6] In 2007, King co-contributed to the Alabama Slim album, The Mighty Flood. [7] His 2012 album, Chasing tha Blues, won Best Blues Album at the 12th Annual Independent Music Awards. [8]