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Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Contemporary blues musicians" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Piano "C" Red (1933–2013), Chicago blues and boogie-woogie pianist, singer and composer; Honey Piazza (born 1951), West Coast blues and boogie-woogie pianist; Pinetop Perkins (1913–2011), American musician and teacher of Ike Turner; Preacher Jack (born 1942), stage name of John Lincoln Coughlin, American pianist, recording artist on Rounder ...
In the 1980s and 1990s, blues rock was more roots-oriented than in the 1960s and 1970s, even when artists such as the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan flirted with rock stardom. [1] Solo artists are listed alphabetically by last name, and groups are listed alphabetically by the first letter (not including the prefix "the", "a" or "an").
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
The Piedmont blues (also known as Piedmont fingerstyle) is a type of blues music, characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bassline pattern supports a melody using the treble strings. [1] The result is comparable in sound to ragtime or stride piano styles. [1]
Winning Blues Artist of the year in 2019 [18], 2021 [19], 2022 [20], 2023 [21], and 2024 [22]. They were nominated for their first Blues Music Award in 2022 for Best Emerging Artist. [23] In 2023 GA-20 was nominated for Blues Band of the year and the album Live In Loveland was nominated for Live Blues Album by the Blues Blast Awards. [24]
Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968) [1] is a Canadian blues guitarist and singer. She has released 15 albums since her debut with Young Girl Blues (1992). In May 2020, Foley won her first Blues Music Award, in the 'Koko Taylor Award (Traditional Blues Female)' category.