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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 ]
Carl Weathersby (1953–2024) – blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ; Boogie Bill Webb (1924–1990) – blues guitarist and singer ; Bukka White (1909–1977) – Delta blues guitarist and singer ; Carson Whitsett (1945–2007) – keyboardist, arranger, and songwriter
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 ...
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 .
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.
As a young man, McCoy was drawn to the music scene in Memphis, Tennessee, where he played guitar and sang during the 1920s. He teamed up his with future wife, Lizzie Douglas, a guitarist better known as Memphis Minnie , [ 4 ] and their 1930 recording of the song "Bumble Bee" for Columbia Records was a hit .
[3] The Washington Post said, "Jarekus Singleton is an exciting new young blues guitarist with melody, hooks, swagger and a strong, original voice. His lyrics are modern, personal, acutely poetic and deeply mature." [4] USA Today said of Singleton, "Stinging blues guitar and potent, original songs herald the emergence of a major new talent." [5]
His father was a blues musician who played guitar and accordion. When Henry was young, his family moved near Cairo, Illinois. [2] Henry left home at the age of nine because of his abusive father and hoboed his way to St. Louis, Missouri. [3] He learned guitar while in his early teens from a locally renowned blues guitarist known as Dudlow Joe. [4]