Thursday, August 6, 2020

Corona Mania Lists: The 25 Country Blues Artists You HAVE To Know...



Reverend Gary Davis/ Blind Boy Fuller
Elizabeth Cotten
Blind Blake
Lonnie Johnson
Robert Johnson/ Willie Brown

Lightnin' Hopkins
Skip James
Mississippi John Hurt
Charley Patton
Pink Anderson

Mississippi Fred McDowell
Blind Willie McTell
Mance Lipscomb
Memphis Minnie/ Kansas City Joe
Lead Belly

Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Willie Johnson
Bessie Smith
Furry Lewis/ Frank Stokes
Son House

Mississippi Sheiks/ Bo Carter
Sonny Terry/ Brownie McGhee
Sonny Boy Williamson II
Henry Thomas
Charley Jordan/ Petey Wheatstraw



HONORABLE MENTION

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
John Lee Hooker
Bukka White
Ma Rainey

Muddy Waters
Howlin' Wolf /Little Walter/ Hubert Sumlin/ Otis Spann
Odetta
Joseph Spence
Blind Blake Alphonso Higgs


A FEW ARTISTS WE LIKE WHO WERE INFLUENCED BY COUNTRY BLUES

Billie Holiday
Nina Simone
Sam Cooke
Wilson Pickett
Otis Redding

Jimmie Rodgers
Dick Justice
Woody Guthrie
Hank Williams
Johnny Cash

Elvis
Carl Perkins
Fred Neil
Michael Bloomfield
Paul Butterfield




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