ARTIST INDEX
 
             Artists are listed alphabetically by "performance" surname.

    ♫ - illustrative track or excerpt included
YTV - Youtube video link
 

A

GARFIELD AKERS ♫
ALGERNON "Texas" ALEXANDER ♫
RICH AMERSON
PINK ANDERSON ♫
AMADÉ ARDOIN
JAMES "Kokomo" ARNOLD ♫

B

KID BAILEY ♫
JOHN HENRY BARBEE
RAYMOND BARROW
BEALE STREET SHEIKS ♫
ED BELL (Barefoot Bill/Sluefoot Joe)  ♫
FRANCIS "Scrapper" BLACKWELL ♫
ARTHUR "Blind" BLAKE ♫
EUBIE BLAKE
LUCILLE BOGAN ♫
"Brownsville" SON BONDS
WILLIAM "Memphis Willie B" BORUM
CALDWELL "Mississippi" BRACEY
ISHMAN "Mississippi" BRACEY ♫
WILLIAM LEE CONLEY "Big Bill" BROONZY ♫
RICHARD "Rabbit" BROWN ♫
WILLIE BROWN ♫

C

JOE CALLICOT ♫
MOSE CANDLER
GUS CANNON YTV
LEROY CARR ♫
LAWRENCE "Papa Egg Shell" CASEY ♫
Bo Carter [ARMENTER CHATMON] ♫
"Doctor" PETER CLAYTON
JAYBIRD COLEMAN ♫
SAM COLLINS ♫
DEWEY CORLEY
"Bogus" BEN COVINGTON
IDA COX ♫
ARTHUR "Big Boy" CRUDUP YTV

D

"Blind" TEDDY DARBY ♫
CHARLES EDWARD "Cow Cow" DAVENPORT
REVEREND GARY DAVIS YTV
"Blind" JOHN DAVIS
WALTER DAVIS
MATTIE DELANEY
"Blind" SIMMIE DOOLEY ♫
THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY
ARIZONA DRANES ♫
"Champion" JACK DUPREE YTV

E

DAVE "Honeyboy" EDWARDS YTV ♫
"Sleepy" JOHN ESTES ♫
WILL EZELL

F

CANRAY FONTENOT YTV
"Blind Boy Fuller" [FULTON ALLEN] ♫
JESSE FULLER

G

BILL GAITHER ♫
"Blind" LEROY GARNETT
CLIFFORD "Grandpappy" GIBSON
Jazz [WILLIAM McKINLEY] GILLUM
"Blind" ROOSEVELT GRAVES ♫
LEON T "Archibald" GROSS

H

WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY YTV
HARLEM HAMFATS
RICHARD "Hacksaw" HARNEY
"Blind" WILLIE HARRIS ♫
WILLIAM HARRIS ♫
WALTER "Buddy Boy" HAWKINS ♫
LUCILLE HEGAMIN
ROBERT "Barbecue Bob" HICKS ♫
"Laughing" CHARLEY HICKS ("Lincoln")
ANDREW "Smokey" HOGG
King Solomon Hill [JOE HOLMES] ♫
SAM "Lightnin" HOPKINS YTV
JOSHUA "Peg Leg" HOWELL ♫
EDDIE JAMES "Son" HOUSE YTV
"Papa" HARVEY HULL      
 "Mississippi" JOHN HURT YTV

J

Papa Charlie Jackson [CHARLIE CARTER] ♫
JIM JACKSON ♫
MAHALIA JACKSON YTV
 ELMORE JAMES YTV
SKIP JAMES YTV
"Blind" LEMON JEFFERSON ♫
ALONZO "Lonnie" JOHNSON
ROBERT JOHNSON YTV
JAMES "Stump" JOHNSON
TOMMY JOHNSON ♫
"Blind" WILLIE JOHNSON ♫
DENNIS "Little Hat" JONES
CHARLEY JORDAN ♫
LUKE JORDAN

K

LOTTIE KIMBROUGH ♫

L

RUBIN LACEY
LOUIE LASKY
Leadbelly [HUDDIE WILLIAM LEDBETTER] YTV
NOAH LEWIS
 

WALTER "Furry" LEWIS YTV
MANCE LIPSCOMB YTV
"Cripple" CLARENCE LOFTON ♫
WILLIE "Poor Boy" LOFTON

M

MEMPHIS JUG BAND ♫
Memphis Minnie [LIZZIE DOUGLAS] ♫
TOMMY McCLENNAN
Kansas JOE McCOY & Papa CHARLIE McCOY
"Mississippi" FRED McDOWELL YTV
BROWNIE McGHEE YTV
JAY "Hootie" McSHANN
"Blind" WILLIE McTELL ♫
"Big" MACEO MERRIWEATHER
SARA MARTIN ♫
LIZZIE MILES ♫
MISSISSIPPI JOOK BAND ♫
MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS ♫
EURREAL "Little Brother" MONTGOMERY
ALEX MOORE YTV
EUGENE "Buddy" MOSS ♫

N

ROMEO NELSON ♫
ISAIAH "Mississippi Moaner" NETTLES
"Hambone" WILLIE NEWBERN ♫
Robert Nighthawk [Robert McCOLLUM] ♫

O

JACK OWENS ♫

P

CHARLEY PATTON ♫
JOE WILLIE "Pinetop" PERKINS YTV
ARTHUR PETTIS ♫
ROBERT PETWAY ♫
EUGENE POWELL[aka Sonny Boy Nelson] ♫

R

JAMES "Yank" RACHELL
MA RAINEY ♫
Piano Red/DrFeelgood [WILLIE PERRYMAN]
Tampa Red [HUDSON WHITTAKER] YTV
"Long Cleve" REED
Blind Joe Reynolds [JOE SHEPPARD] ♫

S

WILL SHADE ♫
JOHNNY SHINES
J.D. SHORT
HENRY "Son" SIMS ♫
Bumble Bee Slim [AMOS EASTON] YTV
Lightnin' Slim [OTIS HICKS] ♫
Memphis Slim [PETER CHATMAN] YTV
HENRY SLOAN
BESSIE SMITH YTV
CLARENCE "Pinetop" SMITH YTV
MAMIE SMITH YTV
J.T. "Funny Papa" SMITH ♫
VICTORIA SPIVEY YTV
FREDDIE SPRUELL ♫
HOUSTON STACKHOUSE
FRANK STOKES ♫
DADDY STOVEPIPE (Johnny Watson)
SUNNYLAND SLIM YTV
ROOSEVELT SYKES YTV

T

THEODORE "Hound Dog" TAYLOR YTV
JOHNNY "Geechie" TEMPLE ♫
SONNY TERRY YTV
ELVIE THOMAS ♫
HENRY "Ragtime Texas" THOMAS ♫
JESSE "Babyface" THOMAS
WILLARD "Ramblin" THOMAS
HENRY "Mule" TOWNSEND
B.K.L. "The Black Ace" TURNER ♫
OTHAR TURNER

V

WALTER VINSON ♫

W

AARON "T-Bone" WALKER YTV
BEULAH "Sippie" WALLACE YTV
Washboard Sam [ROBERT BROWN]
ISIDORE "Tuts" WASHINGTON
KID STORMY WEATHER ♫
CURLY WEAVER ♫
Peetie Wheatstraw [WILLIAM BUNCH] ♫
BUKKA WHITE YTV
JOSH WHITE YTV
JAMES "Boddle it" WIGGINS♫
GEESHIE WILEY ♫
Rev. ROBERT WILKINS
GEORGE "Bullet" WILLIAMS
"Blind" CONNIE WILLIAMS
JABO WILLIAMS
"Big" JOE WILLIAMS YTV
"Homesick" JAMES WILLIAMSON ♫
JOHN LEE "Sonny Boy" WILLIAMSON ♫
Sonny Boy Williamson [ALECK RICE MILLER] YTV
OSCAR "Buddy" WOODS

Y

JIMMY YANCEY

Acknowledgements   I am indebted to those who have emailed with additional information or to correct errors. Inevitably knowledge becomes a shared commodity. Where original sources are known, these are cited. Generally these jottings have been written from my accumulated personal knowledge over many years with occasional direct references derived from an eclectic group of sources that include:

album sleeve and CD notes,
CDNOW;
tBone at IO.com;
thebluehighway.com;
St Louis Blues & Jazz Hall of Fame;
The Red Saunders Research Foundation;
The University of Southern Mississippi -- McCain Library and Archives
alabamablues.org;
artistdirect.com;
jacksbluesshack.com;
Louisiana Music Artists Directory;
Margaret Moos Pick, Riverwalk, 2001;
Guilford College-Carolina Roots;
Open Directory at dmoz.org;
The Land Where the Blues Began (Pantheon Books) 1993 by Alan Lomax;
The History of the Blues (Hyperion) 1995 by Francis Davis;
The Devil's Music (BBC) 1976 by Giles Oakley
The Country Blues (Da Capo Press) 1975 by Samuel B Charters;
The Big Book of the Blues (Penguin) 1993 by Robert Santelli;
Blues Who's Who (Da Capo Press) 1979 by Sheldon Harris;
Encyclopedia of the Blues (The University of Arkansas Press) 1992 Gerard Herzhaft [Ed];
Chasin' That Devil Music (Backbeat Books) 1998 by Gayle Dean Wardlow;
Rob Hutten, Blues & Rhythm Magazine, (Issue 120), hutten.org/rob/
All Music Guide to the Blues (Backbeat Books) 1999, Eds: Erlewine, Bogdanov, Woodstra & Coda;
Blues An Illustrated History (Caxton Editions) 2004 by Zeb Jones;
Blues Singers (McFarland & Co., Inc) 1999 by David Dicaire
In Search of the Blues: Black Voices,White Visions (Jonathon Cape) 2007 by Marybeth Hamilton.
White Bicycles (Serpent's Tail) 2007 by Joe Boyd