Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins

male, deceased (1982)
Texas musician, musician, guitarist, Blues guitarist, Blues musician, Blues singer…Blues Hall of Fame inductee, countryblues
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 - January 30, 1982) was a country blues guitar musician, from Houston, Texas.
Bukka White

Bukka White

male, deceased (1977)
National String Instrument Corporation, piano, guitarist, singer, fiddle, Blues guitarist…Blues musician, Blues singer, delta blues, Blues Hall of Fame inductee, countryblues
Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White was a delta blues guitarist and singer born near Houston, Mississippi. Even though he didn't like the spelling...
Josh White

Josh White

male, deceased (1969)
social protest, race records, urban blues, death from cardiovascular disease, Tin Pan Alley, Protest song…Chicago blues, Blues singer, Blues musician, Blues guitarist, countryblues
Joshua Daniel White, best known as Josh White, was a legendary American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. Today, he...
Jessie Mae Hemphill

Jessie Mae Hemphill

female, deceased (2006)
musician, Songwriter, African American, country musician, guitarist, singer…American blues musician, countryblues
Jessie Mae Hemphill (October 18, 1923 - July 22, 2006), was a pioneering electric guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist specializing in the primal,...
Charlie Feathers

Charlie Feathers

male, deceased (1998)
Charles Feathers, country-blues, Sun Studios, Sun Records, The Cramps, countryblues…blues, country music
Charles Feathers, (June 12, 1932 - August 29, 1998), was an influential rockabilly and country music performer. Charles Arthur Feathers was born in...
Annie Raines

Annie Raines

female, 40 years old
Busker, Big Walter, Paul Rishell, Louis Meyers, Little Walter Jacobs, Blues harmonica player…countryblues, blues
Annie Raines, born near Boston, Massachusetts, July 3 1969, took up harmonica at age 17. As a freshman, she left Antioch College to pursue a...
Sylvester Weaver

Sylvester Weaver

male, deceased (1960)
Guitar Rag, Steel Guitar Rag, Kentuckiana Blues Society, Guitar Blues / Guitar Rag, Okeh Records, country music…blues, Blues musician, countryblues, Kentucky Blues Society, Blues guitarist
Sylvester Weaver (born July 25 1897 in Louisville, Kentucky; died April 4 1960 in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American blues guitar player and...
Sonny Boy Williamson I

Sonny Boy Williamson I

male, deceased (1948)
American, Sonny Boy Williamson, American harmonica player, harmonica, blues, countryblues…American blues musician, Blues harmonica player, urban blues
Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee Curtis Williamson, 30 March 1914 - 1 June 1948) was an American blues harmonica player, and the first to use the...
Hammie Nixon

Hammie Nixon

male, deceased (1984)
harmonica, guitar, Kazoo, countryblues, Blues harmonica player, Jug band
Hammie Nixon was born in 1908, in Brownsville, Tennessee. He began his music career with jug bands in the 1920s and is best known as a country...
Lonnie Pitchford

Lonnie Pitchford

male, deceased (1998)
Lexington, musician, African American, guitarist, singer, AIDS-related death…Blues guitarist, Blues musician, Blues singer, delta blues, blues
Lonnie Pitchford (b. near Lexington, Mississippi, October 8, 1955; d. Lexington, Mississippi, November 8, 1998) was a blues musician and instrument...