Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 - January 30, 1982) was a country blues guitar musician, from Houston, Texas.

Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White was a delta blues guitarist and singer born near Houston, Mississippi. Even though he didn't like the spelling "Bukka", he was best known by that name. He gave his more famous cousin B.B. King his first guitar, a Stella. Bukka himself is remembered as a player of National Steel guitars. He also played, but was less adept at, the piano.

Joshua Daniel White, best known as Josh White, was a legendary American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. Today, he is widely remembered for his powerful and highly sensual stage presence, while some still remember that he almost single-handedly introduced Negro folk, blues, and gospel music to a world audience in the 1940s.

Jessie Mae Hemphill (October 18, 1923 - July 22, 2006), was a pioneering electric guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist specializing in the primal, northern Mississippi country blues traditions of her family and regional heritage. She was born near Como and Senatobia, Mississippi, in northern Mississippi just east of the Mississippi Delta.

Charles Feathers, (June 12, 1932 - August 29, 1998), was an influential rockabilly and country music performer. Charles Arthur Feathers was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and recorded a string of popular singles like "Peepin' Eyes," "Defrost Your Heart," "Tongue-Tied Jill," and "Bottle to the Baby" on Sun Records, Meteor and King Records in the 1950s. Feathers was known for being a master of shifting emotional and sonic dynamics in his songs.

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 musical career. Fascinated by the sounds of Muddy Waters, Little Walter Jacobs, Big Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson, she spent countless hours listening to and absorbing the music of the Chicago blues masters. She began to busk locally and played gigs at local Boston clubs, …

Sylvester Weaver (born July 25 1897 in Louisville, Kentucky; died April 4 1960 in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American blues guitar player and pioneer of country blues. On October 23, 1923, he recorded in New York with the blues singer Sara Martin "Longing for Daddy Blues / I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind" and two weeks later as a soloist "Guitar Blues / Guitar Rag". Both recordings were released on Okeh Records.

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 name Sonny Boy Williamson.

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 blues harmonica player, but also played the kazoo, guitar and jug. He played with guitarist Sleepy John Estes for half a century, first recording with Estes in 1929 for the Victor label. He also recorded with Little Buddy Doyle, Lee Green, Charlie Pickett and Son Bonds.

Lonnie Pitchford (b. near Lexington, Mississippi, October 8, 1955; d. Lexington, Mississippi, November 8, 1998) was a blues musician and instrument maker from Mississippi. He was notable in that he was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from Mississippi who had learned and was continuing the Delta blues and country blues traditions of the older generations. In addition to the acoustic and electric guitar, …

Andrew 'Smokey' Hogg (b Jan 27, 1914, near Westconnie, Texas - d May 1, 1960, McKinney, Texas) was one of the most popular of the post war Texas country blues artists. He grew up on the farm and was taught to play guitar by his father Frank Hogg. While still in his teens he teamed up with a fine slide guitarist and vocalist, …

J. Nicholas Perls (4/4/1942 - 7/22/1987) Founder and owner of Yazoo Records and Blue Goose Records "Nick" Perls was one of a handful of serious east coast collectors of 78-rpm country blues recordings during the 1960s. He made several trips through the deep south, knocking on doors and acquiring old records. He also was a frequent patron of antique shops throughout the New York area, always searching for rare blues sides.

Charlie Parr is a country blues musician from Duluth, Minnesota. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, and Dave Van Ronk. He plays a National resonator guitar and a 12-string guitar in the piedmont blues style.

Mike Cooper is a British guitar player, singer and songwriter. Born in 1942 in Reading, Berkshire, UK, Cooper started playing guitar shortly after leaving school in 1958. In 1962, as a singer and harmonica player, he co-founded an R&B band The Blues Committee, with guitarist Paul Manning, guitarist Dicky Reeves and drummer Eddie Page. They played alongside many visiting American blues players in their home town: John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, …

C.W. Stoneking is an Australian Hokum, delta blues and country blues singer and guitarist. He lives in Gippsland and performs regularly in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Brunswick and Fitzroy, sometimes with his "Primitive Horn Orchestra". Disc jockey Tim Ritchie picked Stoneking's 2006 album "King Hokum" as his album of the year on Radio National's Breakfast program. Radio National also presented his February 2007 Australia wide tour.

Jandek is the musical project of an outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released 50 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical information. Jandek often plays a highly idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk and blues music, often using an open and unconventional chord structure.

Tokio Uchida (1958 -) is an influential acoustic guitar player who combines elements of American country blues with musical influences from his native Japan. He was born in Yokkaichi, Mie but learnt fingerstyle guitar with American blues guitarist Stefan Grossman. He has done much to promote the acceptance of acoustic blues, ragtime and fingerstyle guitar within Japan, and established a guitar school in Tokyo in 1991.

Glenn Kaiser (born January 21, 1953) is a Chicago-based Christian blues musician, singer-songwriter, and pastor. He was the leader of Resurrection Band and Glenn Kaiser Band.