- male, deceased (1967)
- Clarence "Tom" Ashley (September 29 1895 (or 1885?) - June 2 1967) was a 20th-century American clawhammer banjo player and singer. Born in Bristol,...
- male, deceased (1979)
- Gus Cannon (b. Red Banks, Mississippi, September 12, 1883 - d. Memphis, October 15, 1979) was an African American blues musician who helped to...
- male, deceased (1938)
- Papa Charlie Jackson (c.1890-1938) was an early American bluesman. He played a hybrid banjo-guitar and ukulele, recording beginning in 1924. Much...
- male, deceased (1984)
- Harmonica Frank Floyd (b. Toccopola, Mississippi, October 11, 1908; d. Memphis, Tennessee, August 7, 1984) was an American bluessinger, guitarist...
- male
- Frank Hutchison (1897-1945) was a blues musician and coal miner. He is also considered to be the first white man to record the blues, as he did on...
- male, deceased (2000)
- Cliff Bruner (April 25, 1915 - August 25, 2000) was a fiddler and bandleader of the western swing era of the 1930s. Bruner's music combined...
- female
- Geeshie Wiley (sometimes rendered as Geechie Wiley) was an obscure female United States blues singer and guitar player. She recorded three disc...
- male, deceased (1955)
- Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport was an American boogie woogie piano player. He also played the organ and sang. He was born in Anniston, Alabama....
- male, deceased (1980)
- Howard W. "Kroger" Babb was an American film and television producer. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots...
- male, deceased (1934)
- Benjamin Rucker (born in Amherst, Virginia in 1892) was an American stage magician, better known by his stage name Black Herman. He was the most...
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