Blues Hall of Fame

• Eddie Boyd
• Billy Branch
• Syl Johnson
• Bettye LaVette
• George “Harmonica” Smith
• Victoria Spivey

• Ralph Peer

Album

• The Chess Box – Howlin’ Wolf, 1991

Dal

• "That’s All Right (Mama)" – Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, 1946
• "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean" – Ruth Brown, 1952
• "Trouble in Mind" – Bertha "Chippie" Hill, 1926
• "Future Blues" – Willie Brown, 1930
• "3 O’Clock Blues" – B.B. King, 1951

• Earl Hooker – Blues Master by Sebastian Danchin (University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

• Aretha Franklin
• Booker T. & the M.G.'s
• Count Basie
• Ida Cox
• Pee Wee Crayton

• Moe Asch

Album

• The Sky Is Crying – Elmore James, 1965

Dal

• "Everyday I Have The Blues" – B. B. King, 1954
• "I Got A Woman" – Ray Charles, 1954
• "Rollin’ Stone" – Muddy Waters, 1950
• "Shake Your Moneymaker" – Elmore James, 1961
• "The St. Louis Blues" – Bessie Smith, 1925

• Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 by John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, és Samuel C. Adams, Jr. (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005)

• The Aces
• Georgia Tom Dorsey
• Sam Lay
• Mamie Smith
• Roebuck "Pops" Staples

• Al Benson

Album

• Blues Is King – B. B. King, 1967

Dal

• "Cross Cut Saw" – Albert King, 1966
• "Green Onions" – Booker T. & the MG’s, 1962
• "I’m a Man" – Bo Diddley, 1955
• "Roll ’Em Pete" – Joe Turner, 1938
• "See See Rider Blues" – Ma Rainey, 1924

• I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy by Bob Riesman (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

• Johnny Copeland
• Henry Gray
• Willie Johnson
• Latimore
• Magic Slim
• Mavis Staples

• Amy van Single

Album

• The Real Folk Blues – John Lee Hooker, 1966

Dal

• "Bo Diddley" – Bo Diddley, 1955
• "I’ll PLay the Blues for You" – Albert King, 1971
• "Hi-Heel Sneakers" – Tommy Tucker, 1963
• "Preachin’ the Blues" – Son House, 1930
• "I Ain’t Superstitious" – Howlin’ Wolf, 1961

• Father of the Blues by W.C. Handy (Macmillan, 1941)

• Elvin Bishop
• Eddy Clearwater
• Jimmy Johnson
• John Mayall
• The Memphis Jug Band

• Tommy Couch, Sr.
• Wolf Stephenson

Album

• Blues in the Mississippi Night – Alan Lomax gyűjtése, 1957

Dal

• "Crazy Hours" – Mamie Smith, 1920
• "That’s All Right" – Jimmy Rogers, 1950
• "I Wish You Would" – Billy Boy Arnold, 1955
• "Merry Christmas Baby" – Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers feat. Charles Brown, 1947
• "Blues Before Sunrise" – Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, 1920
• "Crazy Hours" – Mamie Smith, 1920

• Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis by Jeff Todd Titon (University of Illinois Press, 1977)

• Eric Clapton
• Little Richard
• Tommy Brown

• Big Jay McNeely
• Eddie Shaw
• Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
• R. L. Burnside
• Robert Pete Williams

• Dick Shurman
• Don Robey
• Mike Kappus

Album

• Hawk Squat – J.B. Hutto, 1969
• Moanin’ in the Moonlight – Howlin’ Wolf, 1959

Dal

• "After Hours" – Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra, 1940
• "Catfish Blues" – Robert Petway, 1941
• "High Water Everywhere, Parts I & II" – Charley Patton, 1930
• "It’s Tight Like That" – Tampa Red & Georgia Tom, 1928
• "Milk Cow Blues" – Kokomo Arnold, 1934

• Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown and Company, 2005)

• Earl Hooker
• Jimmie Rodgers
• Jody Williams
• Joe Louis Walker
• Little Brother Montgomery
• Otis Clay

• Cosimo Matassa
• Dave Clark
• Henry Glover

Album

• Texas Worried Blues: The Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929 – Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas, 1975
• Louis Jordan's Greatest Hits – Louis Jordan, 1969
• More Real Folk Blues – Howlin' Wolf, 1967

Dal

• "Canned Heat Blues" – Tommy Johnson, 1928
• "How Many More Years" – Howlin' Wolf, 1951
• "Let the Good Times Roll" – Louis Jordan, 1946
• "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" – Memphis Minnie, 1941
• "Mystery Train" – Little Junior's Blue Flames (Junior Parker), 1953

• Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records by Rob Bowman (Schirmer, 2003)

• Billy Boy Arnold
• Mike Bloomfield
• Buddy Johnson & Ella Johnson
• Lazy Lester
• Furry Lewis
• Matt "Guitar" Murphy
• Frank Stokes
• Allen Toussaint

• Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau
• Doc Pomus
• Pervis Spann

Album

• Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues – Buddy Guy, 1991
• Bad Influence – The Robert Cray Band, 1983

Dal

• "All Your Love" – Magic Sam, 1957
• "It Hurts Me Too" – Tampa Red, 1940
• "Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie" – Pine Top Smith, 1928

• The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine, szerkesztette Jim O'Neal & Amy van Singel (Routledge, 2002)

• Big Maybelle
• Robert Cray
• John Hammond, Jr.
• Alberta Hunter
• Denise LaSalle
• J. B. Lenoir

• Bruce Bromberg
• Vivian Carter & Jimmy Bracken
• Samuel Charters
• John W. Work III

Album

• False Accusations – Robert Cray, 1985
• Night Beat – Sam Cooke, 1963
• The Real Folk Blues – Howlin' Wolf, 1965

Dal

• "Ain’t Nobody’s Business" – Jimmy Witherspoon, 1947
• "Five Long Years" – Eddie Boyd, 1952
• "Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues" – Skip James, 1931
• "Love in Vain" – Robert Johnson, 1937

• Walking to New Orleans: The Story of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues by John Broven (Blues Unlimited, 1974)

• Lonnie Brooks
• Gus Cannon
• W. C. Handy
• Amos Milburn
• Charlie Musselwhite
• Bonnie Raitt

• Peter Guralnick
• "Sunshine" Sonny Payne

Album

• Hung Down Head – Lowell Fulson, 1970
• I Hear Some Blues Downstairs – Fenton Robinson, 1977
• Strong Persuader – Robert Cray, 1986

Dal

• "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" – Otis Rush, 1958
• "Fever" – Little Willie John, 1956
• "Key to the Highway" – Big Bill Broonzy, 1941
• "Match Box Blues" – Blind Lemon Jefferson, 1927
• "Spoonful" – Howlin’ Wolf, 1960

• The Bluesmen by Samuel Charters (Da Capo Press, 1991)

• Reverend Gary Davis
• Son Seals
• Taj Mahal
• Irma Thomas

• Clifford Antone
• Mike Leadbitter
• Bob Porter

Album

• Amtrak Blues – Alberta Hunter, 1978
• Blues With a Feeling Newport Folk Festival Classics – válogatás, 1993
• T-Bone Blues – T-Bone Walker, 1959

Dal

• "Boom Boom" – John Lee Hooker, 1961
• "Caldonia" – Louis Jordan, 1945
• "Sitting on Top of the World" – Mississippi Sheiks, 1930

• I Hear You Knockin: The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues by Jeff Hannusch (Swallow Publications, 1985)

• Jimmy McCracklin
• Mississippi Sheiks
• Hubert Sumlin
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson
• Peetie Wheatstraw
• Jimmy Witherspoon

• John Hammond
• Paul Oliver

Album

• Freddy King Sings – Freddy King, 1961
• I’m Jimmy Reed – Jimmy Reed, 1958
• Members Only – Bobby Bland, 1985
• Piney Woods Blues – Big Joe Williams, 1958
• Rocks the House – Etta James, 1964

Dal

• "Back-Water Blues" – Bessie Smith, 1927
• "Double Trouble" – Otis Rush, 1958
• "My Babe" – Little Walter, 1955

• 7 Guitars by August Wilson (Plume, 1997)
• Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf by James Segrest & Mark Hoffman (Pantheon Books, 2004)

• Dave Bartholomew
• Dr. John
• Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe

• Ahmet Ertegün
• Art Rupe

Album

• Angola Prisoners’ Blues – Robert Pete Williams & others, 1959
• Down and Out Blues – Sonny Boy Williamson II, 1960
• Driving Wheel – Little Jr. Parker, 1962

Dal

• "Black Angel Blues" – Robert Nighthawk (The Nighthawks), 1949
• "Death Letter" – Son House, 1965
• "Hide Away (Hideaway)" – Freddie (Freddy) King, 1961

• Blues With a Feeling: The Little Walter Story by Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines (Routledge, 2002)

• Paul Butterfield
• James Cotton
• Roy Milton
• Bobby Rush

• Bihari Brothers
• Bobby Robinson
• Jerry Wexler

Album

• I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll – Mississippi Fred McDowell
• Screamin' and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton
• Tell Mama – Etta James

Dal

• "Devil Got My Woman" – Skip James
• "Honky Tonk, Parts 1 & 2" – Bill Doggett
• "Hound Dog" – Big Mama Thornton

• Blues & Rhythm magazin, UK
• Chasin’ That Devil’s Music by Gayle Dean Wardlow; szerkesztette Edward Komara

• Walter Davis
• Ike Turner

• H. C. Speir

Album

• Down Home – Z.Z. Hill, 1982

Dal

• "Black Night" – Charles Brown, 1951

• Blues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones (William Morrow, 1963)

• Bo Diddley
• Blind Boy Fuller

• J. Mayo Williams

Album

• Raining in My Heart – Slim Harpo

Dal

• "Baby What You Want Me To Do" – Jimmy Reed

• Juke Blues magazin, UK

• Fats Domino
• Pinetop Perkins
• Sippie Wallace
• Dinah Washington

• Ralph Bass

Album

• It’s My Life Baby! – Junior Wells, 1966

Dal

• "Part Time Love" – Little Johnny Taylor, 1963

• Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, by Robert Gordon (Little, Brown and Company, 2002)

• Ruth Brown
• Big Maceo Merriweather

• Jim O'Neal

Album

• Live in Cook County Jail – B.B. King, 1971

Dal

• "Going Down Slow" – St. Louis Jimmy Oden, 1941

• Spinning the Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records, by Nadine Cohodas (St. Martin's Griffin, 2000)

• Etta James
• Little Junior Parker
• Rufus Thomas

• Theresa Needham
• Robert Palmer

Album

• The Complete Plantation Recordings – Muddy Waters, 1993

Dal

• "Shake, Rattle and Roll" – Big Joe Turner

• Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story, by Helen Dance (Da Capo Books)

• Johnny Otis
• Stevie Ray Vaughan

• Dick Waterman

Album

• Mississippi Delta Blues – Mississippi Fred McDowell

Dal

• "Down Home Blues" – Z.Z. Hill

• The Country Blues, by Samuel Charters (Rinehart and Co., 1959)

• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
• Roosevelt Sykes

• Lester Melrose
• Chris Strachwitz

Album

• Blues Hit Big Town – Junior Wells

Dal

• "Dark Was The Night" – Blind Willie Johnson, 1927

• The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing, by David "Honeyboy" Edwards

• Luther Allison
• Junior Wells

• Lillian Shedd McMurry
• Sam Phillips

Album

• I’ll Play the Blues for You – Albert King, 1972

Dal

• "Messin’ With the Kid" – Junior Wells, 1960

• Blues from the Delta, by Dr. William Ferris (1970)

• Brownie McGhee
• Koko Taylor

• Bruce Iglauer

Album

• The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 1965

Dal

• "Baby Scratch My Back" – Slim Harpo, 1965

• Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm & Blues, by Arnold Shaw (1978)

• Charles Brown
• David "Honeyboy" Edwards

• Bob Koester
• Pete Welding

Album

• Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers – Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, 1971

Dal

• "Don’t Start Me Talkin’" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, 1955

• Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, by Peter Guralnick (Harper & Row, 1986)

• Jimmy Rogers

• Phil Chess

Album

• The Boss of the Blues – Big Joe Turner, 1956
• Otis Spann is the Blues – Otis Spann, 1960

Dal

• "Wang Dang Doodle" – Koko Taylor, 1965

• Searching for Robert Johnson: The Life and Legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers", by Peter Guralnick (Dutton, 1989)
• The Land Where the Blues Began, by Alan Lomax (Pantheon Books, 1993)

• Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
• Wynonie Harris

• Bill "Hoss" Allen
• John Lomax
• Alan Lomax
• John Richbourg
• Gene Nobles

Album

• The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker 1940-1954 – T-Bone Walker, 1990

Dal

• "I Can’t Quit You Baby" – Otis Rush, 1956
• "Texas Flood" – Larry Davis, 1958

• Nothing But the Blues, szerkesztette Lawrence Cohn

• Champion Jack Dupree
• Lowell Fulson

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Album

• Chicago Bound – Jimmy Rogers

Dal

• "Reconsider Baby" – Lowell Fulson, 1954

• Urban Blues, by Charles Keil

• Skip James
• Johnny Shines
• Big Joe Williams

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Album

• Blues From the Gutter – Champion Jack Dupree, 1958
• Father of the Folk Blues – Son House, 1965
• Parchman Farm – Bukka White, 1970
• The Complete Recordings – Robert Johnson, 1990

Dal

• "Baby Please Don’t Go" – Big Joe Williams, 1935
• "Statesboro Blues" – Blind Willie McTell, 1928

• I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story, by Willie Dixon with Don Snowden (Quartet Books, 1989)

• Sleepy John Estes
• Billie Holiday
• Fred McDowell
• Sunnyland Slim

• Leonard Chess

Album

• Can’t Get No Grindin’ – Muddy Waters, 1973
• Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 1-3 – válogatás, 1966
• The Best of Little Walter – Little Walter, 1958

Dal

• "Killing Floor" – Howlin' Wolf, 1964
• "Nine Below Zero" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, 1951
• "Rocket 88" – Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats, 1951
• "The Sky is Crying" – Elmore James, 1959

• Big Road Blues: Tradition & Creativity in the Folk Blues, by David Evans (University of California Press, 1982)
• Conversation with the Blues by Paul Oliver
• The Country Blues, by Samuel Charters (Rinehart and Co., 1959)

• Blind Blake
• Lonnie Johnson
• Bukka White

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Album

• Black Magic – Magic Sam Blues Band, 1969
• The Chess Box – Willie Dixon, 1988
• The Complete 1931 Session – Skip James, 1986

Dal

• "Big Boss Man" – Jimmy Reed, 1960
• "Good Morning, School Girl" – Sonny Boy Williamson I, 1937
• "Terraplane Blues" – Robert Johnson, 1936

• Big Bill Blues, by Big Bill Broonzy & Yannick Bruynoghe

• Clifton Chenier
• Robert Lockwood, Jr.
• Memphis Slim

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Album

• Live on Maxwell Street – Robert Nighthawk
• Showdown – Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland
• The World’s Greatest Blues Singer – Bessie Smith, 1970

Dal

• "Come On in My Kitchen" – Robert Johnson (ARC/Vocalion, 1936)
• "Drifting Blues" – Charles Brown with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (Philo/Aladdin, 1945)
• "Long Distance Call" – Muddy Waters (Chess, 1951)

• Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues & Rock ’n’ Roll, by Peter Guralnick (Outerbrdige & Dienstfrey, 1971)

• Mississippi John Hurt
• Little Milton
• Jay McShann
• Johnny Winter

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Album

• Down on Stovall’s Plantation – Muddy Waters, 1966
• The Chess Box – Muddy Waters, 1985
• The Original Flair & Meteor Sides – Elmore James

Dal

• "Born Under a Bad Sign" – Albert King, 1967
• "How Long, How Long Blues" – Leroy Carr, 1928
• "Pony Blues" – Charley Patton, 1929

• The Blues Fell This Morning (The Meaning of the Blues), by Paul Oliver

• Percy Mayfield
• Eddie Taylor

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Album

• Blues Before Sunrise – Leroy Carr, 1962
• Hide Away – Freddie (Freddy) King, 1969
• Two Steps From the Blues – Bobby "Blue" Bland

Dal

• "Big Road Blues" – Tommy Johnson, 1928
• "Help Me" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, 1963
• "Please Send Me Someone to Love" – Percy Mayfield, 1950

• The Story of the Blues, by Paul Oliver (Penguin, 1969)

• Albert Collins
• Tommy Johnson
• Lead Belly
• Sonny Terry

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Album

• I Am The Blues – Willie Dixon, 1970
• Ice Pickin' – Albert Collins, 1978
• Live Wire/Blues Power – Albert King, 1968

Dal

• "Cross Road Blues" – Robert Johnson, 1936
• "Juke" – Little Walter, 1952
• "Mannish Boy" – Muddy Waters, 1955

• Chicago Breakdown (Chicago Blues), by Mike Rowe

• Chuck Berry
• Buddy Guy
• J. B. Hutto
• Slim Harpo

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Album

• Born Under a Bad Sign – Albert King, 1967
• Chester Burnett A.K.A Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf, 1972
• Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf, 1962

Dal

• "Boogie Chillen" – John Lee Hooker, 1948
• "Smokestack Lightnin'" – Howlin’ Wolf, 1956
• "The Thrill is Gone" – B.B. King, 1969

• Blues Records 1943-1966, by Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven (Hanover Books Ltd., 1968)

• Otis Rush
• Hound Dog Taylor
• Big Mama Thornton

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Album

• Boss Blues Harmonica – Little Walter, 1972
• Hoodoo Man Blues – Junior Wells, 1966
• West Side Soul – Magic Sam Blues Band, 1968

Dal

• "Got My Mojo Working" – Muddy Waters, 1960
• "I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man" – Muddy Waters, 1954
• "The Things That I Used to Do" – Guitar Slim, 1953

• Deep Blues, by Robert Palmer (Viking Press, 1981)

• Louis Jordan
• Albert King
• Robert Nighthawk
• Ma Rainey
• Big Joe Turner

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Album

• Founder of the Delta Blues – Charley Patton, 1970
• King of the Delta Blues Singers Vol. II – válogatás, 1970
• Live at the Regal – B.B. King, 1965
• McKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters, 1971
• The Best of Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters, 1958

Dal

• "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" – T-Bone Walker, 1947
• "Dust My Broom" – Elmore James, 1951
• "Hell Hound on My Trail" – Robert Johnson, 1937
• "Sweet Home Chicago" – Robert Johnson, 1936
• "Worried Life Blues" – Big Maceo, 1941

• Blues Who’s Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers, by Sheldon Harris (Arlington House, 1979)

• Leroy Carr
• Ray Charles
• Big Walter Horton
• Freddie King
• Magic Sam

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Album

• King of the Delta Blues Singers – Robert Johnson, 1961

• Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942, by Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich (Rust, 1964)
• Blues Unlimited magazin, alapítók: Simon Napier és Mike Leadbitter. UK (1963)
• Living Blues magazin, alapítók: Bruce Iglauer, Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel, Paul Garon, Diane Allmen, Andre Souffront és Tim Zorn. USA, Chicago (1970)

• Bobby "Blue" Bland
• Roy Brown
• Blind Willie McTell
• Professor Longhair
• Tampa Red

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• Big Bill Broonzy
• Willie Dixon
• John Lee Hooker
• Lightnin’ Hopkins
• Son House
• Howlin' Wolf
• Elmore James
• Blind Lemon Jefferson
• Robert Johnson
• B. B. King
• Little Walter
• Memphis Minnie
• Muddy Waters
• Charley Patton
• Jimmy Reed
• Bessie Smith
• Otis Spann
• T-Bone Walker
• Sonny Boy Williamson I
• Sonny Boy Williamson II

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