Performers in the blues style range from primitive, one-chord Delta players to
big bands to
country music to
rock and roll to
classical music.
Early Styles (Musicians Active before 1930)
Later Styles
- James Anthony[?]
- B.B. King, (born 1925)
- Cream
- John Lee Hooker, (1917-2001)
- Etta James, (born 1938)
- Janis Joplin, (1943-1970)
- Taj Mahal
- Keb' Mo'[?], (born 1951)
- John Mayall, (born 1933)
- Eric Clapton, (born 1945)
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, (1954-1990)
- James Cotton[?]
- Albert Collins[?]
- Clarence Gatemouth Brown[?]
- Led Zeppelin
- Ali Farka Toure, (born 1939)
- Bobby Blue Bland
- Willie Dixon, (died 1992)
- Santana
- Johnny Winter[?], (born 1944)
- Koko Taylor[?], (born 1935)
- The Yardbirds