Blues City

Rhythm & Blues Artists

Albert Collins

Albert Collins

Albert Gene Drewery a.k.a. Albert Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. Collins was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and capo.

B. B. King

B.B.King

Riley B. "B.B." King was an American blues singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. Rolling Stone ranked King No. 6 on its 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

Freddie King

Freddie King

Freddie King based his guitar style on Texas and Chicago influences and was one of the first bluesmen to have a multi-racial backing band at live performances. King became an influential guitarist for Federal Records in the early 1960s.

Milton Campbell

Milton Campbell

Milton was born James Milton Campbell, Jr., in the Mississippi Delta town of Inverness and raised in Greenville by a farmer and local blues musician. By age twelve he was a street musician, chiefly influenced by T-Bone Walker.

Bobby Bland

Bobby Bland

Robert Calvin "Bobby" Bland , also known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer. Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. he is truely one of the great blues legends of our time.

T-Bone Walker

T-Bone Walker

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was an influential pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound.

Johnny B. Moore

Johnny B. Moore

Johnny B. Moore is an American Chicago blues electric guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Moore's music retains a link to the earlier Chicago blues of Jimmy Reed and Muddy Waters.

J.B. Hutto

J.B. Hutto

J. B. Hutto was an American blues musician. Hutto was influenced by Elmore James, and became known for his slide guitar work and declamatory style of singing. he was inducted into the blues hall of fame in 1985.