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.
1. W.C. Handy
2. Son House 3. Bessie Smith 4. Robert Johnson 5. B.B. King 6. T-Bone Walker 7. Muddy Waters 8. Little Walter 9. Lonnie Johnson 10. John Lee Hooker 11. Blind Lemon Jefferson 12. Elmore James 13. Willie Dixon 14. Freddie King 15. Billie Holiday 16. Stevie Ray Vaughan 17. Charlie Patton 18. Ma Rainey 19. Leadbelly 20. Howlin' Wolf 21. Louis Jordan 22. Big Bill Broonzy 23. Skip James 24. Sonny Boy Williamson I 25. Professor Longhair 26. Mamie Smith 27. Blind Blake 28. Robert Nighthawk 29. Memphis Minnie 30. Leroy Carr 31. Arthur Big Boy Crudup 32. Ida Cox 33. Tampa Red 34. Sonny Boy Williamson II 35. Lightnin' Hopkins 36. Charles Brown 37. Albert King 38. Brownie McGhee 39. Junior Wells 40. Missippi John Hurt 41. Jimmy Reed 42. Ray Charles 43. Blind Willie Johnson 44. Big Mama Thornton 45. Big Joe Turner 46. Albert Collins 47. Sleepy John Estes 48. Rosco Gordon 49. Otis Spann 50. Walter "Furry" Lewis |
51. Reverend Gary Davis
52. Big Maceo 53. Blind Boy Fuller 54. Pinetop Smith 55. Hound Dog Taylor 56. Roosevelt Sykes 57. Buddy Guy 58. Johnny Winter 59. Big Joe Williams 60. Missippi Fred McDowell 61. Slim Harpo 62. Etta James 63. Tommy Johnson 64. Big Walter Horton 65. Sippie Wallace 66. Amos Milburn 67. Bobby Blue Bland 68. Victoria Spivey 69. Otis Rush 70. Gus Cannon 71. Sunnyland Sims 72. Magic Sam 73. Memphis Slim 74. Willie Brown 75. John Mayall 76. Big Maybelle 77. Champion Jack Dupree 78. Johnny Shines 79. Julia Lee 80. Josh White 81. Sister Rosetta Tharpe 82. J B Hutto 83. Jesse Fuller 84. Eric Clapton 85. Blind Willie McTell 86. Eddie Taylor 87. Peatie Wheatstraw 88. Wynonie Harris 89. Meade Lux Lewis 90. Jimmy Rushing 91. Taj Mahal 92. KoKo Taylor 93. Charles Musselwhite 94. Luther Allison 95. Frank "Son" Seals 96. Honeyboy Edwards 97. Ruth Brown 98. Barbecue Bob 99. Johnny Ace 100. James Cotton |     |
Robert Jr. Lockwood
Sonny Terry R L Burnside Mance Lipscomb Junior Parker Carey Bell Bukka White Houston Stackhouse Robert Pete Williams Jimmy Rogers | Robert Cray John Hammond St. Louis Jimmy Oden Helen Humes J. B. Lenoir Leroy Carr Nappy Brown Scrapper Blackwell Alger Texas Alexander Henry Brown |