100 Greatest Blues Artists

Some time ago, a friend who is also the blues fans asking me to update the article about the blues. So that prompted me to write an article about the 100 greatest blues artists. Blues is a vocal flow and instrumental music that comes from the United States (U.S.). Blues leave from spiritual music and praise that came from the community of former African slaves in the United States.

The blues have a major influence on American popular music and new West, as can be seen in the flow
of ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and country, and pop songs conventional. 100 greatest blues artists are :

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 SimsMagic Sam
72. Memphis Slim
73. Willie Brown
74. John Mayall
75. Big Maybelle
76. Champion Jack Dupree
77. Johnny Shines
78. Julia Lee
79. Josh White
80. Sister Rosetta Tharpe
81. J B Hutto
82. Jesse Fuller
83. Eric Clapton
84. Blind Willie McTell
85. Eddie Taylor
86. Peatie Wheatstraw
87. Wynonie Harris
88. Meade Lux Lewis
89. Jimmy Rushing
90. Taj Mahal
91. KoKo Taylor
92. Charles Musselwhite
93. Luther Allison
94. Frank "Son" Seals
95. Honeyboy Edwards
96. Ruth Brown
97. Barbecue Bob
98. Johnny Ace
99. James Cotton

Besides the 100 greatest blues artists, many blues artists who influenced the development of blues music among others: Robert Jr.. Lockwood, Sonny Terry, Janis Joplin, RL 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, and many more.