Jimmy Witherspoon, Blues singer ( and a good one ), and the Ike Isaacs Trio, which has done such wonderful work for two afternoons now, helping him with the musical examples.

Blues Singer # 4 shows a female singer on stage with a white flower on her shoulder and a bold red dress, reminisecent of Ella Fitzgerald.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Joplin's early performances from when she was a folk-blues singer have been released on several well received compilations through the years, one such compilation is the nine disc Blow All My Blues Away.

In 1955 she played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues, for which she received an Academy Awards nomination.

** Justin Hayward, English rock singer and songwriter ( The Moody Blues )

In her most notable screen role, Fitzgerald played the part of singer Maggie Jackson in Jack Webb's 1955 jazz film Pete Kelly's Blues.

The opening scene of the film also served as a kind of music video for Dylan's song " Subterranean Homesick Blues ", in which the singer displays and discards a series of cue cards bearing selected words and phrases from the lyrics ( including intentional misspellings and puns ).

* Cora Walton, birth name of renowned Blues singer Koko Taylor.

Blues singer John Lee Hooker had a limited education, and such is reflected in his handwriting.

Blues singer Bessie Smith appeared in a two-reel short film called St. Louis Blues ( 1929 ) featuring a dramatized performance of the hit song.

* Etta Baker, ( 1913 – 2006 ), Piedmont Blues guitarist and singer

Some famous residents of Sebastopol include: The horticulturist Luther Burbank who established an Gold Ridge Environmental Farm in the township in the late 19th century ; Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues pioneer ; Willard Libby, inventor of carbon dating went to Analy High School ; the cartoonist Charles Schulz ; rapper Smoov-E ; actress Karen Valentine of the television show Room 222 ; actress Schuyler Grant of the 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables ; and the musicians Les Claypool of Primus, singer / songwriters Nick Gravenites, and both Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead ; novelist Francine Rivers ; actor Peter Krause.

Blues singer Gladys Bentley performed in male attire in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco from the 1920s through 1940s.

* Rosa Henderson, American Jazz and Blues singer

* Henry Townsend-Blues singer most associated with St. Louis, Missouri on the St. Louis Walk of Fame and a Mississippi Blues Trail marker.

* Denise LaSalle, Blues singer

B. Lenoir, Blues singer

* Jimmy Rogers, Blues singer and musician

* Etta Baker, guitarist and singer of the Piedmont Blues.

* Lew Jetton-known as a Blues guitarist / singer, while also spending many years as a meteorologist and local television personality, was raised near Trenton.

* Blues Boy Willie, Blues singer

He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled " Father of the Texas Blues ".

The band continued to tour throughout the fall of 2006 stopping in Montreal, the Virgin Festival on the Toronto Islands, Atlantic City's House of Blues, The University of Vermont in Burlington, their hometown Oklahoma City, the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas, and New York City, NY as well as several other cities.

The city annually host the South Texas State Fair, Dog Jam, Beaumont Jazz and Blues Fest and Boomtown Film and Music Festival.

The musical group The Mountain Goats recorded a song called Jeff Davis County Blues on their 2002 album All Hail West Texas.

" A Texas Blues and Rock ' n ' Roll musician, has toured and played many stages, including the Four States Fair & Rodeo.

In 2005, the Texas Legislature named the city " The Blues Capital of Texas ," in honor of the late Mance Lipscomb, a Navasota native and blues musician.

Blues shouters got much of the attention, but, what writer Charles Keil dubs " the postwar Texas clean-up movement in blues ," was also beginning to have an influence driven by Blues artists such as T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn and Charles Brown.

By the end of 1983, Texas Flood received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Blues Recording.

Paul Oliver also wrote that George W. Thomas " composed the theme of the New Orleans Hop Scop Blues – in spite of its title – based on the blues he had heard played by the pianists of East Texas.

" On February 12, 2007, Paul Oliver confirmed to John Tennison that it was Sippie Wallace who told Oliver that performances by East Texas pianists had formed the basis for George Thomas's " Hop Scop Blues ".

Jack Teagarden's compositions included " I've Got ' It '" with David Rose, " Shake Your Hips ", " Big T Jump ", " Swingin ' on the Teagarden Gate ", " Blues After Hours ", " A Jam Session at Victor ", " It's So Good ", " Pickin ' For Patsy " with Allan Reuss, " Texas Tea Party " with Benny Goodman, " I'm Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee " with Eddie Condon, " Big T Blues ", " Dirty Dog ", " Makin ' Friends " with Jimmy McPartland, " That's a Serious Thing ", and " Jack-Armstrong Blues " with Louis Armstrong, recorded on December 7, 1944 with the V-Disc All-Stars and released as V-Disc 384A.

" Texas Flood " was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Performance and " Rude Mood " was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

In 1924, while working with Ellington, Miley also recorded Down In The Mouth Blues and Lenox Avenue Shuffle as a duo named The Texas Blue Destroyers, with Alvin Ray on reed organ.

The Brides were the only group in the funk organization to receive a Rhythm and Blues Award in 1981 for Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy.

* Charles Brown Trio ( recorded November 11, 1948, released by Aladdin Records as catalog number 3071, with the flip side " Texas Blues ")

Whip is a kind of swing dance popular in Texas, USA, which is danced to Rhythm and Blues music.

The band was featured in the award-winning German film " Schultze Gets the Blues ", filmed in the former East Germany and in Texas and Louisiana.

The history of the Hooks ' franchise dates all the way back to 1968, when it got its start in the Texas League as the Memphis Blues.

Handy's " St. Louis Blues " ( Decca 5070 ) using a shortened arrangement of what they played at dances at the Crystal Palace outside Fort Worth, Texas.