traditional blues
Some artists with this genre:
- B.B. King
- Booker T. & the M.G.'s
- Canned Heat
- Muddy Waters
- Howlin' Wolf
- Dr. John
- Taj Mahal
- Fenton Robinson
- Robert Cray
- Albert Collins
- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
- Ry Cooder
- Bo Diddley
- Little Walter
- Jimmie Vaughan
- Link Wray
- Robert Johnson
- Johnny Winter
- R.L. Burnside
- Big Mama Thornton
- T-Bone Walker
- Elmore James
- Slim Harpo
- John Mayall
- Roy Buchanan
- Willie Dixon
- Woody Guthrie
- Luther Allison
- Odetta
- Lead Belly
- Mississippi John Hurt
- Elizabeth Cotten
- Champion Jack Dupree
- Junior Kimbrough
- Jimmy Rogers
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Mike Bloomfield
- Bessie Smith
- Professor Longhair
- J.B. Lenoir
- Blind Willie Johnson
- Big Joe Turner
- Lowell Fulson
- Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Duane Allman
- Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
- Otis Spann
- James Cotton
- Son House