traditional blues
Some artists with this genre:
- B.B. King
- Booker T. & the M.G.'s
- Canned Heat
- John Lee Hooker
- Muddy Waters
- Howlin' Wolf
- Buddy Guy
- Albert King
- Dr. John
- Taj Mahal
- Fenton Robinson
- Robert Cray
- Freddie King
- Albert Collins
- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
- Ry Cooder
- Bo Diddley
- Sonny Boy Williamson II
- Jimmie Vaughan
- Little Walter
- Robert Johnson
- Link Wray
- T-Bone Walker
- Koko Taylor
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Big Walter Horton
- Johnny Winter
- R.L. Burnside
- Big Mama Thornton
- Elmore James
- Slim Harpo
- John Mayall
- Otis Rush
- Roy Buchanan
- Luther Allison
- Woody Guthrie
- Jimmy Reed
- Willie Dixon
- Odetta
- Junior Wells
- Lead Belly
- Mississippi John Hurt
- Elizabeth Cotten
- Jimmy Rogers
- Junior Kimbrough
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Champion Jack Dupree
- Bessie Smith
- Professor Longhair
- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band