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Based in Dallas, blues rock singer and guitarist Suhler is also guitarist with George Thorogood & the Destroyers

73 year old singer Reed is an Illinois native and a singer with Lyle Lovett's Large Band

Recorded in 1949; bass player and singer Dixon was one of the best blues songwriters; many of his songs are blues classics

This 8-piece band hails from the San Francisco Bay Area

Recorded in 1941 by Bill Gillum, who was born in Mississippi in 1902 or 1904 and died of a gunshot in Chicago in 1966; a harmonica player, he teamed for years with guitarist Big Bill Broonzy

North Carolinian Napoleon Culp was born on this date, Oct. 12, in 1929; he sang gospel as well as blues; he died in 2008; he is in the Blues Hall of Fame, and this album was nominated for a Blues Music Award for Album of the Year

One of the best existing blues bands, led by guitarist Moss and harmonica player Gruening; winners of the 2020 Blues Music Awards for Band of the Year and Traditional Blues Album of the Year

83 year old Texas singer Brown used to be part of Louis Armstrong's jazz band

A Canadian blues band that has won many Canadian music awards

Ensemble of excellent musicians; singing done here by pianist Leon Blue

This long-lived and talented Santa Barbara "orchestra" is composed of singer/guitarist Tom Murray and singer/drummer Rod Rolle

Recorded in 1954; Mabel Smith was born in 1924 and died in 1972; she began singing gospel but in the 1950s into the 1960s she was a popular R&B singer

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, singer/guitarist is one of today's most popular blues performers and winner of many awards; he and his band the Painkillers last played for the Santa Barbara Blues Society in May 2019

Recorded in 1960 by Spann, mainstay of the early Muddy Waters Band and considered by many to be the best blues pianist ever; born in MS, he died in his mid-40s of liver failure in 1970

Brown was popular in the 1950s and resumed his career in the 1980s at the urging of former Muddy Waters's guitarist Bob Margolin; this was his last album

One of the best blues bands for decades now, led by singer/harmonicat Piazza and his piano-playing wife Honey; this version of the band included drummer Jimi Bott, bass player Bill Stuve, and guitarist Alex Schultz

Recorded in 1947; born in MS in 1915, died in the Los Angeles area in 1992; he is in the Blues Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame, and won a Grammy

Mann is a singer and bass player from the Portland, OR area; she won Blues Music Awards in 2015 and 2016 as Bass Player of the Year

Strahan and his band are from Texas

Some very early Beatles, singing a Chuck Berry song; the Beatles, of course, were profoundly influenced by 1950s and 1960s American pop, rock, and rhythm-and-blues

From Madison, WI, and founded in 2001, this terrific band is led by vocalist Oscar Wilson and singer/harmonica player Joe Nosek

Daughter of musical theater star John Raitt, Bonnie has been one of the stars of the blues for decades; she is an distinctive and moving singer and an excellent slide guitarist

Born in Alabama in 1935, he died in 2018; he was taught guitar by Bo Diddley and played with him before becoming Howlin' Wolf's first guitarist; he was a busy and valued session musician in Chicago until he retired in the mid-1970s to work at Xerox; he resumed his career almost 3 decades later; he put on an excellent show in 2003 at Victoria Hall for the Santa Barbara Blues Society

Guitarist Zito is originally from the St. Louis area but now lives in Texas; vocals by Zito and Luther Dickinson

Hot Roux ("roo") is a Ventura, CA, blues, roots, and Cajun band comprised of drummer/singer Jerry McWorter, bassist/singer Brent Harding, guitarist/singer Ed Berghoff, and on this track saxophonist Bill Flores; guitarist Franck Goldwasser ("Paris Slim") and pianist Carl Sonny Leyland also appear on this album

One of the Stones' best albums, originally released in 1969, with guitars by Keith Richards and Mick Taylor, vocal by Mick Jagger, bass by Bill Wyman, and drums by Charlie Watts

Sadly, singer Nick Nixon has died, but guitarist Andy T perseveres, often collaborating with guitarist Anson Funderburgh

The Wilburys were an ephemeral supergroup comprised of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison; this album won a 1990 Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Group; lead vocal by Dylan

Guitar by former Muddy Waters Band guitarist Bob Margolin, bass by Mookie Brill, drums by Big Joe Maher