Bernard Allison at the Grand Emporium
Bernard Allison, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a cowboy hat, grins to his left as he plays an electric guitar.
Bernard Allison at the W.C. Handy Awards
Bernard Allison, wearing a cowboy hat with a wide hat band, smiles at the photographer as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. An unidentified white male...
Betty Crow, Sonny Kenner, and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation
Betty Crow is speaking to someone that is not visible to the right of the photograph. She stands behind Sonny Kenner who is bent slightly and smiling straight ahead. He is leaning over a seated Lionel...
Bettye Jo Miller at the Phoenix
Bettye Jo Miller, wearing an animal print dress, laughs and claps her hands from behind a microphone at the piano at the Phoenix.
Big Jack Johnson at the Grand Emporium
Big Jack Johnson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grimaces while he sings into a microphone and plays a guitar. He's wearing a fedora hat.
Bilbo Walker at the Grand Emporium
Robert "Bilbo" Walker, one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing.
Bill Carter at the Club Mardi Gras
Bill Carter, wearing a straw hat, looks out as he plays a guitar at the Club Mardi Gras, 19th & Vine, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bill Carter at the Gem Theater
Bill Carter, wearing a fedora and a light-colored tux with dark lapels and sides stripes, faces forward with his eyes shifted to the right, as he plays his guitar behind a microphone during the Living...
Bill Carter's Blues Revue at the Grand Emporium
Bill Carter's Blues Revue, a blues band, sit or stand in front of a wall of signatures and smile or look solemnly at the photographer at the Grand Emporium.
Bill Perry at the Grand Emporium
Bill Perry, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a straw hat and overalls, closes his eyes as he plays an electric guitar.
Bill Stuve at the Grand Emporium
Bill Stuve's head and hands, a member of the band, Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks seriously to his left at the neck of a string bass...
Billy Boy Arnold and Roger Naber at the Grand Emporium
Billy Boy Arnold, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sits at the bar next to the owner, Roger Naber. Both smile at the photographer.
Billy Lee Lewis at the Grand Emporium
Billy Lee Lewis of the Tommy Castro Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, opens his mouth wide when he looks to his left and plays a drum set.
Bird Fleming at Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase
Bird Fleming, from the left, wearing traditional African clothing, smiles as he plays a Djembe drum with a ksink attached at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual...
Biscuit Miller at the Grand Emporium
Biscuit Miller, of the Lonnie Brooks Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grins directly at the photographer as he plays an electric bass.
Blaze at the Grand Emporium
Blaze, makes fists, purses her lips and dances during the KC Blues and Jazz After Fest Jam at the Grand Emporium.
Bnois King at the Grand Emporium
BNois King, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a flat cap, looks down as he plays a guitar.
Bo Diddley at Roadhouse Ruby's South
Bo Diddley, one of the national acts to perform at Ruby's South in Olathe, KS, looks up to his left as he realigns a capo on the neck of his square guitar.
Bob Bowman at the Gem Theater
Bob Bowman, wearing a suit and tie, studies the fingers of his left hand as they suppress the strings of a bass he is playing during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. A microphone stand is...
Bob Enos at the Grand Emporium
Bob Enos, of the band Roomful of Blues, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, shrugs his shoulders and smiles as he cringes and holds a trumpet in his right hand.
Bob Margolin and Charlie Musselwhite at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Bob Margolin sits and sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, while he plays a microphoned slide dobro guitar. Charlie Musselwhite is seated to Bob's left playing the harmonica during the Kansas...
Bob Margolin at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, plays a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Bob Margolin at the W.C. Handy Awards
Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, stands behind a microphone and grins as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Bobby Adams at the Grand Emporium
Bobby Adams, wearing a ball cap, looks at the photographer as he twirls a drumstick above the drum set he is playing at the Grand Emporium.
Bobby Carson at the Grand Emporium
Bobby Carson looks serious as he holds an electric guitar high on his chest and watches the fingers of his left hand on the neck of the guitar as he plays at the Grand Emporium.