Amazing Grace walks towards Roger Naber, wearing a suit jacket with animal print cuffs and collar, with open arms during the 20th anniversary celebration of one of the Kansas City juke joints called...
Sam Myers, wearing a harmonica belt filled with harmonicas and clutching a harmonica he is blowing into, stands in the middle of the stage between Anson Funderburgh, playing a guitar to Sam's back...
Blue 88 Band including Mark and Sue Corbett, smile directly at the photographer as they stand on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. The Corbetts hold a guitar each. A man...
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...
Bobby Bland, Lee Oskar, and others perform as one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium. Bobby Bland looks to his left shoulder towards Lee Oskar as Lee looks down and plays an amplified...
Chris Duarte, John Jordan, and Little Hatch, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand on stage in a triangle facing each other. Chris plays an electric guitar and lifts his...
The blues band, Cobalt Project Band, which includes: Branden Hudspeth, Sue Stubbs, Jan Faircloth, Paul Greenlease. Standing inside the Grand Emporium. Brandon Hudspeth looking down. Jan Faircloth...
The blues band, Cobalt Project, including Brandon Hudspeth, closing his eyes and playing the guitar, Jan Faircloth, playing the drums, Sue Stubbs, closing her eyes and singing into a microphone, and...
Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush and a group of six unidentified people stand behind a seated DC Bellamy. Marvine McKeithen stands beside DC Bellamy at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.
Dave and Dick Pruitt, of the band the Bel Airs, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, focus on playing an electric guitar, an electric bass and singing.
DC Bellamy, wearing a fedora and holding a drink, points a finger at a patron seated at a table as he regales them with a story at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. The audience and seated and...
Duck Warner looks serious wearing a cowboy hat, as he holds a trumpet on his leg while he sits on a bench outside. Hugh Ruddick is next to Duck on the bench but sitting on the arm of the bench with...
Ernie Locke, of the band Parlay, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from his right side, perspiring heavily, leans in and holds a microphone close to his lips with his right...
Evan Dease from his right side, wearing a velour shirt with circles on in, holds his mouth wide open as he is singing into a microphone as he holds his electric guitar at the Grand Emporium.
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke pose for a photo at the Grand Emporium. Back row: Holding a bass is Landon Murray. Wearing a fedora and a tie is Bill Whitehead. Kenny Richardson holds a saxophone and...
A white male member of the blues band, Hipnotics, sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, one of the national acts to perform during the Acoustic Blues Showcase at BB's Lawnside BBQ, wearing a baseball cap, sits among the audience of mostly white men as he sings...
James Harman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sings into a microphone he's standing behind.
John Mooney closes his eyes as he strums a guitar at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase.
Larry Garner, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes as he plays the guitar at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. An unidentified white male keyboard player, and a drummer, and an African American male...
The Levee Town Band stand together for a photo at the Grand Emporium. Jimmie Meade holds a harmonica. Brandon Hudspeth smiles and holds an electric guitar. Jan Faircloth smiles right at the...
Lou Ann Barton and Jimmie Vaughan perform as one of the national acts at the Grand Emporium. Lou Ann stands and claps her hands smiling as she watches the neck of the electric guitar Jimmie is playing...
Lou Dare and Saint Charles, dressed in medieval clothing, stand behind Myra Taylor, also wearing medieval clothing and a crown, in a wheelchair during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Mac Odom, Roomful of Blues, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from below, opens his mouth wide as he sings into a microphone held in his left hand and partly obstructing his...
Magic Slim, wearing a cowboy hat and a t-shirt of himself and June Bug, puts his arm around "June Bug" John Stuerke who is wearing the same t-shirt. They smile directly at the photographer during the...
