Ann Rabson looks out over the keyboard she is playing and sings into a microphone on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. A drum set and a brick wall are visible behind her.
Barbara Blue, wearing sunglasses, sings into a microphone and plays the tambourine during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
Blue 88, a blues band including Mark Corbett and Sue Corbett, possibly bassist Ron Rummage and drummer Joe Weaver, stand on stage holding their instruments at the Grand Emporium during the Blues...
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...
Sue Corbett kneels on the ground with her eyes closed and chin lifted. Mark Corbett, making crazy eyes, Rocky Britain, grinning, and a white man named Mark stand behind Sue in a semi-circle with their...
Recording executive Bruce Iglauer, with Tom Baker, Connie Humiston, and Brenda Haskins, smile at the photographer as they gather at the bar at the Grand Emporium during it's last days.
Carol Duboc, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sings into a microphone that she holds in her right hand.
Carol Duboc faces to the left of the photographer as she smiles and sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium. Her left hand lifted expressively below her lifted chin. She wears a choker necklace...
Carolyn Wonderland, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and smiles with her hair hanging in her face as she plays an electric guitar.
Chuck Haddix seated at a table signing copies of his book at Unity on the Plaza, his left side to the camera, with an unidentified gentleman, standing with his hand over his mouth, beside Chuck behind...
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...
Cobalt Project sits on a staircase while taking a break from performing. Bottom to top: Brandon Hudspeth, Paul Greenlease, Sue Stubbs, and Jan Faircloth.
Connie Hawkins closes her eyes as she sings into a microphone she is holding at the Grand Emporium.
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.
Frank Hicks, owner of Knuckleheads Saloon, looks to his left at Lou Dare who is speaking into a microphone from the stage. Frank is holding up a t-shirt that says, "Frank Honorary Male Hussy." Connie...
A crowd stands in Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.
The crowd sits with drinks at or near the bar as the waitress comes toward them with a tray at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.
The seated audience smiles from tables decorated with balloons and confetti at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.
A large audience is seated and standing at Club Paradox in Kansas CIty, Kansas.
LaDonna Jones and J. Allen, wearing summer attire, dance at the Grand Emporium. Other bar patrons can be seen behind them.
Mary Faith dancing with an unknown white woman at the Grand Emporium.
A crowd of fans dance during the last days of the Grand Emporium.
Danielle Schnebelen (Danielle Nicole) looks to her left over the neck of a bass she is playing at the Grand Emporium.
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...
