An unidentified African American male guitarist wearing a Kufi cap plays an electric guitar at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
An unidentified African American male guitarist wearing a ball cap while he plays an electric guitar at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Vesti Jackson, from below, looks intensely at both of his hands playing the neck of an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Walter "Wolfman" Washington, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grins to his left as he plays an electric guitar.
Warren Prejean, wearing a leather flat cap, smiles at the photographer as he plays an accordion behind a microphone at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS...
Warren Storm, Godfather of Swamp Pop Music, stands and holds a microphone in his left hand. Promotional photo.
Watermelon Slim, from his right side, is wearing a hat and looking to the sky as he plays a harmonica during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
W.C. Clark, one of the national acts to perform at Blayney's, wearing a derby hat, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing.
Wendell Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, closes his eyes and grimaces as he sings, mouth wide open, into a microphone, and plays a keyboard during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
William King smiles at the photographer as he plays a guitar at the Grand Emporium.
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, part of the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, peeks over a cymbal as he plays a drum set at the Carlsen Center in Johnson County Community College.
Willie "Popsy" Dixon, of the band The Holmes Brothers, sings into a microphone during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Willie Cobbs closes his eyes and scrunches his face and forms his left hand into a fist as he sings into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Willie King, wearing a Michael Johnathon WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour ball cap, sits in a lawn chair, leaning his chin on his right hand, and smiles directly at the photographer during the Kansas...
Blues Notions Band stand outside the Grand Emporium as the winners of the Blues Challenge. Karl Angerer, Thomas Trashmouth Baker, Mike Sedovic, Cardy Quintero, and Tim Osborn.
