The Scamps, on stage, are presented with plaques and an unidentified white woman gives them a cake during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Scamps at playing on a stage at Unity Temple on the Plaza: Art Jackson and Eddie Saunders, seated with their eyes closed playing their saxophones; Lucky Wesley looking to his right and smiling as he...
Scotty Boy's Steady Rollin' Band: Mark Rollings, Bill Morlan, Scott Daniel, and Jerry Riccardi stand with their arms around each others shoulders at dusk in Washington Park in Kansas City, MO.
Sean Costello, perspiring heavily, smiles to his right as he stands and plays an electric guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Shemekia Copeland and Ronnie Baker Brooks, one of the national acts at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Ronnie Baker Brooks, wearing a baseball cap with Jimi Hendrix Experience embroidered on the...
Sherman Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, eyes squeezed closed, wearing a Dashiki, plays an electric bass during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. There are perspiration drips visible on...
Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon stand side by side with their arms around each other smiling at the photographer in front of the stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, MO.
Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand arm in arm, side by side, in front of the bar and smile at the photographer.
Spoon Wilson, wearing a fedora and a sleeveless tank undershirt, grimaces as he plays a set of drums during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Stan Hugeman closes his eyes as he blows into a saxophone by a microphone at the Grand Emporium.
Stan Kessler, hair pulled back in a low ponytail, stands blowing into a trumpet next to a standing Kim Park blowing into a saxophone at the American Heartland Theater. An unidentified drummer and drum...
Stan Kessler and Kim Park taking a breath as they each get ready to blow into a trumpet and a saxophone, respectively at the American Heartland Theater.
Sue Corbet's hair swirls about her head as she looks over her left shoulder and plays a guitar at the Grand Emporium. She's wearing a Sun Records shirt.
Sue Stubbs looks down over a guitar she is playing at the Grand Emporium.
James "Super Chikan" Johnson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a bowler hat, looks seriously at the neck of the electric guitar he is playing.
Sweet Betty Echols, looking serious, sings into a microphone she hold in her right hand at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Syl Johnson smiles to his right as he stands behind a microphone and plays an electric guitar at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
T. Model Ford smiles to his left as he sits and plays a flying J guitar at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
T. Model Ford, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing an flat cap, smiles at the photographer.
Tab Benoit grimaces as he plays a guitar at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Taj Mahal, wearing a straw hat, sunglasses, and holding a cigar in his right hand, sits and smiles at the photographer as Evie Quarles leans down, hands on knees, to also smile at the photographer...
Taj Mahal, one of the national acts to appear at the Grand Emporium, wearing a fedora and sunglasses, looks down at the neck of his guitar.
Harmonica Bean, one of the national acts to perform at the Acoustic Blues Showcase at BB's Lawnside BBQ, wears a baseball cap backwards and a harmonica holder around his neck, while he sits, smiles...
Terry "Harmonica" Bean looks directly at the photographer as he sits on stage playing a guitar, wearing an Irish cap and harmonica holder during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Terry Evans, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, smiles as he sings into a microphone.
