Anthony Gomes and Biscuit Miller, one of the national acts at a Weston, Missouri, Festival, perform together. Anthony Gomes grins over his left shoulder at Biscuit Miller. Biscuit, wearing a slouch...
B.B. Dickerson, of the Same Ole Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks up as he plays an electric bass.
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.
Bob Stroger, wearing a cowboy hat, leans to his left as he plays an electric bass at 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Bob Stroger, wearing a top hat, and a guitar lapel pin, looks down at the neck of electric bass he is playing during the 4th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads, at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Bob Stroger, wearing a cowboy hat with a peacock feather in the hat band, crouches down to the left of a seated Myra Taylor and Carol Fran and extends his arms around them at the 5th Annual Blues...
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...
Coko Henderson, wearing a cowboy hat and a bedazzled shoulder strap, grimaces and looks down towards his left shoulder as he plays a bass at Roadhouse Ruby's South.
Eric Bibb stands as he sings into a microphone and plays an acoustic guitar next to Dave Bronze, who is seated and looking down while he plays an electric bass. They are a national act that performed...
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...
Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, wearing a ball cap, stands and sings into a microphone while playing an electric bass at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Glen Therman, wearing a perspiration soaked shirt and a flat cap, looks intensely to his left as he plays a bass during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
James Gilbert, in an open-collared shirt, rolls his lips and looks down to his left at the neck of the bass as he plucks the string with his right hand during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater...
James Whitney looks to his right at the photographer with a gleam in his eyes as he sings into the microphone and plays a bass at Mill Creek Brewery. A picture of, likely, Duke Ellington is on the...
Jean Knight grins at the photographer as she holds a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS. An unidentified African American male electric bass...
King Alex wears a Hawaiian print shirt as he smiles and looks right at the photographer and holds the microphone to his mouth at the Grand Emporium.
King Alex, stands and sings on stage as he strums a bass while a band member plays a flying V guitar as they perform at the Grand Emporium during July Jam.
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...
Russell Jackson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, purses his lips as he looks seriously down at the electric bass he is playing.
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.
