Alberta Adams and Johnnie Bassett at the W.C. Handy Awards
Alberta Adams sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand while Johnnie Bassett stands next to her, wearing a flat cap, smiling, and playing a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C...
Alberta Adams at the W.C. Handy Awards
Alberta Adams, wearing sunglasses, sits and talks on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Ann Rabson, Andra Faye, and Gaye Adegbalola at the Grand Emporium
Ann Rabson, Andrea Faye, and Gaye Adegbalola, a national act to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand on stage, arm in arm, grinning at the unseen audience.
Bobby Rush and Lo Lespes at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005
Bobby Rush, sings into a microphone as Lo Lespes dances during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival, The audience is visible behind Lo.
Bobby Rush and Marvine McKeithen at the Club Paradox
Marvine McKeithen holds up Bobby Rush's hand and arm as she smiles and speaks into a microphone on the stage at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. There are two unidentified women, only partially...
Carol Fran and Myra Taylor at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Carol Fran and Myra Taylor sit side by side and smile at the photographer at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS. The audience is visible in pews sitting...
Carol Fran at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Carol Fran sings into a microphone at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Carol Fran, Myra Taylor, and Bob Stroger 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...
Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush, DC Bellamy and Marvine McKeithen at Club Paradox
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.
Deitra Farr at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Deitra Farr, her hand clinched about her face and obscuring her face, at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Denise Brown at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Denise Brown, with pleading eyes, sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand as she holds her right above her head at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios...
Denise LaSalle at the Grand Emporium
Denise LaSalle, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, smiles with a lifted chin as she hold a microphone chest high in her left hand.
Diunna Greenleaf at BB's Lawnside Bar-B-Q
Diunna Greenleaf, one of the national acts to perform at BB's Lawnside BBQ for the Big Joe Turner Birthday Bash, from her right side, opens her mouth wide and closes her eyes as she sings into a...
Diunna Greenleaf at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Diunna Greenleaf closes her eyes and leans to her right as she sings into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Diunna Greenleaf at Knuckleheads
Diunna Greenleaf grins as she sings into a microphone held in her right hand during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
Diunna Greenleaf at the Blues Masters
Diunna Greenleaf, one of the national acts at the Blues Masters in Salina, Kansas, smiles at the photographer as she holds a microphone chest high in her right hand.
Etta James at the Cotillion Ballroom
Etta James, one of the national acts to perform at the Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, KS, holds a microphone to the left of her head and smiles to her right as a trumpet player plays behind the right...
Evie Quarles and Myra Taylor at Washington Park in Kansas City, MO
Evie Quarles sits to Myra Taylor's right as Myra puts her left arm around Evie's shoulders at Washington Park in Kansas City, MO. Both are smiling at the camera. Evie's glasses are setting on her head...
Irma Thomas at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Irma Thomas, wearing a sundress, smiles up and to her left as she holds a microphone in her right hand and lifts her left elbow even with her shoulder during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Jean Knight at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
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...
Jessie Mae Hemphill at Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase
Jessie Mae Hemphill, wearing an elaborate cutwork jacket and a bejeweled cap, smiles over her left shoulder at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blue Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase...
Katie Jackson at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS
Katie Jackson grins as she sings into a microphone, left hand lifted chest high, at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Koko Taylor and Debbie Davies at the Grand Emporium
KoKo Taylor and Debbie Davies, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, share a microphone as they sing together.
Koko Taylor at Rhythm & Ribs
Koko Taylor, from her right side, scrunches her face as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand during Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.
Koko Taylor at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest
Koko Taylor, neck and chest wet with perspiration, closes her eyes and lifts her head to her right, as she smiles and sings into a microphone she is holding in her right hand during the Kansas City...