Music authors Jim O'Neal and Dawayne Gilley stand on either side of photographer, James Fraher, at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival. All three are holding a framed, poster-sized...
Jim Bott, of the band the Fabulous Thunderbirds, one of the national acts to perform at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, wearing a sun hat and Mardi Gras beads, lifts his chin and smiles as he...
Jimmie Vaughan, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes and grimaces as he plays an electric guitar.
Jimmie Vaughan holds his mouth wide open and his eyes closed as he plays guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Jimmy Carpenter, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing sunglasses, leans over and blows into a baritone saxophone.
Jimmy Thackery, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the neck of a guitar that he is playing.
Jimmy Way, of the Chris Duarte Group, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stares intently straight ahead as he plays a cymbal on the drum set he is playing. Locks of hair stick...
Joe Bonamassa, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grits his teeth as he plays a Flying V electric guitar.
Joe Cartwright turns his head to his left to look at the photographer at Crown Center. The corner of the piano is visible in the foreground.
John Albertson, weekend bartender, smiles at the photographer from behind the bar at the Grand Emporium.
John Cutler of the band Parlay, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, head wrapped in a bandana, watches his hand on the neck of an electric bass that he is playing.
John Cutler of the band, Parlay, wearing a bandana around his head, looks at the fingers of his left hand on the neck of a bass as he plays at the Grand Emporium.
John Hammond, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes as he blows into a harmonica on holder and plays an acoustic guitar.
John Hammond, from his right side, is seated and craning his head upward to reach the microphone while he strums a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. He has a harmonica holder and...
John Jordan, of the Chris Duarte Group, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing sunglasses, purses his lips as he plays an electric bass.
John Mayall, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks straight ahead as he blows into an amplified harmonica. He's wearing a House of Blues, Harvard Square t-shirt.
John Mooney closes his eyes as he strums a guitar at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase.
John Mooney looks down over his left shoulder as he holds a guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
John Mooney, one of the national acts to perform at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, wearing sunglasses and a gecko patterned shirt, looks down at the neck of the electric guitar he is playing.
Bill Dye stands behind the drum set and smiles over his right shoulder at the photographer as he holds an electric guitar. He stands beside the drummer, John Hobbs, who is wearing a drum-themed shirt...
John Paul Drum closes his eyes as he blows into a harmonica and holds the microphone to the harmonica at the Grand Emporium.
John Richardson looks down at the floor as he plays an electric guitar at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS. A drum set is visible behind him.
John Richardson picks up his left foot and shakes the guitar neck he's playing during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
John Wedemeyer, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium After Fest Jam, closes his eyes, leans to his left, and plays an electric guitar.
John Wier looks at the center of a trumpet as he performs at the Grand Emporium.
