Marilyn Maye speaks into two microphones labeled as Talk Radio KCMO 710. The photograph is a close up of her face. Her glasses are markedly bifocals.
Marilyn Maye bends to speak with Lonnie McFadden and Ronnie McFadden, the McFadden Brothers, at Club 427 in Kansas City, MO. Ronnie and Lonnie are looking up at Marilyn as they sit at a table behind...
Marvine McKeithen speaks into a microphone with a band behind her at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. The crowd is seated at the bar or at tables in the foreground.
Mary Faith and Mike smile at the photographer as they stand in front of the bar during the last days of the Grand Emporium.
Mike Kovacs, Marvine McKeithen, Lou Dare, Tom Baker, Otis Clay, DC Bellamy, Groovy Grant, and Aaron Hodge stand on the street laughing and looking at the photographer during the Kansas City, Kansas...
Radio broadcaster, Mike Murphy, has his arms around Marilyn Maye and likely, Patty, at Club 427 in Kansas City, MO. The bar is visible behind them.
Millage Gilbert, dressed as a king, with two unidentified white women in vintage clothing on each arm, and a crowd of people around them for the Millage Gilbert Parade during the Kansas City, Kansas...
Little Hatch smiles as he sits on a folding chair behind an amplifier and in front of speakers at BB's Lawnside BBQ for Provine "Little" Hatch's 80th birthday celebration. Three unidentified smiling...
Myra Taylor, looks down at the table where she's sitting, covers her eyes and laughs as Dawayne Gilley and Connie Humiston stand behind her and hold up a poster. On the poster Myra is illustrated as...
Myra Taylor sits and performs with a bass player and an unidentified couple behind her at Knuckleheads Lounge on the occasion of her 89th birthday.
Myra Taylor sits on a stage smiling and singing into a microphone facing to the right of the photographer towards a fan seated directly in front of her. The fan is smiling at Myra. There are fans and...
Lydia Kassem stands behind as Chad Kassem kneels beside, holding Jasmin Kassem, Myra Taylor all dressed up and sitting in a wheelchair during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. All are...
The Nortons and Danielle Schnebelen (Danielle Nicole) stand outside the Grand Emporium during the Blues Challenge.
Paula Rangell, wearing a straw hat and cat eye sunglasses, blows into an alto saxophone behind a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Pinetop Perkins leans toward Evie Quarles, seated to his left as both smile at the photographer during the All Stars Blues Jam at Blue Heaven Studios in Salina, KS. Evie's glasses rest on her upper...
Rain Dogs standing outside of B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Acoustic Blues Showcase. Rain Dogs (Phil Smith, Jim Herbert, Karla Peterie, Mike Roark).
Rain Dogs, a blues band including Mike Roark, Karla Peterie, Phil Smith, and Jim Herbert stand in front of a wall of signatures at the Grand Emporium and smile at the photographer.
Rain Dogs, a blues band including Phil Smith, strumming a double bass with his eyes closed, Karla Peterie, smiling as she looks at the neck of a mandolin she is strumming, Mike Roark, blowing into a...
Raindogs & Saffire the Uppity Blues Women, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand in a group grinning at the photographer are Jim Herbert, Gaye Adegbalola, Phil Smith, Mike Roark...
Renée Austin from her right side, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes, opens her mouth wide, lifts her chin, and spreads the fingers of her right hand wide as...
Rod Piazza, wearing sunglasses, sits to the right of Evie Quarles and Miss Honey Piazza sits to Evie's left. All three are smiling at the camera.
Roger Naber, wearing a suit jacket with animal print cuffs and collar, cuts a 20th Anniversary cake with the outline of his face on it, while Julia Naber waits on the other side of the table with...
An unidentified woman presents a plaque of the Lee Oskar Award to Roger Naber during 25th anniversary of one of the juke joints in Kansas City called the Grand Emporium. An unidentified guitarist is...
Brody Buster and Shannon Curfman, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand next to Roger Naber and Mary Faith in front of the signature wall and all smile at the photographer.
Roma Firman furrows her brow as she sings into a microphone held in her right hand as she splays the fingers of her left hand toward the crowd during the Hope House Benefit at the Grand Emporium.
