Rory Block closes her eyes and lifts her chin high as she plays a slide guitar at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Savoy Brown, one of the International Acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and grimaces when she turns her head to the left as she plays a Flying V electric guitar.
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.
Selby Minner, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grins as she plays the bass guitar.
Shannon Curfman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar she's playing.
Sharon James, sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand during the Hope House Benefit at the Grand Emporium.
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.
Steve "Mr. Microphone" Cox of the blues band, Four Fried Chickens & a Coke, sings into a microphone wearing a fedora and a shiny lame shirt. Sherry "The Chick" Oswald is visible behind Steve blowing...
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.
Susan Tedeschi, one of the national acts to perform at Roadhouse Ruby's North in Kansas City, MO, grimaces over her left shoulder as she plays a guitar.
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...
Tracy Nelson looks down to her left and laughs as she holds a drink in her right hand on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
The Wilders, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, include Ike Shelton playing an acoustic guitar, then Nate Gawron playing a string bass, then Betse Ellis playing a violin, and...
A crowd sits and stands in front of Mutual Musicians Foundation during the Landmark Ceremony: included in the crowd are Betty Crow, standing 2nd from left, Myra Taylor and Yvonne Wilson seated and...
