Tab Benoit grimaces as he plays a guitar at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
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...
Terry Evans, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, smiles as he sings into a microphone.
Thornetta Davis stands and looks to her right as she sings, wide mouthed, into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Tommy Soul Williams, wearing a straw fedora, sings into a microphone during Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Tony "Little Sun" Glover, wearing sunglasses, looks seriously to his left as he holds an amplified harmonica with both hands during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
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.
Warren Storm, Godfather of Swamp Pop Music, stands and holds a microphone in his left hand. Promotional photo.
Willie "Popsy" Dixon, of the band The Holmes Brothers, sings into a microphone during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Willie Cobbs closes his eyes and scrunches his face and forms his left hand into a fist as he sings into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Willie King, wearing a Michael Johnathon WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour ball cap, sits in a lawn chair, leaning his chin on his right hand, and smiles directly at the photographer during the Kansas...
Wilson Pickett, one of the national acts at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, closes his eyes, makes a fist with his right hand and sings into a microphone held in his left hand.
Wilson Pickett crouches with his eyes closed while holding the microphone in his left hand as he performs during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Blues Notions Band stand outside the Grand Emporium as the winners of the Blues Challenge. Karl Angerer, Thomas Trashmouth Baker, Mike Sedovic, Cardy Quintero, and Tim Osborn.
