Walter Trout, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes and grimaces as he plays an electric guitar up at this chest.
Walter "Wolfman" Washington, wearing a baseball cap backwards, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing as he stands behind a microphone on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...
Warren Prejean, wearing a leather flat cap, smiles at the photographer as he plays an accordion behind a microphone at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS...
Warren Storm, Godfather of Swamp Pop Music, stands and holds a microphone in his left hand. Promotional photo.
The WarVan, a blues band, stand in front of a wall of signatures and smile directly at the photographer at the Grand Emporium.
Washboard Chaz, wearing a fedora, looks down to his left as he thumps one of the two cans and a wood block that are attached to the bottom of a washboard with the word CHAZ painted on the top of it at...
Washboard Chaz Leary, Lionel Young, and Lee Oskar, are one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium After Festival Jam. Washboard Chaz is wearing a bowler hat and laughing to his left...
Watermelon Slim, from his right side, is wearing a hat and looking to the sky as he plays a harmonica during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
Waxed Tadpoles (Terry, Chris, Steve, Cole, and Ray), a blues band, with their arms around each other and standing in front of a wall of signatures, smile directly at the photographer at the Grand...
Wayne Jackson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks straight ahead as he holds a trumpet high that he blows into.
W.C. Clark, one of the national acts to perform at Blayney's, wearing a derby hat, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing.
Wendell Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, closes his eyes and grimaces as he sings, mouth wide open, into a microphone, and plays a keyboard during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
William King smiles at the photographer as he plays a guitar at the Grand Emporium.
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, part of the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, peeks over a cymbal as he plays a drum set at the Carlsen Center in Johnson County Community College.
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.
