Grand Emporium Collection

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison sits with an electric guitar flat across his lap and smiles at the photographer as he wears a cowboy hat with a wide hatband, a paisley vest over a light...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison sits with an electric guitar flat across his lap and smiles at the photographer as he wears a cowboy hat with a wide hatband, a paisley vest over a light...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison stands in a doorway with his arms crossed over the body of an electric guitar. He wears a cowboy hat, a vest over a light-colored shirt. Printed below the...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison stands in a doorway with his arms crossed over the body of an electric guitar. He wears a cowboy hat, a vest over a light-colored shirt. Printed below the...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Bernard Allison grinning and playing guitar in the street outside the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. He wears a double-breasted suit and a dark cowboy hat with...

Blues guitarist Big G, [Garrett Jacobson] closes his eyes as he plays an electric guitar as he stands next to an amplifier. He wears a cowboy hat.

Blues guitarist Billy [Royce] squats on a stage to light his red electric guitar on fire. His hat covers his face. Printed over the photograph, "in the spirit of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn...

Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues, a band comprised of four African American men. Two wear cowboy hats. One at the top of the photo wears a backwards ball cap. Printed in the margin below the...

Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues. Two band members wear cowboy hats. One member at the top of the photo wears a backwards ball cap. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "PolyGram Records...

Blues musician Clarence Gatemouth Brown wears a cowboy hat and a western-style shirt as he holds a fiddle in his right hand, a bow over his left shoulder and a cigarette between the fingers in his...

Blues singer Cotton Candy sits in the center of four unidentified white men, all wearing fedora hats. The men sit on the chair's arm rests and on the floor in front of the chair.

Blues vocalist and guitarist Guy Davis in a right side profile close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a fedora hat with a black headband with red and white stitching.

Blues and Country guitarist and vocalist Liz Barnez sits on a tall stool in the center of an unidentified group of four white men and one white woman standing around her. The man on the farthest left...

Blues guitarist R.L. Burnside wears a conical masonic [possibly?] hat and holds his hands up shoulder height with his fingers spread.. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Fat Possum Records...

Country-blues guitarist and vocalist Roger Wallace, from his left profile, looks seriously straight ahead in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a straw cowboy hat. Printed in the margin below...

Blues guitarist Steve Ferguson sits on the ground beside a tree and in front of a metal fence and plays a guitar. He wears a unique hat. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Schoolkids'...