Grand Emporium Collection

Blues guitarist Troy Dillinger stands in front of the grill of possibly a semi truck as he looks off to his left and plays an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Troy...

Blues guitarist Dillinger stands in front of the grill of, possibly, a semi truck as he looks off to his left and plays an acoustic guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Troy Dillinger...

Blues and R&B vocalist Tyrone Davis stands in front of a textured wall and smiles. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Future Records, 600 N. McClug Ct., Suite 312A, Chicago, IL, 60611, (312)...

Tim Albert, multi-instrumentalist and singer of the Uncle Albert Band, a blues band from St. Louis, Missouri, and likely Lisa Campbell, keyboardist and singer, laugh together. Lisa is bent over...

Uptown Rulers, a Kansas City, Missouri blues band comprised of six white men, stand by a cinder block wall. They all wear dark clothing. Two band members smoke. One band member farthest to the left...

Blues vocalist Valerie Wellington turns to look back and grin at her band while performing on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. Her band is comprised of three African American...

Two separate negative photographs of blues singer Valerie Wellington and blues guitarist and vocalist Eddy Clearwater. Valerie's photograph is a close-up, head-shot photograph of her singing into a...

Vince Agwada, blues musician and leader of the band, One Eyed Jax, looks straight at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph in which he wears a dark leather jacket. A brick wall is behind him...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Vince Converse leans against a wall as he holds an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Vince Converse. Absolute Artists, 333 Valencia Street...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Vince Converse leans against a wall as he holds an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Thunderbird Management Group, NY 212-876-5011, New Orleans...

The Voodoo Kings, a blues-rock band from Texas comprised of four white men, stand together wearing dark clothing and turn their heads to look seriously at the camera in a close-up photograph. Printed...

Blues guitarist W. C. Clark smiles with his mouth wide open as he plays an electric guitar. He wears a business suit and a fedora hat. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Booking: Ozark...

Blues guitarist W.C. Clark leans slightly forward as he plays an electric guitar. He wears a fedora. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Black Top Records [logo]. "Paving the way to your...

W.C. Spencer, a blues musician from Baltimore, Maryland, sits on cut log posts covered by hay with woods behind him. He holds a guitar across his lap and smiles at the camera. Printed in the margin...

Walter "Wolfman" Washington, jazz, funk, and blues guitarist, laughs and stands with one hand in his pocket and the other resting on the body of a guitar that hangs from a guitar strap around his neck...

Walter "Wolfman" Washington and the Roadmasters, a jazz, funk and blues band comprised of two African American men and five white men, who stand in a group wearing business suits or neckties and...

Blues guitarist Walter Trout locks his fingers together over the body of an electric guitar that hangs from a strap around his neck as he stands on sand with a wall and tall palm trees behind him, and...

Blues guitarist Walter Trout looks seriously down at the electric guitar he is playing with stage lights above his left shoulder. He wears a vest over a 3/4 sleeve shirt. Printed in the margin below...

Blues guitarist Walter Trout stands by a chain-link fence and holds an electric guitar while he wears sunglasses. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Ruf In-Tune Music Group, 973.275.1077...

Walter Trout, blues guitarist, wears sunglasses in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Only a tiny bit of the neck of the guitar is visible

Blues guitarist Walter Trout wears sunglasses in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Only a tiny bit of the neck of the guitar is visible and a bit of the top of his head is out of the photograph...

Wendy Neutzler leans her head into the cheek of an unidentified African American man who leans his cheek towards the side of her head at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri as Little Charlie...

West Side Wayne and The Boulevard Band, a blues band comprised of five white men and two white women, lean against a height board used in criminal line-ups. Printed in the margin below the photograph...

Blues singer Shawn Amos, in his persona of Whitey McFearsun, sits on a chair wearing white-framed sunglasses and bends to squeeze the toes of the loafers he is wearing. Printed in the margin below the...

Widespread Panic, a Southern rock and blues-rock band comprised of six white men, stand on either side of a chain-link fence with barbed wire across the top; four in front of it and two behind it...