Roy Gaines
Blues guitarist Roy Gaines sits on a stage at the foot of the drum set and looks sad as he plays an electric guitar. The hem of his pants legs are around his knees. Printed in the margin below the...
Roy Gaines
Blues guitarist Roy Gaines smiles as he plays an electric guitar. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Roy Gaines. 2000. "Lucille Works for Me", "Bluesman for Life", "I Got the T-Bone Walker...
Roy Rogers
Electric blues slide guitarist Roy Rogers stands and hugs a guitar to his body as he smiles at the camera. He wears a fedora-style hat. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Roy Rogers...
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers, electric blues slide guitarist, holds the lapels of his coat with both hands and tucks his chin toward the coat collar. He looks up from under the brim of a dark fedora hat he is wearing...
Roy Rogers
Electric blues slide guitarist Roy Rogers stands on a porch with a weathered wood wall behind him and smiles down to his left. He rests his hands on the body of a resonator guitar that hangs by a...
Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings
Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings, an electric blues band comprised of three white men, who are standing outside on a wooden bridge and smiling at the camera. Printed in the margin below the...
Royal Crown Revue
Royal Crown Revue, a swing band comprised of seven white men, stand in a group together wearing zoot suits. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Royal Crown Revue. WB [logo] c1995 Warner Bros...
Royal Crush
Royal Crush, a rock band comprised of four white men, stand in a room with brick walls and look seriously at the camera. One band member hides partially behind a brick wall. Another band member rests...
Royal Fingerbowl
Royal Fingerbowl, a blues-rock band comprised of Kevin O'Day, Alex McMurray, and Andrew Wolf, stand outside in front of trees and possibly a house as the band member in the center looks to the right...
Ruby Crush
The Ruby Crush, a band comprised of three white men and one white woman, stand among the people in the George Segal bronze sculpture called "Rush Hour" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas...
Rude Beat League
Rude Beat League, a reggae band comprised of five Jamaican men, stand outside in an urban setting, spread out between a brick wall and a graffiti filled fence and either look at each other or smile at...
Rude Beat League
Rude Beat League, a reggae band comprised of five Jamaican men, stand beside a graffiti filled fence and smile at the camera. Printed in the right margin, "rude beat league. Management: Jahmrock...
Rudy Love and the Love Family Band
Rudy Love and the Love Family Band, a funk band from Wichita, Kansas comprised of eight African American men and one African American woman, sit on risers on a stage. The guitarists and percussionists...
Rufas Harley
Jazz bagpiper Rufas Harley closes his eyes as he blows into the bagpipes. He wears full Scottish costume. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Rufus Harley, The World's First Jazz Bag Pipe...
Rumba Club
Rumba Club, a Latin jazz and fusion band comprised of several white men and several Latino men, stand together by drums and look up at the camera and smile or laugh. Printed in the margin below the...
Russell Jackson
Double bassist Russell Jackson closes his eyes and smiles as he plays a stand up bass in the center of the railroad tracks. A train is behind him. He wears a fedora hat, pants with suspenders over a...
Rusty Zinn
Rock guitarist and vocalist Rusty Zinn pulls up on an electric jazz guitar he is playing and smiles. He wears a light-colored business suit jacket with wide lapels over a dark shirt. Printed in the...
Rusty Zinn
Rock guitarist and vocalist Rusty Zinn holds his left hand over a vintage microphone and curls his fingers over the top as he smiles and holds the neck of an electric jazz guitar with his right hand...
Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown, an R&B, soul, jazz, and blues singer, in a split photograph. In the top she looks up and to the left. In the bottom she looks to the right. Printed in the right margin the photograph,...
Ruthie and the Wranglers
Ruthie and the Wranglers, a country music band comprised of three white men and one white woman, stand apart and look seriously at the camera. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Ruthie and...
Ruthie Foster and Cyd Cassone
Blues guitarist and vocalist Ruthie Foster (left), in a split photograph, sits on a suitcase on railroad tracks and plays an acoustic guitar. In the photograph on the left, Ruthie is joined by hand...
Ryan Cohan
Ryan Cohan, jazz pianist, in a head-shot photograph rests his left hand across his chin.
S.D.I.
S.D.I. (Strategic Dance Initiative), (formerly the Blue Riddim Band), a reggae band from Kansas City, Missouri comprised of five white men, all laughing in a group photograph with four members...
Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women, a blues band comprised of one African American woman and two white women, laugh as they hold their instruments; a guitar, a double bass, and a keyboard. Printed in...
Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women is a blues band comprised of two white women and one African American woman. Two of the women are seated; one holding a mandolin; one holding a guitar; and the third...