Grand Emporium Collection

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 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...

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 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...

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...

Widespread Panic, a Southern rock, blues-rock band comprised of six white men, stand in a group on the grass by a sidewalk and look up at the camera. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Blues harmonica player William Clarke stands behind a suitcase covered in tourist stickers. He holds a harmonica in his left hand and a microphone in his right as he wears sunglasses and a dark suit...

William Clarke and Henry Clay, blues musicians, at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. William Clarke forms his right hand into a fist with the knuckles showing toward the camera and points...