Alberta Adams and Johnnie Bassett at the W.C. Handy Awards
Alberta Adams sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand while Johnnie Bassett stands next to her, wearing a flat cap, smiling, and playing a...
Alberta Adams sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand while Johnnie Bassett stands next to her, wearing a flat cap, smiling, and playing a...
B.B. Queen, an African American female blues guitarist, promotional photograph front and back.
B.B. Queen is a blues guitarist and singer. A publicity sheet printed on the back of her publicity photograph. Five paragraphs of biographical and...
Front of a publicity photograph for B.B. Queen, blues guitarist, who looks down at the neck of a Fender electric guitar and smiles as she plays...
Bettye Miller standing outside the venue her birthday party is being held in with three unidentified African American men and an unidentified white...
Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...
Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...
Big Mama Thornton seated on stage during the KPBS Special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach; she's...
A promotional sheet of four portrait photographs of African American blues musicians. From the top left, Bobby "Blue" Bland; top right, Denise LaSalle...
Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...
Group of unidentified people at the Supreme Bean coffeehouse listening to two unidentified entertainers between two large speakers (a white man and an...
Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush and a group of six unidentified people stand behind a seated DC Bellamy. Marvine McKeithen stands beside DC Bellamy at...
Cotton Candy & So Many Men, a blues band from Kansas City comprised of one African American woman, one African American man, and four white men, sit...
Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An...
Some of the crowd dances while others sit with drinks in front of the stage at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. A guitarist and a harmonica player...
Blues guitarist Deborah Coleman looks down at an electric guitar she is playing. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Deborah Coleman. Blind...
Blues guitarist Deborah Coleman hugs an electric guitar to her body. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Photo: Pat Johnson. Deborah Coleman...
Deborah Coleman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and smiles as she plays an electric guitar.
Deborah Coleman looks at the neck of an electric guitar she is playing on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Rockabilly guitarist Deke Dickerson stands holding two guitars whose bodies are resting at his feet and he steadies them by the necks. Three women sit...
Unidentified group of women musicians (three white, one African American) posing in a line of descending height in a forest; carrying their...
(Top row) Luqman Hamza, unidentified, Orestie "Rusty" Tucker, unidentified, unidentified, (second row from top) unidentified, Sonny Kenner, Everette...
Gaye Adegbalola from "Saffire the Uppity Blues Women". One of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and shrugs her...
Group photo of a group of jazz musicians sitting for a formal portrait and including Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham; Jimmy is holding his trombone and...
Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a...