Walter Wolfman Washington at the W.C. Handy Awards
Walter "Wolfman" Washington, wearing a baseball cap backwards, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing as he stands behind a...
Walter "Wolfman" Washington, wearing a baseball cap backwards, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing as he stands behind a...
Warren Prejean, wearing a leather flat cap, smiles at the photographer as he plays an accordion behind a microphone at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at...
Warren Storm, Godfather of Swamp Pop Music, stands and holds a microphone in his left hand. Promotional photo.
The WarVan, a blues band, stand in front of a wall of signatures and smile directly at the photographer at the Grand Emporium.
Washboard Chaz, wearing a fedora, looks down to his left as he thumps one of the two cans and a wood block that are attached to the bottom of a...
Washboard Chaz Leary, Lionel Young, and Lee Oskar, are one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium After Festival Jam. Washboard Chaz is...
Watermelon Slim, from his right side, is wearing a hat and looking to the sky as he plays a harmonica during the Box Car Blues Festival at...
Waxed Tadpoles (Terry, Chris, Steve, Cole, and Ray), a blues band, with their arms around each other and standing in front of a wall of signatures...
Wayne Jackson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks straight ahead as he holds a trumpet high that he blows into.
W.C. Clark, one of the national acts to perform at Blayney's, wearing a derby hat, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing.
Wendell Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, closes his eyes and grimaces as he sings, mouth wide open, into a microphone, and plays a keyboard...
The Wild Women: Myra Taylor, Lori Tucker, and Millie Edwards with Bill Maness; stand around a seated Wild Woman, Geneva Price, as they all smile...
The Wild Women including Lori Tucker, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards, and Myra Taylor, sit on stage in chairs singing into microphones under posters of...
The Wild Women: Mary Moore, Myra Taylor, Millie Edwards, and Geneva Price sit close together and smile at the photographer at the Mutual Musicians...
The Wilders, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, include Ike Shelton playing an acoustic guitar, then Nate Gawron playing a...
William King smiles at the photographer as he plays a guitar at the Grand Emporium.
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, part of the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, peeks over a cymbal as he plays a drum set at the Carlsen Center in Johnson County...
Willie "Popsy" Dixon, of the band The Holmes Brothers, sings into a microphone during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Willie Cobbs closes his eyes and scrunches his face and forms his left hand into a fist as he sings into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at...
Willie King, wearing a Michael Johnathon WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour ball cap, sits in a lawn chair, leaning his chin on his right hand, and smiles...
Wilson Pickett crouches with his eyes closed while holding the microphone in his left hand as he performs during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...
Wilson Pickett, one of the national acts at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, closes his eyes, makes a fist with his right hand and sings into...
Blues Notions Band stand outside the Grand Emporium as the winners of the Blues Challenge. Karl Angerer, Thomas Trashmouth Baker, Mike Sedovic, Cardy...
A crowd sits and stands in front of Mutual Musicians Foundation during the Landmark Ceremony: included in the crowd are Betty Crow, standing 2nd from...