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...
Alberta Adams, wearing sunglasses, sits and talks on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Ann Rabson looks out over the keyboard she is playing and sings into a microphone on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. A drum set and...
Bernard Allison, wearing a cowboy hat with a wide hat band, smiles at the photographer as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for...
Bob Margolin, wearing sunglasses, stands behind a microphone and grins as he plays an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...
Deborah Coleman looks at the neck of an electric guitar she is playing on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Duke Robillard, wearing sunglasses and a fedora, looks at the neck of a guitar he plays on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Eddie Shaw, wearing a straw fedora, closes his eyes as he stands behind a microphone and blows into a tenor saxophone that has a microphone pointed as...
Johnnie Bassett, wearing an flat cap, looks to his left as he fastens a capo to the neck of a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...
Memphis Slim's (Peter Chatman) note on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee; text on note reads "Memphis Slim, U.S. Ambassador of Goodwill".
Mojo Buford, from the left, wearing a leather fedora, closes his eyes as he blows into an amplified harmonica he clutches in his hands on Beale Street...
Pinetop Perkins, wearing a fedora with a flower in the hat band, looks seriously down at the keys he is playing. Bob Margolin wearing sunglasses also...
Robert Lockwood Jr., wearing a fedora, listens intently to an unidentified African American woman across the table from him. An unidentified African...
Tracy Nelson looks down to her left and laughs as she holds a drink in her right hand on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Vesti Jackson, from below, looks intensely at both of his hands playing the neck of an electric guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy...
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...