Essential Women In Blues

Nina Simone

Dinah Washington

Etta James

Ruth Brown

Rory Block

Ike Turner

Francine Reed

Alberta Hunter

Richard Berry

Kevin McMahon

Danny Barker

Koko Taylor

Big Mama Thornton

Bessie Smith

Andy Razaf

Memphis Minnie

Richard M. Jones

Victoria Spivey

Ma Rainey

Sippie Wallace

Ida Cox

Joe McCoy

Mamie Smith

Big Time Sarah

Katie Webster

Lou Ann Barton

Blue Lu Barker

Lil Green

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Mike Stoller

Jerry Leiber

Leonard Feather

Big Maybelle

Candye Kane

Bruce Iglauer

Angela Strehli

Charles Singleton

Alexander Hill

Edith Wilson

Wesley Wilson

Leroy Kirkland

Marcia Ball

J. Mayo Williams

Rose Marie McCoy

Becky Barksdale

Joe Josea

Hadda Brooks

Helmy Kresa

Carroll Loveday

Clifford Gibson

Gaye Adegbalola

Michelle Willson

Saffire -The Uppity Blues Women

Lavelle White

Jackie "Moms" Mabley