Definitive Americana

B.B. King

Muddy Waters

John Lee Hooker

Josh White

Johnny Cash

Odetta

Traditional

Pete Seeger

Hank Williams

Mahalia Jackson

Robert Johnson

Woody Guthrie

Sonny Boy Williamson

Big Joe Williams

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Mississippi John Hurt

Leadbelly

The Carter Family

Burl Ives

Huddie Ledbetter

Brownie McGhee

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Marie Knight

Kingston Trio

Elmore James

Howlin' Wolf

Blue Sky Boys

Uncle Dave Macon

George Jones

Fred Rose

Tony Mottola

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

The Stanley Brothers

Bill Monroe

June Carter

Alan Lomax

John A. Lomax

Lee Hays

The Weavers

Carl Smith

Mac Wiseman

Merle Travis

Paul Campbell

Boudleaux Bryant

Carl Sandburg

Cisco Houston

Peter Chatman

Ellas McDaniel

Mel London

Chester Burnett

Carter Stanley

Earl Scruggs

McKinley Morganfield

Jimmie Rodgers

Frank Warner

James Bracken

Ervin Rouse

Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys

Joel Newman

Andrew Jenkins

Flatt & Scruggs

Maud Irving

Jimmie Skinner

The Almanac Singers

Joseph P. Webster

Frank Proffitt

Ada Blenkhorn

George "Speedy" Krise

J. Howard Entwisle