40 Blues Musicians You Should Be Listening To - Statistics

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Hint		Answer	% Correct
Great blues singer who plays a guitar named Lucille	Live at the Regal	B.B. King	97%
Chicago blues singer and often the first name that comes to mind when people say the word "blues"	The Definitive Collection	Muddy Waters	86%
Legendary and influential Delta blues guitarist who died at age 27	King of the Delta Blues Singers	Robert Johnson	83%
Big, gruff-voiced Chicago blues singer whose band included guitarist Hubert Sumlin	______ ____/Moanin' in the Moonlight	Howlin' Wolf	67%
Left-handed guitarist who played a Flying V and bent notes like no one else	King of the Blues Guitar	Albert King	60%
Singer and guitarist with a deep, rich voice and a unique sense of rhythm who pionered blues guitar boogie	The Very Best of ____ ___ ______	John Lee Hooker	56%
The second-greatest guitarist of all time, a Texas blues guitarist who died tragically in 1990	Live at Montreux: 1982 & 1985	Stevie Ray Vaughan	54%
Texas Cannonball whose big instrumental hit became a blues-rock standard	Ultimate Collection	Freddie King	53%
The greatest Chicago blues guitarist and a master of disonance and dynamics	The Very Best of _____ ___	Buddy Guy	50%
Enigmatic Delta blues guitarist with a falsetto singing style	The Complete Early Recordings of ____ _____	Skip James	36%
The Iceman; Master of the Telecaster	Ice Pickin'	Albert Collins	33%
Delta blues guitarist who strongly influenced Robert Johnson and was rediscovered in New York in the 1960's	The Original Delta Blues	Son House	33%
Harmonica pioneer from Jackson, TN, who was tragically killed in a mugging at the age of 34	Sugar Mama	Sonny Boy Williamson I	31%
Harmonica player who took his name from ^ while hosting the King Biscuit Time radio show in Helena, AR	The Essential _____ ___ __________	Sonny Boy Williamson II	31%
Suave, silky-voiced pioneer of electric blues guitar and West Coast blues	The Very Best of _____ ______	T-Bone Walker	27%
Texas guitarist and singer who played mainly solo on both acoustic and electric guitars	The Very Best of ________ _______	Lightnin' Hopkins	26%
Blues harmonica pioneer who played with Muddy Waters and died after a street fight	His Best	Little Walter	26%
One of today's most popular blues-rock guitarists who often wears sunglasses and a suit	Blues Deluxe	Joe Bonamassa	24%
Chicago harmonica player who helped introduce blues to a white audience with a band featuring guitarist Mike Bloomfield	East-West	Paul Butterfield	20%
Chicago harmonica player and frequent collaborator with ^	Hoodoo Man Blues	Junior Wells	19%
Great slide guitarist who was discovered in Como, MS, in 1959	The Best of ___________ ____ ________	Mississippi Fred McDowell	17%
Eleven-piece band fronted by a female singer and her slide-guitar-playing husband	Everybody's Talkin'	Tedeschi Trucks Band	14%
Guitarist famous for his cheap instruments who inspired Bruce Iglauer to found Alligator Records	Deluxe Edition	Hound Dog Taylor	13%
Chicago blues pianist with a distinctive style who played with Muddy Waters and lived to be 97	After Hours	Pinetop Perkins	13%
Chicago harmonica player with a beautiful, clear sound and a guitar-playing son named Lurrie	Mellow Down Easy	Carey Bell	10%
White Chicago blues harmonica player who debuted in the '60s and is still active	Stand Back! Here Comes _______ ___________'s South Side Band	Charlie Musselwhite	10%
Up-and-coming English female blues-rock guitarist and singer	Almost Always Never	Joanne Shaw Taylor	9%
Creative blues singer and guitarist who has explored Delta blues, reggae, hip hop, traditional African music, and more	Greens from the Garden	Corey Harris	7%
Singer and guitarist born in North Dakota who burst onto the national blues scene in the late '90s while still in his teens	Wander This World	Jonny Lang	7%
West Coast harmonica player who plays with his band the Mighty Flyers	Keepin' It Real	Rod Piazza	7%
Guitarist from Louisiana who also burst onto the scene in the late '90s as a teenager	How I Go	Kenny Wayne Shepherd	4%
Horn-driven band founded in Rhode Island that has featured many of the best blues musicians in the Northeast	45 Live	Roomful of Blues	4%
Female guitarist and singer from Kansas City who won a Blues Music Award for "Best New Artist Debut" in 2012	Runaway	Samantha Fish	4%
Versatile blues and jazz organist and pianist	Live! At the Firefly	Bruce Katz	3%
Soulful blues guitarist from the Northeast who plays mostly instrumentals	Blues Guitar Virtuoso Live in Europe	Ronnie Earl	3%
Singer, harmonica player, and slide guitarist known for his originality and outspokenness	No Paid Holidays	Watermelon Slim	3%
High-energy singer and accordion player who infused zydeco with blues, rock, and funk	Give Him Cornbread, Live!	Beau Jocque	1%
Underrated guitarist with a mastery of blues-rock techniques	Empty Arms Motel	Jimmy Thackery	1%
Louisiana guitarist and singer who is a strong advocate for preserving the wetlands	Night Train to Nashville	Tab Benoit	1%
Kansas City band of three siblings who won the 2008 International Blues Challenge	May I Be Exused	Trampled Under Foot	1%

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