Memphis Minnie ~ Similar Artists

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Bessie Smith - 100% match to Memphis Minnie

15 April 1894, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, d. 26 September 1937, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA. In her childhood, Smith sang on street corners before joining a touring black minstrel show as a dancer. Also in the show was Ma Rainey, and before long the young newcomer was also... Read more

Bukka White - 76% match to Memphis Minnie

Booker T. Washington White, 12 November 1906, Houston, Mississippi, USA, d. 26 February 1977, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. White learned guitar and piano in his teens, and hoboed from 1921, playing blues with artists such as George "Bullet" Williams. In the mid-30s White was a boxer... Read more

Leadbelly - 69% match to Memphis Minnie

Huddie William Ledbetter, 20 January 1889, Jeder Plantation, Mooringsport, Louisiana, USA, d. 6 December 1949, New York City, New York, USA. Lead Belly's music offers an incredible vista of American traditions, white as well as black, through his enormous repertoire of songs and... Read more

Big Bill Broonzy - 67% match to Memphis Minnie

William Lee Conley Broonzy, 26 June 1893 (some sources give 1898), Scott, Mississippi, USA, d. 14 August 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Broonzy worked as a field hand, and it was behind the mule that he first developed his unmistakable, hollering voice, with its remarkable range... Read more

Lonnie Johnson - 63% match to Memphis Minnie

Alonzo Johnson, 8 February 1889, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 16 June 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A hugely influential and original blues musicians, in the early 1900s Johnson played guitar and violin in saloons in his home town, performing mainly around the red-light... Read more

Charley Patton - 62% match to Memphis Minnie

1 May 1891, Bolton, Mississippi, USA, d. 28 April 1934, Indianola, Mississippi, USA. Charley Patton was small, but in all other ways larger than life; his death from a chronic heart condition at the age of 43 brought to an end his relentless pursuit of the good things then... Read more

Mississippi John Hurt - 62% match to Memphis Minnie

John Smith Hurt, 3 July 1893, Teoc, Mississippi, USA, d. 2 November 1966, Grenada, Mississippi, USA. One of the major "rediscoveries" during the 60s folk blues revival, Mississippi John Hurt began playing at informal gatherings and parties at the turn of the century, when... Read more

Sonny Boy Williamson - 62% match to Memphis Minnie

30 March 1914, Jackson, Tennessee, USA, d. 1 June 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Williamson learned harmonica as a child, and as a teenager in Tennessee was associated with the group of musicians around Sleepy John Estes. "Sonny Boy' had been in Chicago for three years when he... Read more

Blind Willie McTell - 60% match to Memphis Minnie

5 May 1901, McDuffie County, Georgia, USA, d. 19 August 1959, Almon, Georgia, USA. Blind from birth, McTell began to learn guitar in his early years, under the influence of relatives and neighbours in Statesboro, Georgia, where he grew up. In his late teens, he attended a school... Read more

Howlin' Wolf - 59% match to Memphis Minnie