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A fine harmonica player based in Chicago, Branch is also a blues educator

Born July 28, 1943, Bloomfield was an outstanding guitarist and part of the original Paul Butterfield Blues Band; he was a Chicago native; he died in 1981 of substance abuse

Singer, drummer, and bandleader Milton was born in Oklahoma on July 31, 1907 and died in 1983

Born July 11, 1947 in Illinois, she is now 76 and is part of Lyle Lovett's band

Born July 4, 1910, pianist Dupree was indeed a champion boxer; recorded in 1971; he died in 1992

Louisiana bluesman Garner won the International Blues Challenge in 1988; he was born July 8, 1952

The famed political activist and folk singer/songwriter and major influence on Bob Dylan was born in OK July 14, 1912; he died of Huntington's disease in 1967

A cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, Fread Martin was born in Mississippi on July 19, 1940

A Columbus, Ohio native, pianist Chuck Goering lived until 2016; he was born July 10, 1958

This version of the band featured Elvin Bishop ("Pigboy Crabshaw") as guitarist

The seminal Texas acoustic bluesman was born on either July 11, 1897, or Sept. 24, 1893; he died in 1929

Jodie Edwards (Butterbeans) of the singing comedy duo Butterbeans and Susie was born July 19, 1893 and died in 1967

Part of a musical family, he was born on this date, July 1, in 1936 or 1938; he died in 2022; his brother was bluesman Jimmy Johnson

The legendary country bluesman was born either on July 3 or March 8 in 1893 ; he died in 1966

Born in MS on July 11, 1936, guitarist Robert Lee Wilson spent most of his career in Los Angeles and died at age 79 in 2015

Now 70 years old, guitarist Brown was born in Alabama on July 5, 1953

The great bass player and songwriter was born on July 1, 1915 and lived to age 76

Jalacy Hawkins was born July 18, 1929 in Cleveland, OH; he was an actor, film producer, and boxer as well as musician; he died in 2000

With Stevie Ray Vaughan; guitarist Mack was born July 18, 1941 in Indiana and died in 2016

A West Virginia native, pianist Johnson lived from July 8, 1924 until 2005; for many years he was Chuck Berry's pianist

Born July 28, 1930, he was an avatar of Mississippi hill country blues, characterized by insistent rhythm and little melody; he was only 67 when he died of a stroke and heart attack

On July 30, 2024, famed guitarist George Guy will turn 88 years old! song from Aug. 1962

He was born July 13, 1931 in Louisiana and died in 2016; with T.D. Bell on second guitar

The hugely influential guitarist Hudson Whittaker (Tampa Red); his colleague was "Georgie Tom," AKA Thomas Dorsey, who became a master of gospel; Dorsey was born on this date, July 1, in 1899 and died in 1993 at age 93; this song is from 1932

Born July 7, 1913 in MS, Joe Willie Perkins initially was a guitarist until a knife attack on his left arm made guitar playing difficult; he replaced Otis Spann as pianist in Muddy Waters's band and left after ten years to join the Legendary Blues Band; he was 97 when he died in 2011

Born in Louisiana on July 17, 1939, singer Marjorie Ann Johnson was 81 when she died in 2021; Fankhauser is a very good Swiss singer and guitarist

The late, great harmonica player was born on this date, July 1, in 1935; he was one of Muddy Waters's many fine harmonica players; piano by James Booker; he couldn't sing for the last two decades of his life because of a throat problem, and he died in 2017

A native of North Carolina, Fulton Allen entered the world on July 10, 1904 and was only 36 when he died; he gradually became blind, totally by age 28; he was one of the most popular acoustic finger-picking guitarists of the Piedmont-style genre; song recorded in 1936

Very popular in the 1940s, Jordan was born july 8, 1908; he was a bandleader, singer, and saxophone player; he died in 1975

Pianist, singer, and bandleader Liggins's birthday was July 9, 1916; he lived until 1987

She was born July 16, 1934 or 1939; she was known for her double entendre songs; she passed away in 2018

Recorded in 1976

Recorded in 1935

Vocal and piano by Dupree, saxophone by Curtis

From 1932