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Blues guitarists - List of the most famous blues guitar players of all time, with photos. These are the most well known blues guitarists - legends of the blues guitar. Famous blues guitarists on this list have played all major styles of blues, from the Mississsipi Delta to the streets of Chicago. Some of the most notable blues guitarists in the world are T-Bone Walker and B.B. King. This list includes blues guitar greats from the early days of the blues, including of course many of the most talented blues guitar players today. These prominent blues guitarists are some of the best musicians around, and are well known in blues and guitar circles. This list of renowned blues guitar players is alphabetical. See also a full list of blues artists, and a full list of blues rock bands.

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Rank   Name Genre(s) Albums Nationality Labels
  1. 1
    Blues-rock, Blues
    Frostbite, Deluxe Edition, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Texas Blues, Alive and Cool, Showdown!, Ice pickin', Love Can Be Found Anywhere (Even In A Guitar) Trash Talkin', Frosty / Tremble, Love Can Be Found Anywhere (Even in a Guitar), Cold Snap, Live at Montreux 1992, Don't Lose Your Cool, The Ice Axe Cometh: The Collection 1978-86, Frozen Alive!, Live, Live at the Fillmore West, The Compleat Albert Collins, Collins Mix: The Best Of, There's Gotta Be a Change, Trash Talkin', Iceman, The Complete Imperial Recordings, Sno-Cone More
    United States of America
    Alligator Records
  2. 2
    Rhythm and blues, Blues, Soul blues, Electric blues
    The Blues Don't Change, Blues at Sunrise, The Great King Albert, Red House, The Masters, Wednesday Night in San Francisco, Years Gone By, Thursday Night in San Francisco, Montreux Festival, Cold Feet / You Sure Drive a Hard Bargain, Guitar Man, Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 18: Live, The Best of Albert King, King of the Blues Guitar, Blues at Sunset (Live at Wattstax and Montreux), 60 Essential Blues Classics, Albert King - Stax Profiles, The Big Blues, Born Under a Bad Sign, Can't You See What You're Doing to Me, I'll Play the Blues for You, Let's Have a Natural Ball, Lovejoy, I Wanna Get Funky, The Blues Collection 26: Blues Power, Rainin' in California, Crosscut Saw, Blues for Elvis: King Does the King's Things, Blues At Sunrise, Truckload of Lovin': Best of Albert King, The Very Thought of You, The Complete King & Bobbin Recordings, The Very Best of, Hard Bargain, New Orleans Heat, Live, Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session, Live Wire / Blues Power, More Big Blues, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Blues at Sunrise, The Tomato Years, Albert King - The Blues Collection, Born Under a Bad Sign and Other Hits, The Best of Albert King, Live on Memory Lane, The Lost Session, Albert, Funky London, The Very Best of Albert King, The Ultimate Collection, Mean Mean Blues More
    United States of America
    Stax Records, Atlantic Records
  3. 3

    Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart

    Motivational Speaker, Down in the Alley, Start With the Soul, Territory, Big Mama's Door More
    United States of America
  4. 4
    Rock music, Blues-rock, Rockabilly, Swing, British blues
    Live in Vienna, Alvin Lee in Tennessee, On the Road to Freedom, In Flight, Let It Rock, Keep On Rockin (disc 1), The Anthology, The Anthology, Zoom, Rocket Fuel, Detroit Diesel, Pump Iron, Saguitar, RX5 More
    United Kingdom, England
    Chrysalis Records
  5. 5
    Rock music, Blues, Jazz, Pop music, Rhythm and blues, Country rock
    Canada, United States
    Bearsville Records, Stony Plain Records
  6. 6

    Anson Funderburgh

    Blues
    United States
    Black Top Records
  7. 7
    Rock music, Blues-rock, Rhythm and blues, Soul music, Jazz, Blues, Soul blues, Memphis blues, Electric blues, Jazz blues, Big band More
    The Very Best of B.B. King, How Blue Can You Get 1976-1994 (disc 2), The Collection, The Unexpected Instrumental, King of the Blues, Blues Summit, His Definitive Greatest Hits, Heart & Soul, Live "Now Appearing" at Ole Miss, Midnight Believer, Greatest Hits 1951-1960, The Best of the Early Years, His Best - The Electric B.B. King, Friends, (I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby / Be Careful With a Fool, Ultimate Jazz & Blues, The Soul of B.B. King, How Blue Can You Get / Please Accept My Love, The Best of B.B. King, Volume Two, BB King in London, Les Legendes Du Blues, Live & Well, Live at the Regal, Let the Good Times Roll, All Over Again, 80, Lucille Talks Back, The Great B.B. King, Blues Is King, Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan, Riding With the King, Blues on the Bayou, Let the Good Times Roll, Lucille, Live in Cook County Jail, Jazz & Blues: B.B. King, Reflections, B. B. King Wails, Singin' the Blues, The King's Jam, Rock Me Lord, B.B. Boogie: 18 Greatest Hits From His Early Years, Rock Me Baby / I Can't Lose, 16 Original World Hits, Sweet Little Angel, Live at the Apollo, Everyday I Have the Blues, Live and Well, B.B. King (feat. Riley B. King), The RPM Hits 1951-1957, His Best: The Electric B.B. King, B. B. King in London, Lucille & Friends, Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Blues You Can Use, Together for the First Time... Live, Do the Boogie! B.B. King's Early 50s Classics, Singin' the Blues / The Blues, Live at the BBC, He's Dynamite!, Why I Sing the Blues, Part 2, Deuces Wild, The Best of B.B. King, Play Me the Blues... The Legendary Blues Singers, Volume 1, Why I Sing the Blues, Part 1, Confessin' the Blues, In London, Makin' Love Is Good for You, Blues on Top of Blues: The Best of B.B. King, Sings Spirituals, Why I Sing the Blues, Mr. Blues, The Birth of a King, Classics, Gold, The Blues Collection, Anthology, Rock Me Baby, Blues 'n' Jazz / Electric B.B. King, Spotlight On Lucille, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of B.B. King, The Ultimate Collection, Live in Japan, Live at San Quentin, Take It Home, One Kind Favor, 36 All-Time Greatest Hits, The Jungle, Timeless Classics, Blues 'n' Jazz, Back in the Alley, The Best of B.B. King, Volume One, Portrait, Classic, The Magic Collection, A Night of Blistering Blues, The Ultimate Collection, Got My Mojo Working, Completely Well, Golden Legends, Hits & Roots 1950/1962, Christmas Celebration of Hope, The Collection, Blue on Blues (feat. Pee Wee Crayton), High Profile, The Vintage Years, Gold, The Blues, More Treasures From the Vault, Introducing B.B. King, The Best of the Early Years, More B. B. King, Kansas City 1972, Great Moments With B.B. King, B.B. King Live in Cook County Jail, Guess Who, The Thrill Is Gone / You're Mean, Six Silver Strings, Now Appearing, Volume 1, The Early "Blues Boy" Years, Live at the Regal / Live in Cook County Jail, How Blue Can You Get? Classic Live Performances 1964-1994 (disc 2), Golden Legends: B.B. King Live, Ain't Nobody Home!: The Very Best of B.B. King, Indianola Mississippi Seeds, King Size, King of the Blues, Blues Kingpins (Made in Mississippi), King of the Blues, How Blue Can You Get, When Love Comes To Town, The King of the Blues, King of the Blues Guitar, On Stage, My Kind of Blues, The Best of B.B. King, The Guitar Player, 20 Golden Classics, Back in L.A., Blues You Can Use, Everyday I Have The Blues, Christmas Celebration of Hope, Confessin' the Blues, King of the Blues: 1989, Anthology, Blues Boy, Blues, How Blue Can You Get, There Is Always One More Time, The Blues, There Must Be a Better World Somewhere, Gold, My Sweet Little Angel, The Jungle, King Biscuit, Blues on Top of Blues, Here and There: The Uncollected B.B. King, Original Greatest Hits, The Blues Collection 2: King of the Blues, Why I Sing the Blues (Past Perfect), L.A. Midnight, Fundamentals, Greatest Hits, B.B. Boogie, Makin' Love Is Good for You, The Early Blues Boy Years, Volume 2: 1952-1954, Ain't Nobody Home, Best Of, Classics, The Best of the Kent Singles 1958-1971, Paying the Cost to Be the Boss, The B.B. King Collection: 20 Blues Greats, B.B. King Collector's Edition, How Blue Can You Get?, Catfish Blues, Blues, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Mississipi, BB King Biography, There is Always One More Time More
    United States of America
    Interscope Records, Universal Music Group, EMI, Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records, MCA Records, Geffen Records, Virgin Records, ABC Records, Sun Records, RPM Records, Modern Records, Bullet Records More
  8. 8
    Folk music, Chicago blues, Country blues, Blues, Spiritual
    The Southern Blues, House Rent Stomp, Big Bill Blues, Big Bill Blues / House Rent Stomp, Hard Headed Woman / Serve It to Me Right, Too Too Train Blues / Bull Cow Blues, State Street Woman / Mr. Conductor Man, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 1, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 11, Black, Brown and White, When I Been Drinking / Shine on, Shine On, Key to the Highway / Green Grass Blues, Where the Blues Began, Volume 2, Nothing but the Blues: Big Bill Broonzy, All by Myself / Double Trouble, Bull Cow Blues / How You Want It Done, Good Time Tonight / Hell Ain't but a Mile and a Quarter, The Bill Broonzy Story, Trouble in Mind, Mississippi River Blues / Friendless Blues, Midnite Jazz & Blues: The Southern Blues, Warm, Witty & Wise, WPA Rag / Living on Easy Street, Ash Hauler / Bricks in My Pillow, Good Time Tonight, Absolutely the Best, Mistreatin' Mama Blues / Long Tall Mama, My Big Money / My Woman Mistreats Me, Original Blues Sessions, I Want My Hands on It / Made a Date With an Angel, Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 49: The Southern Blues, All the Classic Sides 1928-1937, I Stay Blue All the Time / You've Been Mistreating Me, Worrying You Off My Mind, An Evening With Big Bill Broonzy, Volume 1, An Evening With Big Bill Broonzy, Volume 2, Amsterdam Live Concerts 1953, Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down / Down the Line Blues, Brown Skin Shuffle / Stovepipe Stomp, St. Louis Blues, Plow Hand Blues / Looking for My Baby, Keep Your Hands Off Her / Sun Gonna Shine in My Door Some Day, The Complete Vogue Recordings, Volume 1 The Pre-War Years, You Do Me Any Old Way, I Can't Be Satisfied / Skoodle Do Do, Nothing but the Blues: Big Bill Broonzy, Rider Rider Blues / Trucking Little Woman No.2, I Feel So Good / Tell Me Baby, I Feel So Good: The Essential Recordings of Big Bill Broonzy, Chicago Calling, W.P.A. Blues / I'm a Southern Man, Just a Dream / Baby I Done Got Wise, Trucking Little Woman / Why Did You Do That to Me? More
    United States of America
    CBS, Bluebird Records, American Record Corporation, Vocalion Records, Paramount Records, Folkways Records, Gennett Records More
  9. 9
    Country blues, Blues, Electric blues, Delta blues
    Daddy, When Is Mama Coming Home?, The Oil Man, The Memphis Barbecue Sessions (feat. Kim Wilson), Roots Stew (feat. The Oilers) More
    Earwig Music Company
  10. 10
    Rock music, Hard rock, Blues-rock, Pop music, Psychedelic rock, Blues, Texas blues More
    United States of America
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Warner Bros. Records, RCA Records, RCA, American Recordings More
  11. 11
    Chicago blues, Country blues, Piedmont blues, Ragtime, Delta blues
    He's in the Jailhouse Now / Southern Rag, All the Published Sides, Early Morning Blues / West Coast Blues, The Best of Blind Blake, Police Dog Blues / Diddie Wa Diddie, Keep It Home / Sweet Jivin' Mama, Champagne Charlie Is My Name / Depression's Gone From Me Blues, Bad Feeling Blues / That Will Never Happen No More, Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker More
    United States of America
  12. 12
    Blues
    Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 2: 1927, The Complete 94 Classic Sides, See That My Grave's Kept Clean / Where Shall I Be, Rabbit Foot Blues / Shuckin' Sugar Blues, The Best of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Cat Man Blues, Texas Blues, Old Rounders Blues / Beggin' Back, One Dime Blues / Gone Dead on You, That Crawling Baby Blues / Pneumonia Blues, Prison Cell Blues / Lemon Worried Blues, The Best of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Hot Dogs / Weary Dogs Blues, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Match Box Blues / Easy Rider Blues, King of the Country Blues, Booger Rooger Blues / Wartime Blues, Moanin' All Over, The Essential Recordings, Booster Blues / Dry Southern Blues, The Complete Recordings, Struck Sorrow Blues / Rambler Blues, Long Lonesome Blues / Got the Blues, Bad Luck Blues / Broke and Hungry, Black Snake Moan / Match Box Blues, Black Horse Blues / Corinne Blues, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean / 'Lectric Chair Blues, Bed Springs Blues / Yo Yo Blues More
    United States of America
  13. 13
    Gospel music, Blues
    The Soul of a Man, Dark Was the Night: The Essential Recordings of Blind Willie Johnson, Dark Was the Night, The Complete Blind Willie Johnson, Praise God I'm Satisfied, Dark Was the Night, Dark Was the Night – Cold Was the Ground / It's Nobody's Fault but Mine, Sweeter as the Years Go By, Mother's Children Have a Hard Time / If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down, The Soul of a Man More
    United States of America
  14. 14
    Gospel music, Country blues, Piedmont blues, Ragtime, East Coast blues, Delta blues More
    Searching the Desert for the Blues / Lonesome Day Blues, The Early Years (1927-1933), 1927-1935, The Classic Years 1927-1940, The Blues Collection 43: Statesboro Blues, Dark Night Blues / Loving Talking Blues, The Legend of Blind Willie McTell, The Definitive Blind Willie McTell, When the Sun Goes Down, Volume 9: Statesboro Blues, Drive Away Blues / Love Changing Blues, Best of Blind Willie McTell: Classic Recordings of the 1920's & 30's, Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1: 1927-31, Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2: 1931-33, The Definitive Blind Willie McTell 1927-1935, Rollin' Mama Blues / Mama, Let Me Scoop for You, Last Session, Complete Recorded Works, Volume 3: 1933-35, Writing Paper Blues / Mamma, Tain't Long Fo' Day, The Essential, Statesboro Blues: The Essential Recordings of Blind Willie McTell, Three Women Blues / Statesboro Blues, Broke Down Engine Blues, Stole Rider Blues / Mr. McTell Got the Blues More
    United States of America
    Decca Records, Columbia Records, Okeh Records, Atlantic Records, Regal Records, Vocalion Records, Victor Talking Machine Company More
  15. 15
    Folk rock, Blues-rock, Country, Blues, Blue-eyed soul, Americana
    Road Tested, The Best of Bonnie Raitt on Capitol 1989-2003, Home Plate, The Glow, Nine Lives, Longing in Their Hearts, Green Light, Fundamental, Give It Up, Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt, Takin' My Time, Streetlights, Sweet Forgiveness, The Bonnie Raitt Collection, Luck of the Draw, I Can't Make You Love Me, Silver Lining, The Best of Bonnie Raitt, Souls Alike, Bonnie Raitt and Friends, Road Tested, WMNR Philadelphia Radio presents Bonnie Raitt live at the Rainbow Room, Feb. 22, 1972 More
    United States of America
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Capitol Records
  16. 16
    Chicago blues, Blues, Electric blues
    Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy, A Man and the Blues, Ultimate Jazz & Blues, Skin Deep, I Ain’t Got No Money, Ten Blue Fingers, Buddy's Blues 1979-82: The Best of the JSP Sessions, The Complete Chess Studio Recordings, Buddy's Blues, Buddy Guy and Friends, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy, Skin Deep, I Was Walking Through the Woods, Stone Crazy!, First Time I Met the Blues, Blues Singer, In The Beginning, Breaking Out, Heavy Love, Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 27: I Cry and Sing the Blues, Blues Today, Live! The Real Deal, I Was Walkin' Through the Woods, Sweet Tea, Slippin' In, Left My Blues in San Francisco, Alone & Acoustic, Slippin' In, The Very Best of Buddy Guy, Feels Like Rain, Buddy’s Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy, Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, Living Proof, Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago - 1979, Coming At You, This Is Buddy Guy!, The Definitive Buddy Guy, Hot And Cool, The Treasure Untold, Can't Quit the Blues, The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, Breaking Out, D.J. Play My Blues, As Good as It Gets, A Man & the Blues, The Buddy Guy Collection, First Time I Met the Blues-Python, Southern Blues 1957-63, The Blues Collection 4: Stone Crazy, Bring 'Em In, My Time After Awhile, I Left My Blues in San Francisco, Mustang Sally (feat. Jeff Beck), The Great Blues Guitar Legends, Six String Frenzy, Hold That Plane!, Stone Crazy, Stay Around a Little Longer (feat. B.B. King), Feels Like Rain, Can't Quit The Blues:Box Set, Chess Masters More
    United States of America
    Rhino Entertainment, Vanguard Records, Atlantic Records, MCA Records, Jive Records, Cobra Records, Zomba Music Group, JSP Records, Delmark Records, Cleopatra Records, Chess Records, Flyright Records, Silvertone Records, Charly Records, MPS Records More
  17. 17
    Country blues, Delta blues
    Good Gin Blues, The New 'Frisco Train / The Panama Limited, When Can I Change My Clothes / High Fever Blues, The Panama Limited, Pinebluff Arkansas / Shake 'em on Down, Mississippi Blues, 1963 Isn't 1962, The Complete Bukka White, Mississippi Blues, Big Daddy, Nothing but the Blues, Parchman Farm Blues / District Attorney Blues, Black Train Blues / Fixin' to Die Blues, The Vintage Recordings (1930-1940), Good Gin Blues / Bukka's Jitterbug Swing, The Complete Sessions 1930-1940, The Promise True and Grand / I Am in the Heavenly Way, Sleepy Man Blues / Aberdeen Mississippi Blues, Strange Place Blues / Special Stream Line More
    United States of America
  18. 18
    Chicago blues, Rock and roll, Latin American music
    Soul Disguise
    United States of America
  19. 19

    Charley Patton

  20. 20

    Chris Vachon

  21. 21
    Country, Swing, Blues, Cajun music
    Texas Swing, The Man, One More Mile, Justice Blues / I Live My Life, Pressure Cooker, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Down South in the Bayou Country, Back to Bogalusa, Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological "Gatemouth" Brown 1952-1954, Alright Again!, Blackjack, Gate's on the Heat, Just Got Lucky, Long Way Home, No Looking Back, San Antonio Ballbuster, The Blues Ain't Nothing, The Original Peacock Recordings, Timeless, American Music, Texas Style, Gate Swings, His First Recordings 1947-1951, Standing My Ground, Definitive Black and Blue Sessions, Real Life, The Blues Collection 35: Just Got Lucky More
    United States of America
    Rounder Records, Alligator Records, Verve Records, Barclay Records, Aladdin Records, Peacock Records More
  22. 22
    Blues, Blue-eyed soul
    Can't Look Back, Ya Think I'd Know Better, Gotta Mind to Travel, I Want It All Back, Suspicion, Just Let Go, Dirty Deal More
  23. 23
    Blues
    Short Fuse Blues
    Alligator Records, Festival Records
  24. 24

    David Hidaglo

  25. 25
    Rock music, Jazz fusion, Blues-rock, World music, Blues, Blue-eyed soul, Southern rock More
    Already Free, Songlines Live, The Derek Trucks Band, Out of the Madness, Live at Georgia Theatre, Soul Serenade, Joyful Noise, Revelator More
    United States of America
    Columbia Records, Legacy Recordings

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