Over 23K music fans have voted on the 180+ Best Blues Artists of All Time. Current Top 3: Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf
Also ranks #1 on The 300+ Best Rock Singers Of All Time, Ranked 19 Johnny Cash 12,866 votes Known as the "Man in Black," this legendary American singer-songwriter and guitarist is revered for his deep baritone voice and poignant storytelling that spanned genres like country, rockabilly,...
This Mississippi bluesman was famed for playing an unorthodox nine-string guitar and in 1935 he recorded (under the name Joe Williams’ Washboard Blues Singers) “Baby Please Don’t Go,” which became one of the most popular blues songs of all time. Williams accompanied his vocals with a gui...
Best known for her indelible 1961 version of wedding standard “At Last,” Etta James first took off in 1955 with the R&B chart-topper “The Wallflower.” Her gutsy, take-no-prisoner vocals colorfully interpreted everything from blues and R&B/soul to rock n’roll, jazz and gospel. Amon...
“She wanted to bring some of that doo-wop swing essence to the song,” backup singer Lenesha Randolph recalled. Hill and her singers recorded it after dinner one night, channeling a barbershop-quartet style as Hill warns both men and women of being too concerned with sex, power, and ...
Michael Jackson is without a doubt one of the best singers of all time, if not the greatest. Like others, he was given a title: the "King of Pop". He's one of the most significant cultural figures and is the greatest entertainer in the history of music. Even attempting to talk about...
Top Male Singers In The World Now it’s time to look at some of the best male singers of all time. Again, picking thebest singersis a daunting task. Remember the criteria I mentioned earlier – talent, skill, influence and originality. ...
Everything about the songs was great, even the intros — every one of them had a distinctive, memorable intro, which was a hook in and of itself. And, of course, there were two other wonderful singers in the Supremes, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. But at the end of the day, ...
the greatest music and musical artists in history. While the majority of the singers on this list are female rockers we have included a few outside of the genre from the R&B, country, and jazz fields because as we always try to argue on here, all music is connected. So here we go...
there’s no doubt that he certainly played an important role in popularising the genre with his band the Red Hot Peppers. Starting out playing ragtime, Morton was one of jazz’s first notable composers/arrangers, serving up immortal compositions like “Black Bottom Stomp,”“Wolverine Blues,”...