Blues Hall of Fame

A Blues Hall of Fame a memphisi székhelyű Blues Foundation alapításával egyidőben, 1980-ban létrehozott Blues-hírességek Csarnoka, amelynek tagjai közé azokat az előadókat választják meg évről évre, akik nagy hatással voltak a blues zene műfajára. Az első évben összesen 20 előadót iktattak be a blues-hírességek közé.

Kategóriák

A Blues Hall of Fame négy kategóriában tartja nyilván a blues nagyjait:

• előadók (1980-tól),
• klasszikus blues felvételek (albumok 1982-től, dalok 1983-tól),
• klasszikus blues irodalom (1982-től),
• zeneipari szakemberek (hivatalosan nem-előadók, 1991-től).

2020-as évek

A COVID-19 koronavírus-járvány miatt a 2020-as beiktatási ceremónia elmaradt, és a következő évben tervezték megtartani úgy, hogy 2021-ben nem neveznek meg újabb beiktatottakat.

Év	Kategóriák
	Előadók	Szakemberek	Klasszikus blues felvételek	Klasszikus blues irodalom
2024	Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials Lurrie Bell Sugar Pie DeSanto Scrapper Blackwell O.V. Wright Jimmy Rushing Odetta	William R. Ferris	Album Here’s the Man!!! – Bobby Bland, 1962 Dal "Why Don’t You Do Right?" – Lil Green, 1941 "Driving Wheel" – Junior Parker, 1961 "Key to the Highway" – Jazz Gillum, 1940 "Okie Dokie Stomp" – Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, 1954 "I Ain’t Got You" – Billy Boy Arnold, 1955	Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, by Angela Davis (Pantheon, 1998)
2023	Junior Kimbrough Fenton Robinson Carey Bell Snooky Pryor John Primer Josh White Esther Phillips	David Evans	Album The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967) – Little Walter, 2009 Dal "The Red Rooster" – Howlin’ Wolf, 1961 "Mojo Hand" – Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1960 "My Black Mama" – Son House, 1930 "I’m Tore Down" – Freddy King, 1961 "Black Nights" – Lowell Fulson, 1965	The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville 1899-1926, by Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff (University Press of Mississippi, 2017)
2022	Lucille Bogan Little Willie John Johnnie Taylor	Mary Katherine Aldin Otis Blackwell	Album Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley, 1958 Dal "Eyesight to the Blind" – Sonny Boy Williamson No. 2, 1951 "Farther Up the Road" – Bobby “Blue” Bland, 1957 "Good Rocking Tonight" – Roy Brown, 1947 "Rock Me Baby" – B.B. King, 1964 "Rollin’ and Tumblin" – Baby Face Leroy Trio, 1950	Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast by Bruce Bastin (University of Illinois Press, 1986)
2020/2021	Eddie Boyd Billy Branch Syl Johnson Bettye LaVette George “Harmonica” Smith Victoria Spivey	Ralph Peer	Album The Chess Box – Howlin’ Wolf, 1991 Dal "That’s All Right (Mama)" – Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, 1946 "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean" – Ruth Brown, 1952 "Trouble in Mind" – Bertha "Chippie" Hill, 1926 "Future Blues" – Willie Brown, 1930 "3 O’Clock Blues" – B.B. King, 1951	Earl Hooker – Blues Master by Sebastian Danchin (University Press of Mississippi, 2001)

2010-es évek

Év	Kategóriák
	Előadók	Szakemberek	Klasszikus blues felvételek	Klasszikus blues irodalom
2019	Aretha Franklin Booker T. & the M.G.'s Count Basie Ida Cox Pee Wee Crayton	Moe Asch	Album The Sky Is Crying – Elmore James, 1965 Dal "Everyday I Have The Blues" – B. B. King, 1954 "I Got A Woman" – Ray Charles, 1954 "Rollin’ Stone" – Muddy Waters, 1950 "Shake Your Moneymaker" – Elmore James, 1961 "The St. Louis Blues" – Bessie Smith, 1925	Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 by John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, és Samuel C. Adams, Jr. (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005)
2018	The Aces Georgia Tom Dorsey Sam Lay Mamie Smith Roebuck "Pops" Staples	Al Benson	Album Blues Is King – B. B. King, 1967 Dal "Cross Cut Saw" – Albert King, 1966 "Green Onions" – Booker T. & the MG’s, 1962 "I’m a Man" – Bo Diddley, 1955 "Roll ’Em Pete" – Joe Turner, 1938 "See See Rider Blues" – Ma Rainey, 1924	I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy by Bob Riesman (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
2017	Johnny Copeland Henry Gray Willie Johnson Latimore Magic Slim Mavis Staples	Amy van Single	Album The Real Folk Blues – John Lee Hooker, 1966 Dal "Bo Diddley" – Bo Diddley, 1955 "I’ll PLay the Blues for You" – Albert King, 1971 "Hi-Heel Sneakers" – Tommy Tucker, 1963 "Preachin’ the Blues" – Son House, 1930 "I Ain’t Superstitious" – Howlin’ Wolf, 1961	Father of the Blues by W.C. Handy (Macmillan, 1941)
2016	Elvin Bishop Eddy Clearwater Jimmy Johnson John Mayall The Memphis Jug Band	Tommy Couch, Sr. Wolf Stephenson	Album Blues in the Mississippi Night – Alan Lomax gyűjtése, 1957 Dal "Crazy Hours" – Mamie Smith, 1920 "That’s All Right" – Jimmy Rogers, 1950 "I Wish You Would" – Billy Boy Arnold, 1955 "Merry Christmas Baby" – Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers feat. Charles Brown, 1947 "Blues Before Sunrise" – Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, 1920 "Crazy Hours" – Mamie Smith, 1920	Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis by Jeff Todd Titon (University of Illinois Press, 1977)
2015	Eric Clapton Little Richard Tommy Brown
2014	Big Jay McNeely Eddie Shaw Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson R. L. Burnside Robert Pete Williams	Dick Shurman Don Robey Mike Kappus	Album Hawk Squat – J.B. Hutto, 1969 Moanin’ in the Moonlight – Howlin’ Wolf, 1959 Dal "After Hours" – Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra, 1940 "Catfish Blues" – Robert Petway, 1941 "High Water Everywhere, Parts I & II" – Charley Patton, 1930 "It’s Tight Like That" – Tampa Red & Georgia Tom, 1928 "Milk Cow Blues" – Kokomo Arnold, 1934	Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown and Company, 2005)
2013	Earl Hooker Jimmie Rodgers Jody Williams Joe Louis Walker Little Brother Montgomery Otis Clay	Cosimo Matassa Dave Clark Henry Glover	Album Texas Worried Blues: The Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929 – Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas, 1975 Louis Jordan's Greatest Hits – Louis Jordan, 1969 More Real Folk Blues – Howlin' Wolf, 1967 Dal "Canned Heat Blues" – Tommy Johnson, 1928 "How Many More Years" – Howlin' Wolf, 1951 "Let the Good Times Roll" – Louis Jordan, 1946 "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" – Memphis Minnie, 1941 "Mystery Train" – Little Junior's Blue Flames (Junior Parker), 1953	Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records by Rob Bowman (Schirmer, 2003)
2012	Billy Boy Arnold Mike Bloomfield Buddy Johnson & Ella Johnson Lazy Lester Furry Lewis Matt "Guitar" Murphy Frank Stokes Allen Toussaint	Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau Doc Pomus Pervis Spann	Album Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues – Buddy Guy, 1991 Bad Influence – The Robert Cray Band, 1983 Dal "All Your Love" – Magic Sam, 1957 "It Hurts Me Too" – Tampa Red, 1940 "Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie" – Pine Top Smith, 1928	The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine, szerkesztette Jim O'Neal & Amy van Singel (Routledge, 2002)
2011	Big Maybelle Robert Cray John Hammond, Jr. Alberta Hunter Denise LaSalle J. B. Lenoir	Bruce Bromberg Vivian Carter & Jimmy Bracken Samuel Charters John W. Work III	Album False Accusations – Robert Cray, 1985 Night Beat – Sam Cooke, 1963 The Real Folk Blues – Howlin' Wolf, 1965 Dal "Ain’t Nobody’s Business" – Jimmy Witherspoon, 1947 "Five Long Years" – Eddie Boyd, 1952 "Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues" – Skip James, 1931 "Love in Vain" – Robert Johnson, 1937	Walking to New Orleans: The Story of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues by John Broven (Blues Unlimited, 1974)
2010	Lonnie Brooks Gus Cannon W. C. Handy Amos Milburn Charlie Musselwhite Bonnie Raitt	Peter Guralnick "Sunshine" Sonny Payne	Album Hung Down Head – Lowell Fulson, 1970 I Hear Some Blues Downstairs – Fenton Robinson, 1977 Strong Persuader – Robert Cray, 1986 Dal "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" – Otis Rush, 1958 "Fever" – Little Willie John, 1956 "Key to the Highway" – Big Bill Broonzy, 1941 "Match Box Blues" – Blind Lemon Jefferson, 1927 "Spoonful" – Howlin’ Wolf, 1960	The Bluesmen by Samuel Charters (Da Capo Press, 1991)

2000-es évek

Év	Kategóriák
	Előadók	Szakemberek	Klasszikus blues felvételek	Klasszikus blues irodalom
2009	Reverend Gary Davis Son Seals Taj Mahal Irma Thomas	Clifford Antone Mike Leadbitter Bob Porter	Album Amtrak Blues – Alberta Hunter, 1978 Blues With a Feeling Newport Folk Festival Classics – válogatás, 1993 T-Bone Blues – T-Bone Walker, 1959 Dal "Boom Boom" – John Lee Hooker, 1961 "Caldonia" – Louis Jordan, 1945 "Sitting on Top of the World" – Mississippi Sheiks, 1930	I Hear You Knockin: The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues by Jeff Hannusch (Swallow Publications, 1985)
2008	Jimmy McCracklin Mississippi Sheiks Hubert Sumlin Johnny "Guitar" Watson Peetie Wheatstraw Jimmy Witherspoon	John Hammond Paul Oliver	Album Freddy King Sings – Freddy King, 1961 I’m Jimmy Reed – Jimmy Reed, 1958 Members Only – Bobby Bland, 1985 Piney Woods Blues – Big Joe Williams, 1958 Rocks the House – Etta James, 1964 Dal "Back-Water Blues" – Bessie Smith, 1927 "Double Trouble" – Otis Rush, 1958 "My Babe" – Little Walter, 1955	7 Guitars by August Wilson (Plume, 1997) Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf by James Segrest & Mark Hoffman (Pantheon Books, 2004)
2007	Dave Bartholomew Dr. John Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Ahmet Ertegün Art Rupe	Album Angola Prisoners’ Blues – Robert Pete Williams & others, 1959 Down and Out Blues – Sonny Boy Williamson II, 1960 Driving Wheel – Little Jr. Parker, 1962 Dal "Black Angel Blues" – Robert Nighthawk (The Nighthawks), 1949 "Death Letter" – Son House, 1965 "Hide Away (Hideaway)" – Freddie (Freddy) King, 1961	Blues With a Feeling: The Little Walter Story by Tony Glover, Scott Dirks & Ward Gaines (Routledge, 2002)
2006	Paul Butterfield James Cotton Roy Milton Bobby Rush	Bihari Brothers Bobby Robinson Jerry Wexler	Album I Do Not Play No Rock ’n’ Roll – Mississippi Fred McDowell Screamin' and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton Tell Mama – Etta James Dal "Devil Got My Woman" – Skip James "Honky Tonk, Parts 1 & 2" – Bill Doggett "Hound Dog" – Big Mama Thornton	Blues & Rhythm magazin, UK Chasin’ That Devil’s Music by Gayle Dean Wardlow; szerkesztette Edward Komara
2005	Walter Davis Ike Turner	H. C. Speir	Album Down Home – Z.Z. Hill, 1982 Dal "Black Night" – Charles Brown, 1951	Blues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones (William Morrow, 1963)
2004	Bo Diddley Blind Boy Fuller	J. Mayo Williams	Album Raining in My Heart – Slim Harpo Dal "Baby What You Want Me To Do" – Jimmy Reed	Juke Blues magazin, UK
2003	Fats Domino Pinetop Perkins Sippie Wallace Dinah Washington	Ralph Bass	Album It’s My Life Baby! – Junior Wells, 1966 Dal "Part Time Love" – Little Johnny Taylor, 1963	Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, by Robert Gordon (Little, Brown and Company, 2002)
2002	Ruth Brown Big Maceo Merriweather	Jim O'Neal	Album Live in Cook County Jail – B.B. King, 1971 Dal "Going Down Slow" – St. Louis Jimmy Oden, 1941	Spinning the Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records, by Nadine Cohodas (St. Martin's Griffin, 2000)
2001	Etta James Little Junior Parker Rufus Thomas	Theresa Needham Robert Palmer	Album The Complete Plantation Recordings – Muddy Waters, 1993 Dal "Shake, Rattle and Roll" – Big Joe Turner	Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story, by Helen Dance (Da Capo Books)
2000	Johnny Otis Stevie Ray Vaughan	Dick Waterman	Album Mississippi Delta Blues – Mississippi Fred McDowell Dal "Down Home Blues" – Z.Z. Hill	The Country Blues, by Samuel Charters (Rinehart and Co., 1959)

1990-es évek

Év	Kategóriák
	Előadók	Szakemberek	Klasszikus blues felvételek	Klasszikus blues irodalom
1999	Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Roosevelt Sykes	Lester Melrose Chris Strachwitz	Album Blues Hit Big Town – Junior Wells Dal "Dark Was The Night" – Blind Willie Johnson, 1927	The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing, by David "Honeyboy" Edwards
1998	Luther Allison Junior Wells	Lillian Shedd McMurry Sam Phillips	Album I’ll Play the Blues for You – Albert King, 1972 Dal "Messin’ With the Kid" – Junior Wells, 1960	Blues from the Delta, by Dr. William Ferris (1970)
1997	Brownie McGhee Koko Taylor	Bruce Iglauer	Album The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 1965 Dal "Baby Scratch My Back" – Slim Harpo, 1965	Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm & Blues, by Arnold Shaw (1978)
1996	Charles Brown David "Honeyboy" Edwards	Bob Koester Pete Welding	Album Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers – Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, 1971 Dal "Don’t Start Me Talkin’" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, 1955	Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, by Peter Guralnick (Harper & Row, 1986)
1995	Jimmy Rogers	Phil Chess	Album The Boss of the Blues – Big Joe Turner, 1956 Otis Spann is the Blues – Otis Spann, 1960 Dal "Wang Dang Doodle" – Koko Taylor, 1965	Searching for Robert Johnson: The Life and Legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers", by Peter Guralnick (Dutton, 1989) The Land Where the Blues Began, by Alan Lomax (Pantheon Books, 1993)
1994	Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup Wynonie Harris	Bill "Hoss" Allen John Lomax Alan Lomax John Richbourg Gene Nobles	Album The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker 1940-1954 – T-Bone Walker, 1990 Dal "I Can’t Quit You Baby" – Otis Rush, 1956 "Texas Flood" – Larry Davis, 1958	Nothing But the Blues, szerkesztette Lawrence Cohn
1993	Champion Jack Dupree Lowell Fulson	––	Album Chicago Bound – Jimmy Rogers Dal "Reconsider Baby" – Lowell Fulson, 1954	Urban Blues, by Charles Keil
1992	Skip James Johnny Shines Big Joe Williams	––	Album Blues From the Gutter – Champion Jack Dupree, 1958 Father of the Folk Blues – Son House, 1965 Parchman Farm – Bukka White, 1970 The Complete Recordings – Robert Johnson, 1990 Dal "Baby Please Don’t Go" – Big Joe Williams, 1935 "Statesboro Blues" – Blind Willie McTell, 1928	I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story, by Willie Dixon with Don Snowden (Quartet Books, 1989)
1991	Sleepy John Estes Billie Holiday Fred McDowell Sunnyland Slim	Leonard Chess	Album Can’t Get No Grindin’ – Muddy Waters, 1973 Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 1-3 – válogatás, 1966 The Best of Little Walter – Little Walter, 1958 Dal "Killing Floor" – Howlin' Wolf, 1964 "Nine Below Zero" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, 1951 "Rocket 88" – Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats, 1951 "The Sky is Crying" – Elmore James, 1959	Big Road Blues: Tradition & Creativity in the Folk Blues, by David Evans (University of California Press, 1982) Conversation with the Blues by Paul Oliver The Country Blues, by Samuel Charters (Rinehart and Co., 1959)
1990	Blind Blake Lonnie Johnson Bukka White	––	Album Black Magic – Magic Sam Blues Band, 1969 The Chess Box – Willie Dixon, 1988 The Complete 1931 Session – Skip James, 1986 Dal "Big Boss Man" – Jimmy Reed, 1960 "Good Morning, School Girl" – Sonny Boy Williamson I, 1937 "Terraplane Blues" – Robert Johnson, 1936	Big Bill Blues, by Big Bill Broonzy & Yannick Bruynoghe

1980-as évek

Év	Kategóriák
	Előadók	Szakemberek	Klasszikus blues felvételek	Klasszikus blues irodalom
1989	Clifton Chenier Robert Lockwood, Jr. Memphis Slim	––	Album Live on Maxwell Street – Robert Nighthawk Showdown – Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland The World’s Greatest Blues Singer – Bessie Smith, 1970 Dal "Come On in My Kitchen" – Robert Johnson (ARC/Vocalion, 1936) "Drifting Blues" – Charles Brown with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (Philo/Aladdin, 1945) "Long Distance Call" – Muddy Waters (Chess, 1951)	Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues & Rock ’n’ Roll, by Peter Guralnick (Outerbrdige & Dienstfrey, 1971)
1988	Mississippi John Hurt Little Milton Jay McShann Johnny Winter	––	Album Down on Stovall’s Plantation – Muddy Waters, 1966 The Chess Box – Muddy Waters, 1985 The Original Flair & Meteor Sides – Elmore James Dal "Born Under a Bad Sign" – Albert King, 1967 "How Long, How Long Blues" – Leroy Carr, 1928 "Pony Blues" – Charley Patton, 1929	The Blues Fell This Morning (The Meaning of the Blues), by Paul Oliver
1987	Percy Mayfield Eddie Taylor	––	Album Blues Before Sunrise – Leroy Carr, 1962 Hide Away – Freddie (Freddy) King, 1969 Two Steps From the Blues – Bobby "Blue" Bland Dal "Big Road Blues" – Tommy Johnson, 1928 "Help Me" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, 1963 "Please Send Me Someone to Love" – Percy Mayfield, 1950	The Story of the Blues, by Paul Oliver (Penguin, 1969)
1986	Albert Collins Tommy Johnson Lead Belly Sonny Terry	––	Album I Am The Blues – Willie Dixon, 1970 Ice Pickin' – Albert Collins, 1978 Live Wire/Blues Power – Albert King, 1968 Dal "Cross Road Blues" – Robert Johnson, 1936 "Juke" – Little Walter, 1952 "Mannish Boy" – Muddy Waters, 1955	Chicago Breakdown (Chicago Blues), by Mike Rowe
1985	Chuck Berry Buddy Guy J. B. Hutto Slim Harpo	––	Album Born Under a Bad Sign – Albert King, 1967 Chester Burnett A.K.A Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf, 1972 Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf, 1962 Dal "Boogie Chillen" – John Lee Hooker, 1948 "Smokestack Lightnin'" – Howlin’ Wolf, 1956 "The Thrill is Gone" – B.B. King, 1969	Blues Records 1943-1966, by Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven (Hanover Books Ltd., 1968)
1984	Otis Rush Hound Dog Taylor Big Mama Thornton	––	Album Boss Blues Harmonica – Little Walter, 1972 Hoodoo Man Blues – Junior Wells, 1966 West Side Soul – Magic Sam Blues Band, 1968 Dal "Got My Mojo Working" – Muddy Waters, 1960 "I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man" – Muddy Waters, 1954 "The Things That I Used to Do" – Guitar Slim, 1953	Deep Blues, by Robert Palmer (Viking Press, 1981)
1983	Louis Jordan Albert King Robert Nighthawk Ma Rainey Big Joe Turner	––	Album Founder of the Delta Blues – Charley Patton, 1970 King of the Delta Blues Singers Vol. II – válogatás, 1970 Live at the Regal – B.B. King, 1965 McKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters, 1971 The Best of Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters, 1958 Dal "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" – T-Bone Walker, 1947 "Dust My Broom" – Elmore James, 1951 "Hell Hound on My Trail" – Robert Johnson, 1937 "Sweet Home Chicago" – Robert Johnson, 1936 "Worried Life Blues" – Big Maceo, 1941	Blues Who’s Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers, by Sheldon Harris (Arlington House, 1979)
1982	Leroy Carr Ray Charles Big Walter Horton Freddie King Magic Sam	––	Album King of the Delta Blues Singers – Robert Johnson, 1961	Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942, by Robert M.W. Dixon & John Godrich (Rust, 1964) Blues Unlimited magazin, alapítók: Simon Napier és Mike Leadbitter. UK (1963) Living Blues magazin, alapítók: Bruce Iglauer, Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel, Paul Garon, Diane Allmen, Andre Souffront és Tim Zorn. USA, Chicago (1970)
1981	Bobby "Blue" Bland Roy Brown Blind Willie McTell Professor Longhair Tampa Red	––	––	––
1980	Big Bill Broonzy Willie Dixon John Lee Hooker Lightnin’ Hopkins Son House Howlin' Wolf Elmore James Blind Lemon Jefferson Robert Johnson B. B. King Little Walter Memphis Minnie Muddy Waters Charley Patton Jimmy Reed Bessie Smith Otis Spann T-Bone Walker Sonny Boy Williamson I Sonny Boy Williamson II	––	––	––

További információk

• Blues Hall of Fame – The Blues Foundation