ANSWER TO TRIVIA
· Muddy Waters, one of the most significant and best-loved bluesmen of all time.
· Willie Dixon, often regarded as the genre's most prolific and important songwriter.
· David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who hoboed around with the best of them and whose uncanny memory is still a great resource to students of the blues.
· Robert Lockwood, Jr., who learned directly from Robert Johnson. One of the first electric guitarists, he has enjoyed a career spanning eight decades.
· Johnny Shines, an energetic slide guitarist, singer, songwriter, storyteller, and social critic, who also palled around with Robert Johnson
· Memphis Slim, a piano giant with an incredible recorded output who turned his back on American Racism and went to live in Paris.
· Brownie McGhee, the ultimate guitar-playing Piedmont bluesman, who gained huge popularity with his longtime partner Sonny Terry
· Wynonie Harris, a jump blues and R&B Shouter who turned suggestive lyrics into big hits in the late forties.
~Cary Wolfson
