what are some good blues music and artists?

well thats a great question

Howlin Wolf- try Smokestack Lightning

John Lee Hooker- try Boom, Boom, Boom

Muddy Waters- Im your Hoochie Coochie Man & Im A King Bee

Little Walter (Best Harmonica out there) Try- Juke

The 3 Kings BB, Albert & Freddy- All there stuff is pretty great

BB King- Try The Thrill Is Gone, Rock Me Baby,

Albert King- Try Ill Play The Blues For You, The Sky Is Cryin

Freddie King- I love his version of Sweet Home Chicago (a song which every great bluesman plays)

Little Milton

Sonny Boy Williamson

Stevie Ray Vaughan- Pride & Joy, The Sky is Cryin w/ Albert King is awesome, Texas Flood he has so much great stuff- I like his stuff best when he was with Double Trouble, but this guy could stand in with anyone and kick a**, that was a big loss to the blues when Stevie Ray died.

the early stuff... Robert Johnson is real haunting stuff.

And There is so much great great stuff out there.

Buddy Guy.

and any version of the song Ice Cream Man- John Brim, Van Halen just rocked it out great blues tune.

Albert King

BB King

Freddy King

Buddy Guy

Elmore James

Bobby "Blue" Bland

Johnnie Taylor

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Robert Johnson

Robert Cray

Eric Clapton

Taj Mahal

John Lee Hooker

Muddy Waters

Robert Bradley

Pinetop Smith

D.C. Bellamy

Howlin Wolf

Willie Dixon

Otis Redding

Look at Wayne Perkins.

He is a blues/rock session guitarist from Birmingham, Alabama who has played on records for everyone from Joe Cocker to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Marley(concrete jungle guitar solo), Joni Mitchell, Rolling Stones, Albert King, Bobby Womack, Glen Frey, Al Green, Lonnie Mack, etc..

www.wayneperkins.com is his website, and he has a myspace music page. Wayne's strength is his ability to play whatever the song needs as it is being recorded. You can listen to excerpts on the music page of his official website and there are a few tunes in full on the myspace music page.

He does a fine job with the blues, but there is so much more he does well. I think Wayne the man is bigger than Blues the genre.

He is not into flashy show-off solos, and he does not try to steal the show with his guitar work....he always and only plays what the song needs, and that is why he is on so many records. He rarely plays out live, but will go to the studio every once in a while.

He is one of the most gifted songwriters I have ever heard.

alright this is gonna be a long response but stick with me...there are umpteen million different blues styles. If you want good southern(delta) blues I'd recommend Robert Johnson, howlin' wolf, john lee hooker, muddy waters, and much more. Memphis blues you're looking at frank stokes Memphis Minnie and bobby sowell. then there is blues rock(my preference) Stevie ray Vaughan, Robert cray, buddy guy, Eric Clapton. The rolling stones, Jimi Hendrix experience, and led zeppelin also have some really great tunes centered around blues. Have fun and enjoy

i feel dumb for doing this but i forgot the three kings(Freddy, Albert , and B.B.). May the lord have mercy on me. :)

Buddy Ace, Little Milton, Al Green, Willie Clayton, Z.Z Hill, BB King, Bobby Blue Bland, Ray Charles

Willie Dixon

John Lee Hooker

Otis Spann

B.B. King

Lonnie Brooks

Lonnie Mack

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown

Etta James

Koko Taylor

Buddy Guy

Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson

Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Janis Joplin, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter ... jeeze, the list could truly go on longer than you'd probably care to read.

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Son House

LeadBelly

Robert Johnston

Fat Danny and the Hard Tymz blues band out of Los Angeles Calif / check ';em out on Rhapsody they get down and rock it, too! Fave songs for me are on Power of the Blues "Pissin' in the wind" and $7 Blues