Blues shouter

A blues shouter is a blues singer, capable of singing unamplified with a band.

Notable blues shouters include:

• Big Maybelle
• Big Mama Thornton
• Piney Brown
• Walter Brown, of the Jay McShann orchestra
• Beulah Bryant
• H-Bomb Ferguson
• Wynonie Harris
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins
• Duke Henderson, who operated mainly in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
• Jimmy Rushing, blues shouter with Count Basie.
• Big Joe Turner – his style hardly changed at all between 1938's "Roll 'Em Pete", and 1954's "Shake, Rattle and Roll". AllMusic called Turner "the premier blues shouter of the postwar era".
• Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, an unusual combination of blues shouter and bebop alto saxophone player.
• Joe Williams (jazz singer)
• Jimmy Witherspoon, who also appeared with Jay McShann.
• Billy Wright
• Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett)

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