Blues Band Name Generator

Juke joint, Delta and Chicago blues band names

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Generate blues band names with real grit: frontman-and-band names like Howlin' Mae and the Backporch Sinners, juke-joint outfits, Delta and hill country crews, Chicago electric and jump blues combos, and road-worn names built from trains, whiskey, levees and hard luck.

About blues band names

Blues band names come in three classic shapes. The oldest is a bluesman or blueswoman and their band: a nickname built from a physical trait, a hometown or a hard-luck adjective (Blind, Howlin', Slim, Big, Little, Lightnin', Sonny Boy) attached to a first name, then the band as an afterthought: Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Big Mama Thornton, or here Howlin' Mae and the Backporch Sinners. The second is the place name: a crossroads, a levee, a highway, a juke joint, a street in Chicago or Memphis. The third is an object or condition borrowed from old song titles: a bottleneck slide, a boxcar, a killing floor, a dead shrimp.

What makes a name sound like blues rather than rock or country is the vocabulary: trains, whiskey, mules, levees, graveyards, preachers and sinners, rent parties, Saturday night and Sunday morning. Regional flavour helps too. Delta and hill country names lean rural (Catfish Row, Dockery Farm), Chicago and Detroit names are urban and electric (Maxwell Street, Hastings Street), Texas and jump blues names are slick and brassy (Pork Pie Hat Club, Eighteenth and Vine), and British blues nods to Ealing and the Thames.

Use the names as-is for a gigging band, tribute act or fictional group, or lift the frontman nickname and build your own outfit around it.

How to choose blues band names

  • Build a frontman name from the blues nickname tradition: a trait or size word (Blind, Slim, Big, Little, Howlin', Screamin') plus a first name, then add 'and the' and a band noun.
  • Put a real place in the name if you have one: Highway 61, a river, a street, a county. Blues fans trust geography, and it makes the band easy to find online.
  • Pull a phrase from the old repertoire (Killing Floor, Dead Shrimp, Nine Below Zero, Smokestack Lightning) for a name that signals you know the catalogue.
  • Match the name to the subgenre: rural words for Delta and hill country, electric and city words for Chicago, sharp-dressed words for jump blues and swing.
  • Say it out loud as a stage introduction. If 'Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome...' sounds wrong in front of it, keep looking.

Frequently asked questions

How did classic blues musicians get their names?

Most were nicknames earned young: a disability (Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell), size (Big Bill Broonzy, Little Walter), a voice (Howlin' Wolf, Screamin' Jay Hawkins), a place (Mississippi John Hurt, Memphis Minnie) or a habit (Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins). The band was usually just 'and His Band' or a small combo name added later.

What words make a band name sound like blues?

Trains, rivers, levees, crossroads, highways, juke joints, whiskey and moonshine, mules and hound dogs, preachers and sinners, rent parties, graveyards and hard luck. Words like Revival, Revue, Stompers, Rounders and Blues Band as the group noun also signal the genre.

Can I name my band after a famous blues song?

Song titles are not usually protected as trademarks, so names like Killing Floor or Nine Below Zero are widely used by bands, but check that another working band in your region does not already use it and avoid the exact names of famous acts.

Are these names good for a blues tribute or cover band?

Yes. Choose a place-based or song-based name if you play the classic catalogue, or a frontman-and-band name if one singer leads. Names built around a specific city or region also tell venues what style of blues to expect.

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A: 6 names

  • Across the Tracks Trio
  • After Hours Alley Cats
  • Ash Tray Annie and the Last Call Band
  • Attic Fan Fever
  • Aunt Ida's Skillet Shakers
  • Austin Alley Cats

B: 62 names

  • Back Alley Choir
  • Backdoor Bishops
  • Backwater Bishops
  • Bad Check Bandits
  • Bad Luck Lenny and the Jinxes
  • Bad Moon Bayou
  • Bar Chord Bandits
  • Barbed Wire Choir
  • Barefoot Benny and the Broken Bottles
  • Barrelhouse Bishop
  • Bathtub Gin Gang
  • Baton Rouge Bayou Band
  • Bayou Backbeat
  • Beale Street Bishops
  • Beer Joint Bishops
  • Before Daylight Band
  • Bent Note Brotherhood
  • Bentonia Blue Devils
  • Big Bad Boogie
  • Big Bill and the Side Street Saints
  • Big Leg Woman Blues Band
  • Big Lou and the Low Down Dirty
  • Big Mama Lucille's Kitchen Band
  • Big Muddy Mob
  • Big River Baptism
  • Big Thicket Thunder
  • Biscuit Tin Blues
  • Black Bottom Band
  • Black Cat Bone
  • Blind Boy Bartlett
  • Blind Pig Blues Band

B, continued

  • Blind Willie's Ghost
  • Blue Flame Combo
  • Blue Goose Ramblers
  • Blue Note Brothers
  • Bluebird Roadhouse
  • Blues Bandit Brothers
  • Blues Bread and Butter
  • Bluesbird Bertha
  • Bluesday Night Bishops
  • Bluesman's Union
  • Bluestone Holler
  • Bluesville Limited
  • Boll Weevil Band
  • Bone Orchard Blues Band
  • Bonnie Blue and the Bad Bargains
  • Boogie Woogie Bandits
  • Bootlegger's Band
  • Bottle and Jug Band
  • Bottleneck Bessie
  • Bottleneck Brotherhood
  • Bourbon Street Bone Gang
  • Boxcar Brotherhood
  • Boxcar Preacher
  • Brass Knuckle Blues Band
  • British Boogie Brotherhood
  • Broke Down Engine
  • Broken String Brotherhood
  • Brother Boone's Bone Band
  • Bucket of Blood Blues Band
  • Bullet Mic Brotherhood
  • Busted Knuckle Blues Band

C: 45 names

  • Caboose Crooks
  • Cadillac Row
  • Canebrake Pickers
  • Capo Crooks
  • Carolina Shuffle Kings
  • Cash Register Ray and the Change Makers
  • Cat Iron Stomp
  • Catfish Fry Friday
  • Catfish Row Runners
  • Chain Gang Chorus
  • Chapel Hill Hollers
  • Cheap Bourbon Brotherhood
  • Cheap Wine Sunday
  • Checkerboard Lounge Band
  • Cherry Red and the Heartbreakers
  • Chess Board Kings
  • Chicken Coop Crooks
  • Chicken Shack Shufflers
  • Chitlin' Strut Society
  • Cigar Box Crooks
  • Cigarette Smile
  • Clapboard Church Choir

C, continued

  • Clothesline Crooks
  • Coal Dust Choir
  • Coal Oil Lamp
  • Coffin Nail Combo
  • Cold Iron Skillet
  • Collard Green Congregation
  • Cornbread Confession
  • Cotton Gin Congregation
  • Cotton Patch Rounders
  • Cotton Row Shufflers
  • Cotton Sack Choir
  • Cottonmouth Kings
  • Cousin Clem's Cotton Pickers
  • Cover Charge Crooks
  • Crackling Crooks
  • Crawdad Row
  • Crawfish Boil Boys
  • Crawfish Holler
  • Crescent City Crawlers
  • Crooked Porch Preachers
  • Cross Harp Crooks
  • Cross Tie Walker
  • Cypress Knee Stompers

D: 22 names

  • Dallas Dust Devils
  • Dark End of the Street Band
  • Dark Thirty
  • Deacon Dupree's Delta Revue
  • Dead Man's Hand Blues Band
  • Dead Shrimp Blues Band
  • Delta Boneyard
  • Delta Dogs
  • Diamond Tooth Dolly
  • Diddley Bow Deacons
  • Dime Store Deacons
  • Dirt Road Congregation
  • Dirty Ruth and the Riverboat Rounders
  • Ditchwater Sermon
  • Dixieland Dregs
  • Dobro Deacons
  • Dockery Farm Deacons
  • Dockside Rounders
  • Dog House Door Blues Band
  • Dominant Seventh Sons
  • Dry County Deacons
  • Duke Dirtwater and the Dust Storm

E: 8 names

  • Ealing Club Revival
  • Eight to the Bar
  • Eighteenth and Vine Band
  • Electric Mud Club
  • Empty Bottle Evangelists
  • Encore Evangelists
  • End of the Line Evangelists
  • Eviction Notice Evangelists

F: 17 names

  • Fat Back Friday
  • Feather Bed Fever
  • Fedora Fever
  • Fever Dream Ramblers
  • Field Holler Five
  • Fife and Drum Devils
  • Fingerpickin' Fools
  • Fish Grease Fever
  • Flat Pick Fever
  • Flat Tire Five
  • Flood Water Fever
  • Forty Acre Moaners
  • Freight Train Fever
  • Fried Catfish Confessional
  • Front Porch Feud
  • Frottoir Fever
  • Fuzz Box Fever

G: 18 names

  • Gas Can Gospel
  • Gas Station Gospel
  • Gasoline Sisters
  • Goin' Down South
  • Good Morning Heartache Band
  • Granny Mae's Moonshine Mob
  • Grave Dirt Gumbo
  • Graveyard Shift Blues Band
  • Gravy Boat Gospel
  • Greasy Chicken Fingers
  • Green Bullet Band
  • Greens and Cornbread Band
  • Greenville Gutbucket
  • Greenwood Gospel Choir of Sin
  • Greyhound Bus Blues Band
  • Gulf Wind Gospel
  • Gumbo Pot Gospel
  • Gutbucket Gospel

H: 34 names

  • Hambone Harriet
  • Hambone Harris and the Dirty South Band
  • Hard Luck Handshake
  • Hard Luck Hattie
  • Hard Times Heartbreakers
  • Hard Times Hotel
  • Harp Attack Blues Band
  • Hastings Street Hounds
  • Heat Wave Heathens
  • Hellhound Holler
  • High Cotton Holler
  • Highway 49 Holler
  • Highway Shoulder Shufflers
  • Hill Country Howlers
  • Hobo Church
  • Hobo Jungle Jivers
  • Hog Jowl Jubilee
  • Hole in the Pocket Band
  • Hollerin' Hank's Tent Show
  • Hollow Log Holler
  • Holly Springs Heathens
  • Honey Boy and the Hive
  • Honeysuckle Howlers
  • Hoodoo Harmonica Club
  • Horn Section Heathens
  • Hot Biscuit Boys
  • Hot Foot Hattie and the Burnin' Shoes
  • Hot Tamale Kings
  • Hound Dog Holler
  • House Band Heathens
  • Houston Honky Tonk Hounds
  • Howlin' Mae and the Backporch Sinners
  • Hungry Ghost Holler
  • Hurricane Hounds

I: 2 names

  • Iron Bed Blues Band
  • Iron Horse Hymnal

J: 9 names

  • Jalopy Jones and the Flat Tire Five
  • Jam Night Jivers
  • Jug Band Jezebels
  • Juke House Jubilee
  • Juke Joint Sinners
  • Jukebox Jesus Blues Band
  • Jump Joint Jivers
  • Jumper Cable Junction
  • Junkyard Tabernacle

K: 4 names

  • Kansas City Jump Kings
  • Kerosene Kate
  • Killing Floor Kings
  • Kingsnake Kelly and the Dust Bowl Drifters

L: 17 names

  • Lafayette Lowdown
  • Last Call Lowdown
  • Last Train Home Band
  • Lefty Washington's Lowdown Seven
  • Levee Breakers
  • Levee Road Lowdown
  • Lightning Rod Lil
  • Lil' Boots Malone and the Mud Stompers
  • Little Queenie and the Kings of Nothing
  • Little Walter's Shadow
  • Liverpool Levee Band
  • Lonesome Engine
  • Lonesome Whistle Revue
  • Long Gone Lonesome
  • Lost Dog Lamentations
  • Low Tide Lowdown
  • Lowland Lamplighters

M: 25 names

  • Mad Dog Mabel's Midnight Band
  • Mad Dog Whiskey Choir
  • Magnolia Moan
  • Mama Hattie's Hot Sauce Band
  • Mama Told Me Not To Band
  • Marrow and Bone Blues Band
  • Maxwell Street Shufflers
  • Mean Old Levee
  • Memphis Mud Dogs
  • Midnight Ramble Revue
  • Midnight Special Moaners
  • Minor Key Mob
  • Mississippi Hymnal
  • Mississippi Saturday Night
  • Mister Johnson's Crossroads Trio
  • Mister Misery and the Miserables
  • Moaning Sisters Society
  • Mojo Hand Revue
  • Monday Morning Moaners
  • Moonshine Still Stompers
  • Motor City Moaners
  • Mouth Organ Mob
  • Muddy Boots Brigade
  • Muddy Creek Revival
  • Mule Kick Moaners

N: 9 names

  • Nail Board Band
  • National Steel Saints
  • Neck Bone Nighthawks
  • Nickel and Dime Deacons
  • Nickel Slide
  • Nighthawk Alley
  • Nine Pound Hammer
  • North Mississippi Mule Skinners
  • Northbound Nighthawks

O: 10 names

  • Ohio River Rounders
  • Oklahoma Dust Devils
  • Okra Row Rounders
  • Ol' Dirt Devil
  • Ol' Rattlebones
  • Old Man Riley's Rocking Chair Band
  • One Arm Otis and the Armless Bandits
  • One Eyed Jack's Roadhouse Band
  • Open G Gang
  • Other Side of Midnight Band

P: 19 names

  • Panama Limited Blues Band
  • Papa Jubal and the Jubilee Seven
  • Parchman Farm Pickers
  • Pearl Snap Shufflers
  • Pecan Pie Prophets
  • Peg Leg Pete's Pegboard Band
  • Piano Roll Pirates
  • Piedmont Pickers
  • Pig Iron Preachers
  • Pine Box Pickers
  • Pine Tar Prophets
  • Pistol Pete's Porch Band
  • Poor Boy Pennyworth
  • Pops Ledbetter's Porch Band
  • Porch Swing Preachers
  • Pork Pie Hat Club
  • Possum Trot Pickers
  • Preacher Hines and the Tent Revival
  • Prison Farm Preachers

R: 31 names

  • Ragged Preacher Blues Band
  • Rail Yard Rascals
  • Railroad Mary and the Freight Train Band
  • Ramblin' Rosco
  • Rambling Rose and the Thorns
  • Rattle Can Ramblers
  • Rattlesnake Gumbo
  • Rattlin' Bones
  • Red Beans and Rice Band
  • Red Clay Revival
  • Red River Rising
  • Rent Man Blues Band
  • Rent Party Preachers
  • Rent's Due Revue
  • Resonator Rounders
  • Reverb Revival
  • Reverend Slick and the Collection Plate
  • Reverend Tiny and the Tithe Collectors
  • River Bottom Congregation
  • Riverboat Rounders
  • Roadhouse Rascals
  • Rooster Crow Revue
  • Rooster Run
  • Rooster Tail Ramblers
  • Rosalie Rags and the Dirty Laundry
  • Rotgut Revue
  • Rub Board Rounders
  • Rust Belt Revival
  • Rusty Hinge Harmonica Club
  • Rusty Nail Revue
  • Rye and Regret

S: 55 names

  • Saturday Night Sinners and Sunday Morning Saints
  • Scrapyard Saints
  • Screamin' Tate and the Whiskey Pickers
  • Screen Door Slam
  • Seven Day Weekend
  • Share Cropper Sunday
  • Sharecropper Shack Band
  • Sharkskin Suit Society
  • Shoeshine Johnny and the Corner Boys
  • Shotgun House Shufflers
  • Shotgun Wedding Blues Band
  • Side Door Pullman Band
  • Sidemen's Society
  • Sinner's Sunday School
  • Sister Ruby and the Second Line
  • Sister Sadie and the Sanctified Sinners
  • Six String Gospel
  • Skiffle Skeletons
  • Skillet Lickin' Sinners
  • Skinny Tie Shuffle
  • Slim Jackson's Juke Joint Seven
  • Slop Jar Saints
  • Slow Burn Sunday
  • Smoke and Swamp Water
  • Smokestack Lightning Society
  • Smoky Hollow Hounds
  • Smoky Mountain Moaners

S, continued

  • Snakebit Sally
  • Snakeskin Shoes and the Serpents
  • Snuff Box Saints
  • Sour Mash Sinners
  • South Side Sinners
  • Speakeasy Sinners
  • Spoons and Bones
  • Squeezebox Saints
  • St. Louis Stompers
  • Stomp Down Saturday
  • Stone Pony Express
  • Stop Time Stompers
  • Storm Cellar Saints
  • Stovepipe Jones and the Smokehouse Band
  • Stray Cat Strut Club
  • Stray Dog Gospel
  • Stump Water Preachers
  • Sugar Ditch Seven
  • Sugar Shack Sinners
  • Sugarcane Slim
  • Sun Studio Stompers
  • Sunday Sinner Review
  • Sundown Shufflers
  • Swamp Pop Sinners
  • Swamp Root Revue
  • Sweet Lorraine and the Lowlifes
  • Sweetwater Blind
  • Switchblade Sally and the Straight Razors

T: 87 names

  • Tallahatchie Testimony
  • Tallahatchie Twang
  • Tangled Wire
  • Tar Paper Palace Band
  • Telecaster Tom and the Sharecroppers
  • Temperance Hall Traitors
  • Tempo Tantrum
  • Thames Delta Blues Band
  • The Backbeat Bishops
  • The Backroom Deacons
  • The Bad Penny Brothers
  • The Bayou Gravediggers
  • The Blacktop Hollerers
  • The Blind Lemon Revival
  • The Bootleg Brothers
  • The Bottle Tree Band
  • The Cabin Fever Choir
  • The Catfish Ramblers
  • The Chain Gang Choir
  • The Cheap Motel Band
  • The Chitlin' Circuit Stompers
  • The Cigar Box Saints
  • The Clarksdale Twelve
  • The Cornfield Preachers
  • The Crossroads Kings
  • The Cypress Swamp Howlers
  • The Ditch Digger Five
  • The Dusty Porch Pickers
  • The Graveyard Gamblers

T, continued

  • The Greasy Spoon Stompers
  • The Greyhound Station Band
  • The Hard Row Hoers
  • The Hawg Wallow Hounds
  • The Highway 61 Ramblers
  • The Jive Jubilee
  • The Juke Box Judges
  • The Jukehouse Wranglers
  • The Late Night Lowdown
  • The Levee Camp Holler
  • The Lonesome Gravel Road
  • The Long Haul Drifters
  • The Lowdown Hounds
  • The Mean Mistreaters
  • The Memphis Moonlighters
  • The Moonshine Deacons
  • The Moonshiner's Sunday
  • The Mud Flap Shakers
  • The Ninth Ward Howlers
  • The Pawn Shop Prophets
  • The Red Dirt Moaners
  • The Rent Party Rounders
  • The Sawmill Shakers
  • The Shotgun Shack Stompers
  • The Soot and Sorrow Band
  • The Southside Sluggers
  • The Tin Pan Ramblers
  • The Tupelo Tremolo
  • The Twelve Bar Saints

T, continued

  • The Uptown Shuffle Kings
  • The Washboard Prophets
  • The Whiskey Bent Congregation
  • Thelma Lou and the Lonely Hearts
  • Three A.M. Testimony
  • Three Chord Sermon
  • Thumb Out Trio
  • Thunderhead Tabernacle
  • Tin Cup Testimony
  • Tin Roof Rain Band
  • Tin Roof Shakedown
  • Tip Jar Tabernacle
  • Tobacco Road Testimony
  • Tombigbee Tabernacle
  • Tombstone Tom
  • Tone Bender Brothers
  • Tornado Alley Trio
  • Trap Door Trio
  • Treme Twelve Bar
  • Tremolo Tabernacle
  • Truck Stop Tabernacle
  • Tube Amp Trio
  • Tulsa Tremolo
  • Turnaround Tabernacle
  • Turpentine Tabernacle
  • Twang Bar Kings
  • Two Bit Two Step
  • Two Dollar Pistol
  • Two Drink Minimum

U: 1 name

  • Uncle Ned's Bedhead Blues Band

V: 3 names

  • Vibrato Vandals
  • Vicksburg Vipers
  • Voodoo Roosters

W: 14 names

  • Wabash Wailers
  • Walking Cane Willie
  • Washtub Wailers
  • West Side Wailers
  • Whiskey Barrel Band
  • Whiskey River Revival
  • Whistle Stop Wailers
  • White Lightning Wailers
  • Widow Maker Blues Band
  • Wild Child Williams and the Whiskey Flats
  • Windy City Wolves
  • Wolf Moon Wailers
  • Work Song Wailers
  • Wrong Side of Town Band

Y: 1 name

  • Yazoo Yard Dogs

Z: 1 name

  • Zoot Suit Shakers