Blues Name Generator

Juke joint nicknames for bluesmen and blueswomen

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Generate a blues name in the old Delta and Chicago tradition: a hard-luck nickname, a hometown or a physical trait hitched to a first name and surname, from Howlin' Ezra Tate and Memphis Lou Garvey to Washboard Annie Pruett. Good for your own stage name, a fictional bluesman or the classic "what's your blues name" game.

About blues names

A blues name is a nickname first and a name second. The classic pattern, set by players of the 1920s and 30s, hangs a descriptor in front of an ordinary first name and surname: a disability (Blind, Pegleg, Deaf), a body type (Big, Little, Slim, Long Tall, Stovepipe), a home town (Memphis, Tampa, Mississippi, Texas), a sound (Howlin', Lightnin', Screamin', Whistlin') or an instrument (Washboard, Harmonica, Piano, T-Bone). Women got the same treatment with Big Mama, Sweet, Sister and Ma, and kin titles like Papa, Daddy, Uncle and Cousin stood in for a first name entirely.

The vocabulary is what makes a name sound like blues rather than country or rock. Railroads and highways, rivers and levees, juke joints and rent parties, hoodoo and hellhounds, whiskey and hard luck, catfish and cornbread, Saturday night and Sunday morning. The best names pull one concrete image from that world and attach it to a plain name that could belong to a sharecropper: Boxcar Rufus Cobb, Crossroads Clyde Gentry, Moonshine Mose Hatfield.

The list mixes all of these, plus a few fruit-flavoured entries for the old joke that your blues name is an ailment, a fruit and a president. Pick one you could introduce from a stage, or take the nickname alone and bolt it onto your own first name.

How to choose blues names

  • Build it the traditional way: one descriptor (Blind, Big, Howlin', Memphis, Washboard) plus a short everyday first name plus a plain surname. Two descriptors is the maximum before it turns into parody.
  • Use the meme formula if you want a quick laugh: an ailment or body trait, a fruit, and a president, as in Blind Lemon Tatum or Blind Tangerine Polk.
  • Match the nickname to something true about you or your character: the instrument you actually play, your real hometown, your build, or a habit the band teases you about. Real blues nicknames were given, not chosen.
  • Check the name is not already a working artist's: Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, Gatemouth Brown and Watermelon Slim are taken, so swap a word before you print posters.
  • Say it out loud as an MC would: a good blues name lands in three or four beats with the stress on the nickname, so Mississippi Sam Poteet works and Mississippi Bartholomew Poteet does not.

Frequently asked questions

What is the "blues name" formula?

The popular joke formula is an ailment or physical trait, then a fruit, then a president's surname, giving names like Blind Lemon Jefferson (a real player who inspired it) or invented ones like Pegleg Plum Garfield. This generator includes a few of those but mostly follows the real tradition of trait or hometown nicknames, such as Memphis Lou Garvey or Stovepipe Willie Crane.

Where did real blues nicknames come from?

Most were given by family, bandmates or record labels. Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller were actually blind; Big Bill Broonzy and Little Walter were named for size; Memphis Minnie, Tampa Red and Mississippi John Hurt for their home turf; Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins for how they sounded; Washboard Sam, Harmonica Slim and T-Bone Walker for what they played or a childhood mispronunciation.

Can women use this blues name generator?

Yes. Classic blues had as many women stars as men, and the list includes names in the Big Mama Thornton, Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie and Sister Rosetta Tharpe moulds: Big Bertha Kincaid, Mama Lou Thibodeaux, Sweet Loretta Hines, Washboard Annie Pruett, Hurricane Hattie Broussard and Sister Odessa Vance among them.

How do I turn a blues name into a full act?

Take the nickname and attach a band in the old style: Howlin' Ezra Tate and the Levee Camp Boys, or Memphis Lou Garvey's Juke Joint Four. Name the band after a place, a vice or an object from the songs you play, then keep the spelling consistent on posters, streaming profiles and your social handles. Our blues band name generator has hundreds of ready-made band names to pair with these.

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 18 names

  • Ace High Archie Beard
  • Achy Kumquat Coolidge
  • After Hours Arthur Dukes
  • Alabama Alberta Isom
  • Alley Cat Alma Gordy
  • Altar Call Alma Echols
  • Amen Corner Abe Tolson
  • Anchor Chain Angus Redmond
  • Angola Al Thibodaux
  • Anvil Anderson Swain
  • Arkansas Red Swindell
  • Ash Can Amos Setzer
  • Ashy Ike Pendergrass
  • Atchafalaya Abe Mouton
  • Atlanta Ace Prewitt
  • Auburn Avenue Arlene Scruggs
  • Aunt Tillie Rankin
  • Axe Handle Abner Talley

B: 132 names

  • B-Side Burnell Rutledge
  • Baby Boy Zeke Trammell
  • Baby Doll Ardella Moss
  • Baby Face Lamar Tuttle
  • Back Door Buster Gaddy
  • Back Forty Bertha Canipe
  • Back Road Brooks Pollock
  • Back Room Buster Foxworth
  • Backbeat Betty Hamer
  • Backslider Bennie Cope
  • Backyard Bob Suggs
  • Bad Back Barton Rowell
  • Bad Luck Buster Peavy
  • Bad News Beau Mapp
  • Bail Bond Bessie Tarver
  • Bald Head Bucky Sloan
  • Baling Wire Wayne Weathersby
  • Bandana Bill Teague
  • Bandstand Bennett Guillory
  • Banjo Benjy Arcement
  • Bank Shot Bea Hillman
  • Banty Rooster Rex Lockhart
  • Barber Pole Basil Lacour
  • Barefoot Bessie Cloninger
  • Baritone Barry Oglesby
  • Barnyard Bertha Lacy
  • Baron Bertram Singleton
  • Barrel Chest Buck Maddox
  • Barrelhouse Bea Latham
  • Barrelhouse Bo Fetner
  • Basin Street Minerva Rhodes
  • Bathtub Gin Ginny Hawes
  • Baton Rouge Bessie Fruge

B, continued

  • Bayou Belle Antoinette
  • Beale Street Bobby Shaw
  • Beanpole Bill Leggett
  • Bear Cat Bessie Drummond
  • Beer Joint Benny Faircloth
  • Beignet Benoit Cooksey
  • Bellhop Bailey Hoskins
  • Bent Finger Freddie Lusk
  • Bent Note Benita Hutto
  • Bentonia Booker Applewhite
  • Big Bertha Kincaid
  • Big Boy Elijah Crouch
  • Big Burl Cutter
  • Big Daddy Roscoe Thigpen
  • Big Jasper Temple
  • Big Mae Oakes
  • Big Mama Ophelia Pratt
  • Big Muddy Mose Keever
  • Big Wendell Hagood
  • Billy Goat Burdette
  • Biloxi Queenie Hightower
  • Bird Dog Birdie Hammonds
  • Birmingham Beulah Brumfield
  • Biscuit Bessie Pate
  • Bishop Barnaby Shipp
  • Bitterroot Ben Sherrill
  • Black Bayou Benny Cash
  • Black Cat Bone Casey
  • Black Kettle Kate Rudisill
  • Black Snake Bo Milner
  • Black-Eyed Pea Pearl Bradshaw
  • Blackberry Bess Vandiver
  • Blackbird Blythe Kilgore

B, continued

  • Blackjack Tolbert
  • Blackstrap Blanche Cockrell
  • Blast Furnace Fenton Alston
  • Blind Arthur Tolliver
  • Blind Bartholomew Hollis
  • Blind Boy Amos Jelks
  • Blind Jesse Cahill
  • Blind Joe Dobbins
  • Blind Josie Farrow
  • Blind Lemon Tatum
  • Blind Lime Fillmore
  • Blind Melon Taft
  • Blind Mose Haggerty
  • Blind Rufus Stallworth
  • Blind Sam Pinkney
  • Blind Tangerine Polk
  • Blue Jay Jimmy Vance
  • Blue Monday Monty Dennard
  • Blue Note Nathan Gadsden
  • Blue Ridge Bessie Cobb
  • Bluegill Gilda Hurd
  • Bluetick Barney Gantt
  • Bluff City Jessie Walton
  • Bogalusa Barney Hebert
  • Bogue Chitto Bob Pless
  • Boiler Room Bert Carruth
  • Boll Weevil Bobby Quarles
  • Boneyard Bo Whitmire
  • Bonfire Bobby Killian
  • Boogie Keys Bennie Pharr
  • Boogie Woogie Rudy Whitlock
  • Bootleg Bessie Noland
  • Border Radio Bonita Trice

B, continued

  • Boss Man Burl Whatley
  • Bottleneck Bertha Hadley
  • Bottleneck Bill Harmon
  • Bottomland Bo Bollinger
  • Boudin Baptiste Cribbs
  • Bourbon Street Bo Thibault
  • Bow Leg Bo Varnado
  • Bow Tie Beauford Tookes
  • Box Supper Susie Darby
  • Boxcar Benny Lovett
  • Boxcar Rufus Cobb
  • Brass Knuckle Bo Ogburn
  • Brass Slide Sidney Whitted
  • Brickyard Bryant Culver
  • Brimstone Buddy Ikard
  • Broken Heart Bertha Lyle
  • Broken String Billy Gurley
  • Bronzeville Inez Varnell
  • Brother Bo Canady
  • Brother Ezekiel Crump
  • Buck Dance Buford Beene
  • Buckshot Bennie Mull
  • Bulldog Bernice Odom
  • Bullfrog Bessie Stallings
  • Bullfrog Henry Gaines
  • Bullwhip Billy Segrest
  • Bus Depot Delores Slay
  • Bushy Brow Bernard Humphries
  • Busted Amp Amos Tarleton
  • Butterbean Bill Faison
  • Buttermilk Ben Tanksley
  • Buzzard Lope Burton Brock
  • Buzzard Roost Ben Cash

C: 101 names

  • Caboose Cal Massey
  • Cairo Clemmie Dunlap
  • Cajun Red LeBlanc
  • Cakewalk Kate Bess
  • Calico Callie Mae Wardrick
  • Camel Walk Cameron Brackett
  • Camp Meeting Camille Dargan
  • Candy Man Otis Fenwick
  • Cane Brake Carl Drum
  • Cane Cutter Cleo Pitre
  • Cane River Cora Ashe
  • Cane Syrup Cyrus Mabry
  • Captain Cal Renfro
  • Card Shark Carlton Coley
  • Carolina Shorty Huckabee
  • Cast Iron Carrie Beasley
  • Castor Oil Cassie Varner
  • Catfish Earl Beaumont
  • Catfish Kate Purifoy
  • Catfish Row Billie Prescott
  • Cayenne Cassius Dedmon
  • Central Avenue Vera Shelby
  • Chain Gang Charlie Voss
  • Chalk Dust Archie Jarrett
  • Charley Horse Horace Wofford
  • Chattanooga Chick Hambrick
  • Checkerboard Chet Lofton
  • Cherry Red Coleman Hask
  • Chicago Lil Dawson
  • Chicken Coop Curt McBride
  • Chicken Shack Carrie Elam
  • Chicory Charlie Hoyle
  • Chitlin' Charlie Pinkney

C, continued

  • Choir Boy Charlie Etheridge
  • Chord Buster Charlie Lanier
  • Church Bell Belva Emanuel
  • Church Mouse Carrie Hobbs
  • Cigar Box Clem Rayburn
  • Cincinnati Cecil Clemmons
  • Clarksdale Clyde Rankin
  • Clay Pit Clarence Sumrall
  • Closing Time Clyde Burrell
  • Coal Chute Chester Chatham
  • Coal Dust Dorsey Cobbins
  • Coal Oil Coleman Cato
  • Coal Scuttle Scott Delahoussaye
  • Coal Wagon Wiley Hales
  • Coffee Pot Cora Bolick
  • Coffin Nail Carl Busby
  • Coin Slot Cy Robichaux
  • Cold Deck Cole Craddock
  • Cold Hearted Clara Strickland
  • Coldwater Carrie Sipe
  • Collard Green Corrine Tubb
  • Colonel Cicero Rollins
  • Company Store Corbin Raiford
  • Conjure Woman Cleo Fairchild
  • Cool Breeze Calvin Rorie
  • Copper Belle Annie Sheets
  • Copper Still Conway Hambright
  • Copperhead Cordell Pinson
  • Corn Crib Cora Sims
  • Corn Liquor Curly Deal
  • Corn Pone Conrad Carraway
  • Cornbread Carl Tolliver
  • Corner Pocket Connie Hagler
  • Cotton Bale Callie Perkins

C, continued

  • Cotton Blossom Cleo Whisnant
  • Cotton Boll Cora Flagg
  • Cotton Field Cora Ames
  • Cotton Gin Cleo Beasley
  • Cotton Sack Zack Gadson
  • Cottonmouth Cal Rudd
  • Cottonmouth Kitty Pettus
  • Countess Cora Stokes
  • County Farm Curtis Maples
  • County Line Linus Pettway
  • Courthouse Cal Flournoy
  • Cousin Lonzo Bell
  • Cowbell Coretta Blanton
  • Crawdad Cleve Benoit
  • Crawlin' Bug Carl Biggs
  • Crawlin' Kingfish Moody
  • Creepin' Cale Stinson
  • Crescent City Ruthie Wimberly
  • Cricket Clara Melton
  • Crooked Toe Tate
  • Croonin' Cornell Daughtry
  • Crosscut Calvin Bagley
  • Crossroad Clem Bonds
  • Crossroads Clyde Gentry
  • Crosstie Cletus Doss
  • Crow Bait Curtis Ledford
  • Crowbar Crosby Sturdivant
  • Cryin' Sam Ledbetter
  • Crystal Radio Tina Tapscott
  • Cue Stick Quincy Hardy
  • Cumberland Gap Emmett Magee
  • Curly Top Clarice Hatcher
  • Curtain Call Callie McGhee
  • Cypress Stump Clyde Pope

D: 53 names

  • Daddy Rabbit Paxton
  • Dallas Daddy Lonnie Ware
  • Dance Hall Dahlia Fitts
  • Dark Horse Desmond Elrod
  • Daybreak Della Rountree
  • Deacon Alvin Poole
  • Deacon Jones Whitfield
  • Dead End Edmond Teasley
  • Deadline Dan Purcell
  • Deaf Davy Pettigrew
  • Decatur Street Amos Sandifer
  • Deckhand Dewitt Patton
  • Deep Ellum Elvira Shivers
  • Deep Groove Gil Langston
  • Delta Mae Thurmond
  • Derby Dan Yount
  • Detour Deirdre Strother
  • Detroit Dinah Conerly
  • Deuces Wild Del Benefield
  • Devil's Son Dewey Spivey
  • Diamond Tooth Dan Absher
  • Diddley Bow Dewey Hance
  • Dimples Doreen Hinton
  • Dinner Bucket Lottie Brazzle
  • Dipper Gourd Gordon Chaisson
  • Dirt Dauber Dalton Nunn

D, continued

  • Dirt Road Dorcas Paige
  • Dirty Rice Darius Crumpton
  • Dishwater Dora Judkins
  • Ditch Bank Dewey Helms
  • Dobro Dan Peeples
  • Dockery Farm Isaiah Newsome
  • Dockside Douglas Mixon
  • Doctor Clawhammer Jones
  • Dog Days Doyle Rush
  • Doghouse Bass Doug Prejean
  • Dogwood Dell Isenhour
  • Domino Dolores Lampkin
  • Double Down Doris Durden
  • Double Six Dexter McCants
  • Double Stop Dudley Irby
  • Down and Out Dalton Kitchens
  • Downbeat Darnell Jernigan
  • Dreamin' Dudley Dubose
  • Driftin' Dan Lovelace
  • Driftwood Della Hatchett
  • Dry Spell Dan Treece
  • Duke Tyrone Wooten
  • Durham Dorothea Cagle
  • Dust Bowl Dell Fite
  • Dust Devil Devin Trotter
  • Dusty Bill Corrigan
  • Dynamite Della Hovis

E: 12 names

  • Earl Fontaine Webb
  • East St. Louis Elmer Gillespie
  • East Texas Ed Pollard
  • Easy Money Eddie Vick
  • Echo Chamber Edith Westbrook
  • Eel Slim Cravens
  • Eight Ball Edgar Grimes
  • Eighty-Eight Eddie Stowe
  • Elder Ezra Mims
  • Ember Red Eustace Crowder
  • Empty Pocket Emory Lacefield
  • Encore Corinne Mathis

F: 39 names

  • Falsetto Fabian Nix
  • Farish Street Florine Pegram
  • Fast Fingers Felix Kendrick
  • Fast Mail Mallory Dease
  • Fatback Frank Brinkley
  • Fedora Frank Poovey
  • Feed Sack Phelan McCullum
  • Fence Post Foster Holliman
  • Ferry Landing Fern McNair
  • Fiddle Stick Phineas Doucet
  • Field Holler Felicia Marable
  • Fifth Ward Essie Slaughter
  • Firecracker Fannie Propst
  • Fish Camp Faye Shedd
  • Fish Fry Frances Boatman
  • Fishin' Felton Edmonds
  • Flat Broke Florian Ledet
  • Flat Foot Floyd Jeter
  • Flat Pick Fred Honeycutt
  • Flat Seven Sol Hanna
  • Flatcar Floyd Menefee
  • Flatland Floyd Lowder
  • Flip Side Flossie Salter
  • Flood Water Frank Gandy
  • Flour Sack Flora Wimbush
  • Footlights Fay Melancon
  • Fort Worth Floyd Dabney
  • Fortune Teller Florrie Capers
  • Foundry Franklin Avery
  • Four Dollar Flo Hubbard
  • Freckles Frankie Hickman
  • Freight Train Frank Reddick
  • Frenchtown Zora Barnette
  • Fretboard Freda Wooden
  • Frogmouth Cyrus Poe
  • Front Porch Freddie Lum
  • Fruit Jar Frazier Harrell
  • Full House Flo Cantrell
  • Furrow Fred Bostick

G: 37 names

  • Galveston Gladys Dandridge
  • Gandy Dancer Gabriel Embry
  • Gap Tooth Gus Killebrew
  • Gar Fish Gilbert Luckey
  • Gator Tail Gus Fontenot
  • Georgia Peach Loretta Shanks
  • Ghost Town Gerald Akins
  • Gin Mill Gertie Tisdale
  • Gingham Ginger Whaley
  • Glory Bound Gloria Favors
  • Gold Tooth Gertie Holt
  • Good Time Gladys Eddins
  • Goofer Dust Gussie Lang
  • Gospel Gus Pinkston
  • Governor Grover Scales
  • Gramophone Greta Shorter
  • Grandpa Ambrose Neely
  • Granny Pearlie Nesbitt
  • Grasshopper Grover Murrell
  • Gravel Road Gertie Spain
  • Gravel Voice Vernon Haley
  • Graveyard Gus Shumate
  • Gray Ghost Jenkins
  • Gray Mule Grady Manigault
  • Greenback Gus Faulk
  • Greenville Geneva Blaylock
  • Greenwood Gracie Aldridge
  • Grinnin' Gracie Childress
  • Gris-Gris Giselle Comeaux
  • Gristmill Grace Pankey
  • Grits and Gravy Gilbert
  • Growlin' Gus Fairweather
  • Guinea Hen Gwen Mackey
  • Gulf Coast Cleo Banks
  • Gumbo Gus Landry
  • Gunpowder Gus Lineberger
  • Gut String Gustave Younger

H: 79 names

  • Haint Blue Hannah Cabell
  • Half Pint Hazel Lassiter
  • Half Step Harriet Keaton
  • Hallelujah Hank Ransom
  • Ham Hock Hal Broadus
  • Hambone Wilbur Cates
  • Hammerin' Harold Gaither
  • Handcar Hampton Bagby
  • Handlebar Horace McAdoo
  • Hangover Hal Guthrie
  • Hard Eight Hershel Bankhead
  • Hard Luck Hattie Blackmon
  • Hard Times Henry Dunaway
  • Harmonica Hank Strawn
  • Harp Tooter Simms
  • Harvest Moon Harmony Sanford
  • Hastings Street Hattie
  • Hatchie Bottom Hattie Coe
  • Hattiesburg Harve Bohannon
  • Haunted House Hattie Dees
  • Hay Fever Hazel Riggins
  • Hay Loft Loften Whitlow
  • Head Cold Harold Spruill
  • Headliner Hayward Lyons
  • Heartbreak Hank Goolsby
  • Heartburn Herbert Wilkerson
  • Heat Lightning Lee Reddix
  • Helena Hank Purdy
  • Hellhound Harlan Rakestraw
  • Henhouse Hollis Pugh
  • Hiccup Hiram Rawls
  • High Hat Hattie Mae Bixby
  • High John Hollis Ramsey
  • High Pockets Hubert Linton
  • High Roller Hettie Gilmore
  • High Water Hattie Blount
  • Highway 49 Eugene Outlaw
  • Highway 61 Mamie Norwood
  • Highway Joe Dufresne

H, continued

  • Hill Country Hank Mosteller
  • Hobblin' Clarence Hooks
  • Hobo Jack Sherrill
  • Hoecake Harlan Dupree
  • Hoedown Hester Cowan
  • Hog Caller Harry Pye
  • Hog Wallow Hank Costner
  • Hollerin' Hank Tisdale
  • Holly Springs Hosea Battle
  • Home Brew Homer Hollingsworth
  • Honey Bee Lucille Grant
  • Honey Dripper Dell Hardin
  • Honeycomb Ulysses Teague
  • Honky Tonk Hattie Caudle
  • Hoodoo Hattie Mayfield
  • Hoodoo Man Horace Peel
  • Hootin' Hiram Cheatham
  • Hornet Nest Harvey Dees
  • Horseshoe Hilda Minter
  • Hot Coal Hollis Deal
  • Hot Foot Hallie Bartee
  • Hot Lick Lionel Pennington
  • Hot Link Lincoln Driver
  • Hot Sauce Sue Dancy
  • Hot Springs Earline Gooden
  • Hot Tamale Tony Cormier
  • Hot Wind Hollis Grier
  • Hound Dog Lester
  • House Party Hosea Bogan
  • Houston Hobo Hal
  • Howlin' Ezra Tate
  • Hubcap Johnny Stiles
  • Huckleberry Hugh Fitch
  • Hucklebuck Huey Bonham
  • Hummin' Hettie Baggett
  • Hunchback Harlan Sikes
  • Hurricane Hattie Broussard
  • Hush Puppy Hubert Bouldin
  • Hustlin' Hilda Eckford
  • Hymnbook Hannah Comer

I: 6 names

  • Ice House Ike Creel
  • Ice Wagon Isaac Grayson
  • Indianola Ida Barksdale
  • Iron Jaw Ivory Tubbs
  • Iron Skillet Sadie Beam
  • Ivory Tickler Ike Lumpkin

J: 21 names

  • Jack of Diamonds Braswell
  • Jackass Jimmy Spikes
  • Jackknife Jethro Beckwith
  • Jackrabbit Jackie Hemphill
  • Jailhouse Jake Broadnax
  • Jelly Roll Jackson Flowers
  • Jellybean Jimmy Oxendine
  • Jitterbug Janice Booth
  • John the Conqueror Pruitt
  • Johnnycake Joanna Cathey
  • Joker Jerome Bozeman
  • Jordan River Josiah Flemister
  • Judge Harmon Skaggs
  • Jug Band Jenny Hackworth
  • Jug Blower Joe Tarpley
  • Juke Joint Johnny Oakes
  • Jukebox Juanita Rooks
  • Jump Blues Junius Moultrie
  • Jumpin' Jasper Blakely
  • June Bug Julius Hadnot
  • Junkyard Julius Swint

K: 11 names

  • Kansas City Kid Torrance
  • Katydid Katie Moffett
  • Kazoo Katie Bost
  • Kentucky Eunice Kimbrough
  • Kerosene Kate Ledbetter
  • King of Hearts Kermit Burnham
  • King Snake Kirby Tatum
  • King Solomon Peavey
  • Kitchen Sink Katie Royce
  • Knock Knee Nellie Rusk
  • Knoxville Nora Hawthorne

L: 46 names

  • Lady Lavinia Tanner
  • Lafayette Lillie Deloach
  • Lake Charles Chester Darden
  • Lanky Leon Harlow
  • Lantern Jaw Lucius Dorn
  • Last Call Lonnie Threadgill
  • Last Dollar Lavonia Lott
  • Laughin' Lou Bascom
  • Lazy Leona Dooley
  • Lefty Bo Shackleford
  • Leland Luther Birdsong
  • Lemon Lou Blanchard
  • Levee Camp Lucas Greer
  • Levee Lou Hardaway
  • Lightnin' Sal Dupree
  • Lightning Bug Lula McGill
  • Lightning Rod Lacy
  • Limpin' Lionel Sturgis
  • Liniment Lemuel Tuggle
  • Little Brother Alvin Tubbs
  • Little Lucille Dorsey
  • Little Mercer Wade
  • Little Otis Greer

L, continued

  • Little Ray Castile
  • Little Rock Lonnie Pitts
  • Little Saul Jessup
  • Little Sister Maudie Frost
  • Little Wardell Bream
  • Loaded Dice Lon Arrington
  • Lodestone Lowell Boles
  • Log Camp Lamont Dillon
  • Log Chain Logan Bluitt
  • Lonesome Lou Fielder
  • Long Gone Lonzo Lawhorn
  • Long Legs Lola Ingram
  • Long Shot Lucille Eady
  • Long Tall Jimmy Voss
  • Louisiana Lucinda Knox
  • Louisville Leroy Claiborne
  • Lovesick Lucius Muse
  • Lowcountry Lula Loggins
  • Lucky Hand Lavelle Baines
  • Lucky Seven Selma Bagwell
  • Lumbago Lem Fuqua
  • Lumberyard Lucius Devereaux
  • Lunch Pail Lloyd Brewer

M: 53 names

  • Macon Marcus Buford
  • Mad Dog Mabel Jones
  • Madam Magnolia Underwood
  • Magic City Maceo Abbott
  • Magnolia Mae Setzer
  • Mama Lou Thibodeaux
  • Mandolin Mamie LeJeune
  • Marked Deck Mack Dozier
  • Marquee Maude Dantzler
  • Marsh Hawk Marcus Leake
  • Mash Barrel Matt Gooch
  • Maxwell Street Mose
  • Mayor Maynard Sellers
  • Mean Mistreater Mose Cheek
  • Medicine Show Milt Braddock
  • Memphis Lou Garvey
  • Memphis Mattie Fenton
  • Meridian Myrtle Bracey
  • Midnight Mose Tolson
  • Midnight Ramble Rufina Daye
  • Mile Marker Marcus Speight
  • Mill Pond Mose Winfrey
  • Minor Key Minnie Grubbs
  • Miss Margie Tipton
  • Mississippi Moonshine Mack
  • Mississippi Sam Poteet

M, continued

  • Moanin' Maybelle Crocker
  • Mobile Bay Melvin Braxton
  • Mockingbird Mae Tisdale
  • Mojo Hand Maurice Gatlin
  • Molasses Mae Lytle
  • Monkey Wrench Morgan Thorpe
  • Moonlight Minnie Ashcraft
  • Moonshine Mose Hatfield
  • Morning After Maudie Coats
  • Motor City Mabel Styles
  • Mourner's Bench Ben Dowdy
  • Mourning Dove Dovie Laney
  • Mouth Harp Mose Gatewood
  • Mud Boot Mose Hyatt
  • Mud Turtle Myrtis Hobson
  • Muddy Mose Pickens
  • Mulberry Muriel Foy
  • Mule Barn Mickey Fair
  • Mule Kick Morris Lacey
  • Mule Train Mattie Coker
  • Muleskinner Joe Tolliver
  • Mumblin' Marvin Cofield
  • Muscadine Musetta Fairbanks
  • Muskmelon Mose Stedman
  • Muskrat Murray Hix
  • Mustard Plaster Marlon Beal
  • Mutton Chop Monroe McCray

N: 15 names

  • Nashville Newt Harkness
  • Natchez Nate Bramlett
  • Nation Sack Nannie Bozier
  • Neck Bone Naomi Bynum
  • Needle Drop Nadine Snead
  • Nephew Nolan Rasberry
  • New Orleans Nellie Broussard
  • Nickel Slide Ned Whitaker
  • Night Owl Nolan Jolly
  • Night Shift Nettie Bolden
  • Night Train Nadia Chappell
  • Nighthawk Nelson Teal
  • Nine Pound Hammer Stamps
  • North Wind Norris Crawley
  • Northbound Norma Coaxum

O: 19 names

  • Oakland Otha Culpepper
  • Ohio River Obadiah Lockett
  • Oil Lamp Lamar Picou
  • Oklahoma Slim Pettibone
  • Okra Olivia Bratcher
  • Ol' Jeremiah Wiggins
  • Old Man Elias Meeks
  • One Nighter Nelson Odell
  • One String Sam Eason
  • One Take Wanda Womack
  • One-Arm Arnie Bledsoe
  • One-Eyed Mose Kettering
  • One-Way Ticket Winslow Finch
  • Opelousas Opal Arceneaux
  • Open Tuning Odell Hollins
  • Opening Act Octavia Kimble
  • Orange Mound Mildred Wadley
  • Overalls Ollie Sparks
  • Oyster Shell Oscar Roby

P: 63 names

  • Packinghouse Pat Belcher
  • Paddlewheel Patrice Luster
  • Palmetto Pete Rhyne
  • Panther Burn Percy Moye
  • Papa Clete Hardaway
  • Pappy Lemuel Orr
  • Parchman Pete Hairston
  • Pascagoula Pat Tilley
  • Patch Quilt Quilla Ardoin
  • Patchwork Pearl Loudermilk
  • Pawn Shop Patsy Nance
  • Pawn Ticket Titus Nettles
  • Pawpaw Willie Grissom
  • Payday Pauline Pace
  • Pea Patch Patty Grooms
  • Peach Cobbler Portia Boswell
  • Peaches Dolores Ritter
  • Peachtree Lou Dawson
  • Pearl Button Pete Hefner
  • Pearl River Pete Fox
  • Pecan Pie Pearl Higgs
  • Pegleg Charlie Fontaine
  • Pegleg Mattie Horne
  • Pegleg Plum Garfield
  • Pelican Pelham Plunkett
  • Penny Ante Pearl Cobb
  • Pensacola Jerome Holloway
  • Persimmon Pete Haskins
  • Phonograph Phil Sessions
  • Piano Stretch Ferris
  • Pickaxe Patrick Ammons

P, continued

  • Pickin' Prudence Britt
  • Piedmont Pearl Dinkins
  • Pigeon Toe Slim
  • Pine Bluff Percy Ezell
  • Pine Knot Pearl Lutz
  • Piney Woods Pete Carlisle
  • Pistol Pete Weatherly
  • Pitchfork Portia Arnett
  • Plow Horse Perry McClendon
  • Plowboy Pete Dismuke
  • Plum Nelly Wardlaw
  • Poker Face Phoebe Hamby
  • Polecat Pollard Hartsfield
  • Policy Wheel Willard Mayes
  • Pontchartrain Pauline Naquin
  • Pool Hall Paulie Goins
  • Porch Swing Winnie Zeigler
  • Pork Chop Pete Hensley
  • Pork Pie Percy Haskins
  • Possum Trot Pete Hux
  • Pot Liquor Porter Oliphant
  • Praise House Rowena Dade
  • Praline Polly Conley
  • Preacher Man Pete Ruffin
  • Preachin' Purvis Ballard
  • Prince Albert Fortune
  • Princess Peggy Vaughn
  • Prodigal Son Paul Fountain
  • Professor Boogie Lamar
  • Pullman Porter Phil Fluker
  • Pulpit Paul Clinkscales
  • Pump Organ Orville Bartley

Q: 3 names

  • Queen Ivy Cartwright
  • Queen of Spades Eloise Tunstall
  • Quinine Quentin Blaine

R: 48 names

  • Rabbit Foot Rayford McElroy
  • Radio Tower Roland Thrash
  • Ragtime Rollo McQueen
  • Railroad Bill Easterling
  • Rain Barrel Raleigh Jeffries
  • Rainy Day Rosetta Fay
  • Ramblin' Roy Tatum
  • Rampart Street Raymond Quick
  • Rattlesnake Ray Stuckey
  • Rattlin' Ralph Crenshaw
  • Razor Ray Sigmon
  • Razorback Rufus Lacewell
  • Record Shop Regina Trahan
  • Red Beans Rosie Fontenot
  • Red Cap Reuben Gathings
  • Red Clay Ray Wike
  • Red Flannel Flora Bowens
  • Red River Ruby Nabors
  • Red Top Ralph Dillard
  • Redbird Redmond Kyle
  • Rent Party Rosie Haines
  • Resonator Rex Wesley
  • Reverend Jubal Dyer
  • Revival Tent Reverdy Delk

R, continued

  • Rheumatiz Rupert Stegall
  • Richmond Virgil Caldwell
  • Ridge Runner Rufus Teeter
  • Riverboat Rosetta Leflore
  • Roadhouse Roy Hodnett
  • Roarin' Rhoda Crutchfield
  • Rockin' Rosa Bettis
  • Rocking Chair Rocky Yeager
  • Rollin' Stone Ruben Hite
  • Rolling Fork Roscoe Byrd
  • Rooster Tail Ray Dobbs
  • Rooster Tyree
  • Root Cellar Rudyard Lunsford
  • Root Doctor Reuben Satterwhite
  • Rotgut Rufus Spears
  • Roundhouse Rowland Beverly
  • Roustabout Royal Oden
  • Royal Flush Reuben Chaney
  • Rumble Seat Rumsey Scurry
  • Rumblin' Rex Beckham
  • Runaway Ruby Mott
  • Running Board Burl Sadler
  • Rusty Hinge Etta Bowie
  • Rusty Nail Dupree

S: 136 names

  • Sabine Sal Guidry
  • Salty Dog Sam Threatt
  • Sanctified Sanford Crockett
  • Sand Hill Sally Hoke
  • Sandbar Sanders Turnipseed
  • Sandy Roscoe Weems
  • Sassafras Tea Selma Belton
  • Saturday Night Sam Rucker
  • Savannah Viola Burks
  • Sawdust Floor Solomon Fagan
  • Sawmill Sonny Pickett
  • Scarface Lonnie Kemp
  • Scrap Iron Irene Hazzard
  • Screech Owl Sally Pugh
  • Screen Door Sadie Colquitt
  • Scuppernong Scipio Elmore
  • Section Gang Seth Easley
  • Seed Corn Cedric Nickerson
  • Senator Sterling Sapp
  • Seventh Son Sampson Bassett
  • Seventy-Eight Evelyn Reaves
  • Shake Rag Rachel Champion
  • Shakin' Sherman Boykin
  • Shaky Jake Pruden
  • Shanty Boat Shad Gill
  • Sharecropper Sam Holifield
  • Sharkskin Sid Furlow
  • Shellac Shelton Posey
  • Sheriff Buck Tillman
  • Shimmy Shirlene Atwater
  • Shooting Star Silas Stovall
  • Short Order Shirley Jemison
  • Shotgun Shorty Lail
  • Shoutin' Jubilee Frost

S, continued

  • Showboat Shep Marbury
  • Shreveport Shorty Landry
  • Shrimp Boat Sherry Rivers
  • Shufflin' Sam Redd
  • Silk Stocking Sally Ragland
  • Silver Dollar Sam Hewitt
  • Silver Hair Sylvia Malone
  • Sinner Man Sam Lightfoot
  • Sister Odessa Vance
  • Sister Rosalee Pegues
  • Six Feet Sonny Eaves
  • Six String Sadie Croft
  • Skeeter Sam Pulliam
  • Skeleton Key Keziah Boatner
  • Skillet Lickin' Sam Huffman
  • Skinny Pete Ransom
  • Slag Heap Sherman Collier
  • Sledgehammer Samson Shumpert
  • Sleepy Eye Irma Kirkland
  • Sleepy Sy Dewberry
  • Slide Finger Sonny Laster
  • Slidin' Simeon Bridges
  • Slow Blues Louella Minnis
  • Slow Burn Bernice Hargis
  • Slow Drag Eddie Nash
  • Slow Freight Freeman Duckett
  • Smokehouse Sam Treadwell
  • Smokestack Lightnin' Lou
  • Smokestack Lonnie Pruitt
  • Smoky Joe Bonner
  • Snaggletooth Sally Drake
  • Snake Eyes Saul Agee
  • Snake Hips Sonia Breland
  • Snake Oil Solomon Wallis

S, continued

  • Snapping Turtle Tom Mabry
  • Sneezy Pear Buchanan
  • Sniffles Sidney Platt
  • Snowball Wilkins
  • Sonny Boy Rawlins
  • Sore Thumb Thelma Gaddis
  • Sorghum Sally Swinney
  • Sour Mash Maxwell Hedgepeth
  • South Side Sonny Reese
  • Southbound Selwyn Clyburn
  • Spanish Moss Mossie Vines
  • Sparrow Sophie Ladd
  • Speakeasy Sibyl Ingle
  • Spike Driver Spence Fant
  • Spit Shine Sammy Lail
  • Spoon Bread Spencer Chism
  • Spoons Sammy Kemp
  • Spotlight Spencer Savoie
  • Squeezebox Quintus Daigle
  • Squire Sim Waddell
  • Squirrel Dog Sumner Hadden
  • St. Louis Jimmy Cade
  • Stagger Lee Pickens
  • Steamboat Stephen Lomax
  • Steel City Stella Zachary
  • Steel Driver Dempsey Fikes
  • Steel Guitar Sid Waller
  • Steel Mill Stanley Akers
  • Stingin' Bee Sadie Lusk
  • Stockyard Stuart Baskin
  • Stompin' Sadie Bellamy
  • Stop Time Seth Heard
  • Storm Cloud Sonny Eure
  • Storyville Sal Lafitte

S, continued

  • Stovepipe Willie Crane
  • Straw Hat Sam Shuford
  • Stray Dog Simon Gresham
  • Stride Sally Boatwright
  • Strummin' Stanley Broome
  • Struttin' Estelle Finley
  • Stumbling Sid Parnell
  • Stumbling Stella Boudreaux
  • Stuttering Sonny Vail
  • Sugar Boy Lester Pate
  • Sugar Cane Liza Pratt
  • Sugar Cane Sid Overstreet
  • Sugar Mama Delphine Ruiz
  • Sugar Pie Cornelius Waugh
  • Sugarfoot Sam Yancey
  • Sunday Hat Hazel Draper
  • Sunday Morning Della Boone
  • Sundown Sid Fortner
  • Sunflower River Sam Moye
  • Sunrise Sam Oakley
  • Swamp Fox Alphonse Dupuy
  • Sweet Etta Bodine
  • Sweet Loretta Hines
  • Sweet Lucy Tidwell
  • Sweet Mama Stringbean
  • Sweet Papa Homer Nash
  • Sweet Potato Sam Gilyard
  • Sweet Talk Tully Mingo
  • Sweet Tea Thea Ashford
  • Sweetwater Sam Kale
  • Switchblade Sally Abernathy
  • Switchyard Swanson Bowser
  • Sycamore Sid Mauney
  • Syrup Kettle Kittie Pressley

T: 62 names

  • T-Bone Terrell Glover
  • T-Model Jackson Pryor
  • Tallahassee Silas Hudgins
  • Tallahatchie Tom Ivey
  • Tallow Candle Tom Vickery
  • Tambourine Tina Hargrove
  • Tampa Joe Mercer
  • Tappin' Tabitha Epps
  • Tar Paper Tom Clary
  • Tea Cake Teddy Eatmon
  • Tea Kettle Tom Bumgarner
  • Tea Leaf Leola Chestnut
  • Ten Cent Lucius Bunch
  • Ten Penny Tabitha Walls
  • Tennessee Ted Jarmon
  • Tent Show Tess Gholson
  • Testifyin' Thelma Barfield
  • Texarkana Troy Fairley
  • Texas Red Calloway
  • Thumb Pick Tommy Sealy
  • Thumpin' Theo Bullock
  • Thunder Road Teddy Hanks
  • Thunderhead Theo Ragsdale
  • Ticket Stub Stuart Ealy
  • Tidewater Tom Ashby
  • Tin Can Tillman Hodge
  • Tin Roof Tyrone Crisp
  • Tin Sandwich Tillie Graves
  • Tiny Mabel Gilliam
  • Tired Feet Freddie Shields
  • Tobacco Road Tommy Lail

T, continued

  • Toll Bridge Tobe Tyus
  • Tombigbee Tommy Ruffin
  • Tombstone Tony Wicks
  • Toothache Thad Weldon
  • Toothless Tom Speed
  • Top Hat Tommy Gilreath
  • Tornado Tom Brashear
  • Towboat Tucker McCall
  • Trackside Tommy Ogletree
  • Travelin' Tess Bowden
  • Tree Frog Trenton Peete
  • Treme Tony Batiste
  • Tremolo Tess Fulbright
  • Trick Knee Nick Abrams
  • Trotline Truman Sample
  • Trouble Man Tommy Ebert
  • Tulsa Tillie Yarbrough
  • Tupelo Tess Goodwin
  • Turkey Trot Trudy Cason
  • Turnaround Tyrell Gause
  • Turnip Green Tessie Brigham
  • Turnrow Tillman Starnes
  • Turntable Thurman Steptoe
  • Turpentine Tom Lindsey
  • Twelve Bar Bart Garner
  • Twelve String Tommy Rainwater
  • Twilight Tessie Hargett
  • Two-Bit Tommy Radford
  • Two-Head Doctor Tobe Brannon
  • Two-Step Tobias Bibbs
  • Two-Tone Tony Riddle

U: 1 name

  • Uncle Sid Moseley

V: 3 names

  • Vibrato Vernon Hollowell
  • Vicksburg Vi Hollister
  • Voodoo Vernon Broussard

W: 37 names

  • Wailin' Wilbert Addison
  • Walkin' Willie Hasty
  • Walking Bass Wallace Givens
  • Wanderin' Wes Alford
  • Washboard Annie Pruett
  • Washday Winnie Keyes
  • Washtub Willie Seagraves
  • Watch Chain Wes Upshaw
  • Water Tank Walton Biggers
  • Watermelon Willie Gaskin
  • Wax Platter Raymond Seals
  • Weepin' Winona Coggins
  • Well Bucket Wilbur Kelso
  • West Memphis Winston Eubanks
  • West Side Gabe Upchurch
  • Wharf Rat Walter Moten
  • Wheezin' Walt Fennell
  • Wheezy Apricot Harding
  • Whetstone Wyatt Bivins
  • Whippoorwill Will Jeffcoat
  • Whirlwind Willa Toney
  • Whiskers Wallace Hogan
  • Whiskey Willie Parrish
  • Whisperin' Wilma Covington
  • Whistle Stop Wanda Peoples
  • Whistlin' Rufus Calder
  • White Lightning Whit Holcomb
  • Wild Card Winnie Blevins
  • Wildcat Wanda Haskew
  • Willow Switch Wilma Sain
  • Windy City Nate Yates
  • Wishbone Wesley Mosby
  • Wolf Man Willis Parr
  • Wolf River Willie Bost
  • Woodstove Woody Guidroz
  • Work Song Woodrow McLaurin
  • Worried Willie Dent

Y: 4 names

  • Yalobusha Josie Mangum
  • Yazoo City Slim
  • Yellow Dog Yancey
  • Yellow Jacket Jess Ousley

Z: 1 name

  • Zoot Suit Zeke Stroud