Expert: Abdalla Mohamed Ali - 12/16/2006

Question
could you send me a list of artist that were or are juke joint type blues icons? their was a place back in the day were black artist could stay while traveling on the road and in the basement is were they performed i believe it was in jackson mississippi, i know that morgan freeman played an intrical part in trying to rehab the place if that helps

Answer
Hello Chaz ,

Well I believe almost all the Blues fathers were Juke Joints regular stoppers , as they were traveling around all the time. Some of the names I recall who were Juke joints icons.

Robert Johnson
Son House
Muddy Waters "was running a Juke Joint in Mississippi"
Junior Wells "very typical Juke Joint style, and performed alot in Muddy's Juke Joint"
Charley Patton
B.B. King "He named his guitar Lucille after a story happened in a Juke Joint AKA Barrelhouse in twist Arkansas"
Buddy Guy
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Mississppi John hurt
T-Bone Walker
Skip James
Lightin' Hopkins
Sonny Boy Williamson II

Thanks,