American Roots Music: Artists
Blues Country Gospel Folk
Rufus Thomas Marty Stuart Bernice Johnson- Arlo Guthrie
B.B. King Ricky Skaggs Reagon Woody Guthrie
Bonnie Raitt The Whites Mavis Staples Huddie Ledbetter
Mamie Smith Jimmie Rodgers The Staple Singers (Lead Belly)
Bessie Smith Fiddlin' John Carson Thomas A. Dorsey Pete Seeger
Robert Johnson The Carter Family The Soul Stirrers The Weavers
Son House Merle Haggard Sister Rosetta Peter Yarrow
Keb' Mo' Willie Nelson Tharpe The Kingston Trio
Keith Richards Douglas B. Green Mahalia Jackson The New Lost
Albert Ammons Uncle Dave Macon Clara Ward Singers City Ramblers
Pete Johnson Roy Acuff Edwin Hawkins Peter, Paul,
Whistler's Jug Band DeFord Bailey Kirk Franklin and Mary
Sonny Boy Ken Maynard The Fisk Jubilee Bob Dylan
Williamson Gene Autry Singers Mississippi
Robert Lockwood Bob Wills John Hurt
Junior Ray Benson of Cajun/Zydeco The Freedom Singers
James Cotton Asleep at the Wheel Clarence Ashley
Howlin' Wolf Merle Travis Marc and Ann Savoy
Hubert Sumlin Kitty Wells The Balfa Brothers Native American
Willie Dixon Hank Williams Steve Riley and the
Buddy Guy Ernest Tubb Mamou Playboys Robert Mirabal
The Paul Butterfield Lefty Frizzell Clifton Chenier Robbie Robertson
Blues Band Joe Falcon and Floyd Red Crow
Sam Lay Bluegrass Cleoma Breaux Westerman
Elvis Presley Falcon R. Carlos Nakai
Doc Watson Dennis McGee
Ralph Stanley
Earl Scruggs Tejano Personalities
Bill Monroe
Doyle Lawson and Lydia Mendoza Bascom Lamar
Quicksilver Flaco Jimenez Lunsford
Bela Fleck and Narciso Martinez Sam Phillips
the Flecktones Valerio Longoria John Lomax
Little Joe Alan Lomax
Ricky Skaggs Hernandez
Flatt and Scruggs Mingo Saldivar
From PBS