Blues shouter
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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[1]
- Beulah Bryant
- H-Bomb Ferguson[2]
- Wynonie Harris[2][3]
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- Duke Henderson, who operated mainly in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[4][5][6][7]
- Jimmy Rushing, blues shouter with Count Basie.[1][2]
- 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".[8]
- Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, an unusual combination of blues shouter and bebop alto saxophone player.[1][2]
- Joe Williams (jazz singer)[1]
- Jimmy Witherspoon, who also appeared with Jay McShann.[1][2]
- Billy Wright[1]
- Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett)
