Can you tell me of some great underground and unknown blues artist?

This is a great question for Lucille, Lucille, Lucille to answer. she is a blues lover and knows artists that i have never heard of. Lucy, are you listening?

@john65pennington Oh for sure I know she’ll be around :D

How about Arthur Gunter or Lightnin’ Hopkins. these two artists are about as early and funky as it gets. visit Youtube for more information.

Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Son House
Luther Alison
Albert King
Howlin’ Wolf
Ledbelly
JB Lenoir
John Lee Hooker
Memphis Slim
Rev. Guy Davis (if I’m remembering his name right)

More to come if they come to mind.

@boots Heard all those expect Memphis Slim , Robert Lockwood, Jr and Ledbelly. Checking them out.

Get some more for me :D

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I don’t know if ther’re underground enough, but I love James Booker and Jelly Roll Morton.

Slim Harpo, Muddy Waters, Little Walter and many more. see Youtube.

Skip James

Fred McDowell

Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton.

She performed “Hound Dog” 3 years before Elvis did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mama_Thornton

Johnny Winter

Lightnin’ Hopkins
Koko Taylor
Lucille Bogan (from 1935, but, whoa, Nelly, this is TOTALLY NSFW!!!)
Pinetop Smith (He’s the first guy to record the boogie-woogie, which he claimed to have created, and the first guy to ask the musical question: “See the girl with the red dress on?”)

How unknown is unknown? Chris Smither. Not a great big name, but very well known in some spheres. One of the great bluesmen who have the advantage of still being alive.

@boots, did you mean Rev. Gary Davis?

Don’t forget Mississippi John Hurt.

@Jeruba Yes, that’s who I meant… Like I said, I wasn’t sure if the name was right.

Norman Blake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_YB9SC7AV4
“Church Street Blues” is one of my favorite songs.

And Dave Van Ronk.

Muddy Waters “Champagne & Reefer”
Kenny Emerson
Bo Diddly

Thats a lotta blues! Thanks all.

Joe Bonamassa – Stop

These are not unknowns, but check them out too..Michael Burks, Luther Allison, Walter Trout, The Charles Ford Band (Robben Fords’ brothers) The Soul Prophets..I could go on forever..

Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed (I have their LP’s lol )

@Aster We do know some of the oldies!
Here’s a Bo diddly story (I mentioned him up above, too)
I was walking home from school one day and was just outside a theater that put on plays and had a large stage etc… (Wilshire and LaBrea, L.A.)...I heard some outrageous sweet guitar rifts… Nowhere to get in, so I went around back and found an exit door left unlocked. Sneaking in I found a seat near the front…and watched Bo Diddly and his band practicing for a performance!!! This must have been in the late 60s or early 70s.

That is really cool !