Blues Shouter

A blues shouter is a blues singer, often male, capable of singing unamplified with a band.

Notable blues shouters included:

Big Joe Turner — whose style hardly changed at all between 1938's "Roll 'Em Pete", and 1954's "Shake, Rattle and Roll" — Turner was arguably the greatest exponent of the art.
H-Bomb Ferguson
Wynonie Harris
Signe Toly Anderson was a known blues shouter before joining Jefferson Airplane
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, an unusual combination of blues shouter and bebop alto sax player.
Walter Brown, of the Jay McShann orchestra.
Jimmy Witherspoon, who also appeared with McShann.
Jimmy Rushing, blues shouter with Count Basie.
Duke Henderson, who operated mainly in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Blues

Subgenres	Boogie-woogie Classic female blues Country blues Delta blues Electric blues Fife and drum blues Jump blues Piano blues Rhythm and blues

Fusion genres	Blues rock Punk blues Soul blues

Regional scenes	British blues Canadian blues Chicago blues Detroit blues East Coast blues Gospel blues Hokum Kansas City blues Louisiana blues Memphis blues New Orleans blues New York blues Piedmont blues St. Louis blues Swamp blues Texas blues West Coast blues Hill country blues

Instruments	Acoustic guitar Upright bass Harmonica Piano Drum kit Trumpet Electric guitar

Other topics	Blues genres Blue note Blues scale Blues shouter Gospel music Jug band Origins Soul music Twelve-bar blues

Lists	List of blues musicians List of blues standards

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