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Blues shouter

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

Notable blues shouters included:

  • Walter Brown, of the Jay McShann orchestra.
  • H-Bomb Ferguson
  • Wynonie Harris
  • Duke Henderson, who operated mainly in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
  • Jimmy Rushing, blues shouter with Count Basie.
  • 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".
  • Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, an unusual combination of blues shouter and bebop alto saxophone player.
  • Big Joe Williams
  • Jimmy Witherspoon, who also appeared with Jay McShann.
  • Billy Wright

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