# Blues shouter

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A '''blues shouter''' is a [blues](/source/blues) singer, capable of singing unamplified with a band.

Notable blues shouters include:
*[Big Maybelle](/source/Big_Maybelle)
*[Big Mama Thornton](/source/Big_Mama_Thornton)
*[Piney Brown](/source/Piney_Brown)
*[Walter Brown](/source/Walter_Brown_(singer)), of the [Jay McShann](/source/Jay_McShann) orchestra<ref name="All"/>
*[Beulah Bryant](/source/Beulah_Bryant)
*[H-Bomb Ferguson](/source/H-Bomb_Ferguson)<ref name="AMG"/>
*[Wynonie Harris](/source/Wynonie_Harris)<ref name="AMG"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPespGZaZv0C&dq=%22blues+shouter%22.+%22Duke++Henderson%22&pg=PA139 |title=Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds : Celebrating the Rise of Soul ... - Jerry Zolten Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and American Studies Penn State University |page=139 |date=2002-12-13 |isbn=9780195348453 |accessdate=2015-10-26|last1=Zolten |first1=Jerry |publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref>
*[Screamin' Jay Hawkins](/source/Screamin'_Jay_Hawkins)
*[Duke Henderson](/source/Duke_Henderson), who operated mainly in the late 1940s and early 1950s.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bill Dahl |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/get-your-kicks-mw0000120784 |title=Get Your Kicks - Duke Henderson &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) |date= |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.delmark.com/delmark.668.htm |title=Duke Henderson - Get Your Kicks |publisher=Delmark.com |date= |accessdate=2015-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014654/http://www.delmark.com/delmark.668.htm |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJes-jdk5kEC&dq=%22blues+shouter%22.+%22Duke++Henderson%22&pg=PA118 |title=Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll |author=Larry Birnbaum |year=2013 |page=118 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |isbn=9780810886384 |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_NSAEAAAAMBAJ |quote=blues shouter. Duke  Henderson. |title=Billboard |via=[Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_NSAEAAAAMBAJ/page/n35 42] |date=1952-10-11 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref>
*[Jimmy Rushing](/source/Jimmy_Rushing), blues shouter with [Count Basie](/source/Count_Basie).<ref name="All">{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.allaboutbluesmusic.com/blues-shouters/ |title=Blues Shouters |publisher=Allaboutbluesmusic.com |date=2015-06-02 |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref><ref name="AMG">{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-greatest-blues-shouters-1944-1955-mw0000474337 |title=The Greatest Blues Shouters 1944-1955 - Various Artists &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) |date= |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref>
*[Big Joe Turner](/source/Big_Joe_Turner) – his style hardly changed at all between 1938's "[Roll 'Em Pete](/source/Roll_'Em_Pete)", and 1954's "[Shake, Rattle and Roll](/source/Shake%2C_Rattle_and_Roll)". [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) called Turner "the premier blues shouter of the postwar era".<ref>{{cite web|author=Bill Dahl |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/big-joe-turner-mn0000060726/biography |title=Big Joe Turner &#124; Biography & History |publisher=[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) |date= |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref>
*[Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson](/source/Eddie_Vinson), an unusual combination of blues shouter and [bebop](/source/bebop) [alto saxophone](/source/saxophone) player.<ref name="All"/><ref name="AMG"/>
*[Joe Williams (jazz singer)](/source/Joe_Williams_(jazz_singer))<ref name="All"/>
*[Jimmy Witherspoon](/source/Jimmy_Witherspoon), who also appeared with Jay McShann.<ref name="All"/><ref name="AMG"/>
*[Billy Wright](/source/Billy_Wright_(musician))<ref name="All"/>
*[Howlin' Wolf](/source/Howlin'_Wolf) (Chester Burnett)

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