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<ref name="All"/> *Beulah Bryant *H-Bomb Ferguson<ref name="AMG"/> *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 *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 |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 |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, blues shouter with 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 |date= |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref> *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".<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 |date= |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref> *Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, an unusual combination of blues shouter and bebop alto saxophone player.<ref name="All"/><ref name="AMG"/> *Joe Williams (jazz singer)<ref name="All"/> *Jimmy Witherspoon, who also appeared with Jay McShann.<ref name="All"/><ref name="AMG"/> *Billy Wright<ref name="All"/> *Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett)

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