Blues shouter

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.^[1]
• H-Bomb Ferguson^[2]
• Wynonie Harris^[2][3]
• Duke Henderson, who operated mainly in the late 1940s and early 1950s.^[4][5][6][7]
• Jimmy Rushing, blues shouter with Count Basie.^[1][2]
• 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".^[8]
• Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, an unusual combination of blues shouter and bebop alto saxophone player.^[1][2]
• Big Joe Williams^[1]
• Jimmy Witherspoon, who also appeared with Jay McShann.^[1][2]
• Billy Wright^[1]

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