Best blues vocalist

I know you have not heard of her but Rene Marie is terrific. She has a website and you can probably listen to her music.
I have heard her live. She is just a great person as well as a great singer.

Her recordings are audiophile as well, a real plus.

Jim

Big Bill Broonzy and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Joe Turner, Howling Wolf, Janis Joplin

Big Mama Thornton, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker

1. torn between Billie & Big Mamma
2. Junior Wells
3. contemporary... can't pick anyone who'd be labeled as blues, but Marianne Faithful, Beth Gibbons, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Ted Hawkins. okay okay. enough the award goes to Lucinda Williams.