Texas Music Office - Office of the Governor Rick Perry

Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame

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There are 17 Texas born or based members, 13 Texas related recordings and 2 Texas related books in the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame.

For a complete list of the Blues Foundation's inductees, please visit
http://www.blues.org/halloffame/#ref=halloffame_inductees

2009
Classic of Blues Recording - Album
T-Bone Blues (Atlantic, 1959) - T-Bone Walker
Non-Performer
Clifford Antone

2008
Classics of Blues Recordings - Albums
Freddy King Sings (King LP, 1961) Freddy King
Performer
Johnny "Guitar" Watson

2007
Classics of Blues Recordings - Single or Album Track
Hide Away--Freddie (Freddy) King (Federal, 1961)

2006
Classics of Blues Recordings-Albums
Hound Dog--Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (Peacock)
Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton (Revenant)

2005
Classics of Blues Recordings - Singles or Album Tracks
Black Night, by Charles Brown (Aladdin Records, 1951)

2003
Classics of Blues Recordings - Singles or Album Tracks
Part Time Love--Little Johnny Taylor (Galaxy 1963)
Performer
Pinetop Perkins
Beulah Thomas "Sippie" Wallace

2001
Classics of Blues Literature
Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story--Helen Dance

2000
Performer
Stevie Ray Vaughan

1999
Performer
Clarence"Gatemouth" Brown

1996
Performer
Charles Brown

1995
Classics of Blues Literature
The Land Where the Blues Began--Alan Lomax

1994
Classics of Blues Recordings--Album
T-Bone Walker--The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker 1940-1954 (Mosaic, 1990)
Classics of Blues Recordings--Single or Album Track
Texas Flood--Larry Davis (Duke, 1958)
Non Performer
John Lomax
Alan Lomax

1989
Classics of Blues Recordings--Albums
Showdown--Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland (Alligator)
Classics of Blues Recordings--Single or Album Track
Drifting Blues--Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (Philo/Aladdin 1945)

1988
Johnny Winter

1987
Classics of Blues Recordings--Albums
Hide Away--Freddie (Freddy) King (King, 1969)

1986
Classics of Blues Recordings--Albums
Ice Pickin'--Albert Collins (Alligator)
Performer
Albert Collins
Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
1983
Classics of Blues Recordings--Singles and Album Tracks
Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday is Just as Bad) --T-Bone Walker (Black & White, 1947)

1982
Performer
Freddie King

1980
Performer
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker