John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer and guitarist.
Billy Ray Cyrus is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He has released 16 studio albums and 53 singles since 1992, and is known for his hit single 'Achy Breaky Heart', which topped the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart and became the first single ever to achieve triple platinum status in Australia. It was also the best-selling single in the same country in 1992. Due to the song's music video, the line dance rose in popularity.
Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as 'The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement'. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time magazine included her recording of 'Take This Hammer' on its list of the 100 Greatest Popular Songs, stating that 'Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music.'
Samuel John 'Lightnin'' Hopkins was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Charley Patton, also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. Considered by many to be the 'Father of the Delta Blues', he created an enduring body of American music and inspired most Delta blues musicians. The musicologist Robert Palmer considered him one of the most important American musicians of the twentieth century.