Blues shouter

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>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins
• Duke Henderson, who operated mainly in the late 1940s and early 1950s.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Jimmy Rushing, blues shouter with Count Basie.<ref name="All">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="AMG">Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite web</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)