Shades Artists .....

Al Green (Born 13/04/1946)

Amos Milburn (Born 01/04/1927, Died 03/01/1980)

Aretha Franklin (Born 25/03/1942)

Arthur Alexander (Born 10/05/1940, Died 09/06/1993)

B.B. King (Born 16/09/1925)

Betty Everett (Born 23/11/1939, Died 19/08/2001)

Bettye LaVette (Born 0n 29/01/1946)

Bobby Bland (Born 27/01/1930)

Bobby Charles (Born 21/02/1938)

Bobby Womack (Born 04/03/1944)

Bonnie Raitt (Born 08/11/1949)

Boz Scaggs (Born 08/06/1944)

Buddy Guy (Born 30/07/1936)

Buddy Johnson (Born 10/01/1915, Died 09/02/1977)

Charles Brown (Born 13/09/1922, Died 21/10/1999)

Chi-Lites (Formed in 1960 as the Hi-Lites)

Chuck Jackson (Born 22/07/1937)

Chuck Willis (Born 31/01/1928, Died 10/04/1958)

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (Born 18/04/1924, Died 10/09/2005)

Clarence Carter (Born 14/01/1936)

Clovers (Formed in 1946)

Coasters (Formed in October, 1955)

Curtis Jones (Born 18/08/1906, Died 11/09/1971)

Curtis Mayfield (Born 03/06/1942, Died 26/12/1999)

Dave Bartholomew (Born 24/12/1920)

Dells (Formed in 1952 as the El Rays, 1956 as The Dells)

Dr. John (Born 21/11/1940)

Drifters (Formed in May, 1953)

Eddie Hinton (Born 15/06/1944, Died 28/07/1995)

Eric Bibb (Born 16/08/1951)

Eva Cassidy (Born 02/02/1963, Died 02/11/1996)

Fats Domino (Born 26/02/1928)

Floyd Dixon (Born 08/02/1929, Died 26/07/2006)

Georgie Fame (Born 26/06/1943)

Holmes Brothers (Formed in 1980)

Howard Tate (Born 14/08/1939, Died 02/12/2011)

Irma Thomas (Born 18/02/1941)

Ivory Joe Hunter (Born 10/10/1914, Died 08/11/1974)

James Carr (Born 13/06/1942, Died 07/01/2001)

Jerry Butler (Born 08/12/1939)

Jimmy Witherspoon (Born 08/08/1920, Died 18/09/1997)

Joe Hinton (Born 15/11/1929, died 13/08/1968)

Joe Louis Walker (Born 26/12/1949)

Joe Turner ( Born 18/05/1911, Died 24/11/1985)

Johnny Ace (Born 09/06/1929, Died 25/12/1954)

Johnny Adams (Born 05/01/1932, Died 14/09/1998)

Keb Mo (Born 03/10/1951)

Kelly Joe Phelps (Born 05/10/1959)

Lamont Dozier (Born 16/06/1941)

Larry Garner (Born 08/07/1952)

Little Milton (Born 07/09/1934, Died 04/08/2005)

Little Willie John (Born 15/11/1937, Died 26/05/1968)

Lou Rawls (Born 01/12/1935, Died 06/01/2006)

Louis Jordan (Born 08/08/1908, Died 04/02/1975)

Marvin Gaye (Born 02/04/1939, Died 01/04/1984)

Memphis Slim (Born 03/09/1915, Died 24/02/1988)

Mighty Sam McClain (Born 1943)

Millie Jackson (Born 15/07/1944)

Mitty Collier (Born 21/06/1941)

O.V. Wright (Born 09/10/1939, Died 16/11/1980)

Otis Clay (Born 11/02/1942)

Otis Redding (Born 19/09/1941, Died 10/12/1967)

Otis Rush (Born 29/04/1934)

Otis Spann (Born 21/03/1930, Died 24/04/1970)

Percy Sledge (Born 25/11/1940)

Phillip Walker (Born 11/02/1937)

Ray Charles (Born 23/09/1930, Died 10/06/2004)

Robert Cray (Born 01/08/1953)

Robert Ward (Born 15/10/1938)

Roy Brown (Born 10/09/1925, Died 25/05/1981)

Ruth Brown (Born 12/01/1928, Died 17/11/2006)

Sam Cooke (Born 22/01/1931, Died 11/12/1964)

Shirley Brown (Born 06/01/1947)

Smokey Robinson (Born 19/02/1940)

Solomon Burke (Born 21/03/1940, Died 10/10/2010)

Staple Singers (Formed in 1951)

T-Bone Walker (Born 28/05/1910, Died 16/03/1975)

Taj Mahal (Born 17/05/1940)

Temptations (Formed in 1960)

Tyrone Davis (Born 04/05/1938, Died 09/02/2005)

Willie Dixon (Born 01/07/1915, Died 29/01/1992)

Wilson Pickett (Born 18/03/1941, Died 19/10/2006)

Wynonie Harris (Born 24/08/1915, Died 14/06/1969)

Z. Z. Hill (Born 30/09/1935, Died 27/04/1984)

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