List of classic female blues singers

• Mozelle Alderson{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues - A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger Publishers| location= Santa Barbara| pages=254 | isbn= 978-0313344237}}
• Ora Alexander{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=ora-alexander-p526418/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Ora Alexander |author=Leggett, Steve |website=AllMusic |accessdate=January 17, 2011}}

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• Mildred Bailey{{cite news|title=MILDRED BAILEY, SINGER OF BLUES; Noted Entertainer Succumbs to Heart Ailment Won Fame With 'Old Rockin' Chair' Big Name" in Field Discovered in 1929|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/12/13/archives/mildred-bailey-singer-of-blues-noted-entertainer-succumbs-to-heart.html|date=13 December 1951|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}
• Blue Lu Barker{{cite web|author=Eugene Chadbourne |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/blue-lu-barker-mn0000058315/biography |title=Blue Lu Barker | Biography & History |website=AllMusic |date=November 13, 1913 |accessdate=November 4, 2016}}
• Gladys Bentley{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/gladys-bentley-overlooked.html|title=Gladys Bentley, Gender-Bending Blues Performer and ’20s Harlem Royalty|last=Russonello|first=Giovanni|date=2019-01-31|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-04|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
• Esther BigeouHarris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 48, {{ISBN|0-306-80155-8}}.
• Lucille BoganRussell 1997, p. 94.
• Ada BrownStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 83.
• Bessie Brown{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bessie-brown-mn0000757836/biography|title=Bessie Brown | Biography & History|website=AllMusic|accessdate=30 October 2020}}
• Eliza BrownStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 85.
• Kitty Brown{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id= kitty-brown-p543366|pure_url=yes}} |title=Kitty Brown |author=Chadbourne, Eugene |website=AllMusic|accessdate=August 9, 2011}}

• Alice Carter{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id= alice-carter-mn0001789372|pure_url=yes}} |title=Alice Carter |author=Chadbourne, Eugene |website=AllMusic|accessdate=August 20, 2016}}
• Alice Leslie Carter{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=alice-leslie-carter-p340345 |pure_url=yes}} |title=Alice Leslie Carter |author=Chadbourne, Eugene |website=AllMusic|accessdate=August 7, 2011}}
• Martha CopelandStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 106.
• Ida Cox
• Katie CrippenHarrison 1990, p. 49.

• Madlyn Davis{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=madlyn-davis-p69144|pure_url=yes}} |title=Madlyn Davis |author=Arwulf, Arwulf |website=AllMusic |accessdate=August 9, 2011}}
• Mattie Dorsey{{cite magazine|author1=Seroff, Doug|author2=Abbott, Lynn Abbott|title=Sweet Mattie Dorsey : Been Here, But She’s Gone|magazine=78 Quarterly|date=1994|pages=103–112}}

• Bernice Edwards{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues - A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger Publishers| location= Santa Barbara| page=393| isbn= 978-0313344237}}

• Ethel Finnie
• Miss FrankieBogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 655.

• Cleo GibsonStewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 90–91.
• Lillian GlinnStewart-Baxter 1970, pp. 86–87.
• Lillian Goodner{{cite book|last1=Bourgeois|first1=Anna Stong|title=Blueswomen: Profiles of 37 Early Performers, with an Anthology of Lyrics, 1920-1945|date=1996|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=9780899509631|pages=60–61}}
• Ida Goodson{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p730297/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Ida Goodson: Biography|author=Chadbourne, Eugene |website=AllMusic|accessdate=February 16, 2010}}
• Fannie May Goosby
• Coot Grant{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/coot-grant-mn0000124070/biography|title=Coot Grant | Biography & History|website=AllMusic|accessdate=30 October 2020}}
• Helen Gross{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/helen-gross-mn0000567770/biography|title=Helen Gross: Artist Biography|author=Leggett, Steve|website=AllMusic|accessdate=September 5, 2014}}

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• Marion Harris{{Cite web|url=https://vaudeville.sites.arizona.edu/node/26|title=Marion Harris: Hot Jazz and Black Themes for White Audiences by David Soren | The American Vaudeville Museum|website=Vaudeville.sites.arizona.edu|accessdate=30 October 2020}}
• Lucille HegaminStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 7.
• Edmonia HendersonStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 91.
• Katherine Henderson
• Rosa Henderson
• Edna HicksHarris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. pp. 226-7, {{ISBN|0-306-80155-8}}.
• Bertha "Chippie" Hill
• Mattie HiteStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 94.
• Rosetta HowardRussell 1997, p. 199.
• Helen HumesRussell 1997, p. 120.
• Alberta HunterStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 79.

• Bertha Idaho{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=bertha-idaho-p410597/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Bertha Idaho |author=Chadbourne, Eugene |website=AllMusic |accessdate=August 6, 2011}}

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• Edith North Johnson{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=edith-north-johnson-p188390 |pure_url=yes}} |title=Edith North Johnson |author=Leggett, Steven |website=AllMusic|accessdate=August 7, 2011}}
• Lil JohnsonRussell 1997, pp. 125-6.
• Mary JohnsonRussell 1997, p. 41.
• Merline JohnsonRussell 1997, p. 127.
• Maggie JonesStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 74.

• Virginia ListonStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 92.

• Ida May Mack{{cite book|author1=Govenar, Alan B.|author2=Brakefield, Jay F.|title=Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aV8jAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA131|date=8 August 2013|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-1-60344-958-8|page=131}}
• Daisy MartinStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 23.
• Sara MartinRussell 1997, p. 12.
• Viola McCoy
• Hazel MeyersHarrison 1990, p. 247.
• Josie MilesHarris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 374, {{ISBN|0-306-80155-8}}.
• Lizzie MilesStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 80.
• Monette Moore{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/monette-moore-mn0000925509/biography|title=Monette Moore | Biography & History|website=AllMusic|accessdate=30 October 2020}}

• Ma Rainey
• Elzadie Robinson{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=Boston|page=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/73 73-4]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/73}}

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• Bessie Smith
• Clara Smith
• Laura Smith{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=laura-smith-p202132/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Laura Smith |author=DePasquale, Ron |website=AllMusic|accessdate=October 31, 2010}}
• Mamie SmithStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 10.
• Ruby Smith{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p126522|pure_url=yes}}|title=Ruby Smith|author=Arwulf Arwulf |website=AllMusic|accessdate=October 9, 2011}}
• Trixie SmithStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 81.
• Victoria Spivey
• Mary Stafford*Harris, Sheldon (1994). Blues Who's Who (rev. ed.). Boston: Da Capo Press. p. 484, {{ISBN|0-306-80155-8}}.
• Hannah SylvesterStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 96.

• Eva TaylorBogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 373.
• Bessie Tucker{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues: A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger | location= Santa Barbara, California| pages=312 | isbn= 978-0313344237}}
• Lavinia Turner

• Sippie WallaceStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 68.
• Ethel Waters
• Georgia WhiteRussell 1997, p. 185.
• Edith WilsonStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 26.
• Lena WilsonHarrison 1990, pp. 174–175

• Estelle Yancey{{cite book|first=Jane |last=Bowers |chapter=Writing the Biography of a Black Woman Blues Singer |title=Music and Gender |editor1-first=Pirkko |editor1-last=Moisala |editor2-first=Beverley |editor2-last=Diamond |location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2000 |page=145}}

• Women in music

Notes

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Bibliography

• Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; and Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2003). All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. {{ISBN|0-87930-736-6}}.
• Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. {{ISBN|0-8135-1280-8}}.
• Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books, {{ISBN|1-85868-255-X}}
• Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. London: Studio Vista. {{OCLC|250212516}}

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