Country blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is all the acoustic, guitar forms of the blues.

Important country blues musicians

Etta Baker Robert Lowery Blind Blake Son House Bo Carter Charley Patton Tommy Johnson Robert Johnson Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Willie Johnson Blind Willie McTell Sleepy John Estes Fred McDowell Robert Pete Williams Skip James Bukka White Barbecue Bob Koko Taylor Mississippi John Hurt John Lee Hooker

Muddy Waters Charles David Sharp Elizabeth Cotten Reverend Gary Davis Charlie McCoy Chaz Van Gogh Jaybird Coleman Furry Lewis Big Bill Broonzy Blind Boy Fuller Brownie McGhee Robert Belfour King Solomon Hill Peetie Wheatstraw Peps Persson Josh White R. L. Burnside Lightnin' Hopkins Little Walter Mance Lipscomb