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
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Beulah Bryant
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins
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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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, an unusual combination of blues shouter and bebop alto saxophone player.<ref name="All"/><ref name="AMG"/>
Big Joe Williams<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)

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