I played a concert at the Iowa Braille School and the subject of blind blues performers came up. I promised the director, an avid country blues fan, a tape of all the blind players I could find. This list would make a good show for an interested disc jockey…

Blind blues and R&B players/singers:

• Amos, Blind Joe
• Blake, Blind
• Booker, James (partially sighted)
• Brewer, Blind James
• Brown, Blind Purlee
• Butler, Henry
• Campbell, Blind James
• Carter, Bo (Blind Arthur Blake) -disputed-maybe not blind at all
• Carter, Clarence
• Charles, Ray
• Davis, Blind John
• Davis, Blind Willie
• Davis, Rev. Gary
• Eaglin, Snooks
• Estes, Sleepy John (partially sighted)
• Fuller, Blind Boy
• Graves, Blind Roosevelt
• Harris, Blind Willie
• James, Blind Willie
• Jefferson, Blind Lemon
• Johnson, Blind Willie
• Lee, Bryan
• LeJeune, Bobby (partially sighted)
• LeJeune, Iry
• Low, Eddie (New Zealand singer)
• Lucas, Lazy Bill
• McTell, Blind Willie
• Meyers, Sam
• Papeech, Claude (pianist, New Zealand)
• Penya, Paul
• Phillip, Blind James
• Pucket, Riley
• Reynolds, Blind Joe
• Roberts, Marcus
• Terry, Sonny

Jazz & Miscellaneous:

• Bocelli, Andrea
• Feleciano, Jose
• Five Blind Boys of Alabama
• Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
• Handy, W. C.
• Healey, Jeff
• Hearne, Bill (partially sighted)
• Hearne, Bonnie
• Kirk, Roland
• Milsap, Ronnie
• Morello, Joe (partially sighted)
• Payne, Leon
• Schur, Diane (voc)
• Shearing, George
• Tatum, Art (partially sighted, right eye only)
• Tristano, Lenny
• Watson, Doc
• Wonder, Stevie