Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey--First recordings 1923 Eck Robertson--First recordings 1922-23 Bessie Smith--First recordings 1923 'Uncle Dave' Macon 'Blind Lemon' Jefferson--First recordings 1925 Frank Hutchison--First recordings 1926 Eddie 'Son' House--First recordings 1928 'Furry' Lewis--First recordings 1927 Dock Boggs--First recordings 1927
'Big Bill' Broonzey--First recordings 1927 Will Shade/Memphis Jug Band--First recordings 1927 Carter Family--First recordings 1927 Jimmie Rodgers--First recordings 1927 'Blind Willie' Johnson--First recordings 1927 Bascom Lunsford--First recordings 1922/1928 'Mississippi' John Hurt--First recordings 1928 Cannon's Jug Stompers--First recordings 1928 'Blind Willie' McTell--First recordings 1927-8
'Tampa Red'--First recordings 1928 'Georgia' Tom Dorsey--First recordings 1928 Anthology of American Folk Music--Volume 1 (1952) Anthology of American Folk Music--Volume 2 (1952) Anthology of American Folk Music--Smithsonian Folkways Set Anthology of American Folk Music--Volume 3 (1952) Volume 4--Anthology of American Folk Music Leroy Carr--First recordings 1928 'Scrapper' Blackwell--First recordings 1928
Clarence 'Tom' Ashley--First recordings 1927/1929 Charlie Patton--First recordings 1929 Lizzie 'Kid' Douglas--(Memphis Minnie)--First recordings 1929 'Sleepy' John Estes--First recordings 1929 Nehemiah 'Skip' James--First recordings 1931 Lomax Field Recordings--Alabama (1934-40) Lomax Field Recordings--Georgia (1934-43) Rev. 'Blind Gary' Davis--First recordings 1935 Monroe Brothers--First recordings 1936
Lomax Field Recordings--Mississippi - Blues (1936-42) Lomax Field Recordings--Mississippi - Saints/Sinners (1936-42) Robert Johnson--First recordings 1936 Rosetta Tharpe--First recordings 1938 Burl Ives--First recordings early 1940s Woody Guthrie--First recordings 1940 Huddie Ledbetter--First recordings 1935/1941 Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee--First recordings 1937/1941 Almanac Singers--First recordings 1941
Robert Lockwood--First recordings 1938/early 1940s Folksay--Volumes 1-6--First recordings 1943-46/early 1950s 'T-Bone' Walker--First recordings 1929/1940 Stanley Brothers--First recordings 1947 'Lightnin' Hopkins--First recordings 1946 McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)--First recordings 1946/7 Hank Williams--First recordings 1946/7 John Lee Hooker--First recordings 1948 Weavers--First recordings 1949/1950
Josh White--First recordings 1929/1940s Susan Reed--First recordings late 1940s Terry Gilkyson--First recordings 1949 Pete Seeger--First solo recordings 1950 (on Folkways)? Milt Okun--First recordings 1950/51 Flatt and Scruggs--First recordings 1948 Chester Arthur 'Howlin' Wolf' Burnett--First recordings 1951 J B Lenoir--First recordings 1951 Willie Dixon--First recordings late 1940s
Cisco Houston--First recordings 1940s/solo early 1950s Elmore James--First recordings 1951 B B King--First recordings 1949 Jean Ritchie--First recordings 1952 Harry Belafonte--First recordings 1949 Wallace House--First recordings 1952 Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton--First recordings 1951 Paul Clayton--First recordings mid-1950s Jimmy Reed--First recordings 1953