The Guitar Players Tour is where all the guitar players are buried or interred.
Guitar Players Tour Maps
Guitar Players Tour Information
Guitar Players Tour Information -> PDF files
Willie James Abner
Luther Allison
John “Uncle Johnny Williams” Antwine, Jr.
James Kokomo Arnold
Vernon X. “Chico” Bank
John Henry Barbee
Roosevelt Melvin “Booba” Barnes
William “Lefty” Bates
Ollie (Arley) “Buster” Benton
Avery Brady
James Frank Braswell
James “Blind Jim” Brewer
Lonnie “Lee Baker, Jr.” Brooks
William “Big Bill” Broonzy
Andrew Earl Brown
Joseph Judson “Joe” Carter
Echford L. “Lee” Cooper, Jr.
John Curvleski
Eric “Guitar” Davis
Jimmy “Maxwell Street” Davis
James Henry “Jimmy Fast Fingers” Dawkins
John K. Duich
John Embry
Jim Ellison
Leroy “Babyface” Foster
Arvella “Blind Arvella” Gray
Phil Guy
Edward Harrington “Eddie the Chief” Clearwater
Vernon Ray Harrington
Sam Andy “From Louisville” Hill
Earl Zebedee Hooker
Benjamin Joe “Bennie” Houston “Boston Blackie”
Joseph Benjamin “J.B.” Hutto
William Henry “Papa Charlie” Jackson
L.V. Johnson
Willie Lee “Guitar” Johnson
Floyd Jones
Moody Jones
Robert L. “Bobby” King
Kanika Kress
William James Lacey
Samuel David “Sammy” Lanhorn
Warren George Harding Lee “Lee Jackson”
Johnie Lewis
Vardamon “VMO” Lofton
Willie James Lyons
Samuel Gene Maghett “Magic Sam”
Tommy McClennan
Charles “Papa Charlie” McCoy
Wilbur Joe “Kansas Joe” McCoy
Floyd McDaniel
L.C. McKinley
McKinley Morganfield “Muddy Waters”
Louis Myers
Rev. Ben Wiley Payton
Eugene Pearson, Jr.
Arthur Pettis
Brewer Phillips
Hudson Whittaker “Tampa Red”
Mathis James “JImmy” Reed
Willie “Hip Linkchain” Richard
Daniel “Dan” Roberts
Jimmy Rogers
Kenneth “Buddy” Scott
Frank “Son” Seals
Rev. Hudson Shower “Little Hudson”
Claude “Guitar Smitty” Smith, Jr.
Albert Abraham Smothers “Little Smokey”
Hubert Sumlin
Edward “Eddie” Taylor
Theodore Roosevelt “Hound Dog” Taylor
Frank Thomas, Jr.
James Earl Thompson
Luther Tucker
Walter Vinson
Johnny Watson “Daddy Stovepipe”
Walter “Lefty Dizz” Williams
Robert “Poor Bob” “Po’ Bob” Woodfork
JAMES KOKOMO ARNOLD (1901-1968) – GRAVE
Blues
Considered to be amongst the greatest bluesmen, due to his intense style of playing and his rapid fire vocal delivery. He played the slide guitar and he was left handed. He died of a heart attack.
[Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip – 41°39’45.2″N 87°43’54.7″W]
JAMES KOKOMO ARNOLD LINKS
Kokomo Arnold -> Wikipedia
WILLIAM “BIG BILL” BROONZY (1893-1958) – GRAVE
Country / Folk / Blues
Big Bill Broonzy was a guitar player, songwriter and a singer, who started out in the 1920s playing country music to black audiences. While he did play a more urban blues in the 1930s and 1940s, he returned to his folk-blues roots in the 1950s and became a huge star.
[Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island – Section TLA, Lot 289, Grave S3-E 1/2 – 41°40’13.8″N 87°42’04.0″W]
WILLIAM “BIG BILL” BROONZY LINKS
Big Bill Broonzy -> Wikipedia
