Houston Blues Museum Archive

Begun in conjunction with the Houston Blues Museum, the Houston Blues Museum Archive documents the history of the genre in the bayou city. The collections consist of oral histories, photographs, posters, and more.

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This collection contains oral histories from members of Houston’s Blues community.

This collection consists of photography by James Fraher, which documents members of the Houston blues and the Texas zydeco community.

This collection consists of photographs, oral histories, posters, and other ephemera related to the Houston music venue Liberty Hall.

This collection consists of photographs of musicians and other entertainers from a variety of performance venues in Houston.

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A

Abair, Kinney

Alexis, Bobby

B

Bell, Kenneth

Big Easy

Billy Blues

Blanchard, Carolyn

Bland, Bobby "Blue"

Bolden, James

Bouldin, Morgan

Bret, D.D.

Broussard, Iola

Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth," 1924-2005

Brown, Jewel

Brown, Leonard “Low Down”

Brown, Texas Johnny

Brown, Theodore

C

C. Davis Bar-B-Q

Caldwell the Tailor

Carlson, Charles “C.C.”

Carrier, Eugene

Carrier, Naomi

Chevis, Wilfred

Collins, Albert, 1932-1993

Collins, Big Roger

Continental Zydeco

Copeland, Johnny

Cormier, Alfred

Cormier, Curly

Cormier, Shedrick

D

Dan Electro's Guitar Bar

Dotson, Jimmy “Louisiana”

Dunham, Aubrey

E

Edwards, Gloria

El Nedo Café

Eldorado Ballroom

Embassy Ballroom

Evans, Verta Mae

F

Fraher, James

Fran, Carol

G

Gaines, Grady

Gaines, Roy

Gatlin, Vanessa

Gilliam, Earl

Gosey, I.J.

Gray, Jackie

Green, Clarence

Green, John

Greenleaf, Diunna

H

Halliburton, Joe

Hawthorne, Eugene

Hayes, Henry

Hill, Ken “Sugar”

Holliman, Clarence

Hollis, William “Candyman”

Hopkins, Lightnin'

Hopkins, Milton

Hughes, Joe "Guitar"

J

Jackson, Rayfield

James, Joe

James, Sonny

Johnson, Conrad

Johnson, Don

Johnson, Evelyn

K

Kesee, Don

L

Lewis, Bert

Lewis, Bobby

Lewis, Luvenia