I love Billie Holiday and I have been looking for some other blues artists. Any Suggestions??

I also listen to music like Frank Sinatra, Bessie Smith, Otis Redding and Nat King Cole. I love Miles Davis. I listen to rock from the 60's to present. But I really love the blues and jazzy blues so I need some music to listen to!!

Ma Rainey
Memphis Minnie
Betty Roche
Dinah Washington (I think your gonna LOVE Dinah Washington)
And ... more jazzy - Lena Horne

Etta James and Koko Taylor - both these ladies can belt out a blues tune.

I you like Blues, there are 2 masters that you HAVE to listen to-Muddy Waters & John Lee Hooker!

B.B. King, & Muddy Waters

I'm a big blues fan too. Sadly there aren't many women that can sing the blues. A great contemporary artist is Susan Tedeschi. There's a song called "It hurts so Bad". She can wail and has a beautiful voice.

Try her out, you'll enjoy it.

Check out Anita O'day. Some musicians play an instrument. Anita O'day "played" her voice.

"Few female singers matched the hard-swinging and equally hard-living Anita O'Day for sheer exuberance and talent in all areas of jazz vocals. Though three or four outshone her in pure quality of voice, her splendid improvising, wide dynamic tone, and innate sense of rhythm made her the most enjoyable singer of the age...O'Day's series of almost 20 Verve LPs during the '50s and '60s proved her to be one of the most distinctive, trend-setting, and successful vocal artists of the time, arguably surpassed only by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald."

She's got chops. Not really a blues lady, but chops a-plenty.