Best blues vocalist

There are too many for me to draw a full list, but here are a couple of women who might otherwise go unmentioned: Odetta and Koko Taylor. Check out "Gallows Pole" and "Wang Dang Doodle", respectively. I think pretty much everyone has taken a shot at "Wang Dang" and I'll take Koko's over the whole lot of 'em (including Howlin' Wolf's version). Just MHO.

Marty

The beauty of making such a list is in its impossibility. Forcing a choice gets your critical thinking cookin'. I have already changed my mind about what I wrote. It is inevitable.

NOTE: Maybe Tommy Jonson instead of Robert Wilkins?

Pre-war: Son House
Electric Blues: Bobby Blue Bland
Blues Rock: Terry Reid

Pre-war:(in Iraq) Tom Waits
Electric Blues: Tom Waits
Blues Rock: Tom Waits

A good answer to this silly question would be 1) Robert Johnson, 2) Otis Rush, 3) Etta James.