American Roots Music: Artists Blues Country Gospel Folk Rufus Thomas Marty Stuart Bernice Johnson- Arlo Guthrie B.B. King Ricky Skaggs Reagon Woody Guthrie Bonnie Raitt The Whites Mavis Staples Huddie Ledbetter Mamie Smith Jimmie Rodgers The Staple Singers (Lead Belly) Bessie Smith Fiddlin' John Carson Thomas A. Dorsey Pete Seeger Robert Johnson The Carter Family The Soul Stirrers The Weavers Son House Merle Haggard Sister Rosetta Peter Yarrow Keb' Mo' Willie Nelson Tharpe The Kingston Trio Keith Richards Douglas B. Green Mahalia Jackson The New Lost Albert Ammons Uncle Dave Macon Clara Ward Singers City Ramblers Pete Johnson Roy Acuff Edwin Hawkins Peter, Paul, Whistler's Jug Band DeFord Bailey Kirk Franklin and Mary Sonny Boy Ken Maynard The Fisk Jubilee Bob Dylan Williamson Gene Autry Singers Mississippi Robert Lockwood Bob Wills John Hurt Junior Ray Benson of Cajun/Zydeco The Freedom Singers James Cotton Asleep at the Wheel Clarence Ashley Howlin' Wolf Merle Travis Marc and Ann Savoy Hubert Sumlin Kitty Wells The Balfa Brothers Native American Willie Dixon Hank Williams Steve Riley and the Buddy Guy Ernest Tubb Mamou Playboys Robert Mirabal The Paul Butterfield Lefty Frizzell Clifton Chenier Robbie Robertson Blues Band Joe Falcon and Floyd Red Crow Sam Lay Bluegrass Cleoma Breaux Westerman Elvis Presley Falcon R. Carlos Nakai Doc Watson Dennis McGee Ralph Stanley Earl Scruggs Tejano Personalities Bill Monroe Doyle Lawson and Lydia Mendoza Bascom Lamar Quicksilver Flaco Jimenez Lunsford Bela Fleck and Narciso Martinez Sam Phillips the Flecktones Valerio Longoria John Lomax Little Joe Alan Lomax Ricky Skaggs Hernandez Flatt and Scruggs Mingo Saldivar From PBS .