27. Marcia Ball

The Buzz -- Singer/pianist Marcia Ball knows how to raise the roof and tear down the walls. At the State Theatre, she’ll be cooking up a tasty musical gumbo of roadhouse boogie woogie, zydeco, East Texas blues, and Southwest Louisiana swamp rock. It’s a recipe that has earned her multiple Grammy nominations and the 2009 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Award from the Blues Music Foundation.