Lurrie Bell, born Lurrie C. Bell on December 13, 1958, in Chicago, Illinois, United States, is an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer. Son of blues harmonica player Carey Bell, Bell began playing guitar at age 6 and polished his skills playing alongside Eddy Clearwater, Big Walter Horton, and Eddie Taylor. In the mid-1970s, he joined Koko Taylor's Blues Machine, touring with the group for 4 years. He made his recording debut in 1977 on his father's album Heartaches and Pain and Eddie C. Campbell's King of the Jungle. In 1989, he released his debut solo studio album, Everybody Wants to Win, on JSP Records. Following a hiatus, he returned in 1995 with Mercurial Son on Delmark Records. His subsequent solo studio albums include 700 Blues in 1997, Cutting Heads in 2001, The Devil Ain't Got No Music in 2012, and Can't Shake This Feeling in 2016, the latter earning a Grammy Award nomination. In 2007, he released the live album Gettin' Up – Live at Buddy Guy's Legends, Rosa's and Lurrie's Home with his father shortly before Carey Bell's death. Bell won Blues Music Awards in 2014 and 2015, and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2024.
