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Developing a blues name, what is your man? Picking the right last name is essential. It is officially okay to use your own last name, unless you are trying to be anonymous, then you should pick a different last name. For example, Bleeding Gums Avocado Delavorius is not as bluesy as Bleeding Gums Avocado Monroe, or maybe not. In this category, some leeway is given when developing a great blues name.

Follow up:

If for some chance you forgot about history and cannot remember all of the dead presidents name, it is perfectly acceptable to pull out your wallet and get a last name from a bill. No, Visa and Master Card will not work, nor will Debit.

Severed Hand Apricot Debit or Severed Hand Apricot Jefferson? You decide.

It is valid to use a middle name of a dead president, but not of someone living, unless they have been immortalized on a stamp.

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, James Abram Garfield, Chester Alan Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Gamaliel Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Clark Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr, James Earl Carter, Ronald Wilson Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, George W. Bush, Barrack Obama.

By this time you should have a good grasp on how to formulate a good blues name. Have fun, change it often to protect your own identify!