Omar Kent Dykes (born Kent Dykes, 1950) is an American blues guitarist and singer, living in Austin, Texas.

He began leading bands as an adolescent in McComb, Mississippi.^[1]

In 1973 he formed the band, Omar & the Howlers. The band plays electric Texas blues, rock and roll and blues-rock. Dykes has also had a successful career as a solo artist, and regularly toured European countries.

Among his solo albums are Blues Bag from 1991, and Muddy Springs Road from 1994.^[2]

An Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee, he was afflicted in 2017 with a skin illness that wasted away the flesh of his arms, and he lost the ability to perform in public.^[1] In 2020 he published a memoir, OMAR DYKES: The Life and Times of a Poor and Almost Famous Bluesman.^[3]

• Big Leg Beat (1980, Stomp)
• I Told You So (1984, Clyde Frog)
• Hard Times in the Land of Plenty (1987, Columbia)
• Wall of Pride (1988, Columbia)
• Monkey Land (1990, Antone's)
• Blues Bag (1991, Provogue) (solo album)
• Live at Paradiso (1992, Provogue)
• Courts of Lulu (1993, Provogue)
• Muddy Springs Road (1995, Provogue)
• World Wide Open (1996, Provogue)
• Southern Style (1997, Provogue)
• Swing Land (1999, Provogue)
• Live at the Opera House: Austin, Texas - August 30, 1987 (2000, Provogue)
• The Screamin' Cat (2000, Provogue)
• Big Delta (2002, Provogue)
• Boogie Man (2004, Ruf)
• Bamboozled: Live in Germany (2006, Ruf)
• On The Jimmy Reed Highway (2007, Ruf) (with Jimmie Vaughan, Lou Ann Barton and others.)
• Big Town Playboy (2009, Ruf)
• Essential Collection (2012, Ruf) 2CD
• I'm Gone (2012, Big Guitar)
• Too Much is Not Enough (2012, Big Guitar)
• Running With the Wolf (2013, Provogue) (solo album)