Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach...
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The portion of the Piedmont region in the Southern United States is closely associated with the Piedmont blues, a style of blues music that originated...
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The Piedmont blues (also known as Piedmont fingerstyle) is a type of blues music, characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which...
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subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. World...
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Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. They come from different eras and include...
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Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with...
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Music of North Carolina (redirect from Piedmont youth orchestra)
Carolina are a hotbed for traditional country blues, especially the style known as the Piedmont blues. Elizabeth Cotten, from Chapel Hill, was active...
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Piedmont (minor league baseball) Piedmont (wine) Piedmont blues or "Piedmont fingerstyle", a style of blues guitar playing Piedmont League, defunct minor league...
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"Statesboro Blues" is a Piedmont blues song written by Blind Willie McTell, who recorded it in 1928. The title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia...
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South Carolina – October 12, 1974). Early country blues guitarist and singer who played Piedmont blues. Many of his recordings have been released by Prestige...
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"The Entertainer". Ragtime influenced early jazz, Harlem stride piano, Piedmont blues, and European classical composers such as Erik Satie, Claude Debussy...
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Floyd Council (category American blues mandolinists)
May 9, 1976) was an American blues guitarist, mandolin player, and singer. He was a practitioner of the Piedmont blues, which was popular in the southeastern...
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Blind Willie McTell (category Piedmont blues musicians)
William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was an American Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated...
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Blind Boy Fuller (category Piedmont blues musicians)
Boy Fuller, was an American blues guitarist and singer. Fuller was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists, along with Blind Blake...
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Reverend Gary Davis (category Piedmont blues musicians)
and blind since infancy, Davis first performed professionally in the Piedmont blues scene of Durham, North Carolina in the 1930s, then converted to Christianity...
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Sonny Terry (category Piedmont blues musicians)
known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included...
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Pink Anderson (category Piedmont blues musicians)
1961–62 [1984]) List of blues musicians List of country blues musicians List of people from South Carolina List of Piedmont blues musicians "Dead Rock Stars...
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Etta Baker (category Piedmont blues musicians)
Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina. She was born Etta Lucille Reid...
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Blind Blake (category Piedmont blues musicians)
his ragtime-based guitar style and were prototypes for the burgeoning Piedmont blues. Blake made his last recordings in 1932; his career ended with Paramount's...
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blues musicians List of Piedmont blues musicians List of soul-blues musicians List of Texas blues musicians List of West Coast blues musicians Blues portal...
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Brownie McGhee (category Piedmont blues musicians)
McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica...
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Carolina Chocolate Drops (category Piedmont blues musicians)
much of their repertoire, which is based on the traditional music of the Piedmont region of North and South Carolina, from the eminent African American old-time...
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Barbecue Bob (category Country blues singers)
1931), known by the stage name Barbecue Bob, was an early American Piedmont blues musician. His nickname was derived from his working as a cook in a barbecue...
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Walker, Piedmont blues Baby Washington, soul singer Ron Westray, jazz trombonist Sandy Williams, jazz trombonist Josh White, Piedmont blues singer and...
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John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) was an American Piedmont blues musician. Music was not his primary activity until his accidental "discovery"...
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List of music genres and styles (section Blues)
Orleans blues Piedmont blues Punk blues Rhythm and blues Doo-wop Soul blues St. Louis blues Swamp blues Talking blues Texas blues West Coast blues Alternative...
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Charlie Parr (category Piedmont blues musicians)
fretless open-back banjo, and a twelve-string guitar, often in the Piedmont blues style. He is divorced from Emily Parr, who occasionally adds vocals...
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Marcus King (category American blues singers)
South Carolina, United States. His father, Marvin King, was a well-known blues guitarist in South Carolina who also played with gospel acts, and his grandfather...
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Gabriel Brown (category Piedmont blues musicians)
Gabriel Brown (September 2, 1910 – May 7, 1960) was an American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist, and actor. Brown was born in Gretna, Gadsden County,...
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Dom Flemons (category Piedmont blues musicians)
Dominique Flemons (born August 30, 1982) is an American old-time music, Piedmont blues, and neotraditional country multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter...
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