• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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 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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    Blind Willie McTell (category Piedmont blues musicians)
    William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was an American Piedmont blues and ragtime singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played in a fluid,...
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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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    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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    "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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Barbecue Bob (category Country blues singers)
    11, 1902 – October 21, 1931), known as Barbecue Bob, was an American Piedmont blues musician who played 12 string guitar which was popular in the Atlanta...
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  • Outskirts of Town" is a song originally recorded on September 3, 1936, by Piedmont blues musician Casey Bill Weldon. Weldon performed it as a solo piece, with...
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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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  • Geeshie Wiley (category Delta blues musicians)
    included a faithful cover of the song on his 2006 album Mississippi & Piedmont Blues 1927–1941. Dex Romweber Duo released a version featuring Jack White...
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    the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992. The blues historian Barry Lee Pearson (Sounds Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story, Virginia Piedmont Blues) described...
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    Josh White (category Piedmont blues musicians)
    artist, with a prolific output of recordings in genres including Piedmont blues, country blues, gospel music, and social protest songs. In 1931, White moved...
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