Piedmont blues
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The Piedmont blues is a type of blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bass pattern supports a melody using treble strings. The Piedmont blues typically refers to a greater area than Piedmont, which refers to the East Coast of the United States from about Richmond, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia. Piedmont blues musicians come from this area, as well as Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Prominent musicians of the type include:
- Pink Anderson
- Etta Baker
- Scrapper Blackwell
- Blind Blake
- Bull City Red
- Bumble Bee Slim
- Reverend Gary Davis
- Blind Boy Fuller
- "Mississippi" John Hurt
- Lonnie Johnson
- Furry Lewis
- Mance Lipscomb
- Brownie McGhee
- Blind Willie McTell
- Charlie Parr
- Cootie Stark
- Sonny Terry
- Curley Weaver
- Cephas & Wiggins ("Bowling Green" John Cephas and Phil Wiggins)
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