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.

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Prominent musicians who play the Piedmont blues include:

Pink Anderson Etta Baker Scrapper Blackwell Blind Blake Bull City Red Bumble Bee Slim Reverend Gary Davis Blind Boy Fuller "Mississippi" John Hurt John Jackson Lonnie Johnson

Furry Lewis Mance Lipscomb Brownie McGhee Blind Willie McTell Charlie Parr Slate Hill Phil Cootie Stark Sonny Terry Curley Weaver Cephas & Wiggins ("Bowling Green" John Cephas and Phil Wiggins) Josh White

[edit] See also

• Piedmont fingerstyle

[edit] External links

• Piedmont Blues Preservation Society
• East Coast Piedmont Blues
  
  

Blues | Blues genres

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British blues - Chicago blues - Detroit blues - Kansas City blues - Louisiana blues - Memphis blues - Piedmont blues - St. Louis blues - Swamp blues - Texas blues - West Coast blues

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