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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
- Scrapper Blackwell
- Blind Blake
- Bumble Bee Slim
- Reverend Gary Davis
- Blind Boy Fuller
- Lonnie Johnson
- Furry LewisFurry Lewis was a blues guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given a new lease of recording life, by the folk blues revival of the 1960s. Furry's style
- Brownie McGheeWalter "Brownie" McGhee ( 1915 1996) was a folk- blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and suffered from polio as a child, which incapacitated his leg.
- Blind Willie McTellBlind Willie McTell ( May 5, 1901 August 15, 1959) (born William McTear was an influential blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Thomson, Georgia and died in Milledgeville, Georgia. McTell was a twelve-string finger picking guitarist and singer, who
- Sonny TerrySonny Terry (Saunders Terrell) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1911. He is most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style which frequently includes vocal whoops and hollers. He lost most of his eyesight early in life, in separate acci
- Curley Weaver
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