Piedmont blues
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Piedmont blues refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody us
"In the convict camp in Greene County, Georgia", 1941. Buddy Moss is playing guitar; other men unidentified.
Blues
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Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, s
Piedmont blues
…Piedmont blues Stylistic origins Blues ragtime piano blues Cultural origins 1920s, East Coast of the United States Other topics List of musicians Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast…
American blues singer Ma Rainey (1886–1939), the "Mother of the Blues"
Musicologist John Lomax (left) shaking hands with musician "Uncle" Rich Brown in Sumterville, Alabama
Sheet music from "Saint Louis Blues" (1914)
Bessie Smith, an early blues singer, known for her powerful voice