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.
Blind Blake
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Arthur Blake, known as Blind Blake, was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He is known for recordings he made for Paramount Records between 1926 and 1932.
Piedmont blues
…that a generation of players adapted these older, ragtime-based techniques to blues in a singular and popular fashion, influenced by guitarists such as Blind Blake and Gary Davis. The Piedmont blues was named after the Piedmont plateau region, on the East Coast of the United States from about Richmond, Virginia…
The only known photograph of Blake, ca. 1927