Search results
As a form of Black American popular music, Piedmont blues fell out of favor on a national basis after World War II. By the late-1950s, it was being performed at US folk music revivals and festivals initially by established Piedmont blues artists such as Josh White , Rev. Gary Davis , and Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry , as well as Cephas ...
Jul 19, 2023 · What has been mostly forgotten is that tobacco also made Durham a creative epicenter for an almost-lost genre of music, known in recent years as the Piedmont blues or sometimes the East Coast...
Guitar Gabriel. Almost 30 years ago, Music Maker Executive Director Tim Duffy set out on a mission to find Guitar Gabriel. Gabe was a Piedmont bluesman who’d gone missing from the music scene decades prior. When Tim asked around for his whereabouts, people speculated he was dead.
Jul 14, 2023 · Rediscovered during the folk revival of the late 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, the Piedmont blues had an enormous influence on many of the most widely recorded British and American musicians of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
- A Bit About The Piedmont Blues
- Blind Blake: The First Guitar Virtuoso?
- Blind Willie McTell, 12 String Songster
- Piedmont Masters
This style of blues is so unique even when compared to its close cousin, Delta Blues. Like Delta Blues, Piedmont Blues gets its name from the region of the US where the style originated. The Piedmont region stretches from Northern Virginia to North Georgia. The brand of blues that grew up in this region in the 1920s and 30s was mostly fast finger p...
I have no idea who the first guitar virtuoso was. If you do, please let me know. But let me submit Blind Blake as a candidate. This guy was an acoustic finger picking wizard. Incredibly technically proficient, yet soulful. A rare combination. From the first time I heard his tune, Southern Rag, I was absolutely hooked. Mind. Blown. History doesn’t g...
Another Piedmont legend, Blind Willie McTell is perhaps best known as the guy who penned Statesboro Blues. This song was famously covered by the Allman Brothers in the early 70s. My personal favorite of McTell’s is Broke Down Engine Blues. Here’s an excellent performance of Broke Down Engine from a true purveyor of the style, Toby Walker. McTell us...
These are just two Piedmont Blues Masters, there are more that are equally mind blowing. These guitarists may never grace the cover of a Guitar World, but they are definitely worth checking out if you’re into blues. If you’re intoacousticblues, they’re pretty much required listening.
5 days ago · Most modern music fans know the Piedmont blues because modern artists covered its makers’ songs. The Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan covered Elizabeth Cotten. The Dead also covered Rev. Gary Davis, and he was highly revered by the artists of the 1960s folk revival.
Oct 6, 2015 · Delta Blues gets all the glory, but some of the most celebrated and influential early blues artists play Piedmont style. Reverend Gary Davis, Sonny Terry, Blind Willie McTell…And today the tradition continues.
