Piedmont Blues Style
Notable artists include Barbecue Bob,
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The Piedmont Blues isa type of blues that was heavily influenced
by ragtime, though it mostly incorporated a number of different sounds
of Applachia and it's associated areas, like Virginia, the Carolinas,
eastern Tennessee, etc. The Piedmont Blues was mmostly popular around
these regions; Applachia and the Southeast United States, and still
continues to be to some extent. It had it's heyday in the early twentieth
century, seeing a decline around the end of World War II.
It's got an upbeat, dancable style, and is well known for it's musicians
using a finger-picking style, where they use their fingers to pick
multiple strings at the same time or very rapidly, unlike using a
pick to pick one string at a time. Piedmont, like many other Blues
styles, experienced a healthy revival and jump in popularity during
the folk revival of the 1960s, which led many previously only regionally
popular musicians to record and enjoy musical careers. Unfortunately,
though the tunes are often catchy and dancable, the Piedmont Style today
is experiencing a struggle in preservation and widespread popularity.
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Notable websites on the Piedmont Blues
Piedmont Blues Preservation Society
