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
"Mississippi" John Hurt
Skip James
Lonnie Johnson
Furry Lewis
Mance Lipscomb
Brownie McGhee
Blind Willie McTell
Sonny Terry
Curley Weaver