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Acoustic guitarist, harmonicist and singer. In 2001, Higgs' debut album, Tarboro Blues, was made in collaboration with the Music Maker Relief Foundation. [40] John Dee Holeman (April 4, 1929, Orange County, North Carolina – April 30, 2021) [41] His music includes elements of Texas blues, R&B and African-American string-band music. In his ...
North Carolina Country blues [26] Floyd Council: 1911 1976 North Carolina Piedmont blues [27] Ida Cox: 1896* 1967 Georgia Vaudeville blues [28] Blind Blues Darby: 1906 1975 Kentucky St. Louis blues [29] Reverend Gary Davis: 1896 1972 South Carolina Piedmont blues [30] Walter Davis: 1911* 1963 Mississippi St. Louis blues [31] Tom Delaney: 1889 ...
Influential North Carolina country musicians such as the North Carolina Ramblers and Al Hopkins helped solidify the sound of country music in the late 1920s, while influential bluegrass musicians such as Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson came from North Carolina. Arthur Smith had the first nationally syndicated television program which featured ...
John Dee Holeman (April 4, 1929 – April 30, 2021) [2] [3] was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. [1] His music includes elements of Texas blues, R&B and African-American string-band music. [1]
Floyd Council (September 2, 1911 – May 9, 1976) [1] was an American blues guitarist, mandolin player, and singer. He was a practitioner of the Piedmont blues, which was popular in the southeastern United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Piedmont blues was named after the Piedmont plateau region, on 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 northern Florida, western South Carolina, central North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama – later the Northeastern ...
Wilson was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. [2] She was an adopted child. [2] About 1918–1920 she sang with her brother Danny Wilson as a vaudeville act on the Theater Owners Booking Association circuit in the South. [2] In 1921, they performed in Louisville, Kentucky, on a bill with Edith Goodall, who soon married Danny and joined their ...
Edward P. Harris (August 22, 1923 – October 22, 1953), [3] known as Carolina Slim, was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer. [2] His best-known records are "Black Cat Trail" and "I'll Never Walk in Your Door". [ 4 ]