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North Carolina Electric blues* [376] George Higgs: 1930 2013 North Carolina Electric blues* [377] Fruteland Jackson: 1953 Mississippi Electric blues* [377] Colin James: 1964 Canada Electric blues [378] Steve James: 1950 New York Acoustic blues [379] L.V. Johnson: 1946 U.S. Electric blues [380] Johnny "Yard Dog" Jones: 1941 Illinois Electric ...
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 ...
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]
1956 : Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians (Tradition Records; reissued 1997) 1991 : One-Dime Blues ; 1998 : The North Carolina Banjo Collection, various artists (Rounder) 1999 : Railroad Bill (Music Maker) 2004 : Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (Music Maker 50) 2005 : Carolina Breakdown, with Cora Phillips (Music Maker 56)
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 ...
In 1995, after years of performing on a semi-professional basis, Rutherford came to the attention of Music Maker. From them he received sustenance and emergency relief grants, and was given the opportunity to record an album. [2] Rutherford had been photographed by Music Maker playing a guitar in his lap in Pinnacle, North Carolina in 1998. [7]
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.