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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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
Rock music groups from North Carolina (3 C, 38 P) Pages in category "Musical groups from North Carolina" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.
Poole was born near the mill town of Franklinville, North Carolina. He was the son of John Philip Poole and Elizabeth Johnson. In 1918, he moved to the town of Spray, North Carolina, now part of Eden. As a child, he learned to play the banjo. [7] He played baseball, and his three-fingered technique was the result of an accident. [7]