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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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
James Arthur "Boo" Hanks [2] (April 30, 1928 – April 15, 2016) [3] was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer. He was billed as the last of the Piedmont blues musicians. [4] Hanks recorded two albums in his lifetime, Pickin' Low Cotton (2007) and Buffalo Junction (2012), both released by the Music Maker record label. [5]
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]