Fingerpicking
The Perfect Fingerpicking Guitar
A discussion of acoustic guitars most suited to fingerpicking. The attributes, guitar woods, and makers of fingerpicking guitars.
Blind Blake-Georgia Bound
In the song “Georgia Bound“, Blake is in fine form as he sings evocatively of the Eastern Seaboard region known as the Piedmont, where he was from, bringing out the sounds and rhythms of his youth, the real Piedmont blues he had learned as a kid.
Blind Blake-the Stevie Wonder of the 1920s
Blind Blake was an important American recording artist at the dawn of the recording industry.
Traveling to the north from the Piedmont region of the eastern seaboard, he recorded for Paramount Records, the premiere label marketing ‘country blues‘ music to black audiences in the late 1920s. Because he was one of the first widely heard players, [...]
What the Hell are the Piedmont Blues?
I had been playing fingerstyle blues for many years before I ever heard the term ‘piedmont blues.’
I had gravitated towards a group of players that included Blind Blake, the Reverend Gary Davis, and Brownie McGee, looking for songs that I felt comfortable singing, without knowing they were all from the same region. There’s certain [...]
Blind Boy Fuller — “Weeping Willow”
Here’s a really unique acoustic guitar blues by Blind Boy Fuller.
This is video is from the YouTube channel of ‘Ragtime Dorian Henry‘, who has taken over 1800 blues and ragtime recordings and made them into video soundtracks. You can listen to it all in playlists–an incredible educational resource for anyone interested in finding out [...]
