East Coast Blues

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While the Mississippi Delta gave birth to guitar-based acoustic blues, in the area known as the Piedmont region – which stretches along the Atlantic seaboard from Virginia to Florida – a wide range of blues styles flourished, from the backwoods sound of the Appalachian foothills of Virginia to the more urbane sound of big cities such as Atlanta. The characteristic that these varying Piedmont styles have in common, distinguishing them from ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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