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Blues Music: Piedmont Blues

Elizabeth Cotten playing banjo

Elizabeth Cotten, photo taken by Roland L. Freeman, Roland L. Freeman Photograph Collection (#70147), Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Suggested Subject Headings

“African Americans > Southern States > Music”

“Blues (Music) > North Carolina”

“Blues (Music) > North Carolina > Durham”

“Blues (Music) > Piedmont (U.S. : Region)”

“Blues (Music) > South Carolina”

“Blues (Music) > Southern States”

“Blues (Music) > Virginia”

“Blues musicians > North Carolina”

“Durham (N.C.) > Songs and music”

“Folk music > North Carolina”

“Guitar music (Blues) > North Carolina”

“Medicine shows”

“Old-time music > North Carolina”

“Old-time music > Virginia”

“Piano music (Blues)”

“Southern States > Songs and music”

“Women blues musicians”

Suggested Piedmont Blues Artists

"Anderson, Pink"

"Baker, Etta"

"Cotten, Elizabeth"

"Davis, Gary"

"Fuller, Blind Boy"

"Holeman, John Dee"

"Jackson, Arthur"

"McGhee, Brownie"

"Trice, Richard"