In Search of the Piedmont Blues
I generally go on learning quests. Something sparks my curiosity and I am off to learn whatever I can on some topic. Sometimes I’ll have multiple quests simultaneously, sometimes a topic gets dropped and picked up several times before I am done with it.
The past few months I have been cogitating on the history and development of the Piedmont blues. Why doesn’t it seem to have the same clout as some other blues such as Delta or Texas. Why didn’t it spawn and morph in a similar way that Delta lead to Chicago that lead to Rock?
There are a lot of ideas and writings about the birth of rock and roll. Ideas that include all kinds of sociological and political theories. Notions that may or may not have validity and relevance. It’s really easy to look back how some of these things happened but, to my mind, that does little to explain what happened to the Piedmont blues.
I have found a couple of web sites that may be interesting to explore. East Coast Piedmont Blues and the Piedmont blues entry at Wikipedia both seem to be worth looking at more closely.
That’s what I’m up to this morning…
–Tampa Blue
September 26, 2009
The past few months I have been cogitating on the history and development of the Piedmont blues. Why doesn’t it seem to have the same clout as some other blues such as Delta or Texas. Why didn’t it spawn and morph in a similar way that Delta lead to Chicago that lead to Rock?
There are a lot of ideas and writings about the birth of rock and roll. Ideas that include all kinds of sociological and political theories. Notions that may or may not have validity and relevance. It’s really easy to look back how some of these things happened but, to my mind, that does little to explain what happened to the Piedmont blues.
I have found a couple of web sites that may be interesting to explore. East Coast Piedmont Blues
