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Show 6: The Piedmont Blues Tradition
This is the East Coast fingerpicking stream, where ragtime bounce and blues feeling work hand in hand. The show documents a style built on nimble guitar, clear singing, and a songster habit that never stayed inside one box.
38Tracks
31Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
This is the East Coast fingerpicking stream, where ragtime bounce and blues feeling work hand in hand. The show documents a style built on nimble guitar, clear singing, and a songster habit that never stayed inside one box.
Tracklist
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dying Crapshooters Blues | Blind Willie McTell | 1 | Story | |
| 2 | I Keep on Drinking | Blind Willie McTell,Curley Weaver | 1 | - | |
| 3 | You Was Born To Die | Curley Weaver | 1 | - | |
| 4 | Statesboro Blues | Blind Willie McTell | 1 | Story | |
| 5 | West Coast Blues | Blind Blake | 1 | - | |
| 6 | You Gonna Quit Me Blues | Blind Blake | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Truckin' My Blues Away | Blind Boy Fuller | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Rag, Mama, Rag | Blind Boy Fuller | 1 | - | |
| 9 | Baby, Let Me Lay It on You | Rev. Gary Davis | 1 | Yes | - |
| 10 | Samson And Delilah | Rev. Gary Davis | 2 | Yes | Story |
| 11 | I'm Going To Dig Myself A Hole | John Dee Holeman | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor | Mississippi John Hurt | 2 | - | |
| 13 | Ride To a Funeral In A V8 | Dan Pickett | 2 | - | |
| 14 | Blood Red River Blues | Josh White | 2 | - | |
| 15 | Going down the road feeling bad | Elizabeth Cotten | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Kokomo Blues | Scrapper Blackwell | 2 | - | |
| 17 | Broke and Hungry Blues | Peg Leg Howell | 2 | - | |
| 18 | You Can't Keep No Brown | Bo Weavil Jackson | 2 | Yes | - |
| 19 | Motherless Chile Blues | Barbecue Bob | 3 | Yes | Story |
| 20 | Your Hard Head Will Bring You Some Sorrow Some Day | Buddy Moss | 3 | - | |
| 21 | Chapel Hill Boogie | John Dee Holeman | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Church Bells Blues | Luke Jordan | 3 | - | |
| 23 | South Bound Blues | Kid Prince Moore | 3 | - | |
| 24 | Lizzie Lou | Doug Quattlebaum | 3 | - | |
| 25 | See What You Done Done | Baby Tate | 3 | - | |
| 26 | Rocks and Gravel | John Jackson | 3 | - | |
| 27 | Walk On | Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee | 3 | - | |
| 28 | Good Morning Blues | Brownie McGhee | 3 | Yes | - |
| 29 | Goodbye Blues | Ralph Willis,Brownie McGhee | 4 | Yes | - |
| 30 | Key to the Highway | Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee | 4 | - | |
| 31 | Dupree Blues | Willie Walker | 4 | - | |
| 35 | Sitting on Top of the World | Doc Watson | 4 | - | |
| 36 | San Francisco Bay Blues | Jesse Fuller | 4 | Story | |
| Barbecue Blues | Barbecue Bob | - | |||
| Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me | Rick Franklin & Tom Mindte | - | |||
| Rabbit Stomp | Rabbit Muse | - | |||
| South Carolina Rag (Take 2) | Willie Walker | - | |||
| When the Levee Breaks | Memphis Minnie | Story |