Author: JD Nash

JD Nash is the former host of Blues Influence on WREN radio and current editor-in-chief of American Blues Scene.

Valerie and Ben Turner, the husband and wife duo known as Piedmont Blūz, are true ambassadors of Country Blues music. More appropriately, the music of the Eastern United States known as Piedmont Blues. It is a finger-picking style of music based on ragtime type rhythms. Some of the originators of this style include Blind Blake and Rev Gary Davis. However, later artists have included Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, as well as Cephas & Wiggins. And even later Eric Bibb, Ry Cooder, and others have spread this art form throughout the country and the world. Arlo Guthrie famously used a…

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