Piedmont Blues Playlist

Piedmont Blues — Piedmont blues refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others.

🔒 The top 10 are this genre's must-play anthems — the biggest hits no DJ leaves out — so they stay pinned. Tap 🔀 and everything from #11 down refreshes into a fresh mix (from a pool of 176).

1. Stagolee — Rory Block
2. Key to the Highway — Cephas and Wiggins
3. Searching the Desert for the Blues — Blind Willie McTell
4. Richmond Blues — Cephas and Wiggins
5. Crow Jane — Cephas and Wiggins
6. Step It Up and Go — Cephas and Wiggins
7. Hesitation Blues — Reverend Gary Davis
8. Bowling Green Strut — Cephas & Wiggins
9. Freight Train — Elizabeth Cotten
10. Deep River Blues — Doc Watson
11. Sittin On Top Of The World — Doc Watson
12. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor — Mississippi John Hurt
13. Truckin' My Blues Away — Blind Boy Fuller
14. Washington Blues — Elizabeth Cotten
15. Goin Down That Road Feelin´ Bad — Eric Bibb
16. Railroad Bill — Etta Baker
17. Funeral Song for Mississippi John Hurt — John Fahey
18. I'm Satisfied — Mississippi John Hurt
19. Kill It Kid — Blind Willie McTell
20. I'm Drunk — The Roaring Rag Beastie
21. Alternative Bells — Federico Amoroso
22. Monday Morning Blues — Mississippi John Hurt
23. Last Dime Blues — Blind Willie McTell
24. Long Winded Woman — Jontavious Willis
25. Going Down This Road — Algia Mae Hinton
26. John Henry — Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
27. Hey Bartender, There's a Big Bug in My Beer — Warner Williams
28. Crow Jane — Rory Block
29. Trouble in Mind — Hans Theessink
30. Sitting On Top Of The World — Hart Valley Drifters
31. Stagger Lee — Eric Bibb
32. Goodnight Irene — Mississippi John Hurt
33. One Dime Blues — Etta Baker
34. Motherless Child Blues — Jerron Paxton
35. Sitting on Top of the World — Doc Watson
36. Girl Dressed in Green — John Tinsley
37. Railroad Bill — John Jackson
38. Luxurious Man — Jontavious Willis
39. Stack O'Lee — Mickey Baker
40. One Dime — Boo Hanks
41. Vestapol — Rory Block
42. I'm Broke and I'm Hungry — Smoky Babe
43. Columbus GA Blues — Jontavious Willis
44. Too Tight Blues — Blind Blake
45. See What You Done Done — Baby Tate
46. Going up to the Country — Turner Foddrell
47. I Ain't Sleeping Alone — The Damned and Dirty
48. Jamestown Exhibition — Bayless Rose
49. Stagger Lee — Taj Mahal
50. East St. Louis — Blind Willie McTell
51. You Got the Pocket Book, I Got the Key — Rory Block
52. Freight Train — Joan Baez
53. Pretty Baby Don't Be Late — Nathan James
54. I'm going to dig myself a hole — John Dee Holeman
55. When You Kill the Chicken Save Me the Head — Algia Mae Hinton
56. The Road is Rough and Rocky — Archie Edwards
57. Karo Street Blues — James Lowry
58. Amazing Grace — Tim Sparks
59. Step It up and Go — John Jackson
60. Carolina Breakdown — Etta Baker
61. Greasy Greens — Pink Anderson
62. Pick a Bale of Cotton — Sonny Terry
63. Hesitation Blues — Ben Prestage
64. Stackolee — Jesse Fuller
65. You Don't Know My Mind — Pink Anderson
66. It Ain't Hard To Tell — the California Honeydrops
67. Too Many Women — Smoky Babe
68. How Long — Frank Stokes
69. We All Need More Kindness In This World — Guy Davis
70. Cross And Evil Woman Blues — Rev. Blind Gary Davis
71. Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind — Blind Boy Fuller
72. I Got a Woman — Marvin Foddrell
73. Black Dog Blues — Bayless Rose
74. Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me — Rick Franklin & Tom Mindte
75. Get Your Yas Yas Out — Blind Boy Fuller
76. Step It Up And Go — Warner Williams
77. Wayang Kulit: Introduction to the Ramayana — Ida Bagus Ngurah
78. Diggin' My Potatoes — Smoky Babe
79. Stackolee — Doc Watson
80. Spoon 'n Guitar Rag — Nathan James & Ben Hernandez
81. In My Neighborhood — Michael Roach
82. Railroad Bill — Harvey Reid
83. Let's Get Drunk Again — Sam Chatmon
84. When the Levee Breaks — Memphis Minnie
85. My Woman's Favorite Dog — Pokey Lafarge
86. Freight Train — Brownie McGhee
87. Log Cabin Blues — Blind Boy Fuller
88. Dry Bone Shuffle — Blind Blake
89. Rabbit Stomp — Rabbit Muse
90. Judge Harsh Blues (Alternate Take) — Furry Lewis
91. Railroad Bill — Shelton Kotton Powe Jr
92. Goin' Down the Road — Femi Precious
93. Midnight Special — Sonny Terry
94. Death Don't Have No Merc — Reverend Gary Davis
95. Sweet Home Chicago — John Dee Holeman
96. You Don't Have to Go — Algia Mae Hinton
97. Nobody’s Business (If I Do) — John Jackson
98. Lovin' Spoonful — Reverend Gary Davis
99. Freight Train Blues — Brownie McGhee
100. Crow Jane — Etta Baker

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