Editing Piedmont blues (section)

==Origins==
[[File:BuddyMossGreeneCountyConvictCamp.jpg|thumb|upright|"In the convict camp in Greene County, Georgia", 1941. [[Buddy Moss]] is playing guitar; other men unidentified.]]
The basis of the Piedmont style began with the older "frailing" or "framming" guitar styles that may have been universal throughout the South, and was also based, at least to some extent, on formal "parlor guitar" techniques as well as earlier banjo playing, [[string band]], and [[ragtime]]. What was particular to the Piedmont was that a generation of players adapted these older, ragtime-based techniques to blues in a singular and popular fashion, influenced by guitarists such as [[Blind Blake]] and [[Reverend Gary Davis|Gary Davis]].<ref>{{cite journal | last = Lowry | first = Pete | author-link = Peter B. Lowry | year = 1973 | title = Some Cold, Rainy Day: Part 5 – Robert and Charlie Hicks | journal = Blues Unlimited | issue = 103 | page = 15}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Lowry | first = Pete | year = 1972 | title = Some Cold, Rainy Day: Part 2 – Curley Weaver | journal = Blues Unlimited | issue = 99 | pages = 10–11}}</ref>