Name: The Rough Guide to Ragtime Blues
Brand: Various Artists

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CD-RGNET-1359

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-11-17

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Supplier US

Redeye

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Sales:8.875

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605633135923

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Artist

Various Artists

Genre US

Blues

Label US

World Music Network

Made famous by the legendary Scott Joplin, ragtime developed in African-American communities throughout the southern part of the Midwest during the last decade of the nineteenth century and had a profound influence on many early blues performers. Combining the structure of marches with African-American songs and dances such as the cakewalk, ragtime's syncopated or ragged rhythm was initially performed as dance music for the seedier side of society in areas where bars, dancehalls and brothels were located. Many blues guitarists attempted to reproduce the complicated piano sounds, as its faster rhythm created a more upbeat and lively feel, far removed from the typical intensity of early country blues. So, when ragtime went out of favour as jazz claimed the public's imagination, it had already entered the folk consciousness through the playing of blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller. Many of the featured artists hailed from the Eastern States where the influence of ragtime was instrumental in creating the unique and much loved Piedmont guitar style. Typically, the Piedmont guitarist would create an alternating rhythmic bass accompaniment by moving the thumb of the picking hand between the different bass strings of the guitar, whilst one or more fingers of the same hand would pick out the melody on the higher strings. Essentially this approach gives the impression that the guitar is being played like a piano. 

The Rough Guide to Ragtime Blues

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