And they've been performing old-style rural Piedmont blues together ever since.

The concert presents four of the top practitioners of regional guitar music, playing everything from Piedmont blues to country-style lap steel.

Although he only recorded a few tunes, Daniels plays an important role in the history of Piedmont blues.

Most Piedmont blues musicians came from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia.

In contrast to delta blues the Piedmont blues was influenced by white music.

Stark was known as the 'King of the Piedmont blues.'

"By then, the real Piedmont blues was pretty much gone," he stated.

Georgia's folk musical traditions include important contributions to the Piedmont blues, shape note singing and African American music.

They were known for playing Piedmont blues.

Both are considered excellent examples of his ragtime-based guitar style and are prototypes for the burgeoning Piedmont blues.