Check out the Archie Edwards Blues Foundation website. If you live near us in DC you can come to the Barbershop. Unfortunately John (Jackson) has just died and Archie died some time ago. But their influence lives in their proteges. I've lost my blue cliky notes, but heres the website below. http://www.acousticblues.com/

I'm only a dabbler in piedmont blues, but I have wound up in workshops a few times with John and Archie over the years. For these two men (IMHOP)I heard the influence of southern string bands, minstral show tunes, tin pan alley and, yes, plain old 'hillbilly' music in their blues.

Now if you live near the DC Area, you might want to look up Warner Williams and Jay Summermour. Guitar and Harmonica, blues in the piedmont style, IMHOP, but yet unheralded. Fortunato