Geez, I love it....."a sportin' right hand"............What a great line.

Interesting thread.......I keep thinking about how a style could migrate and the speed at which it would and then how a particular playing (or singing) style picked up the more regional music and the inverse of that....regional music moving to an area with a particular playing style. Obviously the "delivery" method was important....In an earlier era the transportation was so much slower and the hearing took longer. You passed along songs and styles up and down the Mississippi far faster than you did through the Piedmont and the Appalachian mountains.......Obviously both are overshadowed and almost forgotten in a world of MP3's.

My point (if I have one) is that perhaps because of the slower movement of what was there in the Piedmont versus the relative "quickness" of what passed along the river may have led to lumping together two or three styles or "flavors" under one title...Piedmont Blues......where others of the same amount of variation were given their own pigeonholes, ie, Delta, Memphis......

Sorry Rolfy.....Don't mean to sidetrack the thread because it's a good one but I'm always a bit fascinated by what makes things change and our own often burning need to pigeonhole them.

Spaw