I've been loving listening to "Bowling Green John" Cephas (RIP) and "Harmonica Phil" Wiggins lately.

They were considered the masters of what is known as the Piedmont style of blues playing, which emphasizes double-thumbed bass patterns on fingerpicked guitar and a wider spectrum of vocal melodies than is typical of Mississippi delta blues styles.

What other blues traditions are there in the US besides Delta, Piedmont and "amplified" blues, which I understand to encompass Chicago, West-Coast, Texas and Kansas-City band-based, primarily electric styles.

Are there elements of blues that are prevalent in the music of minstrel, songster and other rural folk styles that are different than Delta-style music?

I've been playing the guitar and the harmonica for over 25 years now, and I can say that I am definitely NOT meant to be a classic amplified or electric blues player. That said, however, I am not from the Delta, so I don't naturally tend towards playing that guitar style either.

My biological family has roots in south Texas, and I can definitely see, even in my earliest song writing, a more corrido/ranchero guitar influence, and my harmonica playing has always been more influenced by accordion playing and even straight/folk harp style than it has by typical Chicago/amplified tone and style. I adopted that sort of thing for a while, but it's clear that my strengths are not there.

Curious to see if anyone living in the US has any experience with forms of blues that are particular to certain regions or cross-cultural influences.