List of Piedmont Blues Musicians - C

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• Carolina Slim (Edward P. Harris) (August 22, 1923 – October 22, 1953)
• Cephas & Wiggins (John Cephas & Phil Wiggins)
• Cortelia Clark
• Jaybird Coleman – (May 20, 1896 – January 28, 1950) Born in Gainesville, Alabama, Coleman was a country blues harmonica player, guitarist and singer who performed early Piedmont blues and harmonica blues active most in the 1930s. His career fizzled out and he was left to perform as a street act in Alabama. Document Records has issued a compilation of all of his recordings.
• Elizabeth Cotten
• Floyd Council – (September 2, 1911 – May 9, 1976) Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was an American blues guitarist and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular throughout the southeastern region of the US in the 1930s. Floyd began his musical career on the streets of Chapel Hill in the 1920s, performing with two brothers, Leo and Thomas Strowd as "The Chapel Hillbillies". He recorded twice for ARC at sessions with Blind Boy Fuller in the mid-1930s.