List of Piedmont Blues Musicians - H

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• John Dee Holeman (born 1929, Orange County, North Carolina)
• Frank Hovington
• Peg Leg Howell – (March 5, 1888 – August 11, 1968) Born in Eatonton, Georgia as Joshua Barnes Howell, Howell was an amputee missing one leg who taught himself to play guitar and sing. He performed acoustic country blues in the Piedmont blues style, spending most of his career in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1926 or so until 1929 he recorded for Columbia Records, then fell off into obscurity shortly after (eventually losing his other leg to diabetes).
• Mississippi John Hurt