Here's a little piano demonstration on a stride bass pattern, and how to achieve the stomping, "country blues" feel." You can hear this kind of piano playing all over the place, in both rural and urban blues pianists of the 20s and 30s. It can be referred to in many ways: country blues, a stomp, stride blues, or ragged blues. You can find examples from Alabama's Charlie Campbell or Mississippi's Harry Chatmon (younger brother of The Mississippi Sheiks family) as well as in brilliant hokum blues pianists like Georgia Tom and Black Bob. You can hear this piano sound on some of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell tunes , "Papa's On The House Top", for instance. Further examples can be found in hokum groups like The Blue Harmony Boys and Two Poor Boys.
Though this style of piano came out of the earlier ragtime tradition - with its stride bass and syncopation - it differs in a few key ways. Firstly, it is not made up of multiple strains or sections. Rather, it's a blues chorus, repeated with variations, from beginning to end. Secondly, unlike ragtime, the rhythm is swung, so you get more of a slow drag effect.
This style also differs from "Harlem Stride" and other traditional jazz stylings, in that it tends to be bluesier and less harmonically complex. It also employs more of a two beat feel, whereas most traditional jazz has a 4-beat pulse.
Check out "The Leinwand Stomp" to hear an example of this sound in action:
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