O ne of Virginia’s musical treasures is about to pay Hampton Roads a long-delayed visit. John Jackson – a singer and guitarist who plays Piedmont-style acoustic blues – is set to perform Nov. 26 at ...

John Jackson, 77, one of the last masters of the so-called Piedmont style of blues singing and guitar picking, who was recognized in 1986 as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for ...

Host David Holt talks to the talented array of artists who keeping f Piedmont Blues.alive. In the mid-1920s, a form of guitar music evolved from African-American culture that echoed the soul and ...

pocahontas county, w.va. – The Pocahontas County Opera House will continue its 25th season with a special performance by the Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. Valerie and Benedict Turner, ...

Etta Baker of Morganton, NC, was born in 1913 and began playing guitar at the age of 3. She was the premier female Piedmont blues guitar instrumentalist, playing the guitar everyday, and constantly ...

The Piedmont blues is among the musical styles they recorded. A handful of other researchers also made non-commercial field recordings of Black folk music in the Piedmont region in the 1920s and 1930s ...

Warner Williams, a Piedmont blues guitar master whose seemingly limitless repertoire spanned country music and pop standards, died Sept. 19 at a nursing home in Gaithersburg, Md. He was 91. The cause ...

North Carolina's Etta Baker, called the world's premiere Piedmont-style blues guitarist, has died at 93. Baker grew up in a family that was proficient in blues, hymns, and rags. She first gained ...

DURHAM, N.C. — John Dee Holeman spent a lifetime working in tobacco and driving backhoes while occasionally moonlighting at house parties as a guitar-picking bluesman who played the Bull City style.

MORGANTON, N.C. (AP) — Etta Baker, an influential blues guitarist who recorded with Taj Mahal and was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, died Sunday, her family said. She was 93. No cause ...