For the past 25 years guitarist John Cephas and harmonica player Phil Wiggins have performed the blues to audiences throughout the world. The Washington, D.C., duo's music is in the tradition of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The foremost Piedmont-style blues guitarist, John Cephas, of Bowling Green, Virginia, will play in this year's Folklife Festival, June 27 to July 1. He spoke with the magazine's David Zax. WHEN DID ...

lewisburg, w.va. – The Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo, ambassadors of Country Blues music, the Piedmont style of fingerpicking and roots percussion, will be the featured artist in the Carnegie Hall’s ...

BEFORE THAT, THOUGH, LET’S START WITH SOME GOOD NEWS. TIME TO WELCOME IN OUR FIRST LIVE GUEST OF THE MORNING. YEAH, LET’S DO IT. IT IS NORTH CAROLINA BLUES WEEK, THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION IS HOSTED BY ...

There’s a reason that J. Michael King and Joe Jones of the Catfish Po’ Boys are playing happy hour at Cribb’s Kitchen Thursday night. And that’s because they play, well, happy blues. Technically, the ...

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — Blues musician Willie Dixon once said, “The Blues are the roots, and other musics are the fruits. It’s better to keep the roots alive because it means better fruits from ...

For the past 25 years guitarist John Cephas and harmonica player Phil Wiggins have performed the blues to audiences throughout the world. The Washington, D.C., duo's music is in the tradition of the ...

A handful of field recordings of Etta Baker's music, released in the 1960s, were enough to influence many aspiring traditional guitarists, from Bob Dylan to Taj Mahal. But Baker wasn't paid for her ...