Over the last 30 years, this region has produced some of the most important Piedmont-style country blues artists, notably the late John Jackson and the guitar-harmonica duos of John Cephas and Phil ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guitarist-baritone John Cephas and harmonicist-vocalist Phil Wiggins could create great music in their sleep. They’ll interpret the Piedmont tradition of country blues with originals and classics ...

For five years before his final illness in 1940, North Carolina`s Blind Boy Fuller was the most prolifically recorded of Piedmont (southeastern) blues artists. His voice was strong and hard and, as ...

A Hayti mural depicting bluesman John Dee Holeman and friends, painted by Emily Eve Weinstein and community volunteers. Photo by James Hill. John Locklear, who goes by the handle Lakota John, is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guitarist Mary Flower brings an array of musical offerings to the Mary Flower Concert at McCord Gallery & Cultural Center April 28. Flower’s unique vocals will be accompanied by her gifted play on ...