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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Cephas, legendary Piedmont Blues guitar player, is being honored as one of eight black trailblazers as designated by the Library of Virginia's African American History Month. The celebration ...

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 ...

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 ...