Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson continue to preview their upcoming collaborative album with a cover of pioneering guitarist and singer-songwriter Etta Baker’s “Marching Jaybird.” The track is set ...

Etta Baker, an influential blues guitarist who recorded with Taj Mahal and was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, has died at the age of 93. By Billboard Staff Etta Baker, an influential ...

Growing up, Etta Baker was among many secrets I didn’t know about the place where I lived: Morganton, North Carolina, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a town of textile mills and state ...

Etta Baker, 93, an influential blues guitarist who recorded with Taj Mahal and was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, died Sept. 23 at her daughter's home in Fairfax County. The cause of ...

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 ...

Etta Baker, an influential blues guitarist who recorded with Taj Mahal and was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, has died, her family said. She was 93. No cause of death was given, but ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. A handful of field recordings of Etta ...

On Railroad Bill, her first recording since 1956, Baker demonstrates a deft touch and flawless sense of time on a set of Piedmont instrumentals. An accomplished player and touring professional since ...

I didn’t come up in the rural mountains, but my mother did, and during our vacations we’d find ourselves in the forest-and-meadows paradise of Southern Vermont, where just about any social gathering ...

We've teamed up with Come Hear NC on a podcast series that explores North Carolina music one song at a time. This week executive director of the North Carolina Arts Council Wayne Martin talks with ...

October 5, 2006 • Legends Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys; Remembering Piedmont picker Etta Baker; Croatian mandolin player Miroslav Evacic; Winnipeg folk-pop singer Christine Fellows and more.