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 ...

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 ...

MORGANTON, N.C. — 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 of ...

Farai Chideya pays tribute to the late blues guitarist Etta Baker, who died over the weekend in Virginia. The 93-year-old North Carolina native helped revive folk music, and quit her long-time job at ...

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At age 60, Etta Baker, quit the Morganton textile mill where she’d worked for 26 years to become a professional musician. Over the next 33 years, her style of Piedmont blues, a mix of clattery ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MORGANTON, N.C.- Etta Baker, an influential blues guitarist who recorded with Taj Mahal and was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, has died, her ...

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. Etta Baker, an influential blues ...

One of America's most influential guitarists has died. Etta Baker has been called one of the world's best blues guitarists. She grew up in a family that played blues hymns and rags. In a story ...