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 ...

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 ...

Legends Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys; Remembering Piedmont picker Etta Baker; Croatian mandolin player Miroslav Evacic; Winnipeg folk-pop singer Christine Fellows; Brooklyn acoustic rocker J.

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 ...

Etta Baker, 93, an influential blues guitarist who was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, died Saturday in Fairfax, Va., her family said. The cause of death was not announced, but she had ...

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 ...

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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 ...