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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. — John Dee Holeman spent a lifetime working in tobacco and driving backhoes while occasionally moonlighting at house parties as a guitar-picking bluesman who played the Bull City style.