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 ...

Guitarist-baritone John Cephas and harmonicist-vocalist Phil Wiggins could create great music in their sleep. They’ll interpret the Piedmont tradition of country blues with originals and classics ...

BEFORE THAT, THOUGH, LET’S START WITH SOME GOOD NEWS. TIME TO WELCOME IN OUR FIRST LIVE GUEST OF THE MORNING. YEAH, LET’S DO IT. IT IS NORTH CAROLINA BLUES WEEK, THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION IS HOSTED BY ...

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — Blues musician Willie Dixon once said, “The Blues are the roots, and other musics are the fruits. It’s better to keep the roots alive because it means better fruits from ...

For the past 25 years guitarist John Cephas and harmonica player Phil Wiggins have performed the blues to audiences throughout the world. The Washington, D.C., duo's music is in the tradition of the ...

The foremost Piedmont-style blues guitarist, John Cephas, of Bowling Green, Virginia, will play in this year's Folklife Festival, June 27 to July 1. He spoke with the magazine's David Zax. WHEN DID ...

There’s a reason that J. Michael King and Joe Jones of the Catfish Po’ Boys are playing happy hour at Cribb’s Kitchen Thursday night. And that’s because they play, well, happy blues. Technically, the ...

Gerald Clayton admitted to not knowing much about Piedmont blues until Duke University commissioned him to create a multimedia performance to celebrate the rich cultural landscape of the region. But ...

lewisburg, w.va. – The Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo, ambassadors of Country Blues music, the Piedmont style of fingerpicking and roots percussion, will be the featured artist in the Carnegie Hall’s ...

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One of the United States’ most significant cultural exports is, without a doubt, the blues. Born of the unique pain inflicted upon black Americans, the blues taps into deep wells of spiritual and ...