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 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 ...

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 ...

John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of a fingerpicking regional acoustic blues style developed mainly in ...

Phil Wiggins, a blues harmonica virtuoso who embraced the jaunty Piedmont style and toured the world as part of a duo celebrating a distinctive musical form that was revived in clubs and impromptu ...

The Piedmont Blues, a Dec. 10 concert at Strathmore by jazzman Gerald Clayton and The Assembly, combines jazz, traditional buck dancing and photography in an homage to the blues and the African ...

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 ...

Where did The Rolling Stones get the title for their 1970 live album, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out? From Blind Boy Fuller’s 1938 single of the same name. Where did The Grateful Dead get the term “Truckin’”?

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 ...

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 ...