Etta Baker
USA
Born: 31 March 1913
Died: 23 September 2006
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Traditional Folk, Folk-Blues, Piedmont Blues, East Coast Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Field Recordings
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Guitarist Etta Baker quietly enjoyed one of the blues' most enduring careers, working in almost total obscurity and recording only on the rarest of occasions while honing her craft throughout the greater part of the 20th century. Born in Caldwell County, NC, on March 31, 1913, she was the product of a musical family, taking up the guitar as a child and learning from her father and other relatives traditional blues and folk songs. Over time, Baker emerged among the foremost practitioners of acoustic Piedmont guitar fingerpicking, an open-tuned s...
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