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Baker began playing guitar at the age of three. She was taught by her father, Boone Reid, a longtime player of the Piedmont blues on several instruments. He was her only musical instructor. She played both the 6-string and the 12-string acoustic guitar and the five-string banjo. Baker played the Piedmont blues for nearly ninety years.
1 de dic. de 2009 · Banjo by Etta Baker, released 01 December 2009 1. Playing the Banjo 2. Peace Behind the Bridge 3. Cripple Creek 4. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad 5. Daddy 6. West End Blues 7.
Etta Baker (31 de marzo de 1913 – 23 de septiembre de 2006) fue una guitarrista y cantante norteamericana de Piedmont blues, original de Carolina del Norte. Biografía. Nacida Etta Lucille Reid en Caldwell County, Carolina del Norte, descendía de afroamericanos, nativos americanos y emigrantes europeos. [1]
Her grandfather was a banjo player; her father played banjo and fiddle as well as guitar; her mother, harmonica and Jew's harp. Her sister Cora was also a superb instrumentalist, and many of her cousins played and sang. Etta met Lee Baker, a piano player, at a square dance after a "corn shucking."
23 de sept. de 2006 · A master guitarist in Piedmont blues, Etta Baker learned an Appalachian style of fingerpicking from her father Boone Reid, who she sometimes played with at local dances. Music was a big part of her life with several family members playing instruments from the banjo to the jaw harp.
Etta started playing festivals and concerts and in 1991 released her first album, One Dime Blues. Etta went on to record three more albums; the last one, an all banjo instrumental recording, was released posthumously.
15 de feb. de 2024 · Baker’s timeless “Carolina Breakdown” is featured in Music Maker’s new compendium Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology. Etta Baker passed away in 2006, but the beauty of her music is eternal.
