Etta Baker

Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina.
She was born Etta Lucille Reid in Caldwell County, North Carolina, of African-American, Native American, and European-American heritage. Baker began playing guitar at the age of three. Etta Baker, Blues Guitarist Season 1000|url=https://video.unctv.org/video/our-state-etta-baker-blues-guitarist/|language=en|access-date=2020-10-16|archive-date=October 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018193458/https://video.unctv.org/video/our-state-etta-baker-blues-guitarist/|url-status=dead}} She was taught by her father, Boone Reid, a longtime player of the Piedmont blues on several instruments. He... meer