Blues Guitar – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Lesley Riddle

Guitarist, Lesley Riddle, was born in Burnsville, NC, in 1905, and his association and collaboration...

Etta Baker was a master of the blues guitar style that became popular in the...

A resident of Buncombe County since 2000, Adam Tanner is a well known performer and...

Clyde "Pop" Ferguson was one of the last practitioners of traditional blues in the North...

"Surprisingly, most of my influences are harp players," says blues guitar player Rob Baskerville. "I...

Born in Caldwell County, Roger Hicks is a master finger-style guitar picker heavily influenced first...

David Holt is a four-time Grammy Award winner who has toured full-time as a folk...

Since her birth in McDowell County in 1955, Rhonda Gouge has lived in Mitchell County,...