Guitar – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Clarence Greene, Sr.

Clarence Greene was a multi-instrumentalist and recording artist in the 1920s and early '30s, and...

Brothers Osey and Ernest Helton, a fiddler and guitarist, grew up in the mountains of...

Born Clarence Earl McCurry in Bristol, Tennessee, Tom Ashley, as he came to be called,...

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Chris Austin might never have gotten the attention he deserved for his...

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

Madison County has a well deserved reputation as a wellspring of musical talent, particularly as...

Multi-instrumentalist and teacher Jim Vipperman grew up in a musically rich family and community in...

Perhaps the most influential banjo player of the past century, Earl Scruggs was known as...

As a small child, Colby Laney learned to play the fiddle, influenced by his father...

Guitar player and singer Ray Lipford lives in the Ferguson community of Wilkes County, on...

"Good harmony singing is what makes the bluegrass sound for me," says bluegrass bass and...

Widely respected as a musician, Jerry Sutton is in the middle generation of a multigenerational...