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Etta Baker

Note: For the African American civil rights activist, see Ella Baker.

Etta Baker (born Etta Lucille Reid in Caldwell County, North Carolina, March 31, 1913, died September 23, 2006 in Fairfax, Virginia) was a Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina, United States.

She was of African American, Native American, and European American heritage. She played both the 6-string and 12-string forms of the acoustic guitar, as well as the five-string banjo.

Baker received the Folk Heritage Award from the North Carolina Arts Council in 1989, the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship in 1991, and the North Carolina Award in 2003. Along with her sister, Cora Phillips, Baker received the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Folklore Award in 1982.[1]

Baker lived last in Morganton, North Carolina, and died on September 23, 2006 in Fairfax, Virginia at the age of 93, while visiting a daughter who had suffered a stroke.

• 1956 : Instrumental Music From the Southern Appalachians (1956, Tradition Records; reissued 1997)
• 1998 : The North Carolina Banjo Collection (various artists) (1998, Rounder)
• 1999 : Railroad Bill
• 2004 : Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (Music Maker 50)
• 2005 : Carolina Breakdown with Cora Phillips (Music Maker 56)
• 2006 : Knoxville Rag with Kenny Wayne Shepherd. CD Title: "10 Days Out- Blues From The Backroads" (also includes a DVD that shows Kenny & Etta playing guitar in her kitchen) Reprise Records, 2006. ISBN 0 9632-49294-2 0. www.tendaysout.net

• Etta Baker page from North Carolina Arts Council site
• Etta Baker page from North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources page

• Etta Baker obituary from The News & Observer
• Etta Baker obituary from The News & Observer
• Etta Baker slideshow from The News & Observer
• Etta Baker obituary
• Etta Baker obituary, from San Jose Mercury News
• Renowned Piedmont Blues Guitarist Etta Baker Dies at 93, from World Music Central

• Live recording of "One Dime Blues," performed by Etta Baker (track 7; recorded at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival and made available for public use by the State Archives of Florida)

• Etta Baker and Cora Phillips. Retrieved on 2006-06-17.

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