Baker, Etta, 1913-2006

LC control no.	no 97008316
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Baker, Etta, 1913-2006 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Reid, Etta, 1913-2006
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1913-03-31
Death date	2006-09-23
Place of birth	Collettsville (N.C.)
Place of death	Fairfax (Va.)
Affiliation	MerleFest John Henry Memorial Festival
Profession or occupation	Folk musicians Singers Blues musicians
Found in	Baker, E. One-dime blues [SR] p1991: label (Etta Baker) container (guitar, banjo, and vocal) insert (b. Etta Reid, 1913; married Lee Baker in 1936) Wikipedia WWW site, Sept. 25, 2006 (Etta Baker; b. Etta Lucille Reid, Mar. 31, 1913, Caldwell County, N.C.; d. Sept. 23, 2006, Fairfax, Va.; Piedmont blues guitarist and singer) African American National Biography, accessed June 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Baker, Etta; folk musician / singer, blues musician / singer, factory worker; born 31 March 1913 near Collettsville, North Carolina, United States; learned a guitar technique from her father, known as “Piedmont blues,” “East Coast blues,” and more accurately, “the Piedmont style”; 85 percent of her repertoire consisted of “reels,” was named for an ancient Scottish dance and defined primarily on the basis of its rapid tempo (at least 120 beats per minute); moved down the mountain to Morganton (1936); experimented with songs from outside the family tradition, for example Ray Charles's “But On the Other Hand, Baby” and “One Mint Julep”; the folksong revivalist Paul Clayton recorded her album “Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians”; became a semiprofessional musician (1967); played at festivals, including Wolf Trap, the 1982 Worlds' Fair, the John Henry Memorial Festival, and Merlefest; was awarded an National Endowment for the Arts National Folk Heritage Fellowship, officially declaring her an American national treasure (1991); died 23 September 2006 in Fairfax, Virginia, United States)