Guitarist/Vocalist John Cephas and harmonica wizard Phil Wiggins were the greatest living African-American proponents of Piedmont Style Country Blues before John’s death on the 4th of March. Before ...
John Cephas, a guitarist and singer who kept the Piedmont blues style alive as part of the duo Cephas and Wiggins, died on Wednesday at his home in Woodford, Va. He was 78. Less celebrated than the ...
To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” put the spotlight on the Mississippi Delta blues. But ...
John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of a fingerpicking regional acoustic blues style developed mainly in Virginia and the... John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of ...
John Cephas, 78, the blues singer and guitarist who preserved the folk blues traditions of southwestern Virginia's Piedmont region, died of a pulmonary embolism March 4 at his home in Woodford, Va., ...
JOHN CEPHAS & PHIL WIGGINS are both African-Americans musicians, born in Washington D.C. Since 1978, they've been an acoustic duo, featuring the East Coast 'Piedmont' style of blues, with John's ...
Page Wilson, on his "Out O' the Blue Radio Revue" tomorrow night from 8 to 10 on WCVE (88.9 FM), will re-air two segments of a solo concert by John Cephas, the legendary Piedmont bluesman who died ...
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