Quick Q & A with Jon Shain
Jon Shain has developed and refined his own contemporary version of the Piedmont blues, a bouncy energetic style that developed in and around his adopted hometown of Durham, North Carolina and to which he was introduced while a history major at Duke University. After graduating in 1989, Jon decided to pursue a career in music and has been writing songs and honing his fingerstyle guitar playing skills ever since. A 2009 International Blues Challenge finalist, he tours regularly and will help close out the AcousticMusicScene.com showcase at this month’s Southeast Regional Folk Alliance (SERFA) Conference in Montreat, NC.
[To read Kathy Sands-Boehmer's Quck Q & A with Jon, click on the headline.]
Piedmont Blues Guitarist John Cephas, 1930-2009
“Bowling Green” John Cephas, one-half of the noted East Coast Piedmont-style blues duo Cephas and Wiggins, has died at age 78. His label, Alligator Records, reported that the guitarist and singer died of natural causes today at his home in Bowling Green, Virginia.
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