text:  You've worked so much in the Piedmont, Appalachia, southeastern U.S., and one of the great people you were able to both help in terms of her recording background but also bringing her forward is the late Etta Baker. Could you say a bit about Etta Baker? Man, Etta Baker is my goddess. When I was a kid in New Haven, one of my dad's records was instrumental music from the southern Appalachias, and that track on there made me just want to move to North Carolina.