Barry Bays, DSU Guitar and Bass Instructor and Director of the DSU Blues Band, has performed and recorded with some of the top musicians in the world, including Shawn Lane, The Beat Daddys, Jimbo Mathus and the James Mathus Knockdown Society, Billy Branch, Sam Carr, Eugene Gales, Jeff Healey, James "T. Model" Ford, Johnny Neel, Kenny Brown, Willie Foster, John Mohead, multi-Grammy nominee Dorothy Moore (Misty Blue), Handy Award nominee Willie King, Handy Award winner Little Dave Thompson, St. Louis Blues artist Big George Brock, Rolling Stones/John Lennon/George Harrison/Sheryl Crow saxophonist Bobby Keys, Eric Clapton/J.J. Cale/Joe Cocker drummer Jimmy Karstein, Billy Gibson, Terry “Big T.” Williams, Blind Mississippi Morris, Albert King Award winner Daniel "Rev. Slick" Ballinger, Chicago Blues Diva Nora Jean Bruso, Sid Herring (The Gants), Greg Ruggiero, Cary Hudson, Boston’s Blues Poet/saxophonist Dick Lourie, John Horton & Mississippi Slim, Terry “Harmonica” Bean, and the Bluff City Backsliders. Guitar Player Magazine (January 2004) featured a lengthy interview with Barry and Swede bassist Jonas Hellborg detailing their personal and musical relationships with the late keyboard/guitar virtuoso Shawn Lane. Barry also appeared in a special double issue of Living Blues Magazine entitled “Mississippi Blues Today!” Barry, along with P. Renee Foster, contributed to Dr. Stephen A. King’s book Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control. Since its publication, professors at recognized Research I institutions, including the University of North Carolina and Yale University, have used the book in their undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition, a number of University libraries across the country have added the book to their respective collections. The book has received highly favorable reviews from noted ethnomusicologist Rob Bowman and the 2003 Reggae Festival Guide.