Music Maker (label)
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Music Maker Relief Foundation is an American
non-profit
record label
, based in Hillsborough, North Carolina
. Music Maker Relief Foundation was founded in 1994 by Tim and Denise Duffy to "help the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern music gain recognition and meet their day to day needs. [Music Maker] presents these musical traditions to the world so American culture will flourish and be preserved for future generations."
In 1989, while completing his studies for a master's degree in Folklore
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
, Tim Duffy was documenting blues
musician
James "Guitar Slim" Stephens for the university's Southern Folklife Collection. Stephens' health was in decline, and shortly before his death, he advised Duffy to locate a musician named Guitar Gabriel
. After his graduation, Duffy began working as a substitute teacher at a middle school in Winston-Salem
, hearing an assortment of folkloric tales about Guitar Gabriel
from students, until one student volunteered that Gabriel was her neighbor, living in the government housing projects
of Winston-Salem
. That evening, Duffy followed the student's directions to a "drink house" in the neighborhood, where he met Gabriel's nephew, Hawkeye, who took him to meet Gabriel. Duffy forged a close friendship with Gabriel, and the two began recording and performing under the name Guitar Gabriel & Brothers in the Kitchen, releasing the album "Do You Know What it Means to Have a Friend?" (also known as "Toot Blues") on their own Karibu label in 1991. Gabriel, who had long been inactive in the music industry since the 1970 release of his album "My South, My Blues" (as Nyles Jones) on the Gemini label (for which he received no royalties), had become impoverished. During this time, Gabriel required almost daily assistance from Duffy, who provided transportation to medical appointments, monetary assistance, and food for Gabriel and his wife. Through Gabriel, Tim and Denise Duffy were introduced to, and made extensive field recordings of many other area blues musicians, such as Captain Luke, Macavine Hayes, Mr. Q., and Willa Mae Buckner, all of whom were living in poor conditions, and who were in need of regular assistance in order to preserve this culture, which Duffy saw quickly slipping by the notice of the music industry, as a whole.
During this time, Tim's father, Allen Duffy, a lawyer, had represented and won a legal victory for audio pioneer Mark Levinson
, allowing him to continue working in the hi-fi
industry. Levinson heard about Tim Duffy's field recordings, some reminiscent of the work of John
and Alan Lomax
, and invited Duffy to visit his stereo showroom in New York. After hearing the recordings, as well as the stories of the many destitute musicians, Levinson offered to remaster the tapes, which became an eight-artist CD anthology of traditional North Carolina blues entitled, "A Living Past". Levinson became a crusader for the cause, and solicited funds and industry connections from his friends and colleagues, which, in 1994, resulted in the incorporation of the Music Maker Relief Foundation
.
in a Manhattan
bistro, sharing some of his field recordings, as well as the philosophy and goals of the foundation, after which Clapton became a major supporter, introducing and opening the door to artists such as B.B. King, Pete Townshend
, Bonnie Raitt
, Ron Wood
, Lou Reed
and Rosanne Cash
, all of whom have donated to the Music Maker Relief Foundation. Duffy would later be invited to to the Los Angeles
Studio where B.B. King's album, Deuces Wild
, was being recorded, and where he would meet Taj Mahal
, who would take an active role in the foundation's growth and success.
By 1996, after receiving several sizable donations, Music Maker Relief Foundation had established the Musician Sustenance, Musical Development, and Cultural Access Programs, which provide food, monetary assistance, transportation to doctor's appointments and to pick up medications, home repairs (in some cases, extremely poor living conditions have warranted the relocation of the musician) performance bookings in professional venues, such as the Lincoln Center
and Carnegie Hall
, as well as European tours and music festivals
worldwide. The success of which is due, in large part, to Taj Mahal
, who by 1997 had become deeply involved in the workings of the foundation as an advisory board member, artistic consultant, contributor and co-producer to many of the artists' records. Taj Mahal headlined Blues festivals in support of Music Maker, was instrumental in securing major advertising in mainstream print media, as well as the creation of the "Fishin' Blues Tournament", which acts as a fundraiser
for the foundation. Over the next several years, many new donors and contributors would become involved, allowing Duffy to expand the roster of the label, and to release over one hundred albums, the proceeds of which the artists keep, in their entirety. Many of the label's artists have been documented in the collaborative work of artists Harvey Pekar
and Gary Dumm
, who have contributed artwork since 2003, and whose work was featured in a 2010 calendar, created as a fundraiser for Music Maker Relief Foundation.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
non-profit
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
, based in Hillsborough, North Carolina
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Hillsborough is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 5,653 at the 2008 census. It is the county seat of Orange County....
. Music Maker Relief Foundation was founded in 1994 by Tim and Denise Duffy to "help the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern music gain recognition and meet their day to day needs. [Music Maker] presents these musical traditions to the world so American culture will flourish and be preserved for future generations."
Early Years
In 1989, while completing his studies for a master's degree in Folklore
Folklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
, Tim Duffy was documenting blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
James "Guitar Slim" Stephens for the university's Southern Folklife Collection. Stephens' health was in decline, and shortly before his death, he advised Duffy to locate a musician named Guitar Gabriel
Guitar Gabriel
Robert Lewis Jones , known as both Guitar Gabriel and Nyles Jones, was an American blues Musician. Gabriel's unique style of guitar playing, which he referred to as "Toot Blues", combined Piedmont, Chicago, and Texas blues, as well as gospel, and was influenced by artists such as Blind Boy Fuller...
. After his graduation, Duffy began working as a substitute teacher at a middle school in Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...
, hearing an assortment of folkloric tales about Guitar Gabriel
Guitar Gabriel
Robert Lewis Jones , known as both Guitar Gabriel and Nyles Jones, was an American blues Musician. Gabriel's unique style of guitar playing, which he referred to as "Toot Blues", combined Piedmont, Chicago, and Texas blues, as well as gospel, and was influenced by artists such as Blind Boy Fuller...
from students, until one student volunteered that Gabriel was her neighbor, living in the government housing projects
Public housing
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the...
of Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...
. That evening, Duffy followed the student's directions to a "drink house" in the neighborhood, where he met Gabriel's nephew, Hawkeye, who took him to meet Gabriel. Duffy forged a close friendship with Gabriel, and the two began recording and performing under the name Guitar Gabriel & Brothers in the Kitchen, releasing the album "Do You Know What it Means to Have a Friend?" (also known as "Toot Blues") on their own Karibu label in 1991. Gabriel, who had long been inactive in the music industry since the 1970 release of his album "My South, My Blues" (as Nyles Jones) on the Gemini label (for which he received no royalties), had become impoverished. During this time, Gabriel required almost daily assistance from Duffy, who provided transportation to medical appointments, monetary assistance, and food for Gabriel and his wife. Through Gabriel, Tim and Denise Duffy were introduced to, and made extensive field recordings of many other area blues musicians, such as Captain Luke, Macavine Hayes, Mr. Q., and Willa Mae Buckner, all of whom were living in poor conditions, and who were in need of regular assistance in order to preserve this culture, which Duffy saw quickly slipping by the notice of the music industry, as a whole.
During this time, Tim's father, Allen Duffy, a lawyer, had represented and won a legal victory for audio pioneer Mark Levinson
Mark Levinson
The company Mark Levinson, now owned by Madrigal Audio Laboratories specializes in high-end digital audio processors, integrated amplifiers, power amplifiers, pre amplifiers, and CD players...
, allowing him to continue working in the hi-fi
High fidelity
High fidelity—or hi-fi—reproduction is a term used by home stereo listeners and home audio enthusiasts to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound or images, to distinguish it from the poorer quality sound produced by inexpensive audio equipment...
industry. Levinson heard about Tim Duffy's field recordings, some reminiscent of the work of John
John Lomax
John Avery Lomax was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs...
and Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
, and invited Duffy to visit his stereo showroom in New York. After hearing the recordings, as well as the stories of the many destitute musicians, Levinson offered to remaster the tapes, which became an eight-artist CD anthology of traditional North Carolina blues entitled, "A Living Past". Levinson became a crusader for the cause, and solicited funds and industry connections from his friends and colleagues, which, in 1994, resulted in the incorporation of the Music Maker Relief Foundation
Music Maker (label)
Music Maker Relief Foundation is an American non-profit record label, based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Music Maker Relief Foundation was founded in 1994 by Tim and Denise Duffy to "help the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern music gain recognition and meet their day to day needs...
.
1995-Present
In 1995, Tim Duffy met Eric ClaptonEric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
in a Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
bistro, sharing some of his field recordings, as well as the philosophy and goals of the foundation, after which Clapton became a major supporter, introducing and opening the door to artists such as B.B. King, Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...
, Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
, Ron Wood
Ron Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and current member of The Rolling Stones. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar....
, Lou Reed
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
and Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin....
, all of whom have donated to the Music Maker Relief Foundation. Duffy would later be invited to to the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
Studio where B.B. King's album, Deuces Wild
Deuces Wild (album)
Deuces Wild is a celebrity duet album by B. B. King, released on November 4, 1997.- Track listing :#"If You Love Me" - 5:48#"The Thrill Is Gone" - 5:00#"Rock Me Baby" - 6:38...
, was being recorded, and where he would meet Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
, who would take an active role in the foundation's growth and success.
By 1996, after receiving several sizable donations, Music Maker Relief Foundation had established the Musician Sustenance, Musical Development, and Cultural Access Programs, which provide food, monetary assistance, transportation to doctor's appointments and to pick up medications, home repairs (in some cases, extremely poor living conditions have warranted the relocation of the musician) performance bookings in professional venues, such as the Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
and Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, as well as European tours and music festivals
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
worldwide. The success of which is due, in large part, to Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
, who by 1997 had become deeply involved in the workings of the foundation as an advisory board member, artistic consultant, contributor and co-producer to many of the artists' records. Taj Mahal headlined Blues festivals in support of Music Maker, was instrumental in securing major advertising in mainstream print media, as well as the creation of the "Fishin' Blues Tournament", which acts as a fundraiser
Fundraiser
A fundraiser is an event or campaign whose primary purpose is to raise money for a cause. See also: fundraising. A fundraiser can also be an individual or company whose primary job is to raise money for a specific charity or non-profit organization...
for the foundation. Over the next several years, many new donors and contributors would become involved, allowing Duffy to expand the roster of the label, and to release over one hundred albums, the proceeds of which the artists keep, in their entirety. Many of the label's artists have been documented in the collaborative work of artists Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar
Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.Pekar described American Splendor as "an...
and Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm
Gary Dumm is an Ohio-based comic book artist known particularly for his work illustrating the comics of Harvey Pekar. From 1977 until Pekar's 2010 death, he worked on Pekar's autobiographical comic series, American Splendor, where he appeared alongside such notable comics artists as Robert Crumb,...
, who have contributed artwork since 2003, and whose work was featured in a 2010 calendar, created as a fundraiser for Music Maker Relief Foundation.
Artists
- Little Pink Anderson
- Harvey Arnold
- Etta BakerEtta BakerEtta Baker was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina, United States.-Biography:...
- Robert BelfourRobert BelfourRobert "Wolfman" Belfour is an American blues musician. His father, Grant Belfour taught him the guitar at a young age and he continued his tutelage in the blues from musicians Otha Turner, R. L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough. Kimbrough, in particular, had a profound influence on him...
- Adolphus Bell
- The Branchettes
- Skeeter Brandon
- Essie Mae Brooks
- Tommy BrownTommy Brown (singer)Tommy Brown is an American R&B singer, who achieved most success in the early 1950s, particularly on records with The Griffin Brothers....
- Cora Mae Bryant
- Precious BryantPrecious BryantPrecious Bryant is an American country blues, gospel, and folk musician. She plays Piedmont fingerstyle guitar....
- Willa Mae Buckner
- Randy Burns
- Dr. G. B. Burt
- Lil' Joe Burton
- David Butler
- Carolina Chocolate DropsCarolina Chocolate DropsThe Carolina Chocolate Drops is an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina, United States. Its 2010 album, Genuine Negro Jig, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, and was number 9 in FRoots magazine's top 10 albums of 2010.The Drops are one...
- Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen
- Robert Lee Coleman
- George Conner
- George Daniels
- James Davis
- Ardie Dean
- Ernie K-DoeErnie K-DoeErnie K-Doe , born Ernest Kador, Jr., was an African American rhythm and blues singer best known for his 1961 hit single "Mother-in-Law" which went to #1 on the Billboard pop chart in the U.S.-Early career:...
- Drink SmallDrink SmallDrink Small is an African American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is known as the 'Blues Doctor', and has been influenced by gospel and country music and Blind Boy Fuller.-Biography:...
- Paul Duffy
- Mr. Frank Edwards
- Pura FéPura FéPura Fé is a singer-songwriter, poet, musician, artist and social activist. She founded the first native women's a cappella trio, Ulali, and created a style and genre that blends traditional Native American music with contemporary musical styles...
- Cool John Ferguson
- Dom Flemons
- Benton Flippen
- Cora Fluker
- Preston Fulp
- Guitar GabrielGuitar GabrielRobert Lewis Jones , known as both Guitar Gabriel and Nyles Jones, was an American blues Musician. Gabriel's unique style of guitar playing, which he referred to as "Toot Blues", combined Piedmont, Chicago, and Texas blues, as well as gospel, and was influenced by artists such as Blind Boy Fuller...
- Lee Gates
- Elder James Goins
- Boo Hanks
- Macavine Hayes
- Big Boy Henry
- George Higgs
- Algia Mae Hinton
- Carl Hodges
- John Dee HolemanJohn Dee HolemanJohn Dee Holeman is an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His music includes elements of Texas blues, R&B and jazz. In his younger days he was also known for his proficiency as a 'buckdancer'.-Biography:...
- Ron Hunter
- Ironing Board Sam
- David Johnson
- Elder Anderson Johnson
- Todd Jones
- Kever's Long House Singers
- Little Freddie King
- Pernell King
- Sonny Boy King
- Willie King
- Clyde Langford
- Guitar Lightnin' Lee
- Lucille Lindsay
- Captain Luke
- Bishop Dready Manning
- Marie Manning
- William Maxwell
- Jerry "Boogie" McCainJerry McCainJerry McCain, often billed as Jerry "Boogie" McCain , is an American electric blues musician, best known as a harmonica player. One of five children of a poor family, many of his siblings became involved in music as well, most notably his brother, Walter, who played drums on some early recordings...
- Dave McGrew
- Rufus McKenzie
- Nora Milner
- W.C. Minger IV
- Mudcat
- Music Maker Blues Revue
- Chicago Bob Nelson
- Bubba Norwood
- Jack Owens
- Neal PattmanNeal PattmanNeal Pattman was an American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. Sometimes billed as Big Daddy Pattman, he is best known for his self-penned tracks, "Prison Blues" and "Goin' Back To Georgia"...
- Pinetop PerkinsPinetop PerkinsJoseph William Perkins , known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues musician, specializing in piano music...
- Eugene Powell
- Abe Reid
- Jahue Rorie
- Carl Rutherford
- Cueselle Settle (Mr. Q.)
- Larry Shores
- Patrick & Cathy Sky
- Slewfoot
- Alabama Slim
- Albert Smith
- Sol
- Cootie StarkCootie StarkCootie Stark was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His best remembered recordings were "Metal Bottoms" and "Sandyland." Stark was known as the 'King of the Piedmont blues.'-Biography:...
- James "Guitar Slim" Stephens
- Samuel Turner Stevens
- Sweet Betty
- Robert Thomas
- Eddie Tigner
- Reverend Perry Tillis
- Othar TurnerOthar TurnerOthar "Otha" Turner was one of the last well-known fife players in the vanishing American fife and drum blues tradition...
- Tad Walters
- J. W. Warren
- Beverly Watkins
- Lightnin' Wells
- Pete Whicher
- Whistlin' Britches
- Albert White
- Pat Wilder
- Ernie Williams
Albums
- 1977 : This Stuff Just Kills Me by Jerry McCainJerry McCainJerry McCain, often billed as Jerry "Boogie" McCain , is an American electric blues musician, best known as a harmonica player. One of five children of a poor family, many of his siblings became involved in music as well, most notably his brother, Walter, who played drums on some early recordings...
with John PrimerJohn PrimerJohn Primer is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and guitarist.-Biography:He played guitar at Theresa's, a club in Chicago, between 1974 and 1980. He was influenced by Muddy Waters' former sideman, Sammy Lawhorn, who taught him to play slide guitar...
and Johnnie JohnsonJohnnie Johnson (musician)Johnnie Johnson was an American pianist and blues musician. His work with Chuck Berry led to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.-Career:... - 1999 : Railroad Bill by Etta BakerEtta BakerEtta Baker was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina, United States.-Biography:...
- 2001 : Unplugged by Jerry McCainJerry McCainJerry McCain, often billed as Jerry "Boogie" McCain , is an American electric blues musician, best known as a harmonica player. One of five children of a poor family, many of his siblings became involved in music as well, most notably his brother, Walter, who played drums on some early recordings...
- 2002 : Songs from the Roots of America ( I & II )
- 2003 : Guitar Heaven by Cool John Ferguson (MM34)
- 2003 : Boogie is My Name by Jerry McCainJerry McCainJerry McCain, often billed as Jerry "Boogie" McCain , is an American electric blues musician, best known as a harmonica player. One of five children of a poor family, many of his siblings became involved in music as well, most notably his brother, Walter, who played drums on some early recordings...
(MM34) - 2004 : High Steppin' Momma by Clyde Langford (MM45)
- 2004 : Follow Your Heart's Desire by Pura FéPura FéPura Fé is a singer-songwriter, poet, musician, artist and social activist. She founded the first native women's a cappella trio, Ulali, and created a style and genre that blends traditional Native American music with contemporary musical styles...
(MM48) - 2004 : Musicmakers with Taj MahalTaj Mahal (musician)Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
(MM49) - 2004 : Etta BakerEtta BakerEtta Baker was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina, United States.-Biography:...
with Taj MahalTaj Mahal (musician)Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
(MM50) - 2005 : The Last & Lost Blues Survivors (Dixiefrog)
- 2005 : Drinkhouse by Macavine Hayes (MM53)
- 2005 : Carolina Breakdown by Etta BakerEtta BakerEtta Baker was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina, United States.-Biography:...
with Cora Phillips (MM56) - 2005 : One Man Band by Adolphus Bell (MM58)
- 2006 : Treasure Box (MM61-62-63)
- 2006 : John Dee HolemanJohn Dee HolemanJohn Dee Holeman is an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His music includes elements of Texas blues, R&B and jazz. In his younger days he was also known for his proficiency as a 'buckdancer'.-Biography:...
& The WaifsThe WaifsThe Waifs are an Australian folk rock band formed in 1992 by Josh Cunningham , and sisters Vikki Thorn and Donna Simpson...
Band (MM68) - 2006 : Drink House to Church House Vol.1 (diff. Dixiefrog) with a DVD with John Dee HolemanJohn Dee HolemanJohn Dee Holeman is an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His music includes elements of Texas blues, R&B and jazz. In his younger days he was also known for his proficiency as a 'buckdancer'.-Biography:...
, Captain Luke, Cool John Ferguson, Macavine Hayes, Alabama SlimRalph Willis (blues musician)Ralph Willis was an American Piedmont and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Some of his Savoy records were released under pseudonyms, such as Alabama Slim, Washboard Pete and Sleepy Joe.-Biography:...
and others - 2006 : Rainy Day by George Higgs (MM77)
- 2007 : Back in Business by Beverly Watkins
Compilations
- A Living Past MMCD 9401 (1994)
- Came So Far MMCD 1294
- Expressin' the Blues MMKCD 701 (1999)
- Blues Came to Georgia MMCD 23 (2001)
- Sol - Volume: blue MMCD 25
- Songs from the Roots of America (Book w/ CD) (2002)
- Songs from the Roots of America II MMCD 28 (2002)
- Music Makers with Taj MahalTaj Mahal (musician)Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
(2005) - Music Maker Treasure Box (2006)
- Blues Sweet Blues (2007)
- Drink House to Church House Vol. 1 (2007) CD/DVD
External links
- Official site
- http://www.ncarts.org/
- http://www.bluesweb.com/p_home.php3?id_rubrique=2