We’re drawing the winner of the Blues Cruise on January 15th, 2014 in Music Maker’s Hillsborough office! There’s still time to enter to win, and all purchases go to support [...]
You may remember it as an iconic Christmas album, but Tim remembers it as a great meeting of musicians one Holiday season that led to a classic recording – one of Music Maker’s [...]
Cootie Stark was an incredible Piedmont blues singer and guitarist whose repertoire harkened back to his youth, when he learned his music from the legendary Baby Tate. Cootie was the only fellow [...]
Is everyone on your list taken care of? It’s time to take care of YOU! We’ve got the albums you’ll love, plus things like the Blues Cruise Raffle and Ironing Board Sam’s [...]
One thing that you can definitely say about Ironing Board Sam – he loves Christmas music, because he loves seeing people smile. The other night, while Aaron and Tim were busy with a tintype [...]
From 1991-94, Guitar Gabriel, Captain Luke, Macavine Hayes and I would spends days, upon weeks, upon months and years when we were not doing a show, going from drink house to drink house. [...]
Listen: “Big Stuff” I recall walking into the Music Maker offices in the Spring of 2010, sitting down at my desk and hearing loosely arranged acoustic guitar playing on the computer [...]
Last night was a very special and exciting moment here in our Music Maker Grotto. Earlier in the afternoon our partner Tom Ciaburri stopped by the office. He had just come back from two weeks in [...]
Listen: Christmas Medley As a Jewish boy, Christmas music always seemed to wag a finger at me. I hated the Santa Claus conspiracy and pitied my cousins for believing in such a fallacy. I still [...]
We’re excited to announce the debut album from Lakota John & Kin! Although Lakota John released a solo album two years ago, this is the family’s first as a group. Mama Tonya, Papa [...]
We know this is the biggest travel season of the year – and so, in the spirit of the season we continue with our series of posts reminiscing about our 20 year history of traveling to gigs [...]
Stumped about what to get your loved ones? New to Music Maker’s immense CD collection? The Gift Guide can help! We’ve chosen Music Maker favorites in a variety of categories, and [...]
We’re all set to be your Santa’s helpers – but in order to ensure your orders get to you in time for Christmas, please place your order no later than 5pm on December [...]
Music Maker has a special addition to our store this Holiday season – a silver pendant designed by Ironing Board Sam. Aaron wrote about how Sam designed the pendant, and why, as a lot of [...]
Thank you so much to everyone who has made an Annual Fund, purchased something in our store, or has just wished us well – the response to our Black Friday sale and #GivingTuesday was [...]
I came in the office one morning to find a very interesting drawing on my desk; it was scrawled on a piece of legal lined paper. An isosceles triangle encased in an egg-shaped oval; atop [...]
