Listen: Let’s Talk It Over I happened to be in my car, stuck in rush hour traffic after a day’s work, when I first heard this wonderful song by Guitar Gabriel. My car’s manual transmission [...]
Tim Duffy and Aaron Greenhood will exhibit their Tin Type photography at the Skylight Gallery in Hillsborough, NC beginning March 28th. The exhibit will launch with an opening event on March 28th [...]
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins was born in 1940 in Atlanta, Georgia. She began a lifelong love of music at the age of eight, when her aunt gave her a guitar; the very first song she learned to play was [...]
Algia Mae Hinton was born on August 29, 1929 in Johnston County, North Carolina. Her parents, Alexander and Ollie O’Neal, were farmers who raised tobacco, cotton, cucumbers and sweet potatoes. [...]
March is Women’s History Month, and we’re spotlighting women in roots and blues on our blog for the next several weeks. This week we’ve written about Etta Baker, legendary [...]
Listen: Lima Beans We’ve been working to spotlight women in blues and roots on our blog this month, and that has us digging further into the albums from our female artists. Algia Mae Hinton, a [...]
Don’t miss this wonderful show with the students from Berklee School of Music and John Dee Holeman! Friday, March 21st Free! Show begins 9pm Mystery Brewing Public House 230 [...]
This month, Women’s History Month, Music Maker is shining a light on women in Roots music. Etta Baker’s legacy will live on indefinitely as her influences on music can still be heard [...]
Listen: Cocktail Boogie We’ve been working with a lot of photos of Mr. Q lately, and Tim always tells the story of Mr. Q’s hat, which he painted over and over again until it weighed a ton. The [...]
We think of the blues player as a wandering, itinerant musician, traveling with his guitar, playing his music and spreading the musical styles of the South across the nation. What we often don’t [...]
Tim and Corn decorated this guitar for David Bryant last week. He was elated when he received it and said, “All I’m gonna do is play guitar!” Read about Tim, B and [...]
Berklee College of Music’s Country Blues Program will travel to Durham, N.C. from March 20th-23rd to learn about the history of the Piedmont Blues tradition! The group includes students [...]
Listen: King Cotton I was lucky enough to be running the recorder when Harvey recorded “King Cotton.” It’s a short song with a lot of punch. Harvey writes from his own [...]
B reminisces on the blog about her first road trip as part of the Music Maker team! Check it out here.
B is off to Atlanta this week visiting more artists, but while she’s away we wanted to share with you her thoughts about her first days as part of the Music Maker team! See the video she [...]
