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Archive From January, 2018

Diggin’: Slewfoot – Oh Boy

inTheir Musicon January 25, 2018

Grasshopper Pie by Slewfoot and the Angels Slewfoot’s six minute opus starts with some funky rudiments on the snare paired with a driving bass line and by the time the horns pop in Oh Boy has put you in a trance. The song is laced with clanging percussion and rattling tambourine with echoing backup singer […]

The Como Mamas Win Académie du Jazz Prize

inTheir Musicon January 25, 2018

Music Maker Relief Foundation partner artist the Como Mamas have won the Soul Prix from the Académie du Jazz for their album Move Upstairs! Check out all the winners and nominees here – http://www.academiedujazz.com/palmares-2017.html  

Music Maker & the Music Industry

inTheir Musicon January 25, 2018

Even in today’s music business, the album is crucial to an artist’s career. Without an album you can’t get gigs, and every musician wants to gig. When I met Guitar Gabriel, Captain Luke, Willa Mae Buckner, and the community of blues musicians in Winston Salem, NC back in 1991, I was trying to figure out […]

Video Diggin’: Robert Finley – Holy Wine

inTheir Musicon January 11, 2018

When Tim and I stepped into the Easy Eye Sound after Robert had been recording for several days we could immediately see that Dan Auerbach, Robert, and the studio musicians were buzzing — they had just created something amazing over the past couple days. Shortly after our arrival Dan took us back into the control […]

Introducing Little Willie Farmer!

inTheir Musicon January 9, 2018

Little Willie Farmer was born in 1956 in the small town of Duck Hill, MS. He grew up on a farm where his father raised cows, chickens, cotton and corn. On Sundays, he had the choice between picking cotton and going to church. He usually chose church. His uncles and father would entertain each other […]

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