Dom Flemons, Boo Hanks and MMRF founder Tim Duffy were featured on NPR Weekend Edition.       Listen to the whole piece here  

In the winter of 1995, I discovered how a simple gift can be the difference between life and death for our elderly artists. In that year, there was a terrible ice storm in Winston-Salem, NC and many parts of town were without electricity. The first day after the storm MM artist Willa Mae Buckner, who lived in an old drafty […]

Hard Luck & Trouble exemplifies the blues with Marie Manning’s haunting vocal performance accompanied by the Bishop’s quintessential driving guitar licks. Marie Manning’s sporadically placed claps throughout the tune serve as the rhythmic foundation while she sings.  The Bishop’s guitar playing comes straight from the South and represents his life as juke joint musician and […]

The next day was the big event, which included even more musical and life revelation for me than night before. Being able to mix and mingle with some of the most talented guys and gals who bring us the real, true Southern American Blues and to hear their music and first hand stories of how […]