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 can make these stints on the highway a long game of stop-and-go, but when the song started to play and […]

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 from 6 –9pm, featuring music from Ironing Board Sam. Music Maker Tin Type Exhibit March 28th 6-9pm Music by Ironing Board Sam Skylight […]

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 the blues classic “John Henry.” Learning from her family, and even the local coal deliveryman, helped her […]

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. Mother Ollie could play many stringed instruments and began teaching Algia when she was just nine years old. Algia was the youngest of fourteen children […]

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 blueswoman whose music inspired Bob Dylan and Taj Mahal, but who only recorded her first album at the age of 78. She was a beloved Music […]