Made famous by Hank Williams, a sad song of unrequited love. Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel/ but wedding bells with never ring for me. These lyrics fit right into the canon of country music, a song that contrasts beautiful imagery with the damning facts of life. AND it’s about as good a blues […]

Captain Luke and Cool John Ferguson created Outsider Lounge Music, a unique blend of deep baritone singing and smooth electric guitar that is a style reserved for it’s originators alone. Captured and recorded on their self-titled album, Outsider Lounge Music is one of those CD’s at Music Maker that does not get passed around very […]

While we were driving to western Virginia to meet Spencer Branch, new next Next Generation Artists, members of the band, Martha Spencer and Kelley Breiding, were texting us pictures of possible locations to record a video. Each photograph was more breath-taking then the next: scenes of rolling hills blanketed with autumn foliage, a red barn […]

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to work an event in Pembroke at the Givens Performing Arts Center at an event funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. This grant has helped us bring live musical performances to accompany our “We Are the Music Makers!” multimedia exhibit. It was a fantastic […]

TIME LightBox recently featured Music Maker’s new exhibit, Our Living Past: A Platinum Portrait of Music Maker. These Portraits of Southern Blues Musicians Prove That Blues Is Not Dead Oct. 19, 2015 by Eliza Berman Ironing Board Sam began playing the pump organ as a small child in Rock Hill, South Carolina. By 14, he […]