Filmmaker Tom Ciaburri has completed his documentary short – Ironing Board Sam’s Return. 

It all started last year at the North Carolina Folk Heritage Awards. John Dee Holeman and his girlfriend Joan needed a ride to the annual ceremony, and due to some last minute complications, I was asked to be the couple’s chauffeur for the night. I didn’t know it at the time, but that night would […]

Cool John Ferguson grew up in the Georgia Sea Islands and has spent the majority of his life living near the salty shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Cool’s music has been described as “a living bridge between the Gullah tradition, the rock, psychedelia, blues, and R&B of his childhood, and the present,” in the pages […]

Aaron writes about the trip he and Ironing Board Sam recently took to record a new album in Mississippi.   On the morning of our second day in Mississippi working on Ironing Board Sam’s new record with Bruce Watson and Big Legal Mess records, Sam breezed by my bed on his way to the coffee […]

Last year for Black History Month, I dubbed 2014 the year of the folksinger and spoke about the importance of Pete Seeger to music today.  I’m not sure how to dub 2015; so much change has occurred in the United States and the world.  I do want to highlight three people whose influence on music, […]