Tim and Aaron have been running around all week, checking on the Captain and getting his new home ready for his arrival. We got word this week that Captain would be ready to return home from the rehabilitation clinic in Winston-Salem, NC, and Music Maker helped facilitate a new apartment for him that has amenities […]

                                Listen: Fred You Ought to be Dead This track by James Davis is on our 20th Anniversary compilation, We Are the Music Makers!, as well as Davis’ album on the Music Maker label, Georgia Drumbeat. I was just discussing […]

NOBODY PLAYS GUITAR LIKE ROBERT LEE COLEMAN. On this rippin’ track Coleman comes flying out the gate with his aggressive picking style. If you have never seen Robert Lee Coleman live you are certainly missing out because his stage performance is just as spectacular and wild as his playing. As a band member of both […]

When the Music Maker Relief Foundation first started working with Ironing Board Sam he was in a pretty rough spot. He was being evicted from his trailer, had no gigs and desperately needed help. After receiving a call from Living Blues photographer Gene Tomko, Tim leaped at the opportunity to help Sam. Tim had seen Sam […]

John Dee Holeman is 87. He speaks softly. When he picks up his guitar, it’s a different story. John Dee’s brand of blues swings and shuffles to where you have no choice but to stamp your feet or jump up and dance. It’s that way by design. Before his legs retired from dancing, he was […]