Gearing Up for the Blues Crawl
inNewson January 9, 2014
Yesterday, Music Maker Artist Services Coordinator Aaron Greenhood and Program Associate Rebecca (B) Parsons met with the Sunrise Preservation Group in Southern Pines, NC. They met to plan for the annual Blues Crawl, and this is the first year that Music Maker is the exclusive booking source for the event. Blues Crawl venues include the […]
Diggin’: “God Don’t Like It”
inNewson January 9, 2014
Listen: God Don’t Like It I first heard of Elder Anderson Johnson when I was interning at Music Maker last spring. My task was to transcribe an interview that Tim and Axel Kustner recorded back in the ’90s and to write a biography of Elder Anderson and his relationship to sacred steel. Listening to the recordings, […]
Cruise with the Blues! Still time to enter to win!
inNewson December 27, 2013
We’re drawing the winner of the Blues Cruise on January 15th, 2014 in Music Maker’s Hillsborough office! There’s still time to enter to win, and all purchases go to support Music Maker’s mission of sustaining our Southern Roots. The Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise sets sail January 18 – 25th 2015! Departing from Ft. Lauderdale, […]
On the Blog: Tim’s Christmas with Cootie
inNewson December 25, 2013
You may remember it as an iconic Christmas album, but Tim remembers it as a great meeting of musicians one Holiday season that led to a classic recording – one of Music Maker’s favorites. Read more here!