Cootie Stark was an incredible Piedmont blues singer and guitarist whose repertoire harkened back to his youth, when he learned his music from the legendary Baby Tate. Cootie was the only fellow I have known that regularly traveled by Greyhound to visit me. When we did not have shows, Cootie would call me up to […]

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One thing that you can definitely say about Ironing Board Sam – he loves Christmas music, because he loves seeing people smile. The other night, while Aaron and Tim were busy with a tintype session, they divided up the studio so Sam could simultaneously record a Christmas album (coming next year.) Read about the amazing […]

From 1991-94, Guitar Gabriel, Captain Luke, Macavine Hayes and I would spends days, upon weeks, upon months and years when we were not doing a show, going from drink house to drink house. We’d visit friends and I was always on the lookout for musicians; I met many. These drink houses are just someone’s home […]

Listen: “Big Stuff” I recall walking into the Music Maker offices in the Spring of 2010, sitting down at my desk and hearing loosely arranged acoustic guitar playing on the computer from Tim’s desk. The recording would fade in and out between complete musical abstraction and undefinable patterns that floated on the periphery of my […]