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 […]

Last night was a very special and exciting moment here in our Music Maker Grotto. Earlier in the afternoon our partner Tom Ciaburri stopped by the office. He had just come back from two weeks in Israel working on a film on reconciliation. I wanted to do another tintype session and had been thinking of […]

Listen: Christmas Medley As a Jewish boy, Christmas music always seemed to wag a finger at me. I hated the Santa Claus conspiracy and pitied my cousins for believing in such a fallacy. I still haven’t totally forgiven my uncle, whom I considered one of the greatest proponents and defenders of the myth. The thing […]