As we the cold starts to fade and the plants start to bloom and we head out of a dreary winter our glee is elevated by the best part about the forthcoming warmth – Music Festival Announcements! Every spring, countless festivals begin to announce their summer lineups to music lovers across the globe, and this […]

[bandcamp width=700 height=120 album=774377531 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small track=1833237913] Cootie Stark, Abe Reid, Taj Mahal and Tim Duffy make this plea so genuine. I hope Sarah came back to Cootie. Man, did she mean something to him. The energy on this whole record Raw Sugar reaches out from the stereo and startles. Abe Reid’s […]

[bandcamp width=700 height=120 album=3062621808 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small track=999898445] In 2013, when Music Maker hired two interns from France, I offered to help find them housing. An area supporter had an apartment complex where Ironing Board Sam had already been living and the apartment right next to Sam had opened up. So began a […]

  [bandcamp width=700 height=120 album=1421561895 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small track=413072801] Algia Mae Hinton is a powerful musician. Not only is she recognized as a fierce musician–she’s also renowned for her buckdancing. As a child, her mother used to refer to her as “that dancing girl” and Algia Mae has since passed down her love […]

Noted French talent scout and aficionado of American roots music, Guy “L’Americain” Fay, passed away Tuesday, December 22, in Hospital Henri Mondor in Creteil, a southeast suburb of Paris, of complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 61 years old. Having worked in various occupations over the years wherein he acquired an exhaustive and encyclopedic knowledge […]