Witnessing the Como Mamas, the amazing gospel group from Como, Mississippi, on stage will transport you. No matter if you see them at a festival or a concert hall, where you wind up is in church.  They sing the old hymns of the Black Baptist church. When the Como Mamas’ first album, “Get an Understanding,” […]

Chance meetings have always played a huge part in how Music Maker has built up its roster of partner artists over the years. From the beginning, when James “Guitar Slim” Stephens told me I had to find Guitar Gabriel, it’s been the same. One person we build a relationship with tells us about other musicians […]

“Any tree could be a hanging tree.’” — Freeman Vines For the exhibition of Freeman Vines’ Hanging Tree Guitars, Music Maker commissioned Dr. Will Boone of North Carolina State University to write a series of four historical essays to give context to viewers of the exhibition. For Black History Month, we have presented a weekly […]

Nick Loss-Eaton here again to offer a few of my picks from the Music Maker catalog for Bandcamp Friday. On March 5 and the first Fridays of April and May, Bandcamp will waive its cut of the proceeds of all albums purchased, meaning that 100 percent of what you pay will go to supporting Music […]

  To hear Ernie Vincent and the Top Notes’ 1970s single “Dap Walk” for the first time is like standing in a hurricane of funk. “Hey, get up, brothers! Don’t sit there with your head hangin’ down,” Vincent shouts. “Hey, get up, brothers! I know the ghetto’s got your down. But there’s something I wanna […]