Mar 19, 2025 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Freeman Vines, a mystical luthier who etched the South’s legacy of racial terror into wood, died on March 13, 2025, in Fountain, North Carolina, at the age of 82. Vines gained widespread recognition through the 2020 release of the book Hanging Tree Guitars, a...
Apr 27, 2023 | Leonard Lowdown Brown - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
First Single “Juke Joint” Out This Week Exuding effortless cool, Houston, TX soul/bluesman Leonard “Lowdown” Brown will turn 70 and follow the milestone birthday with another landmark occasion. His debut album, Blues Is Calling Me, comes out June 23 on...
Jan 3, 2023 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
MMF Extends Listener’s Circle Series, Announces 2023 Releases Culpeper, VA’s Jeffrey Scott raises Texas Longhorn cattle, farms hogs, and works as a mortician and long-haul truck driver and has worked as a state trooper, sheriff, and grave-digger—but he’s also...
Nov 17, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Ceasar to Perform at Washington D.C.’s National Gallery Feb. 26 It was the morning of July 1, 2022 in tiny Pittsville, Virginia. Piedmont blues and bluegrass singer/guitarist Gail Ceasar smelled smoke. She alerted her mother, who opened the back door to see fire...
Aug 25, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Solo Fingerstyle Collection Arrives Oct 1 for Listener’s Circle Members, Available Everywhere Else Nov 4 Fresh off a booking at the 2022 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, acclaimed Piedmont blues guitarist Shelton Powe will release a new self-titled album of...
