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...
Jul 21, 2022 | Hermon Hitson - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
First Single “Ain’t No Other Way” Out This Week Herman Hitson (aka Hermon Hitson) – psych-rock and funk music pioneer; Jimi Hendrix collaborator; chitlin circuit veteran with James Brown, Joe Tex, Bobby Womack, Wilson Pickett, Jackie Wilson, the...
Jul 7, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
First ever Music Maker Songbook written by director Tim Duffy and acclaimed journalist Chuck Reece, includes full transcriptions for 27 songs, including those by Etta Baker, Taj Mahal, Alabama Slim, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Robert Belfour, Guitar Gabriel...
Jun 7, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Dedicated Men of Zion (DMZ) – the North Carolina sacred soul family quartet that’s been featured in an NPR Tiny Desk Concert – has confirmed a northeast tour, an appearance on NPR Mountain Stage, and released a new music video. NPR Music said, “The world needs this...
Jun 3, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Music Maker Relief Foundation to Release Album June 1 on CD to Its Listeners Circle, July 1 to the General Public via Streaming and Download Flames engulfed Birmingham, Alabama bluesman Charles “Sugar Harp” Burroughs’ van, packed with all of his belongings and...
May 3, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Getting his start with rock and roll band The Soul Twisters before becoming multi-instrumentalist for sacred soul legends the Glorifying Vines Sisters (his wife Dorothy Vines’ group), Johnny Ray Daniels has stepped out on his own at the age of 76 with his first solo...
Apr 26, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Putumayo is pleased to present Blues Café, a captivating collection of laidback blues by legends and new discoveries from the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Available this Friday, April 29, this release includes a CD, album download card and booklet with extensive...
Mar 16, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Artists Include Jimi Hendrix Collaborator Hermon Hitson, Documentary Film Subjects The Branchettes, Grammy Nominee Joe Troop, & Music Maker Blues Revue The Town of Carrboro, North Carolina will present the Music Maker Foundation’s Freight Train Blues series of...
Mar 14, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
“Fiery.”–New York Times “A total bad-ass.”–Guitar Player “Queen of the Blues Guitar”–Guitar World “One of the greats.”–She Shreds In the 1990s, Music Maker Foundation co-founder Tim Duffy wandered into Underground Atlanta and was amazed by an...
Mar 7, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Whatever You Need out May 6 via Producer Bruce Watson’s Bible & Tire Recording Co. as First Single “I Shall Not Be Moved” Out Today “Johnny Ray Daniels [sings] the blues to chase out the devil.”–MOJO “Powerful.”–PopMatters “When he...
Jan 25, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Bruce Watson Produced Album, Which Also Features Grammy Winner Matt Ross-Spang on Guitar “The world needs this music right now.” –Robin Hilton, NPR Music “What they call sacred soul: a nexus of secular soul music and gospel and you hear it all in here, right? It’s got...
