Music Maker
The last & lost blues survivors
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MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION :
Music Maker Relief Foundation (created by Tim and Denise Duffy) is a non profit organization which helps the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern musical traditions to gain recognition and to make a living with their art. Today, many of these blues musicians are living in extreme poverty and need food, shelter, medical care, and other assistance.
Tim says : “Poverty is not unique - The music and the culture they spawned in this country have given birth to a recording industry making billions of dollars - There is not a popular style of music unaffected by the blues.”
In the last 15 years, the Duffys have helped and recorded nearly 100 blues musicians. They did a great job and saved a part of the American musical culture and history.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT MUSIC MAKER :
ERIC CLAPTON : “A fabulous project - real evidence that the music I have always loved is alive and well.”
B. B. KING : “I cannot encourage people enough to learn more about the Music Maker Relief Foundation and to listen to the music that they document and promote.”
TAJ MAHAL : “Music Makers clearly dispels the notion that real blues musicians are long gone.”
MORGAN FREEMAN : “Music Makers is a perfect complement to the exciting and promising resurgence in America’s roots music.”
BONNIE RAITT : “It’s great to have this window on some under-appreciated bluesmen and women...”
PETE TOWNSHEND : “A labor of love and honor for the blues, and all its loudly unsung old-timers.”
ROSANNE CASH : “Music Makers is an essential document of roots music in America. It is alive with the voices of these great musicians, and a pure pleasure to read and ponder.”
Music Maker Relief Foundation (created by Tim and Denise Duffy) is a non profit organization which helps the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern musical traditions to gain recognition and to make a living with their art. Today, many of these blues musicians are living in extreme poverty and need food, shelter, medical care, and other assistance.
Tim says : “Poverty is not unique - The music and the culture they spawned in this country have given birth to a recording industry making billions of dollars - There is not a popular style of music unaffected by the blues.”
In the last 15 years, the Duffys have helped and recorded nearly 100 blues musicians. They did a great job and saved a part of the American musical culture and history.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT MUSIC MAKER :
ERIC CLAPTON : “A fabulous project - real evidence that the music I have always loved is alive and well.”
B. B. KING : “I cannot encourage people enough to learn more about the Music Maker Relief Foundation and to listen to the music that they document and promote.”
TAJ MAHAL : “Music Makers clearly dispels the notion that real blues musicians are long gone.”
MORGAN FREEMAN : “Music Makers is a perfect complement to the exciting and promising resurgence in America’s roots music.”
BONNIE RAITT : “It’s great to have this window on some under-appreciated bluesmen and women...”
PETE TOWNSHEND : “A labor of love and honor for the blues, and all its loudly unsung old-timers.”
ROSANNE CASH : “Music Makers is an essential document of roots music in America. It is alive with the voices of these great musicians, and a pure pleasure to read and ponder.”
Tracklist and audio samples
Frank Edwards - My Baby’s GoneAlgia Mae Hinton - My Baby’s Gone
Neal Pattman - Shortnin’ Bread
Captain Luke and Cool John - Waiter
Guitar Gabriel - Came So Far
Neal Pattman - Talkin’ About You Baby
Pura Fe’ - Wait ’till You Come Back Again
Carl Rutherford - Long Black Limousine
Cora Mae Bryant - Ticket Agent
John Dee Holeman - Hambone
Sol - Black Mattie
Marie Manning - Hard Luck & Trouble
Etta Baker - Johnson Boys
Pura Fe’ - Going Home
Drink Small - Widow Woman
Mudcat - Savannah Mama
Jerry McCain - Super Woman
Samuel Turner Stevens- Railroadin’ & Gamblin’
Samuel Turner Stevens- Railroadin’ & Gamblin’
Jack Owens - Keep On Grumblin’
Neal Pattman - Momma Whoopin’ Blues
Carl Rutherford - Last Handloader
Mother Pauline / El. J. Goins - Great Day
Cootie Stark - Blues Around My Bed
John Dee Holeman - Hello Central
Little Pink Anderson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Mr Q - We 3
Captain Luke and Cool John - Put On Your Red Dress
Pura Fe’ - Rise Up Tuscarora Nation
Sol - Tribute To Gabe
Guitar Gabriel - Hospital Blues
Algia Mae Hinton - Buck Dance
Georges Higgs - Greasy Greans
Carl Rutherford - Flyin’ High Walkin’ Tall
Branchettes - I Know I Have Been Changed
Preston Fulp - I Shall Not Be Moved
Essie Mae Brooks - Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long
Cora Mae Bryant - I Saw That Man
Release date : 2005Other Music Maker Relief Foundation releases on DixieFrog
