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Albert White
Active Touring Artists
“Albert White is no stranger to rhythm and blues.” – Ardie Dean, Music Maker Relief Foundation Advisory Board Member &…
Albert White
Cedell Davis
Electric Blues
Cedell Davis is most notable for his distinctive style of guitar playing. Davis plays guitar using a table knife in…
Cedell Davis
Drink Small
Acoustic Blues
“Drink Small has the biggest, deepest bass voice in the blues. His amazingly expressive sound falls right in between B.B.…
Drink Small
Guitar Gabriel
Drink houses in Winston-Salem, North Carolina’s black community, like juke joints in the Mississippi Delta, remain a vigorous setting for…
Guitar Gabriel
Lee Gates
Electric Blues
Lee Gates has an incredible presence, standing well over six feet tall, his entire body draped with muscles from a…
Lee Gates
Paul Duffy
Paul Duffy is MMRF President Tim Duffy’s eldest brother. He has been a wandering poet since the 1970s. He performs…
Paul Duffy
Sol
Electric Blues
Sol is a rare, one of a kind musician. His talent stretches from fiery rock to laid back jazz, and…
Sol
Algia Mae Hinton
Acoustic Blues
“Algia Mae is a great example of what is called in and throughout the African diaspora, ‘Original Joe.’ This is…
Algia Mae Hinton
Chicago Bob Nelson
Acoustic Blues
“Chicago Bob Nelson’s singing and playing is in prime form; he plays the Blues the way it was meant to…
Chicago Bob Nelson
Eddie Tigner
Active Touring Artists
Eddie Tigner plays the piano with a smooth, strong base that rolls along below the weave of the soulful notes…
Eddie Tigner
Guitar Lightnin’ Lee
Electric Blues
Guitar Lightnin’ Lee, a multi-talented rhythm and blues purist, has defied all rational logic by assembling his band with a…
Guitar Lightnin’ Lee
Lightnin’ Wells
Acoustic Blues
Mike “Lightnin’” Wells was raised in North Carolina and has had an interest in traditional forms of music since childhood.…
Lightnin’ Wells
Pee Wee Hayes
Active Touring Artists
Chicago has always been the epicenter of much of the world’s greatest electric blues, but its satellite cities with substantial…
Pee Wee Hayes
Sonny Boy King
Electric Blues
“As for my advice to kids today, they are worried too much about what kind of guitar they have. I…
Sonny Boy King
Ardie Dean
Electric Blues
Ardie Dean’s infectious happy-spirited charisma drives the Music Maker Revue. He is a world-class drummer who has been with Music…
Ardie Dean
Clyde Langford
Acoustic Blues
Clyde Langford of Centerville, Texas, born June 6, 1934, learned guitar from Joel “Thunder” Hopkins as a young boy. He…
Clyde Langford
Elder Anderson Johnson
Gospel Music
Elder Anderson Johnson spent his career preaching and playing his steel guitar on the streets of America. He made a…
Elder Anderson Johnson
Harvey Dalton Arnold
Electric Blues
Harvey Dalton Arnold is a singer, guitarist and North Carolina-native who has a passion for the blues. He sold millions…
Harvey Dalton Arnold
Lil’ Joe
Electric Blues
Joe Burton, affectionately known as “Lil” Joe from Chicago, is the quintessential Blues instrumentalist in a class of his own.…
Lil’ Joe
Pernell King
Acoustic Blues
Pernell King, from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a half-brother of Guitar Gabriel. In their youth this pair hoboed the country…
Pernell King
Spencer Branch
Folk
Spencer Branch brings their Appalachian tradition forward, mixing traditional country, old time, and original music. Their beautiful harmonies and steadfast…
Spencer Branch
Benton Flippen
Folk
“Benton Flippen is a one-time phenomenon. Ambling quietly forth from a musical family, he has taken the traditions around him…
Benton Flippen
Cool John Ferguson
Active Touring Artists
“It didn’t matter where the music came from. I just learned it all – TV themes, blues, R&B, jazz, gospel…
Cool John Ferguson
Elder James Goins
Gospel Music
Elder James Goins born July 18th, 1921 was Pastor for the Spiritual Holiness Church in Simpson, South Carolina. He and…
Elder James Goins
Haskel “Whistlin’ Britches” Thompson
Folk
“He is the only fellow I have heard who can pop and click his tongue like a bushman.” – Tim…
Haskel “Whistlin’ Britches” Thompson
Little Freddie King
Electric Blues
“If you want the real blues – and I’m not talkin’ about some long-haired hippy beatin’ on a National Resonator…
Little Freddie King
Precious Bryant
Featured
Precious Bryant hails from Waverly Hall, GA. She is an honest, wonderful songwriter and a spellbinding performer. I met her…
Precious Bryant
Sweet Betty
Electric Blues
“When Sweet Betty sings there is an inevitable roar of pleasure from the crowd!” -Bob Margolin Born in Duluth, GA,…
Sweet Betty
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins
Electric Blues
“My style is real Lightnin’ Hopkins lowdown blues. I call it hard classic blues, stompin’ blues, railroad smokin’ blues.” –…
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins
Cootie Stark
Acoustic Blues
Cootie Stark was one of the last authentic Piedmont blues guitarists/singers and provided a direct link to a South long…
Cootie Stark
