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Preston Fulp
Acoustic Blues
Preston Fulp, born in 1915, was a sawmill worker, a tobacco sharecropper, moonshiner, and blues and old-time guitarist. He made…
Preston Fulp
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
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
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
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
Patrick Sky
Folk
Pat Sky released a number of well received albums from 1965 onwards and played with many of the leading performers…
Patrick Sky
Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen
Active Touring Artists
Since the age of six, Pat was surrounded by music. Her blues classroom was on the porch of her uncle’s…
Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen
Othar Turner
Folk
Othar Turner’s unique style of fife and drum music has received national accolades and awards, including a National Endowment for…
Othar Turner
Nora Milner
Acoustic Blues
“I was born in December 27, 1918, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. I was put out in other people’s homes…
Nora Milner
Neal Pattman
Acoustic Blues
Nobody made moonshine, worked a cakewalk, chopped wood or played a harmonica like Neal Pattman (1926-2005). How We Helped:…
Neal Pattman
Music Maker Blues Revue
Active Touring Artists
The Music Maker Blues Revue is an all-star band and a thriving musical institution. It was born in the early…
Music Maker Blues Revue
Mudcat
Electric Blues
“Mudcat is a tremendous slide guitarist, and most of all, a God-gifted entertainer.” – Tim Duffy How We Helped:…
Mudcat
Marie Manning
Acoustic Blues
Marie Manning lives in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, where her husband, Bishop Dready Manning, heads a Holiness Church. Marie sings…
Marie Manning
Major Handy
Active Touring Artists
Major Handy is a Zydeco musician and blues accordion player who was born in 1947 in Lafayette, Louisiana. Surrounded by…
Major Handy
Macavine Hayes
Acoustic Blues
Macavine Hayes was born in Tampa, Florida on June 3rd 1943. His family farmed and he was the oldest of…
Macavine Hayes
Lucille Lindsay
Acoustic Blues
“I asked Guitar Gabriel one day if he had any brothers or sisters. He mentioned that he had a sister…
Lucille Lindsay
Little Pink Anderson
Acoustic Blues
Alvin “Little Pink” Anderson was born on July 13, 1954, in South Carolina. His father, blues legend Pink Anderson, raised…
Little Pink Anderson
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
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
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
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
Larry Shores
Larry Shores was born in 1948 in Elkin, Surry County, North Carolina, the sixth child and only boy to the…
Larry Shores
Lakota John Locklear
Native American
John Lakota Locklear, born in 1997, grew up listening to his dad’s music collection. At seven years old, he picked up the harmonica…
Lakota John Locklear
John Lee Zeigler
Acoustic Blues
John Lee Zeigler of Kathleen, Georgia plays the guitar left-handed, with the strings upside down, striking the bass strings with…
John Lee Zeigler
Joe Willie “Pinetop Perkins”
Electric Blues
Pinetop Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, on July 7, 1913. As a young boy he witnessed the legendary Blind…
Joe Willie “Pinetop Perkins”
Jimmie Lee Williams
Acoustic Blues
Jimmie Lee Williams (1925-1999) lived way out in the country. He had recorded for George Mitchell years ago. Denise and…
Jimmie Lee Williams
Jerry “Boogie” McCain
Electric Blues
Jerry “Boogie” McCain is among the greatest post war harp players alive today. He remains at the height of his…
Jerry “Boogie” McCain
James Davis
Electric Blues
James Davis (1931-2007) was from Perry, Georgia. Mid-Georgia remains a vast untapped area of undocumented musical traditions. His music stemmed…
James Davis
James “Guitar Slim” Stephens
Acoustic Blues
James “Guitar Slim” Stephens was born on March 10, 1915, near Spartanburg, South Carolina. He began to play the pump…
James “Guitar Slim” Stephens
Jahue Rorie
Acoustic Blues
Jahue Rorie was born in 1936 in the country outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. Jahue has a great repertoire of…
Jahue Rorie
