When asked if he has cut his portions to make his food last through the month, Pee Wee Hayes, pictured below, replied, “Yeah, you’ve got to, that’s quite common in life for almost everyone”. Through your support, Pee Wee and our other partner artists receive a monthly stipend from Music Maker to supplement their income, […]

There are only a handful of artists as emblematic of New Orleans culture than Little Freddie King. It’s easy to forget that even in with his flashy zoot suits and hard driving electric blues sound that Little Freddie came up on the farm in McComb, MS. His acoustic version of the blues classic Baby Please […]

Over the past three years Music Maker has been forging a partnership with the famed Telluride Blues & Brews Festival and for this year’s festival we pulled out all the stops. We set a goal to raise $30,000 with a special benefit dinner/recording session that was held at Studio in the Clouds right outside of […]

For over a decade now Music Maker has been partnered with the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival in Columbia, MO which has featured many iterations of the Music Maker Blues Revue on it’s main stage, wowing audiences and providing an experience with artists that are the bedrock of American music. In addition to the […]

One Man Band by Adolphus Bell Nobody knew the blues quite like Adolphus Bell. When Music Maker founder Tim Duffy first me Adolphus he was going town to town scraping up gigs while living in his van. Adolphus was known for his raucous One Man band show and always kept the energy high and was […]