Music Maker (label)

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Music Maker is an American blues record label created by the Music Maker Relief Foundation to help elderly bluesmen.

Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. helps the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern music to gain recognition and meet their day-to-day needs. These musical traditions are presented to the world so that American culture may flourish and be preserved for future generations.

The criterion for recipients is that their original music in rooted in Southern musical traditions, be 55 years or older, and have an annual income less than $18,000.

Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. is a tax exempt, public charity under IRS code 501(c)3.

1 History
2 Discography
3 See also
4 Bibliography
5 External links

[edit] History

the Musical Development Program help to release records by a blues festival (the Congressional Blues Festival [1]),
the Cultural Access Program organize tours to make know their artists,
the Life Sustenance Program help musicians by bringing them food or medical care
the New Orleans Musicians Fund help musicians to go back to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina's devastations.

[edit] Discography

1977 : This stuff just kills me by Jerry McCain with John Primer and Johnnie Johnson
1999 : Railroad Bill by Etta Baker
2001 : Unplugged by Jerry McCain
2002 : Songs from the Roots of America ( I & II )
2003 : Guitar Heaven by Cool John Ferguson (MM34)
2003 : Boogie is my name by Jerry McCain (MM34)
2004 : High Steppin' Momma by Clyde Langford (MM45)
2004 : Follow your heart's desire by Pura Fé (MM48)
2004 : Musicmakers with Taj Mahal (MM49)
2004 : Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (MM50)
2005 : The last & lost blues survivors (Dixiefrog)
2005 : Drinkhouse by Macavine Hayes (MM53)
2005 : Carolina Breakdown by Etta Baker with Cora Phillips (MM56)
2005 : One man band by Adolphus Bell (MM58)
2006 : Treasure Box (MM61-62-63)
2006 : John Dee Holeman & the Waifs Band (MM68)
2006 : Drink House to Church House vol.1 (diff. Dixiefrog) with a DVD with John Dee Holeman, Captain Luke, Cool John Ferguson, Macavine Hayes, Alabama Slim...
2006 : Rainy Day by George Higgs (MM77)
2007 : Back in business by Beverly "Guitar" Watkins