Music Maker Relief Foundation
The Music Maker Relief Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern musical traditions gain recognition and meet their day to day needs. One of the ways you can help out is to purchase a copy of their three CD set, the Music Maker Relief foundation Treasure Box. I bought a copy for Tuffy at Christmas - we were impressed enough to go back on line and buy two more copies to give to friends. The CD includes cuts by one-man band, Adolphus Bell, Guitar Gabriel (his "We're Living in Our Last Days" is a fantastic blues - the late Gabriel is the 'grand architect' of the foundation), and some more folky-dolky material, like the cutting Minimum Wage Blues, by Pat Sky.
If you love American roots music, and want to help some great, if lesser known practitioners, check out this foundation.
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