Discography

Music Maker Recordings

*all albums produced by Tim Duffy unless otherwise noted

1993

• Toot Blues by Guitar Gabriel (Cassette & CD) MMCD01

1995

• A Living Past (Compilation, CD)  MMCD04
• Volume 1 by Guitar Gabriel (CD) MMCD03
• Came So Far (Compilation, CD) MMCD05

1998

• Deep in the South by Guitar Gabriel (CD) MMCD02

 

1999

• Railroad Bill by Etta Baker (CD) MMCD06
• Bull Durham Blues by John Dee Holeman (CD) MMCD07

*co-producer John Porter

• Sugar Man by Cootie Stark (CD) MMCD08
• Back in Business by Beverly “Guitar” Watkins (CD) MMCD09

*produced by Mike Vernon

• This Stuff Just Kills Me by Jerry Boogie McCain (CD) MMCD10

*co-producer Mike Vernon

• Expressin’ the Blues (Compilation, CD) MMCD11
• Prison Blues by Neal Pattman (CD) MMCD14
• Honey Babe by Algia Mae Hinton (CD) MMCD16

2000

• Rain in Your Life by Essie Mae Brooks (CD) MMCD15

2001

• Outsider Lounge Music by Captain Luke & Cool John Ferguson (CD) MMCD12
• Route 66 by Eddie Tigner (CD) MMCD16

*produced by Eddie Tigner

• Turn Off the Fear by Carl Rutherford (CD) MMCD17
• Cool John Ferguson by Cool John Ferguson (CD) MMCD18

*co-producer Hansel “Sol” Creech

• Tarboro Blues by George Higgs (CD) MMCD19
• Unplugged by Jerry Boogie McCain (CD) MMCD21
• Born with the Blues by Cora Mae Bryant (CD) MMCD22

*co-producer Axel Küstner

• Blues Came to Georgia (Compilation, CD) MMCD23

2002

• Sawmill Worker by Preston Fulp (CD) MMCD20
• Carolina Bluesman by Little Pink Anderson (CD) MMCD24
• Volume: Blue by Sol (CD) MMCD25

*produced by Hansel “Sol” Creech

• Ragged but Right by Lightnin’ Wells (CD) MMCD26
• Beaufort Blues by Big Boy Henry (CD) MMCD27
• Portraits and Songs from the Roots of America Vol. I (Compilation, Book & CD) MMCD41
• Songs from the Roots of America Vol. II (Compilation, CD) MMCD28
• I’ve Been Washed In The Water by Essie Mae Brooks (CD) MMCD78

*produced by Ardie Dean

2003

• Cool Yule by Cool John Ferguson (CD) MMCD29
• Raw Sugar by Cootie Stark (CD) MMCD30
• Fruit Tramp Ballads of the Great Northwest by Dave McGrew (CD) MMCD31
• Sisters of the South (Compilation, CD) MMCD32
• Grasshopper Pie by Slewfoot & The Angels (CD) MMCD33

*produced by Mark D. McLaughlin, Tim Duffy, Michael Beauchamp,

Cary Beckelheimer, David Freedman, Damon Jacob, and Richard Bird

• Boogie is My Name by Jerry Boogie McCain (CD) MMCD34

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Guitar Heaven by Cool John Ferguson (CD) MMCD34

*co-producer Hansel “Sol” Creech

• Born in Newton County by Cora Mae Bryant (CD) MMCD39
• Kickin’ Chicken by Mudcat (CD) MMCD40

2004

• Lee Gates and the Alabama Cotton Kings (CD) MMCD44

*produced by Ardie Dean

• High Steppin’ Momma by Clyde Langford (CD) MMCD45
• The Feelings of Beverly “Guitar” Watkins by Beverly “Guitar” Watkins (CD) MMCD46

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Chicken Raid by Mr. Frank Edwards (CD) MMCD47
• Follow Your Heart’s Desire by Pura Fé (CD) MMCD48
• Music Makers with Taj Mahal (Compilation, CD) MMCD49
• Etta Baker with Taj Mahal by Etta Baker & Taj Mahal (CD) MMCD50
• John Dee Holeman with Taj Mahal by John Dee Holeman & Taj Mahal (CD) MMCD51
• I’ll Be Young Once Too by Mudcat (CD) MMCD52

*produced by Danny Dudek

• Live & Let Live by Sweet Betty (CD) MMCD59

*produced by Ardie Dean

2005

• Drinkhouse by Macavine Hayes (CD) MMCD53
• Alabama Bluesman by Willie “Sonny Boy” King (CD) MMCD54

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Carolina Breakdown by Etta Baker & Cora Phillips (CD) MMCD56
• My Name Is Precious by Precious Bryant (CD) MMCD57
• The Mess Is On by Mudcat (CD) MMCD64
• Abe Reid and the Spikedrivers by Abe Reid and the Spikedrivers (CD)  MMCD65
• The Mighty Flood by Alabama Slim & Little Freddy King (CD) MMCD66

*produced by Ardie Dean

2006

• One Man Band by Adolphus Bell (CD) MMCD58
• Black Lucy’s Deuce by Lee Gates (CD) MMCD60

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Music Maker Treasure Box I-III (Compilation, CD) MMCD61-63
• Songs of T-Town by Larry Shores (CD) MMCD70
• Drink House to Church House Vol. I (1 CD & 1 DVD) MMCD71-72
• Drink House to Church House Vol. II (1 CD & 1 DVD) MMCD73-74
• Dona Got A Ramblin’ Mind by The Carolina Chocolate Drops (CD) MMCD76
• Rainy Day by George Higgs (CD) MMCD77
• Get Your House In Order by Mudcat (CD) MMCD82

*produced by Danny Dudeck

2007

• Gospel Train by Bishop Dready Manning (CD) MMCD67
• John Dee Holeman with The Waifs Band (CD) MMCD68
• Georgia Drumbeat by James Davis (CD) MMCD69
• Slippin’ In by Eddie Tigner (CD) MMCD80
• Dance Tunes, Ballads and Blues by Dom Flemons (CD) MMCD84
• Soul of the Blues by Albert White (CD) MMCD86

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Pickin’ Low Cotton by Boo Hanks (CD) MMCD88
• Blues Sweet Blues Vol. I + II (Compilation, CD) MMCD91+92
• Don’t Mess with Miss Watkins by Beverly “Guitar” Watkins (CD) MMCD122

*produced by Ardie Dean

2008

• Christmas with Cootie by Cootie Stark (CD) MMCD90
• They Call Me Dr. Burt by Dr. G.B. Burt (CD) MMCD94
• You Got to Lose, You Can’t Win All the Time by John Dee Holeman (CD) MMCD95
• One of These Days by Captain Luke (CD) MMCD98

*produced by Ardie Dean, Tim Duffy & Hansel “Sol” Creech

• The Simple Things by Randy Burns (CD) MMCD99
• The Carolina Chocolate Drops with Joe Thompson (CD) MMCD101

2009

• The Great Unknown by Big Ron Hunter (CD) MMCD103

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Tell Me Mama by Chicago Bob (CD) MMCD105
• Touring With Lucy by Lee Gates (CD) MMCD106

*produced by Ardie Dean

• American Songster by Dom Flemons (CD) MMCD107
• The Spiritual Expressions of Beverly “Guitar” Watkins (CD) MMCD108

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Banjo by Etta Baker (CD) MMCD109
• Freedom Creek by Mudcat (CD) MMCD110

*produced by Danny Dudek

2010

• 270 Haystack Rd. by Benton Flippen & The Smokey Valley Boys (CD) MMCD111
• Toot Blues (DVD) MMDVD119
• At Home in the New Orleans Musician’s Village by Little Freddie King (CD) MMCD120
• Cocktail Boogie by Mr. Q (CD) MMCD121
• Last Chance by Robert Lee Coleman (CD) MMCD129

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Me and My Fiddle by Andy Edmonds (CD) MMCD131
• Blue & Lonesome by Alabama Slim (CD) MMCD133

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Backtracking by W.C. Minger IV (CD) MMCD135
• The Best of Mr. Tater (CD) MMCD136
• Hallelujah Boogaloo by Drink Small (CD) MMCD137

2011

• Music Maker Revue: Live! (CD) MMCD97
• Deers R Us by Deer Clan Singers (CD) MMCD138
• Sing It Louder by Cary Morin (CD) MMCD140
• George Daniels Rocks Out by George Daniels (CD) MMCD143
• Clickin’ King of Hip Poppin’ by Whistlin’ Britches (CD) MMCD144
• NOLA Rhythum and Booze: Rare Traks by Guitar Lightnin’ Lee (CD) MMCD145

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Going Up by Ironing Board Sam (CD) MMCD146
• Hubby Jenkins by Hubby Jenkins (CD) MMCD147

2012

• Colored Aristocracy by Sankofa Strings (CD) MMCD83
• Buffalo Junction by Boo Hanks & Dom Flemons (CD) MMCD148
• Carolina Blues and Gospel by Shelton Powe (CD) MMCD149
• One More Mile by Robert Lee Coleman (CD) MMCD150

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Ninth Wonder of the World of Music by Ironing Board Sam (CD) MMCD151

2013

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 1: Poor Boy (Compilation, CD) LC1
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 2: Careless Love (Compilation, CD) LC2
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 3: Oh Boy (Compilation, CD) LC3
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 4: Watermelon Man (Compilation, CD) LC4
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 6 I’m Not Ashamed (Compilation, CD) LC6
• Cedar Grover by Red Rover (CD) MMCD141
• Brother’s Tone by George Conner (CD) MMCD156

*produced by Ardie Dean

• I Know I’ve Been Changed by The Giddens Sisters (CD) MMCD157
• Rugby, VA by Max & Wayne Henderson (CD) MMCD159
• Roots of Sacred Steel by Elder Anderson Johnson (CD) MMCD160

2014

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 7: Love My Guitar (Compilation, CD) LC7
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 8: Georgia Buck (Compilation, CD) LC8
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 9: Gospel (Compilation, CD) LC9
• Listener’s Circle Vol.10: Music Maker Live Recordings (Compilation, CD) LC10
• Outlaw by Harvey Dalton Arnold (CD) MMCD161
• Music Maker Presents: Lakota John & Kin (CD) MMCD163
• Ironing Board Sam & The Sticks by Ironing Board Sam & The Sticks (CD) MMCD164
• We Are The Music Makers! Preserving the Soul of America’s Music (Book & 2 CDs) MMCD166
• Prospect Hill by Dom Flemons (LP) MMLP168

*produced by Dom Flemons

• Goin’ Away by John Lee Zeigler (CD) MMCD169

2015

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 5: John Henry (Compilation, CD) MMCD171, LC5
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 11: Lee Gates Live at Gip’s Place (Various Artists, CD) LC11
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 12: Alabama Blues (Compilation, CD) LC12
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 13: Live Radio Show, Brothers in the Kitchen (Various Artists, CD) LC13
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 14: Women (Compilation, CD) LC14
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 15: Live Recordings (Compilation, CD) LC15
• What Got Over by Dom Flemons (LP) MMLP172
• Railroad Bill by Etta Baker (LP) MMLP174
• Live at the Hamilton by Captain Luke & Cool John Ferguson (CD) MMCD173
• Mississippi Rubberleg by Adolphus Bell (CD) MMCD175

2016

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 17: Love, etc… (Compilation, CD) LC17
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 18: Delta Blues Hog (CD) LC18
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 19: Amazing Grace (Compilation, CD) LC19
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 20: Cool John & Neal Pattman (CD) LC20
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 21: Big Boy Henry (CD) LC21
• Spencer Branch by Spencer Branch (CD) MMCD178

*produced by Spencer Branch

• Biscuits For Your Outside Man (Compilation, CD) MMCD179, LC16
• Somewhere Between Truth & Sanity by Dave McGrew (CD) MMCD180
• Albert White and the Rockers by Albert White (CD) MMCD181
• Labor of Love by Taj Mahal (CD & LP) MMLP194

2017

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 22: King Dracula by Homesick James (CD) MMCD176, LC22
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 23: Skeeter Brandon (CD) LC23
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 24: Zein Al Abdein (CD) LC24
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 25: The Goins (CD) LC25
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 26: Johnny Taylor Moore (CD) LC26
• Cabbage Man by Sam Frazier, Jr. (CD) MMCD181
• The Parlour Sessions by The Nee Ningy Band (CD) MMCD182
• Screw by Chris Turner (CD) MMCD183
• Harmonicas by Chris Turner (CD) MMCD184
• Just Whop It by The Nee Ningy Band (CD) MMCD185
• Get Nung by The Nee Ningy Band (CD) MMCD186
• Gilgamesh by The Nee Ningy Band (CD) MMCD187
• Swallowtail Jig by The Nee Ningy Band (CD) MMCD188
• Put a Dime in the Busker’s Cup by The Nee Ningy Band (CD) MMCD189

2018

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 27: Benton Flippen (CD) LC27
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 28: About the Blues (Compilation, CD) LC28
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 29: Electric (Compilation, CD) LC29
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 30: Money (Compilation, CD) LC30
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 31: Blues 2 (Compilation, CD) LC31
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 32: Murder (Compilation, CD) LC32
• What Left by Robert Lee Coleman (CD) MMCD193

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Many A Mile by Patrick Sky (CD) MMCD200

2019

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 33: Prison Blues (Compilation, CD) LC33
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 34: Benjamin Tehoval (CD) LC34
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 35: Bad Love (Compilation, CD) LC35
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 36: Preston Fulp (CD) LC36
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 37: DANCE! (Compilation, CD) LC37
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 38: Blue Christmas (Compilation, CD) LC38
• Zydeco Soul by Major Handy (CD) MMCD196

*produced by Zak Alister & Tim Hatfield

• Blue Muse: Timothy Duffy’s Southern Photographs (Book & CD) MMCD198
• Last Pair of Shoes by John Dee Holeman (CD) MMCD203

2020

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 39: Silent Strings (Compilation, CD) LC39
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 40: Travelin’ Blues (Compilation, (CD) LC40
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 41: Sacred Soul Live (Various Artists, CD) LC41
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 42: Summertime & Other Hot Songs (Compilation, CD) LC42
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 44: Drinkin’ Music with Henry Slyker (Compilation, CD) LC44
• Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes by Leyla McCalla (LP) MMLP170

*produced by Leyla McCalla

• Stories to Live Up To by Harvey Dalton Arnold (CD) MMCD202

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Amazing Grace (Compilation, CD) MMCD202
• Hanging Tree Guitars (Book & CD) MMCD204

2021

• Listener’s Circle Vol. 45: A Geographic Cure (Compilation, CD) LC45
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 46: Ladies Sing the Blues (Compilation, CD) LC46
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 47: Get It Up And Go (Compilation, CD) LC47
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 49: Whose Blues? (Compilation, CD) LC49
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 50: Waiting for a Train (Compilation, CD) LC50
• Don’t Forget to Pray by Alice Vines (CD) MMCD205
• Then & Now by Herman Hitson (CD) MMCD206

*produced by Ardie Dean

2022

• In Paris by Beverly “Guitar” Watkins (CD) MMCD207, LC43

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Big Belly Mama by Albert Smith (CD) LC51
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 53: Sugar Is My Name by Sugar Harp (CD) LC53
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 55: Shelton Powe (CD) LC55
• Listener’s Circle Vol. 56: Guitar woman Blues by Gail Ceasar (CD) LC56
• Deep In The South: A Music Maker Songbook (Book & CD) MMCD208
• God’s Plan – Live by The Glorifying Vines Sisters (CD)

2023

• Going Down to Georgia on a Hog by Jeffrey Scott (CD) MMCD209, LC57
• Shake It For Me by Clarence “Bluesman” Davis (CD) MMCD210, LC58

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Blues Is Calling Me by Leonard Lowdown Brown (CD) MMCD211, LC59

*produced by Ardie Dean

• A Tribute to Denise LaSalle by Aretta Woodruff (CD) MMCD212, LC60

*produced by Ardie Dean

• Down Through the Years the Lord Been Good to Me by The Glorifying Vines Sisters (CD)

2024

• Good Old Way by The Legendary Singing Stars (CD) MMCD213, LC62
• Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology (Compilation, Book & CD) MMCD214
• Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology (LP) MMLP215
• Toot Blues Original Cassette Rerelease by Guitar Gabriel (Cassette) MMCAS216, LC63
• Out In La La Land by Martha Spencer (CD) MMCD217, LC64
• Out In La La Land by Martha Spencer (LP) MMLP217
• Same Train by Shelton Powe (CD) MMCD218, LC65
• Drop Dead in Front of Your Door by Terry “Harmonica” Bean (CD) MMCD219, LC66
• The Carolina Cutups by The Carolina Cutups (CD) MMCD220, LC67
• Roll Jordan Roll by The First Cosmopolitans All Male Chorus (CD) MMCD221, LC68

2025

• The Definitive Albert White by Albert White (CD) MMCD222, LC69

*produced by Jimbo Mathus

• This is Earnest ‘Guitar’ Roy by Earnest ‘Guitar’ Roy (CD) MMCD223, LC70

*produced by Bruce Watson & Jimbo Mathus

• Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound by Anthony Big A Sherrod (CD) MMCD225, LC72

*produced by Jimbo Mathus

 

Other Record Labels

LOST GOLD RECORDS

1997: 

• The Goins by The Goins (CD) LGR1497

Dixiefrog

2005: 

• The Last & Lost Blues Survivors (Compilation, CD) MMCD134

2006: 

• Tuscarora Nation Blues by Pura Fé (CD) DFGCD8610

2007: 

• Heritage by The Carolina Chocolate Drops (CD) MMCD102
• Don’t Mess With Miss Watkins by Beverly “Guitar” Watkins (CD) MMCD122

*produced by Mike Vernon & Ardie Dean

• Slavery, Prison, Women, God and…Whiskey (Compilation, CD) MMCD124

2008:

• Hold The Rain by Pura Fé (CD) MMCD93

*produced by Willie French Lowry

• Sisters of the South Vol. I (Compilation, CD) MMCD126
• Sisters of the South Vol. II (Compilation, CD) MMCD128
• Sittin’ Here Singing The Blues by Little Pink Anderson (CD) MMCD85

2009: 

• Full Moon Rising by Pura Fé (CD) MMCD113
• What Can An Old Man Do But Sing The Blues? (Compilation, CD) MMCD123
• The Beginning of the Music Maker Story by Guitar Gabriel (CD & DVD) MMCD127, MMDVD75

2011: 

• Live! In Europe by The Music Maker Blues Revue (CD) MMCD132
• Pura Fé Trio: A Blues Night In North Carolina by Pura Fé (CD) DFGCD8699

2012: 

• Leaving Eden by The Carolina Chocolate Drops (CD) DFGCD8721

*produced by Buddy Miller & Joseph “Bass” DeJarnette

2013: 

• Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes by Leyla McCalla (CD) MMCD142

*produced by Leyla McCalla

• Double Bang! by Ironing Board Sam (2 CDs) MMCD158

2014: 

• Prospect Hill by Dom Flemons (CD) MMCD167

*produced by Dom Flemons

 

Big Legal Mess

*all albums produced by Bruce Watson unless otherwise noted

2015: 

• Super Spirit by Ironing Board Sam (CD & LP) BLM0519-1, BLM0519-2

2016: 

• Age Don’t Mean A Thing by Robert Finley (CD & LP) BLM0533, BLM0534

2017: 

• Take Me Back by Sam Frazier, Jr. (CD & LP) BLM0541, BLM0542, MMCD177

*produced by Ardie Dean

2022: 

• Let The Gods Sing by Herman Hitson (CD & LP) BLM0590, BLM0591, LC54

 

Bible & Tire Recording Co.

*all albums produced by Bruce Watson unless otherwise noted

2020: 

• Can’t Turn Me Around by Dedicated Men of Zion (CD & LP) BTRC006, BTRC007

2021: 

• Sacred Soul of North Carolina (CD & LP) BTRC014, BTRC015, LC48

2022: 

• Whatever You Need by Johnny Ray Daniels (CD & LP) BTRC024, BTRC025, LC52
• The Devil Don’t Like It by Dedicated Men of Zion (CD & LP) BTRC022, BTRC023

2023: 

• I Heard A Voice by Faith & Harmony (CD & LP) BTRC034, BTRC035, LC61