Music Makers: Portraits and Songs from the Roots of America

When he was in graduate school in the late 1980s, Timothy Duffy began documenting the “roots” music styles of largely forgotten southern musicians in a series of field recordings. Recognizing that too many artists working in these traditions — blues, R&B, hillbilly music, and other now increasingly popular forms — had been either ignored or taken advantage of by mainstream record labels and music media and were living in poverty as a result, Duffy established the Music Maker Relief Foundati...