We help fund and support blues musicians
BluesFund is a nonprofit, soon-to-be 501c3 organization focused on helping blues musicians. We help musicians create, record, release and promote their own style of blues music.
Our goals:
- Professionally record blues men and women who don’t have the means to partake into a traditional audio studio
- Help blues artists get their recordings together for release
- Help blues artists get distribution for recordings via digital platforms and radio campaigns
- Help blues artists get press kits and promo materials
- Work with venues and festivals to provide great blues talent from our roster of musicians
Blues Fund News
The Blues Fund Helps with all Marketing for the 3rd Annual Jessie Mae Hemphill Hill Country Blues Fest
Like the three years prior, the Blues Fund is again helping out Peggy Hemphill, aka Lady Trucker, with her festival. It gets bigger and bigger each year. The Blues Fund also handled all festival merch through the print-on-demand company Printful. Order your merch for...
The Blues Fund Starts on Peggy Hemphill aka Lady Truckers, Next Release
After producing Lady Truckers' second CD to great success, The Blues Fund got Lady Trucker and her blues-royalty drummer Artemas Lesueur down to Austin from Holly Springs, MS, to lay down a bangin' Hill Country Blues release. Janky manned the guitar duties as he is a...
The Blues Fund handles all marketing for the 10th Annual Kimbrough Cotton Patch Soul Blues Fest
The Blues Fund has been happy to help the Kimbrough family since day one, and this festival was no different. From poster design, t-shirt design, and sponsor banner design. Blues Fund created a sponsorship package brochure that attracted many sponsors this year. The...
Blues Fund records Spitcup and the Jukes, and the result is EPIC
San Antonio's Spit Cup and the Jukes came to Austin in Janky's Blues Fund studio and knocked it out of the park. The sound is clean and raw. All but the vocals were laid on the first session, and then Ryan Washington, aka Spit Cup, came back for a few hours and...
Blues Fund Helps with tribute to Jessie Mae Hemphill Festival
The Blues Fund is thrilled to be working with blues Legend Peggy Sue Hemphill Lesueur aka Lady Trucker, cousin of Jessie Mae Hemphill on the first annual Jessie Mae Hemphill Hill Country Blues Festival. Many blues legends of Mississippi and beyond have stepped up to...
Robert Kimbrough Sr New Release
Be on the lookout for the soon-to-be-released 7th CD from Robert Kimbrough Sr, Produced by Blues Fund and the Mississippi Arts Commission. Blues Fund did all artwork, mixed, and mastered this release at no charge to Robert. The cover depicts Robert in front of the same truck his dad, Junior Kimbrough, drove.
Lady Trucker 2023 Release
BluesFund went to Holly Springs, MS in 2022 and had two recording sessions. The first was Lady Trucker which yielded this release. The second was Little Joe Ayers, one of Junior Kimbrough's original soul, blues boys. Both are amazing examples of the North Mississippi...
Recording Process
The BluesFund does on-location recording sessions to help selected blues musicians document their original music as well as give each of them something to sell at gigs and gain streaming revenue.
Musician Promotion
Once a musical release has been created we help the blues artist with his or her brand using customized promotional and marketing assets.
Blues Talent
With so many great musicians on the BluesFund roster it is easy for us to offer this talent to venues and festivals.