The Blues Fund Blog
Blues Fund helps Delmark Records Recording Artist EJ Mathews with Complete Website
The Blues Fund has been a fan of EJ Mathews since day one. Before there was a Blues Fund, Janky recorded EJ's breakout CD, King of the Barnyard. That CD really laid the foundation for EJ's distinct style of boogie. In June of 2026, EJ signed with Chicago's Delmark...
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...
Good Times at the 2nd Annual Jessie Mae Hemphill Hill Country Blues Fest in Clarksdale, MS
Good times were had, and The Blues Fund was on site in Clarksdale, MS. Again, the Blues Fund handled all marketing and coordination between the festival and the Mississippi Arts Commission. https://youtu.be/cHYRaWnPs-U?si=yzmiFHHoXJVZ3PHL https://youtu.be/Bqe4oEJXgUo...
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.
