. >> we literally said get in the car, we took him up here to hillsborough, got him an apartment, got him teeth, got him glasses, got him to the doctors, got him performing attire, clothes, shoes, everything. >> brown: since 1994, duffys been traveling through the south and beyond. working with artists like boo hanks, a farmer in buffalo junction, virginia. and captain luke, an 86-year-old whose baritone has filled church halls and bars. musicians, there are hundreds and even thousands of them, who found a small following but never rose to stardom. ♪ ♪ music maker helps them meet basic needs. and also, regain their musical lives and, for some, their dignity by recording their music and booking tours. >> if an artist does not have money for a new set of guitar strings, like simple six bucks, their neighbor does not have six bucks, their preacher does not have six bucks, no one in the community has an extra six bucks for those guitar strings, a simple thing like that. >> brown: to date, music maker has put out 168 albums. including, this years anniversary collection of its artists a