Andy Lindquist

Andy Lindquist has been making records since he was thirteen, when he started a band called Stone Soup in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Four decades on, he still does it the same way — alone, in his own studio, playing every instrument himself.

He came up through Minneapolis and spent a stretch in Seattle, where he came close to joining Heart. He has lived and played in Florida for years now.

He is one of the most prolific songwriters working. Blues is only part of it: across a catalogue that runs past seventy releases there is rock, funk, soul, power-pop, fusion, instrumental work, and Celtic new age. He owns his label, Mauntra Records, and his publishing company, Stone Soup Publishing, named for that first band. He is a published poet. He builds the guitars he plays.

His album Full Pain Love was named album of the month by the Independent Blues Broadcasters Association, and he is played regularly on blues radio in Britain. Every mechanical royalty from that record goes to a ministry he runs with his wife, which works to free women and girls from the sexual slavery trade in Pakistan.

There are seventy-eight releases on Mauntra Records. Twenty-five of them are in this archive. The rest have never been written down anywhere.