Wayne Kramer's Jail Guitar Doors and Higher Grounds have teamed up to bring you Riff Roast - a smooth Honduran dark roast with a mission.
Jail Guitar Doors USA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing musical instruments, workshops, and opportunities to help rehabilitate prisoners in an effort to create a more fair and just America.
Help us meet our goal of raising $50,000 in 2022 to bring Jail Guitar Doors' rehabilitation programming to Michigan.
$5.00 of every bag purchased goes to JGD's effort to raise funds for their programs and to raise awareness to the need for comprehensive reform in our justice system.
Riff Roast tasting notes: Smooth, Smoky, Hints of Molasses
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Jail Guitar Doors provide opportunities to help rehabilitate prisoners, organize prison outreach programs, and produce concert events. JGD advances new solutions to diminish prison violence. They support organizations that engage in policy reform efforts and partner with social service groups to help people in prison reconnect with the outside world.
Higher Grounds is excited to team up with Jail Guitar Doors USA to bring their music rehabilitation programming to Michigan. The collaboration with JGD underlines our commitment to utilizing coffee and music to help create positive change in the US and the world.
Higher Grounds began working with Jail Guitar Doors in 2019, creating a coffee that JGD sells on their website to raise proceeds for their programming. We have been so impressed by and excited about their work that we began to ask them what they thought about bringing their programming to Michigan. As it turned out, JGD had already done some work in Michigan prisons and were interested in building on their successes. Through following conversations, we all decided to deepen our mutual collaboration to help bring Wayne's work back to his home state.
This all sounds amazing, right? We are glad you feel that way and we want to let you know that you can help make JGD's work happen in Michigan. Please consider donating directly to JGD and buying Riff Roast. Subscription items are also available to keep the party going for 3 or 6 months.
This only works when we all band together to create the world that we want to live in. No one will do it for us, but we also cannot do it alone. Drop us a line to discuss how you can help this effort--we are all in this together.
During sessions in 1977, The Clash recorded and released the song "Jail Guitar Doors.” The song tells the tale of Wayne's imprisonment back in the 1970's and the loneliness of a life in jail. In 2007, to honor the life of Clash founder Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg launched JGD-UK to provide musical rehabilitation for inmates in the United Kingdom. In 2009, Wayne hooked up with Bragg to create Jail Guitar Doors USA. JGD-USA has been growing and building momentum based on its positive work and experience with the incarcerated ever since.