River Rogues Jazz Band

"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions Returns Next Week, 8 AM

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Mississippi Fred McDowell

A Seminal Figure In Mississippi Hill Country Blues - Never Knew His Birth Date Possibly 1904 - Belated Recording Career (1959-1971) Proved That Some Of The Most Vital Country Blues Music Had Gone Undiscovered During The 1920's & 30's - Alan Lomax Described McDowell As “A Bluesman Quite The Equal Of Son House And Muddy Waters, But, Musically Speaking, Their Granddaddy.” - Awards: Blues Hall Of Fame, 1991

Mary Flower

Composers: Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard & Irving Mills, 1930

Billy Swan

1974 Neo-Rockabilly Hit "I Can Help" - Well-Known In Music Circles Since The Early 1960's As A Top Songwriter, Sideman And Producer - The New Album Pays Tribute To Elvis & Sun Records

Anemos

Athens, Greece - Folk Duo Inspired By The Sounds Of The Mediterrean

Tom Waits

Turning 66 In A Few Days - Tom's Voice: "Sounding Like It Was Soaked In A Vat Of Bourbon, Left Hanging In The Smokehouse For A Few Months, And Then Taken Outside And Run Over With A Car." Daniel Durchholz, Music Critic

Mills Brothers

Piqua, Ohio - In 1928 Known As The "Four Kings Of Harmony" - More Than Two-Thousand Recordings Combined Sold Fifty Million Copies And Garnered Three Dozen Gold Records - One Of The Most Influential Vocal Groups Of The Twentieth-Century

Seth Bernard & Daisy May

May: Salt Of The Earth, 11/23 Fennville - Bell's Eccentric Cafe, 12/01 Kalamazoo - May Returns To Founder's, 12/10 Grand Rapids & Seven Steps Up, 12/17 Spring Lake

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Waterson:Carthy

Martin Carthy & Norma Waterson Joined By Their Daughter Eliza And Melodeon Extraordinaire Saul Rose

Sonny Treadway

Sacred Steel: Musical Style And African-American Gospel Tradition Developing In A Group Of Related Pentecostal Churches In The 1930's

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Composer: A.P. Carter

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Composer: Clarence Ashley, Clawhammer Banjoist - Introduced An Unknown Doc To The World In 1964

Donovan

Glasgow, Scotland

Kim And Reggie Harris With The Washington Children's Choir

Nineteenth Century Spiritual

Sam Beam And Jesca Hoop

Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) - Jesca Hoop "Memories Are Now," Coming In February

Cisco Houston

Composer: Unknown; First Publication 1864 - Houston: Irish Folksinger Closely Associated With Woody Guthrie Due Their Extensive History Of Recording Together -

Taarka

Spoonful Of Blues: Mercy Dee Walton

Born In Waco Texas, Mercy Dee Walton Took The Sunset Route To Play His Piano In California In 1941. A Major Influence On Mose Allison, He Was Equally At Home Singing Slow Blues Ballads, Jump-Blues And Some Of The Nastiest Boogie-Woogie Put To Vinyl. After Jamming A Few Years With Big Jay McNeely, Mercy Dee's Solo Work Adapted Well With The Arrival Of Rock And Roll. Unfortunately, It Was Short-Lived. He Passed On At The Age Of Forty-Seven In 1961.

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Spoonful Of Blues: Mercy Dee Walton

August 3, 1915 Texas - December 2, 1962 California - Jump Blues Pianist, Singer/Songwriter - "One Room Country Shack," Is A Blues Standard

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This Is '820' Jazz: Baby Face Willette

Grant Green, Guitar...Fred Jackson, Tenor Sax...Ben Dixon, Drums...Baby Face Willette, Hammond B3

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The Del McCoury Band

The Robb M Fresh Pick Of The Week!

John Prine

With Iris DeMent

John Hartford

A Collection Of Songs From Three Mid-1990's Appearances

Sierra Hull

Producer: Bela Fleck

Mark O'Connor

Guest Musicians - John Hartford, Roy Husky, Jr., Sam Bush, Norman Blake & Charlie Collins - Mark Had Just Turned Fifteen Years Old