Poncho Sanchez

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

North Mississippi Allstars

Another Great Album!

Frankie Laine

1951 Recording With Mitch Miller - Refers To The Biblical Woman Jezebel, A Wicked, Baal-Worshipping Phoenician Princess Who Ruled Israel As Queen To King Ahab. Jezebel's Story Is Recounted In I Kings, A Book Of The Old Testament.

Madeleine Peyroux

Athens, GA - Began Her Career As A Teenager On The Streets Of Paris Joining A Vintage Jazz Group Called The Riverboat Shufflers, Then The Lost Wandering Blues And Jazz Band, With Whom She Toured Europe - Peyroux's Vocal Style Is Compared To That Of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, And Edith Piaf

Rising Appalachia and The Human Experience

The Ark, Ann Arbor 11/15

Leonard Cohen

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Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley

Fresh Into 'YCE

Bob Dylan

Street Date: 11/1 - Revisits Dylan's Pivotal Musical Journeys To Nashville From 1967 To 1969, Focusing On Previously Unavailable Recordings Made With Johnny Cash, And Unreleased Tracks From The John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, And Self Portrait Sessions

Dion and the Belmonts

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The Quebe Sisters

Fifteen Years On, Self-Titled Fourth Album - Grace, Sophia, And Hulda Front An Innovative Progressive Western Swing Band. The Dallas-Based Five-Piece Presents A Unique Americana Blend Of Western Swing, Jazz-influenced Swing, Country, Texas-Style Fiddling, And Western Music

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Jack Greene

This Morning's Vintage Vinyl Spin By A Country Great: Jack Green Departed His Role As A Featured Member Of The Ernest Tubb Texas Troubadours In 1967, Becoming A Long-Time Favorite Of The Grand Ole Opry, Multiple Chart Topper And Grammy Nominee, And Earning Honors For "Male Vocalist of The Year," "Single Of The Year," "Album Of The Year" And "Song Of The Year," From The Country Music Association.

Mother McCollum

Billed As The "Sanctified Singer With Guitar." - Mysterious Mississippi Blueswoman Recording Only Six Sides, All Exceedingly Rare, Highly Sought And Pretty Much Impossible To Find. Nothing Is Known About Her. It's As If She Materialized, Fully-Formed, In The Recording Studio, Belted Out The Kind Of Blues That Makes Your Jaw Drop In Appreciation, And Then Stole Away Into The Night - No Forwarding Address, Never To be Heard From Again.

Pete Seeger

Folk Singer, Social Activist, Pioneering Legend; 'Nuff Said!

Nerissa & Katryna Nields

Pushing On Thirty-Five Years As A Performing Duo, With The Occasional Regrouping Of Their Quintet, 'The Nields', Joined By Dave Hower On Drums, Paul Kochanski On Bass, And Dave Chalfant, On Guitar; Accomplished Musicians Them All

Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban

Producer Ry Cooder Refers To This Recording As "Cuban Soul And High-Performance" - Galban And Cooder Felt That There Was A Sound That Had Not Been Explored In A Cuban Electric-Guitar Band That Could Re-Interpret The Atmosphere Of The 1950's With Beauty, Agility, And Simplicity

Jim Keller

Featuring David Hidalgo And Marc Ribot

The Bascom McGhee Band

GR Roots Quintet - Reworking Robert Johnson, 1936

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Ray Charles

1962 - According To Journalist Robert Christgau, The album "Transfigured Pop, Prefigured Soul, And Defined Modern Country & Western Music - 'Careless Love': The Song Is One Of The Best Known Pieces In The Repertory Of The Buddy Bolden Band At The Very Start Of The 20th Century

Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers

The Dixieland Jug Band Was Created By The Commingling Of Two Separate Groups Run By Jug Player Earl McDonald, And Fiddler Clifford Hayes, Brought Together In 1926 For A Victor Records Recording Session In Chicago, And Again In 1927. The Material Leaned To the Hokum And Country Blues Variety, And Together Hayes And McDonald Recorded A Total Of Twenty-Three Songs In The Above Mentioned Two Sessions. Hayes Passed On 1941 And McDonald In 1949

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Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers

Clifford Hayes: March 10, 1893 Kentucky - October 22, 1941 Illinois; Earl McDonald: October 2, 1885 Kentucky - April 28, 1949 Kentucky

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Johnny Griffin Sextet

Donald Byrd, Trumpet...Kenny Drew, Piano...Wilbur Ware, Bass...Pepper Adams, Baritone Saxophone...Johnny Griffin, Tenor Saxophone - - - - - Recorded In A One Day Session By Griffin's All-Star Sextet. The Band Is Burning Here; Everyone Grooving In Time, No Fast Pyrotechnics Or Over Blowing Which Make The Music Swing Even Harder

Rodney Crowell

Guest Appearance By Lyle Lovett

Asleep At The Wheel

The Wheel Formed Forty-Nine Years Ago On the Campus Of Antioch College In Yellow Springs, Ohio With A Simple Goal: To Play And Help Revive American Roots Music

Don Reno/Bill Harrell & Tennessee Cut Ups

Also Known As "The Racehorse Song," With Its Roots In The Late 19th Century. the Carver Brothers First Put The Song to Acetate In 1929 Under The Title "Tim Brook."

Domi Emorine

French Accordionist

Si Kahn And The Looping Brothers

Si Kahn And Europe's Looping Brothers Trio have joined forces to Produce A Project Of Compositions Covering Familiar Territory For Kahn; Writing Of Mill Workers And Coal Miners, The Working People Of Appalachia, And The Fishermen Of Alaska

Dori Freeman

Galax, Virginia; Third Release - Teddy Thompson On Co-Lead Vocals