Jay Geils

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

Madcat & Kane

Ann Arbor, MI - Peter "Madcat" Ruth And Shari Kane Had An Amazing Twenty-Four Year Run, Joining Forces In 1990 To Form The Duo Madcat & Kane; World-Class Chops - Virtuoso Playing And Vibrant Interpretations

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Diana Krall And Tony Bennett

The Album Features The New York-Based Jazz combo The Bill Charlap Trio

Izo FitzRoy

Imagine Etta James Working With A Funky Backbeat; This Is Izo FitzRoy

Nikki Lane

The Swaggering Nashville-Based Rebel's Second Release, Produced By Dan Auerbach

Grateful Dead

Weaving Their Infectious Groove On Chuck Berry's '64 Nugget. The Dead Performed The Song Live 425 Times From July 1971 Through The Band's Final Show In 1995; Live Performances Appear On Nearly 50 Of The band's Live Albums

K. Jones & The Benzie Playboys

Southwest Louisiana Roots Live Through Northern Michigan's K. Jones And Benzie Playboys

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Martin Hayes

Regarded As One Of The Most Significant Talents To Emerge In The World Of Traditional Irish Music

Paul Burch

With The WPA Ballclub

Big Joe Turner

Forty-Years Into A Sixty-Five Year Career, Big Joe Turner Recorded 'Sweet Sue' - Two Years Before His Passing In 1983, Big Joe Was Inducted Into The Blues Hall Of Fame, And Four Years Later Posthumously Took His Rightful Place In The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Deford Bailey

Smith County, TN - An Influential Harmonica Player In Both Country Music And Blues; One Of The Grand Ole Opry's Most Popular Early Performers

Johnny Cash

Putting His Indelible Stamp On The Band's Classic

The Regimental Band, Bugle, Pipes And Drum Brigade

Picked Up By English Speaking Soldiers Throughout Europe, Crossing the Atlantic In 1914 - Top Of The Hit Parade During World War One

U.S. Army Band

Extremely Popular And Well-Known American Patriotic Song First Documented In The Early 1800's

6 String Drag

Roots-Rock Pioneers Out Of Raleigh, NC- Formed In 1993

The Mammals

This Time Around Mike And Ruthy Bring An Expansive Nine-Piece Ensemble To The Studio, Creating An Album Worthy Of Their Twenty- Year History

Lido Pimienta

Fresh Into 'YCE - Traditional Columbia Singer By Way Of Canada

Burl Ives

Eighteenth-Century Scottish Folk Ballad That Has Gone Through Many Manifestations, Being Given A Mid Twentieth-Century Treatment By Burl Ives

JP Harris And Erin Mae

A Couple Of Fiercely Independent Singer/Songwriters Based In Nashville Reworking A Fifty-Four Year Old Classic Written By Another Fiercely Independent Folk Singer, Gordon Lightfoot

Papa Charlie Jackson And Ma Rainey

Blues Spotlight: The First Bluesman To Record Beginning In 1924 With The Paramount Label, Playing A Hybrid Banjo-Guitar. Apart From His Records And Their Recording Dates, Little Else Is Known For Sure About This Pioneering Bluesman. He Is Known To Have Busked Around Chicago In The Early '20's, Playing For Tips On Maxwell Street, and Recording Duets With Ida Cox, Ma Rainey And Hattie McDaniel, Reaching A Musical Peak Of Sorts In 1929, given The Opportunity To Record With His Longtime Idol, Blind Blake, Known As The King Of Ragtime Guitar. Papa Charlie Jackson Remains A Shadowy Figure, Considered A Highly Influential Figure In The Blues, Though Not Quite A major Blues Figure. Charles Jackson Passed On In 1938.

Papa Charlie Jackson

Blues Spotlight: November 10, 1887 LA - May 7, 1938 IL

John Pisano

'820' Jazz: Pat Kelley, Guest Guitarist...John Belzaguy, Bass...Ralph Humphrey, Drums...John Pisano, Guitar - Charter Member Of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, The Go-To-Guy For The Remarkable Joe Pass And Recipient Of The L.A. Jazz Society's Prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. On This Recording, Pisano Showcases The Styles Of Twelve Different Guitarists Over Twelve Night Run At Papashon, Los Angeles

Johnny Horton

Perished In November 1960 At The Peak Of His Fame In A Traffic Collision, Less Than Two Years After His Breakthrough

Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands

The Band Pickin' On Piedmont Blues Musician Julius Daniels. Daniels Wrote It 1927

Pokey LaFarge

Pokey's Got A St. Louis Thing Going, Although His muse Is The Mississippi - Nobody Crows, Rakes, Rips, Yips, Shouts, Buzzes Or Croons Quite Like Pokey

Donna Ulisse

Produced By Bryan Sutton - Written By Howard Hausey In 1956 - A Chance Meeting With Johnny Horton At The Louisiana Hayride Cemented A Partnership Between The Two; Horton Taking 'Whispering Pines' And 'Honky-Tonk Man' To The Top Of The Charts