Motor City Jazz Octet

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

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COMPILATIONS

Jean Luc-Alger, One Of The Best Exponents Of Caribbean Zouk Music, Associated Mainly With The French West Indies

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Jake Blount

Award-Winning Banjoist, Fiddler, Singer And Scholar Based In Providence, RI

The New Basement Tapes

Producer: T-Bone Burnett - Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James And Marcus Mumford; Writing And Create Music For A Treasure Trove Of Recently Discovered Lyrics Handwritten By Bob Dylan n 1967 During The Period That Generated The Recording Of The Legendary Basement Tapes.

Norah Jones

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Allman Brothers Band

Susan Tedeschi, Vocals

Charlie Musselwhite

The Seventy-Five Year Old Delta Bluesman Is Joined By Cuarteto Patria From Cuba's Santiago Region, The Cuban Music Counterpart Of The Mississippi Delta

The Golden Gate Quartet

Formed In 1934, The Group Remains Active To This Day - African-American Spiritual Dating to Before The Civil War

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Leon Redbone

Remembering Leon Redbone Passing On One Year Ago Yesterday

Ray Kane

One Of The Masters Of The Slack Key Guitar

Jimmy And Dorothy Blakely

Vintage Vinyl Spin: Husband-Wife Act Performing Western Music For Several Years In The 1950's. Jimmy And Dorothy Got Their Start On Radio In Oklahoma City, And Later Worked For A Few Other Stations Before Relocating To Roswell, New Mexico, Signing A Record Contract With Starday Records.

Doc Sausage & His Mad Lads

Multi-Talented Singer, Dancer, Drummer And Bandleader Very Well-Known Around NYC In The 1940's. Put Together Doc Sausage & His Five Pork Chops For A Ten Year Stretch, Evolving Into "The Mad Lads' Ten Years Later.

Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo

Reminiscing About His Time Playing With The "Coast To Coast' Band; Road Warriors For The Great John Lee Hooker

The Infamous Stringdusters ft. G. Love

Leaving 'Special Sauce' On The Side, G.Love Joins The Infamous Stringdusters, Putting The Pick To G. Love And Special Sauce's 1994 Breakthrough Hit

A La Carte Brass & Percussion

Mixing Up A Potent Stew For Twenty-Two Years

Miss Tess

The Talkbacks Joining Miss Tess One Again - Latest From Nashville's Retro-Roots Chanteuse

Willie Nile

After A False Start In The Early Eighties Due To Protracted Legal Problems Which Curtailed His Career For Years, Willie's Twenty-First Century Re-emergence Brought Us 'Streets Of New York' - Willie Nile Turns 72 In A Few Days

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Kings Of Rhythm

Formed In The Late 1940's In Clarksdale, Mississippi And Led By Ike Turner; The Kings Of Rhythm Were An Offshoot Of A Large Big Band Ensemble Called "The Tophatters." The Group Recorded The Song "Rocket 88" Which Is A Contender For The First Rock And Roll Record. The Song Is Inducted Into The Blues, Grammy, And Rock And Roll Halls Of Fame. Ike Took The Band Through Several Name Changes, The Ike And Tina Revue, Family Vibes And As Backing Group For His Solo Projects, Including The Grammy-Winning 'Risin With The Blues'. When Ike Passed In 2007, Singer Earl Thomas Took The Helm. Ike Turner's The Kings Of Rhythm Continue to Perform, Seventy-Years On.

Kings Of Rhythm

Forming 1946, MS - 2007, CA

Gerry Mulligan And Ben Webster

'820' Jazz Presents - Mel Lewis, Drums...Jimmy Rowles, Piano...Leroy Vinnegar, Double Bass...Ben Webster, Tenor Saxophone...Gerry Mulligan, Baritone Saxophone - - - - - - - -A Classic Album From Two Giants Recorded In A Two Day Session, One Month Apart. The Albums Title Is A Bit Of A Misnomer, Though; The Two Saxophonists Had Met Many Times Before, Organizing Informal, Private Jam Sessions in Around Los Angeles. Three Legendary Sidemen Join Them For This Recording, All Getting Their Moment To Stretch Out, Each Coming Through On Of The Great Jazz Albums Of All Time.

Jimmy Martin

With The Sunny Mountain Boys - The King Of Bluegrass Began As Lead Vocalist For Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys In 1949

Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton

A New Album Of Old-Time Music By Smithsonian Folkways Culled From Unheard Tapes Recorded At Doc's Two Earliest Concerts Presented In Greenwich Village In 1962; Featuring Rare Appearances By Doc's Father-In-Law, Fiddler Gaither Carlton Made Outside Of North Carolina.

Nashville Bluegrass Band

Written By Lonnie Chatmon And Walter Vinson, Founding Members Of The Mississippi Sheiks, 1930 - The Multi-Award Winning Nashville Bluegrass Band First Played Together In 1984 As The Backing Band For Vernon Oxford And Minnie Pearl

Hazel Dickens, Carol Jones, Ginny Hawker

The Three Ladies Of Roots Distinction

Alison Brown

Brown's Second Release - The Flute Groove Courtesy Of Matt Eakle, A Thirty-Year Member Of The David Grisman Quintet