Paul Hemmings

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

Emmylou Harris

The Song Was First Featured In The 1940 Broadway Production 'Two For The Show' - Inducted Into The Grammy Hall Of Fame, And Is On The List Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum Of The Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll

The Impressions

The First Album On Which Long-Time Producer Johnny Pate Would Work With Curtis Mayfield. Formed In Chattanooga In 1958 As "The Roosters", Relocating To Chicago And Adding Jerry Butler And Curtis Mayfield

Nat Cole Trio

This Trio Was The Model For Small Jazz Ensembles That Followed

Roosevelt Diggs

'YCE Jammie Award Recipients

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Baka Beyond

Now In Their Twentieth-Eight Year As A World Music Collective With Members From A Wide Variety Of Backgrounds And Cultures, Fusing Native Styles With Traditional Baka Music From Cameroon

Rob Ickes

The Debut Album With Trey Hensley Reworking Stevie Ray Vaughan

Jayme Stone

Paying Homage to The Banjo's Historic Role In The World's Music. This Album Traverses The Cinnamon Route Through Persia And India, Reinventing Melodies Stone Collected In West Africa.

Levon And The Hawks

Giving You An Insight To The Greatness Perched On the Horizon For The Band - The Link Between Their Days With Ronnie Hawkins And The Group's Breakout "Music From Big Pink" Three Years Later

Zephaniah OHora

Brooklyn-Based Roots Revivalist - Tip Of the Hat to Merle Haggard And Gram Parsons

Rose Maddox With The Vern Williams Band

Designated As One Of The Songs Of The Century By The Recording Industry Association Of America And The National Endowment For The Arts

Don Vappie And Creole Jazz Serenaders

Interpreter of the New Orleans Music Canon Including The 1912 Standard 'Panama Rag'

Frank Proffitt

An Appalachian Old-Time Banjoist Who Preserved The Song "Tom Dooley" In The Form We Know It Today - Skilled Luthier And Key Figure In Inspiring Musicians Of The 1960's and 1970's To Play The Traditional Five-String Banjo

Omar and The Howlers

Formed In Mississippi - Austin Based Since 1976

Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers

Ziggy, Cedella, Stephan And Sharon Originally Formed At The Request Of Their Father. It Was Only After Bob's Death That The Melody Makers Came Into Their Own

The Byrds

The Final Album, Recorded As The Centerpiece Of A Reunion Among The Five Founding Members. The Last Time The Original Quintet Had Worked Together Was Seven Years Prior

Elliott Brood

Canadian Three-Piece Forming In 2002 - A Song About Leaving Things Unsaid

Iris Dement

New Song From A Forthcoming Album - Profits Will Benefit The Poor People's Campaign

Frank Stokes

Blues Spotlight: Frank Stokes Grew Up Playing The Blues Before WWI When It Was Just An Obscure Local Folk Music From The North Of The Mississippi Delta, Touring The South In Minstrel Shows That Would Take Him To Memphis. Stokes Hooked Up With The Beale Street Sheiks Making Their Recording Debut In 1927. Thirty Sides Over Two Years Were Recorded; Stokes' Solo Output Was Just As Prolific. The Great Depression Put a Halt To Record Sales And Frank Went Back to Busking The Streets. Little Is Known Of Frank's Career In The 40's. Sporadic Reports Have Him Playing Juke-Joints Around The Delta With Bukka White. Frank Stokes passed Away In 1955.

Frank Stokes

Blues Spotlight: January 1, 1877 TN - September 12,1955 TN

Wild Bill Davis And Buddy Tate

'820' Jazz Presents: Floyd Smith, Guitar...Chris Columbus, Drums...Buddy Tate, Tenor Saxophone...Wild Bill Davis, Hammond B-3 - - - - - - - - - - A 1972 Blowing Session By Two Workhorses In the Jazz Pantheon. Joined By Two Other Seasoned Veterans, The Quartet Undoubtedly Puts Their Easy-Groove Stamp On This Jazz Standard

Marty Robbins

Forty-Year Career, Recording Five-Hundred Songs, Sixty Albums - Two Grammys - Induction Into Both The Country Music Hall Of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame, Actor And Nascar Racing Driver

Run Boy Run

Reworking The Band, 1969 - The Song Was Tossed Around For A Years, Appearing As A B-Side On A Couple Of Singles, Ultimately Finding A Home On Rock Of Ages

Grasshoppah

GR Pickin'

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Hot Rize

The Fifth Release Before An Eight-Year Hiatus

Nell And Jim Band

Producer: Lowell Levinger (Youngbloods) - Reflection Of Roots Influences, Early Immigrants And Their Ancestors From The Wave Of Europeans In The Early Nineteenth Century