Debo Band

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

Harmonica Shah

Detroit, MI - Motor City Blues Scenester For Forty-Five Years; Turning 75 A Few Days Ago

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John Hiatt & The Jerry Douglas Band

First Collaboration Between The Two Opting For A Legendary Sound; Recording The Sessions At Nashville's Iconic RCA Studio B - One Room - Playing Songs Live With Each Other, - Improvising Parts

Poco

Remembering Virtuoso Pedal Steel Guitarist, Co-Founding Member And Guiding Light Of The Highly-Influential Poco - Rusty Young Passed On April 14th At the Age Of 75

Henry Gray

Louisiana's Early Swamp Blues Could Not Have Had A Better Proponent - Inductee Into The Louisiana Hall Of Fame

Luther Dickinson & Sisters Of The Strawberry Moon

An All-Star Collective That Includes Amy Helm, Amy LaVere, Sharde Thomas, Birds Of Chicago And The Como Mamas - The Recording sessions Were Held Over Four Days During The Actual Strawberry Moon Of The Summer Solstice At The Dickinson Family's Zebra Ranch Studio In Independence, Mississippi

Conway Twitty

Harold Lloyd Jenkins - Recorded At Bradley's Barn; Mt. Juliet, TN - Chart-Toppers In The Rock And Roll, R&B, And Pop Genres - Inducted Into Both The Country Music And The Rockabilly Halls Of Fame - Seeking A Better Show Business Name, Jenkins Was Looking At A Road Map When He Spotted Conway, Arkansas, And Twitty, Texas; Chose The Name Conway Twitty, And The Rest Is History

Ammar El Sherei

A Child Prodigy And True Colossus Of Egyptian Music

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M. Ward And Zooey Deschanel One Of The Many Stellar Artists Taking Part In A Wonderful Tribute Tribute To Buddy Holly & The Crickets

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Leftover Salmon

New Music Into 'YCE And A First Time Spin - Recorded At Echo Sound Ashevill, NC - Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass; Enough Said

David Holt And Doc Watson

Composer: Mississippi John Hurt, 1929 - Recorded In Asheville, NC 2001 - Won The 2002 Grammy Award For Best Traditional Folk Album

The Witches Of Elswick

A Cappella Quartet Mining Their Material From Traditional Music Of The British Isles - Many Variations And Reworkings Have Been Handed Down Throughout The Centuries; One Of Those Versions Gave Bob Dylan The Inspiration For 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'

Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi

Hymn Published In 1779, With Words Written Seven Years Prior By The English Poet And Clergyman John Newton

Jackie Wilson

Detroit, MI - "Mr. Excitement" Adding His Four-Octave Tenor To The Timeless 1909 Vaudevillian Standard

Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real

Lady Gaga Chiming In With Exquisite Backing Vocals

Missy Raines

First Album Recorded With What Would Become Her Consummate Backing Band 'The New Hip'

Gary Louris

The '07 Solo Debut From The Co-Founder Of The Jayhawks

Sylvester Weaver And Helen Humes

Blues Spotlight: Sylvester Weaver's Career Clocked In At A Short Four Years Beginning In 1923 Recording Three Songs In NYC; These Recordings Are The Very First Country-Blues Recordings, And The First Known Recorded Songs Using The Slide Guitar Style. Walter Beasley, Helen Humes And Sara Martin Often Accompanied Weaver Until Abruptly Retiring At The Age Of Thirty, Giving Up Music Completely, And Opting to Work Odd Jobs In Louisville Until His Passing In 1960 - Not Knowing Of His Impact As One Of The Forefathers Of Modern Rock Music. When He Slid A Knife Along The Strings Of His Guitar, Weaver Could Have Had No Idea Of The Monster He Was Unleashing: Elmore James, Jimmy Page, George Thorogood And Thousands More Came Stomping In His Footsteps.

Syvester Weaver

Blues Spotlight: July 25, 1897 KY - April 4, 1960 KY

Clark Terry Qunitet

'820' Jazz Presents: Don Friedman, Piano...Marcus McLauren, Bass...Kenny Washington, Drums...Jimmy Heath, Saxophones...Clark Terry, Trumpet - - - - - - -- - Just Shy Of His 70th Birthday At The Time Of This Performance, And Sounds Very Much At The Peak Of His Powers Throughout Live At The Village Gate. Terry Performs Eight Little-Known Originals, Calling In A Few Old Friends From The Early Days For A Hot Session Of Hard-Swinging.

Janel Anderson

HandMade In The U.P. - Recording At Several Studios Located In Some Of The Most Rugged And Beautiful Parts Of Michigan

John McEuen

Stringman Extraordinaire

COMPILATIONS

Peggy Seeger, 1962 - 19th Century English Folk Song Passed Down Through Oral Tradition Throughout The Southern Appalachians - Roud Folk Song Index #3650

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The Chieftains ft. Willie Nelson

Undercover: Leadbelly - Composers: Huddie Ledbetter And John Lomax, 1933

John Hurlbut + Jorma Kaukonen

The Two Longtime Friends Playing Spontaneous And Unfiltered