David Grisman

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

Phantom Blues Band

Taj Mahal's Secret Weapon

Racky Thomas

Travelin' Medicine Show Revival Band

Alexis Cole & Bucky Pizzarelli

Two Old Friends; One Long Time Recording This Long-Player

Warren Haynes

Joined On The Recording By Railroad Earth

Dead Horses

The Latest Album

Jerry Lee Lewis

Recorded In London 1972, With The Next Generation Of British Rock Musicians Influenced By The Killer

Jerry Lee Lewis And His Pumping Piano

The "A" Side Backed With Big Blon' Baby, 1959 - Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams And Al Jolson Were A Few Of His Early Influences - Lewis' Father Mortgaged The Family Farm To buy Jerry Lee His First Piano

Jerry Lee Lewis

September 29, 1935 LA - October 28, 2022 MS; One Of The First True Rock 'N' Roll Musicians - Began Playing The Piano At Age 9, Copying The Styles Of Preachers And Black Musicians That Traveled Through The Area - Signed With Sun Records In 1956 - The First Person Inducted Into The First Class Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 1986

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Cheb Mami - Algerian Singer/Songwriter - International Recognition After Pairing With Sting On Desert Rose; Find That One On Sting's '99 Long-Player Brand New Day

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Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer

Produced By Teddy Thompson - The Sisters Duet Features Covers Of Songs From A Variety Of Genres, Including the Crown Jewell Title Track, Showing The River-Deep Musicality Of A Latter-Day Dylan Croaker When It's Parsed By Blood-Kin Harmony; Lynne's Saltier Vocals And Moorer's Sweeter Notes, Evoking Ancient Traditions Of Family Music-Making

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Sam Had Six-Year Successful Run With Soul Stirrers Leaving The Gospel Quartet In 1957 Becoming One Of the Most Influential Soul Artists Off All Time, Formed In 1926

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Skip James

Blues Spotlight, 1931: June 9, 1909 MS - October 3, 1969 PA

Skip James

Blues Spotlight: Might Have Made The Best Music Of Anyone Who Resurfaced During The Mid-'60s Rediscovery Era For Mississippi Bluesmen. His Importance As A Stylist Is Characterized By Eerie Falsetto Vocals And Delicate Guitar Picking In The Minor Keys Giving Rise To A Strand Of Blues Played In The South Of The Delta Being Named The 'Bentonia Scool' As Opposed To The Darker Shades Found Further North Around Clarksdale. An Influence On Robert Johnson, Skip Recorded Quite A Few Sides By 1932, But Poor Sales Popped His Bubble, Giving Up The Blues Altogether For the Ministry. Thirty-Years Would Pass Before James Was Persuaded To Appear At Newport Folk; It Was The Second Coming For Skip James. Nehemiah "Skip" James Was Known As The Hard Luck Child, Passing On In 1969.

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1957 - Best Known For Her Session Work As A Backing Vocalist - Bob Dylan's Go-To Session voice

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Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks With Regina Spektor

First Recorded By Film, Stage And Radio Star Ruth Etting, 1928

Gregory Alan Isakov

Kalamazoo Appearance: 2/1/23 Kalamazoo State Theater

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Recorded In East Nashville,The Allbum Features The Talents Of Luminaries Oliver Wood, A.J. Croce And Karl Denson

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach

The Jazz Route: Richie Powell, Piano...Harold Land. Tenor Saxophone...George Morrow, Bass...Max Roach, Drums...Clifford Brown Trumpet - - - - -Takes Us To The First Of The Capitol Studio Recordings Of The Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet. Recorded In August 1954. These Two Pioneering Jazz Masters Lead This Session With Usual Gravitas Highlighting The Genres Greatest Standards

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard

Reissue - True Symbols Of Appalachian Musicians - Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass

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Snuffy Jenkins: An Early Proponent Of The Three-Finger Banjo Style - Influenced Don Reno And Earl Scruggs

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Della Mae

Boston, MA - Their Name Comes From The Song Big Spike Hammer, Recorded By the Legendary Osborne Brothers

Beats Settin' Home

Michigan Roots

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Jake Blount

Afro-Futuristic Concept Album - Ten Reinterpreted Traditional Black Spirituals

Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor

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