Majek Fashek

"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions Returns Next Week, 8 AM

Paul Rishell & Annie Raines

W.C. Handy Award Winners

Guitar Frank

Disliked Travel...Stayed Close To His Piedmont Home His Entire Life

Cephas & Wiggins

When It Comes To The Country Blues, These Two Internationally Famous And Well Honored Gentlemen Are Among The Very Finest.

Pete Kennedy

Pete's First Solo Effort In Twenty Years Written In A Series Of Early Morning Sessions Over Coffee At An East Village Diner. It Is An Ode To His Beloved NYC

Merle Haggard And The Strangers

Vintage Haggard!

Patsy Cline & The Jordonaires

Patsy's Final Studio Recording Before Her Death In A Plane Crash Less Than A year Later. Opry Stars Cowboy Copas & Hawkshaw Hawkins Also Perished In the Crash.

Cassandra Wilson

Multiple Grammy Awards Winner

The Railsplitters

Boulder, Co.

Altan

The Group Formed In County Donegal In 1987. The New Album Was Recorded In Nashville

Mountain Jam: DeZurik Sisters

Recorded June 8, 1938, Chicago. Also Known As The "Cackle Sisters," They Were Two Of The First Women To Become Stars Of The Grand Ole Opry And the National Barn Dance, Broadcasting From WLS Radio, Chicago.

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Wonderful Down-Home Gospel.

9 O'Clock Doc: The Watson Family

Previously Unreleased Material From The Early 1960's As Well As Three Tracks Recorded In 1973. On "Just A Friend," Doc Duets With His Mother, Rosa Lee Watson.

Ted Hawkins

Mississippi Born Singer/Songwriter Remaining An Enigmatic Figure Throughout His Career, Preferring The Busking Life On Venice Beach. Here He Takes The Impressions Undercover.

Cheryl Wheeler

Appearing With Ruth Bloomquist At Seven Steps Up In Spring Lake 11/14, 8 PM

The Black Lillies

The Third Release From This Quintet From Knoxville - Founded By Cruz Contreras, Formerly Of Robinella & The CC String Band. The Band Appears At The Livery In Benton Harbor 11/23

Joel Mabus

Appearing At Ten Pound Fiddle On The Campus Of MSU, 12/4

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Spoonful Of Blues: Martha Copeland

?/?/?-?/?/?/?. Recorded Thirty-Four Sides In Five years Beginning In 1923.

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Spoonful Of Blues: Big Bill Broonzy

6/26/1893-8/14/1958..A Key Figure In the Development Of Twentieth Century Blues

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This Is '820' Jazz: The Jimmy Heath Quartet

Tony Purrone, Guitar...Albert Heath, Drums...Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Bass...Jimmy Heath, Tenor

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Cahalen Morrison

With His Band "Country Hammer," Now Based Out Of Denver. He And Eli West Are Back In The Studio Recording Another Album In Early 2016.

David Peterson & 1946

Seem To Like The Song So Much He Named His Band '1946'

Audie Blaylock/J.D. Crowe/Kenny Ingram/Paul Williams

Four Alumni Of The 'Sunny Mountain Boys' Paying Tribute The "King Of Bluegrass," Jimmy Martin

The Cox Family

From Cotton Valley, Louisiana...Alison Krauss Helped Them With Their First Recording Contract, However, They Gained Some Major Street Cred When Adam Duritz Of Counting Crows Invited Them To Open For The Band During Its' 1994 North American Tour.

Lorraine Jordan & The Carolina Road Band

Written By Joe South In 1968 & A Major Cross-Over Hit For Lynn Anderson 1970

Nora Jane Struthers

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