Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers

When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions Returns Next Week, 8 AM - The Roots Live Here!

Catherine Russell

Composed By Catherine's Father Luis And Louis Armstrong In 1965

Eric Clapton

Lead Belly, 1908 - Evidence Suggests The Songs Origin Dates To 1892. Lead Belly Claims To Have Learned It From His Two Uncles.

Robert B. Jones

Detroit Flavor From Deep Inside The 'YCE Blues Alley - "Perhaps The World's Most Highly Educated Blues Musician, An Ordained Minister, And A Living Encyclopedia Of Blues History - The Reverend Jones Is Comfortable Among Juke Joint Loud Talkers, Fancy-Hatted Church Ladies, And PhDs Alike." James Fraher, Photographer

Dion

A Music Legend...Period! - Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame By The Late Lou Reed In 1989

Harry Chapin

Classic Chapin In His Element, Live In NYC

The Fabulous Heftones

Lansing Flavor

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Chick Webb & His Orchestra w/ Ella Fitzgerald

Chick Webb, February 10, 1905 - June 16, 1939 (34) - In 1935 Chick Began Featuring A Teenaged Ella Fitzgerald As Vocalist, And Together They Would Electrify The Swing Era Of Jazz. After His Death, Ella Led The Chick Webb Band Until 1942, Leaving To Focus On Her Solo Career.

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Robinella & the CC String Band

Happy Valentine's Day From Traditions

Suzy Bogguss

Composer: John A. Stone, 1853 - An American Folk Ballad About The Trials Of A Pioneer Named Betsy And Her Lover Ike Who Migrate From Pike County, Missouri To California During The California Gold Rush (1848-1855)

Richie Stearns And Rosie Newton

Southern Appalachian Traditional Folk Song - Composed At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century - Composer Unknown

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Laurie Lewis and The Right Hands

Guest Vocals: Linda Ronstadt - A "Forgotten" Gem Written By Hazel Dickens In 1967 - Unaccompanied Solo Version On 'Hazel & Alice," (1973) - Two Pioneering Bluegrass Women

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc & Merle Watson

On this Album, Doc & Merle Play With Deft, Nimble Grace, Spinning Out Surprisingly Hard-Edged Lines That Are Simultaneously Fluid And Gritty. Guests Musicians: T. Michael Coleman, Mark O'Conner & Pat McInerney

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Composer: Jimmie Rodgers (1929) - A Major Influence On Doc - This Song First Appeared On "Ballads From Deep Gap," (1967), A Largely Overlooked Album Featuring A Great Song List And Some Of Doc & Merle's Best Early Playing

Black Prairie

Experimental Bluegrass Side Project For Several Members Of The Decemberists

The Limeliters

Formed In Greenwich Village In 1959, By Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev & Glenn Yarbrough - Many Configurations Since Then And The Group Continues To This Day

Linda Thompson

Guest Musicians: Teddy Thompson, Amy Helm & Tony Trischka

Huck Nortari & The River

Portland, Oregon Based Singer-Songwriter

Wynonna & The Big Noise

Big Noise: Formed By Wynonna Judd & Her Husband Cactus Moser (Drummer for Highway 101). Special Guests: Tedeschi Trucks, Jason Isbell & Timothy B. Schmit

Spoonful Of Blues: Grace Brim

July 20, 1954 Arkansas - June 15, 1999 Indiana

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Spoonful Of Blues: Rube Lacey

January 2, 1901 Mississippi - November 14, 1969 California

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This Is '820' Jazz: Joe Pass

Personnel: Albert Stinson, Bass...Larry Bunker, Drums...Clare Fischer, Piano...Joe Pass, Guitar

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Tami Neilson

Fresh Into 'YCE

Jim Mills

North Carolina - Expert On Pre-War Gibson Banjos - Picked With Ricky Scaggs & Kentucky Thunder For Fourteen Years - Five Years With Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - Six Time IBMA Award Winner And Six Time Grammy Winner

Flatt & Scruggs

The Robb M Vintage Pick Of The Week - Composed By Bill Monroe And Lester Flatt (1946)

The Grascals

Multi-Award Winning Bluegrass Sextet Founded In Nashville In 2004

The Infamous Stringdusters

Guest Vocal: Sara Watkins - Traditions Appearance Alert: Magic Bag In Ferndale, 3/10 With Special Guests Nicki Bluhm And Lindsey Lou & The Flatbellys

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Front Country

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