Strength in Numbers

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

Tim Easton

Latest From Nashville-Based Easton - This One Is For Elmore

Alberta Hunter

Career: The Early 1920's To 1959 - Stopped Performing And Worked As a Nurse Returning To Performing In 1979 With A Steady Gig In Greenwich Village 'Til Her Passing In 1984

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Rossville, Tennessee - Seminal Figure In Mississippi Hill Country Blues - One Of The Most Vibrant Performers Of The 1960's Blues Revival -The Highly Acclaimed Albums That McDowell Waxed During His Belated Recording Career (1959-1971) Proved That Some Of The Greatest Country Blues Music Had Gone Undiscovered By The Record Companies That Scoured The South For Talent In The 1920's And ‘30's

Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban

Galban: Cuban Guitarist, Pianist And Arranger, Most Notable For His Work With Los Zafiros, Ry Cooder And The Buena Vista Social Club.

The Chenille Sisters

Forming In Ann Arbor In 1985

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Leon Redbone

Specializing In Jazz, Blues, And Tin Pan Alley Classics - Leon Has Officially Retired From Performing And Recording

David Bromberg Band

Undercover: Bessie Smith, 1925

Asleep At The Wheel

Composed By Bob Wills, However The Chorus Is Based On the Memphis Minnie And Kansas Joe McCoy (1930)

Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers

Louisiana - One Of The Very First Giants Of Jazz, Jelly Roll Did Himself A Lot Of Harm Posthumously By Exaggerating His Worth, Claiming To Have Invented Jazz In 1902 - His Accomplishments As An Early Innovator Are So Vast He Did Not Really Need To Stretch The Truth - Cut His Teeth As A Pianist In His Hometown's Bordellos - Rose To Fame As The Leader Of Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers In The 1920's - Inducted To The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Honored With A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

An Old North Carolina Folk Song Based On The 1866 Murder Of Laura Foster In Wilkes County, North Carolina, Allegedly By Tom Dula - It Fits Within The Wider Genre Of Appalachian "Sweetheart Murder Ballads

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Passed Down Through Oral Tradition:The Banjo's Gourd Ancestors Came To The Americas With Enslaved Africans, Forging The Link Between West African Griots (Historians) And Performers Of 20th-century Blues And String-Band Music - doc Captures The True Essence Of This Song

Karan Casey & John Doyle

Former Founding Members Of 'Solas,' Reuniting For A Duet Album In 2010; Thirteen Years After Leaving Solas

Spider John Koerner

First Appearance In Scottish Literature, 1548 - First Known Musical Appearance, 1611 - " Frog Rides To Ask Miss Mouse To Marry Him. She Is Willing But Must Ask Permission Of Uncle Rat."

The Squirrel Hillibillies

Salt Of The Earth 10/16 Fennville, MI 7PM

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Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur

"Gwabi Gwabi" Is A Ndebele And Zulu Folk Song First Recorded By Zimbabwean Guitarist/Singer George Sibanda In the 1940s - Arlo Guthrie Is Credited With Popularizing The Song In the USA And Other Parts Of The "Western" World

Spoonful Of Blues: Amos Milburn

April 1, 1927 – January 3, 1980 - Boogie Piano Master Pounding Out Some Of The Most Hellacious Boogies Of The Postwar Era Garnering Massive Hits During The Immediate Pre-Rock Era - Signed With Aladdin Records In Los Angeles In 1946 - Spent Some Time On The Road With Charles Brown - One Of The First Performers To Switch From Sophisticated Jazz Arrangements To The Louder Jump Blues Style - A Commercial Success For Eleven Years Influencing Many Performers,Little Willie Littlefield, Floyd Dixon And Fats Domino

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Spoonful Of Blues: Snooks Eaglin

Singer/Guitarist Regarded As A Legend Of New Orleans Music - His Vocal Style Was Reminiscent Of That Of Ray Charles, And His Ability To Play A Wide Range Of Songs Earned Him The Nickname "The Human Jukebox" - At Fourteen-Years Of Age He Joined The Flamingoes, A Local Seven-Piece Band Started By Allen Toussaint - Going Solo In 1956, His Diverse Body Of Work Over The Next Fifty-Two Years Is A Testament To The Sounds And Heritage Of His Beloved New Orleans - Snooks Passed On In 2009

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This Is "820" Jazz: Donald Byrd

Duke Pearson, Piano...Doug Watkins, Bass...Hank Mobley, Tenor Sax...Lex Humphries, Drums...Donald Byrd, Trumpet

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Michael Doucet

With Tom Rigney

Hot Rize

Tim O'Brien, Pete Wernick, Nick Forster & Bryan Sutton

The Del McCoury Band

Del's Landmark Project Composing Music To Woody Guthrie's Lyrics

Eilen Jewell

Alison Krauss & Union Station

Composer: Peter Rowan - Lead Vocal: Dan Tyminski - Great Banjo Pickin' From Ron block

Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck and Mike Marshall