Ten Strings And A Goat Skin

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

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Chuck Berry

Happy Birthday, Chuck! Turning 90 This Past Week

The Time Jumpers

Lead Vocals: Dawn Sears - Temple Theater, Saginaw, MI 4/29

Doug MacLeod

Consummate Canadian Troubadour & Multiple Blues Award Recipient - sideman Gigs With George 'Harmonica' Smith, Big Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Lowell Fulson And Big Mama Thornton - "Never Play A Note You Don't Believe", And "Never Write Or Sing About What You Don't Know About." DM

Eden Brent

Greensville, Mississippi - Nickname: "Little Boogaloo" - Blues Pianist And Vocalist - Vocal Style Has Been Compared To Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie And Aretha Franklin

Montana Skies

Traditional Folk Song, Sometimes Called "Rising Sun Blues" - Composer Unknown - Similarities To The 16th Century Ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" - Said to Have Been Known By Miners In 1905 - Oldest Known Recording: Appalachian Artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley And Gwen Foster, 1933

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David Bromberg Band

Produced By Larry Campbell - Fifty-Years Of Entertaining In That Delicious Bromberg Style

Madeleine Peyroux

Composers: Kansas Joe McCoy & Lil Green, 1941 - Recorded By Lil And Big Bill Broonzy In '41

Jim Kweskin & Meredith Axelrod

Written By Gerald Marks And Seymour Simons in 1931 - The Song Has Been Recorded Over Two Thousand Times - It Is A Jazz Vocal Standard

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Merle Travis

Major Influence On Chet Atkins

Jim & Bob (The Genial Hawaiians)

Jim Holstein And Bob Pauole - All The Genial Hawaiians Releases Come From One Recording Session On December 12, 1933 In Chicago - Unfortunately Very Little Is Known About Jim and Bob. No One Even Knows For Sure What Became Of Them After The Mid-1930's

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Jesse Mae Hemphill

Mississippi - Influential North Mississippi Hill Country Blues Guitarist & Singer - Didn't Begin A Formal Recording Career 'Til 1980, At The Age Of 57

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Doc's Fourth Studio Release, With Merle - "Georgie," Co-Written With Fiddler Gaither Carlton (Doc's Father-In-Law)

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Doc Covers The Jimmie Rodgers Classic - This Is One Of Doc's Best Latter-Day Records, Boasting An Affectionate Collection Of Old Time And Traditional Country Songs

Taarka

Lyons, CO - A Collision Of Django Reinhardt & David Grisman - Husband/Wife Duo Of David & Enion Tiller

Luke Winslow-King

Two Night Stand With Greensky Bluegrass In Flagstaff This Week And Then Off On An Extensive European Tour

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Lucinda Williams

Delving Deep Into The History Of The Memphis Jug Band (1928)

Nerissa & Katryna Nields

Nerissa & Katryna Celebrating Twenty-Five Years Together

Tom Paxton

Debut Album Produced By Paul Rothchild (The Doors) - Greenwich Village Troubadour - Renowned Singer/Songwriter - Voice Of A Generation - Still Maintains A Busy Touring Schedule At Age 79

Spoonful Of Blues: Bobby Bland

January 27, 1930 - June 23, 2013 - Bobby Bland Was Among The Great Storytellers Of Blues And Soul, Creating Tempestuous Arias Of Love, Betrayal And Resignation - Born In Memphis, He Hung Out With BB, Roscoe Gordon And Johnny Ace - A Major Hit Maker 1960's, The Catchier Sounds Of Motown Soon Eclipsed The Funkier Sounds Of Stax - Financial Pressures Soon Followed & For the Next Twenty Years He Stayed Close to His Roots, Preferring To Tour The Southern Circuit - The Last Stage Of His Recording Career Produced Ten Well-Honed Albums In Which He Embarked Once Again On The Stormy Seas Of Heartbreak And Ecstasy With An Even Surer Hand On the Wheel - Passing On In June 2013, His Influence Is Undeniable

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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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This Is '820' Jazz: Kermit Ruffins

George Porter, Jr., Bass...David Toranowsky, Piano...Herlin Riley, Drums...Kermit Ruffins, Trumpet

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The Stray Birds

The Ark, Ann Arbor 11/19

Gal Holiday And The Honky Tonk Revue

Pickin' On Dylan This Morning

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Jim Lauderdale

Multi-Award Winning Mr. Everything

The Johnson Mountain Boys

Forming In Washington, DC In 1980, They Are No Longer Together

James King

When Asked What Real Country Music Was, Harlan Howard Replied, "Country Music Isn't Nothing But Three Chords And The Truth."

the Barefoot Movement

Nashville Based Trio With Fifteen Years Behind Them, Founding The Band As High School Seniors

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COMPILATIONS

Stuart Duncan: Fiddle - Dirk Powell: Banjo

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