Chris Hazelton's Boogaloo 7

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

Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore

Topeka, KS - 1930: Joined F. S. Wolcott's Rabbit's Foot Minstrels, And Began Performing With Ida Cox, Ma Rainey And Bertha "Chippie" Hill First Blues Singer To Sing At The Apollo Theater - Survived The Natchez Rhythm Club Fire - Descendant Of Emancipated Slaves - Renowned Religious Leader, Radio Announcer, And Gospel Singer - Launched His Career In Memphis in 1934 As A Blues Shouter - Honored With A Marker On The Mississippi Blues Trail

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Jerry Garcia & David Grisman

Undercover ; B.B.King, 1969 (Completely Well)

Barbara Lynn

Tyrone Davis, 1969

Marvin Gaye

Producer: Marvin Gaye - A Concept Album, A Song Cycle As Told From The Point View Of A Vietnam Veteran Returning To the Country He Had Been Fighting For, And Seeing Only Hate, Suffering And Injustice - The First Album Motown's Records Session Musicians Known As the "Funk Brothers," Received An Official Credit (Gaye's Insistence)

Ella Fitzgerald

Composer: Billy Strayhorn - Band: The Roy Eldridge Quartet - Many Unreleased Performances From Ella's 1964 Tour Of Japan -

David Wax Museum

Fresh Into 'YCE

Punch Brothers

Paul Kowert, Noam Pilkelny, Chris Eldridge, Gabe Witcher & Chris Thile - Thile Rejoins Yo Yo Ma & Edgar Meyer At Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor 4/22

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band

Two Forces In American Music Collide For A One Of A Kind Album

Hazel Dickens

Primitive Baptist Hymn Written In 1855

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

This Live Recording Did Not See Daylight Until Earlier This Year - Many Of The Songs Were Released Over The Years On Various Compilations

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, Flatpicker; Deep Gap, NC - 1953: Joined Tennessee Based Country And Western Swing Band, Learning To Play Fiddle Tunes On His Les Paul Electric Guitar - Supplemented His Income As a Piano Tuner

Pink Martini

Portland, Oregon, 1994 - Rufus Wainwright Appears On a Few The Tunes

Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo

Debut - Norton Buffalo: Harmonica Virtuoso - Roy Rogers: Slide Guitarist - Established In The San Francisco Bay Area Blues Scene, Pairing In An Acoustic Duo Format for Rare Appearances

Mimi And Richard Farina

The First Of Two Releases Before Richard's Untimely Demise In 1966

James Leva, John Doyle & Carol Elizabeth Jones

Bill Staines

Wealthy Theater Annex In a Show For The Grand River Folk Arts Society, 3/25

Spoonful Of Blues: Merline Johnson

Blues Reseachers Believe Merline Johnson Was Born In Mississippi Around 1912 - We Know She Migrated to Chicago And Recorded Her First Sides In 1937, Establishing Herself As a Sanquine, Straight-Forward Vocalist Blues Covering The Standard Topical Range Of Chicago Blues - By 1941 She Had Recorded Over Ninety Songs Accompanied From The Likes Of Lonnie Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind John Davis And Punch Miller - Johnson's Final Sessions In 1947 Were Not Issued For Another Forty Years; Most Of These Can Be Found On Various Blues Compilations - Little Is Known Of Her Origins, Her Life During A Brief But Productive Heyday, Or Her Eventual Fate

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Spoonful Of Blues: Merline Johnson

?/?/1912 Missouri - ?/?/?? Unknown

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This Is '820' Jazz: Grant Green

Billy Higgins, Drums...Reggie Workman, Bass...Herbie Hancock, Piano...Grant Green, Guitar - (Rudy Van Gelder, Engineering)

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Barbara Lynn

Barbara Lynn

Barbara Lynn

Barbara Lynn

Barbara Lynn

Willie Watson

Solo Debut - Co-Founder: Old Crow Medicine Show - "Folk Singer Vol. 1 Produced By David Rawlings

Caleb Klauder

Portland, OR - With Reeb Williams, Former The Foghorn Stringband

Jean Shepard

Debut Album Produced By Jean - Honky-Tonk Singer/Songwriter - Among The Few Pioneering Women In Country Music

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Greensky Bluegrass

Royal Oak MusicTheater, 12/30 & 12/31, Roy Oak, MI - Special Guests: Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys

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Claire Lynch

With Jerry Douglas

Young Grass

Pickin' On Neil Young, 1969 (Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere)