The Baird Sisters

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

Los Zafiros

Los Zafiros (The Sapphires) Were A Cuban Vocal Group Active In The Mid-Sixties - Inspired By American Doo-Wop Groups, They Incorpated Latin Rhythms Into Their Sound

Brigitte Demeyer

Wrote The Album While Reading And Being Inspired By Gregg Allman's Autobiography, 'My Cross To Bear' (Wonderful Read)

Los Lobos

East Los Angeles, CA - The Band's Fifth Release

The Infamous Stringdusters

New Album Due Out January 13, 2017 - Electric Forest, Last Two Weekends In June, Rothbury, MI

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The Band

Composer: Robbie Robertson; Lead Vocal: Rick Danko - Originally Recorded But Did Not Appear On The Band's 1975 album, Northern Lights, Southern Cross, Appearing Two Years Later On "Islands," The Final studio Album From The Group's Original Lineup

HowellDevine

San Francisco, CA - The First Blues Band Arhoolie Records Signed In Twenty-Seven Years, Whose Stable Included Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin' Hopkins & Mississippi Fred McDowell - These Guys Would Right At Home Shaking The Floors Of A Southern Juke Joint Some 70 years Ago ​

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Aoife O'Donovan

Pin Drop Concert Series At Seven Steps Up, February 16, Spring Lake

Shirley Collins

Major Contributor To The English Folk Revival Of The 1960's & 70's - This Is Her First Album In Thirty Years

Caroline Doctorow

Wonderful Reworking Of Dion DiMucci, 1968

The Piedmont Melody Makers

Composers: Maybelle & Ezra Carter And Dixie Dean (Hall)

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Recorded At The Seattle Folklore Society With Fred Price And Clint Howard

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Christmas Greetings From Doc Watson, Flat Picker Deep Gap, NC

Happy Traum

Composer: Clive Palmer, Founding Member Of The Incredible String Band, 1966 - Traum Was A Participant Of The Legendary Washington/Greenwich Village Scene Of The 1950's & '60's - Influenced By The Great Brownie McGhee

Charlie Parr

Parr's Reworking Of A Late Nineteenth-Century Minstrel Song - Hokum Singer & Songster Jim Jackson Recorded A Version In 1928

Indigo Girls

Amy Ray & Emily Saliers - Appearing At The Ann Arbor Folk Festival, 1/28

Emmylou Harris

Harmony Vocals: Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt And Dolly Parton

Spoonful Of Blues: Andrew "Big Voice" Odom

Born In Louisiana And A Staple On The Chicago Blues Scene For Thirty Years, Andrew "Big Voice," Odom Played With Earl Hooker To Form A Band With Carey Bell & Pinetop Perkins In 1967, Then Sang For Jimmy Dawkins After Hooker's Death In 1970. A Journeyman Blues Singer Who Recorded Relatively Sparingly, His Voice Is Known For its Close Resemblance To Bobby Bland And B.B. King. Recording Only Three Albums, Odom Never Broke Through As A Solo Artist. His Heart Was Into Supplying Soulful Vocal Lines On Many Great Performances By The Elite Guitarists On The Chicago Club Circuit. Odom Passed On In 1991 At The Age Of Fifty-Five.

Spoonful Of Blues: Andew "Big Voice" Odom

December 15, 1936 Louisiana - December 23, 1991 Illinois

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This Is '820' Jazz: John Coltrane

Steve Davis, Double Bass...Elvin Jones, Drums...McCoy Tyner, Piano...John Coltrane...Soprano Sax

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Chesapeake

Direct Offshoot From The Seldom Scene, Formed By Mike Aldridge, T. Michael Coleman And Moondi Klein In 1994 & Disbanding Five Years Later

Tatiana Hargreaves

Guest Musicians: Sarah Jarosz & Bruce Molsky - Fourteen-Year Old Appalachian Influenced Fiddler

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Taarka

Husband/Wife Duo Enion And David Tiller

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms

Listen For Songs From Their New Album, "innocent Road," Here On 'YCE - Founding Members Of The Foghorn String Band (Still Active)

Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers

Randolph Country, NC - Successful Five Year Recording Career Beginning In 1925 - the Band's Music Has Been Covered By The Chieftains, Hot Tuna, Loudon Wainwright lll And The Grateful Dead

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