The U.S. Army Blues Swamp Romp

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

Ann Rabson

Truckstop Honeymoon

New Orleans, LA - Katie & Mike West Spent Their Honeymoon In A Truck Stop, Hence a Band Is a Born - "Tales Of Cheating Spouses, Bad Attitudes, Short-Changed Romances, Endless Asphalt And Dodgy Diners, All Told With A "Pschobilly" Sense Of Playfulness." The Herald, Newcastle, Australia.

Todd Rhodes And His Orchestra With Kitty Stevens

Early Influence On Jazz And R&B - Left "McKinney's Cotton Pickers," In 1934, Moving His Base To Detroit - One Of The Great Territorial Bands Of The Day

Bob Dylan

Co-Written With Robert Hunter - Dylan's Thirty-Fifth Album

Kristin Diable And The City

Baton Rouge, LA - Cut Her Chops As An Eighteen Year Old Expanding Her Musical Pallete In New York City, And a Few Years Later Following Her Muse Back To Her Native Louisiana - Produced By Dave Cobb (Sturgill Cimpson & Jason Isbell)

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T.V. Slim & His Heartbreakers

Oscar Wills, 1957- TV Repairman Moonlighting With A Rockin' Band - Never Became A Household Name, But He Had A Powerful Voice, Played A Mean Guitar, And Displayed Humor In His Songwriting

South Memphis String Band

Luther Dickinson, Jimbo Mathus & Alvin Youngblood Hart

Marion Williams

Influential Pioneer Of Gospel Music - Got Her Professional Start At The Age Of Twenty Joining The Clara Ward Singers In 1947, The Preeminent Group Of The 1950's

Jesse McReynolds

Legendary Bluegrass Musician/Mandolin Innovator And Stylist - Member Of The Grand Ole Opry Since 1964 - Pickin' On the Dead (Blues For Alluh, 1975

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Taj Mahal

Studio Line Requests

R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders

Originally Packaged And Released As "R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders Number 2,'' In 1976 On Blue Goose Records

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson & David Grisman

Grisman: "These Tapes Document Some Wonderful 'After-Dinner' Sessions At My Home During Several Of Doc's Visits.Tunes Were Selected Spontaneously And More Often Than Not, Played Only Once."

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson & David Grisman

Watson And Grisman First Met In The Early 1960's - Doc Invited Seventeen Year Old David On Stage To Join Him On Mandolin For A Rendition Of "In The Pines" - Here, They Rework The Jimmie Rodgers Nugget

Sonny Landreth

Free The Honey

Gunnison, Co; Jenny Hill - Lizzy Plotkin - Katherine Taylor

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Tift Merritt

Performing At the Ark In Ann Arbor, 4/5 - Listen For Tunes From Tift's New Album "Stitch Of The World,"Here On 'YCE

Greg Trooper

January 13, 1956 - January 15, 2017 (61)

Spoonful Of Blues: Elzadie Robinson

Recorded Thirty-Four Songs Between 1926-1929 - Composed Most Of Her Work, Unusual For The Time - Aliases: Bernice Drake And Blanche Johnson - Her 1928 Recordings Feature Accompanists Johnny Dodds & Blind Blake - Her Life Outside Of The Recording Studio Is Sketchy

Spoonful Of Blues: Elzadie Robinson

April 24, 1897 (?) Louisiana - January 17, 1975 Michigan

'820 Jazz Presents: Buddy Tate & Buck Clayton

Personnel: Gene Ramey, Bass...Sir Charles Thompson, Piano...Mousie Alexander, Drums...Buck Clayton, Trumpet...Buddy Tate, Tenor Saxophone

Jerks of Grass

Composer: Bobby Osborne

The Freight Hoppers

Bryson City, NC Based Roots Quartet Entering Their Twenty-Second Year Crafting Their Own Special Brand Of Old-Time String Music

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Mac Wiseman

An All-Star Tribute Album To 91 Year Old Mac Wiseman - His Seventy-Three Year Career Has Taken Many Twists And Turns Beginning As The Founding Guitarist For The "Foggy Mountain Boys"

Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals

Reworking E.C. Ball's Gospel Bluegrass Classic

Townes Van Zandt

Bob Bernard and Kailin Yong

Composer: Susan Conger, Renowned Fiddler & Classic Violinist

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