Two High String Band

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

Muddy Waters

Producer: Willie Dixon - Piano: Otis Spann

The Holmes Brothers

Etta Jones

Aiken, SC - Sang Professionally For Over 50 Years, Yet She Steadfastly remained A "Best-Kept Secret" Throughout Her Career - First Professional Gig: Buddy Johnson's Big Band, 1943 (15 Years Old) - First Big Hit: "Don't Go To Strangers," 1960

Lyle Lovett

Appearing With John Hiatt At The Wharton Center, East Lansing 10/31

Sam Bush

First Time Spin From An Eleven Year Old Album

Hugh Masekela

Featuring Baranta & Miatta Fahinbulleh - The Album Includes Rare & Unreleased Music From The Vaults Of Chissa Records, Founded By Masekela And Producer Stewart Levine

Eddie Bo

He And Fats Ruled the Crescent City In the Mid-1950's And Yet Is A Sorely Underappreciated Veteran Of The New Orleans R&B Scene

Alberta Hunter

Bruce Cockburn

Johnny Lee Moore And 12 Mississippi Convicts

Field Recording Made By John Lomax In 1933 At the Mississippi State Penitentiary - The Songs Evolution Extends From The Latter Part Of The Nineteenth Century

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Danu

Founded In 1994 On the Outskirts Of Dublin - The Band Take Their Name From One Of The Oldest Deities In Celtic Mythology - An Industrial Song Documenting The History Of Shoe-Making

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Composer: Jimmy Driftwood - Doc's Second Studio Release - The Song Tells The Story About A Man, His Horse And Their Travels In Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, And Mexico In 1825 - Doc Would Revisit "Tennessee Stud," On His 2003 Release By The Same Name

9 O'Clock Doc: Ola Belle Reed

Ashe County, NC - Clawhammer-Style Banjoist, Singer/Songwriter - Trailblazing Force For Women In Bluegrass Music - An Appalachian Woman Of Hard-Earned Talent Who Delivered Honest Music Sung From The Heart; Songs That Speak to Her Appalachian Life And Traditions

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Eli Cook

Online Suggestion

Turnpike Troubadours

Oklahoma Quintet Moving Down America's Highways Twelve Years On

Andre Brunet

Quebec Fiddle Master And Former Member Of La Bottine Souriante

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Rosanne Cash

Co-Written With John Stewart - Most Of The Album's Themes Are In Reference To Her Breakup With Rodney Crowell

Spoonful Of Blues: Ethel Waters

October 31. 1896 Pennsylvania - September 1, 1977 California

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Spoonful Of Blues: Ethel Waters

Originally Classified As A Blues Singer; An Interpreter Of The Blues Rivaling Bessie Smith - A Stage And Movie Star In The 1930's And '40's - Her Jazz-Oriented Recordings From 1921-1928 Swung Before That Term Was Even Coined - After 1960 She Mostly Confined Her Performances To Religious Work for The Evangelist Billy Graham

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'820' Jazz Presents: Coleman Hawkins

Eddie Costa, Piano...Osie Johnson, Drums...George Duvivier, Bass...Thad Jones, Trumpet...Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophone

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The Sweetback Sisters

Zara Bode & Emily Miller; "A Modern Take On The Golden Age Of Country Music"

Dailey & Vincent

Jaime Dailey: Former Lead Singer & Guitarist For Doyle Lawson - Darrin Vincent: Founding Member Of Kentucky thunder

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

With The Foggy Mountain Boys, One Of The Landmark Bands In Bluegrass

Greensky Bluegrass

The Band Returns For A Two Night Stand At The Kalamazoo State Theater November 24 & 25; May Erlewhine Supports

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Dale Ann Bradley

2017 IBMA Nominated For Female Vocalist Of The Year; An Award She Has Won Five Times Before

EmiSunshine

12 Year-Old East Tennessee Prodigy