Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

2007 Grammy Award For Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Sippie Wallace

With Little Brother Montgomery & Roosevelt Sykes - Sippie's Early Career In Tent Shows Gained Her The Billing "The Texas Nightingale" - Inducted Into The Michigan Women"s Hall of Fame In 1993

Levon Helm

Turkey Scratch, Ark - Saw Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys At The Age Of Six And Decided Then To Become A Musician

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Buena Vista Social Club

Recorded, 1998; Produced By Ry Cooder And Featuring Veteran Cuban Performers Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben González, Compay Segundo, And Omara Portuondo

Son House

Son's Blistering Bottleneck Guitar Prompted Robert Johnson To Pick Up A Six String - House's Potent Early Recordings From 1930 And 1941 To 1942 Showcased His Raw, Emotionally Powerful Style - Did Some Time At Parchman Farm Penitentiary - Rediscovered During The '60's Blues Revivalist Movement; His Voice Still Possessed Wall-Shaking Intensity And His Idiosyncratic Slide Guitar Still Had Bite

An Dro

'YCE Jammie Recipients Appearing The Harris Building In Grand Rapids Providing Music For The Land Conservancy Art Exhibit On 11/01

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The Golden Gate Quartet

Formed In 1931; Still Active Today - The Perform In The Jubilee Quartet Style - Inducted Into The Vocal Hall Of Fame In 1998

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Emmylou Harris

Album Of The Year, 1980 - Albert Lee, Jerry Douglas & Linda Ronstadt Lending Their One-Of-Kind Talents To The Song - Undercover: Simon & Garfunkel, 1970 (Bridge Over Troubled Water)

9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Composer: W.C. Handy - Watson's First Solo Public Performances, Recorded In 1962 And 1963 At Gerde's Folk City; Never Released Prior To 2001

9 O'Clock Doc: Clint Howard & Fred Price

Doc Playing With Two Of His Inspirations

Magnolia Sisters

Lafayette, LA - An All-Woman Quartet Who Play Many Styles Of Cajun French Music From Southwest Louisiana

Josh Ritter

With His Long-Time Royal City Band - Recorded In Dublin In 2010 - Celebrating Number 41 In A Few Days - Shares The Date With My Son Dylan

Joseph Fire Crow

March 29, 1959 - July 11, 2017 (58); Award-Winning Cheyenne Flautist

Spoonful Of Blues: Beale Street Sheiks

Frank Stokes & Dan Sane - By The Turn Of The Century A Long-Term Musical Partnership Had Formed - Together, They Busked On The Streets Of Memphis; Stokes And Sane Developed A Professionalism That Set Them Apart From Many Of The More Rural, Less Polished Blues Musicians - The Interweaving Of The Two Guitars Is About As Tight As Anything In Blues - Their Final Recordings Together Took Place In 1929 - We Are Fortunate To Have These Recordings; The True Beginning Of Memphis Blues

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Spoonful Of Blues: Lillian Glinn

May 10, 1902 Texas - July 22, 1978 California - Discovered By Fellow Blueswoman Hattie Burleson - Success As A Vaudeville Performer Led To A Record Deal In 1927, Recording Twenty-Two Tracks In Two Years - Glinn Specialty Was Slow Blues With Topics Concentrating On The Harsher Side Of Life - Blues Researchers Consider Many Of Her Songs Were Her Own Material; An Exception Among Columbia's Female Blues Singers Of That Era

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'820 Jazz Presents: The Buddy Collette - Chico Hamilton Sextet

Curtis Counce, Bass...Chico Hamilton, Drums...Jimmy Hall, Guitar...Gerald Wiggins, Piano...John Anderson, Trumpet...Buddy Collette, Reeds

Woody Pines

Blind Lemon Pledge

San Francisco Based Quintet

The Stanley Brothers

Ralph & Carter And The Clinch Mountain Boys

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

COMPILATIONS

Rhonda Vincent

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The Early Mays

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Tim O'Brien

This Album Celebrates The Music Of Tim's Native State Of West Virginia With Title Track Telling The Story Of His Great Grandfather's Emigration From Ireland To Wheeling In 1851