Willie and Lobo

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

Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers

Composer: Tommy Johnson, 1928 (Big Road Blues)

Jack Johnson

Billie Holiday

Vintage! - Online Suggestion

Yonder Mountain String Band

Appearing Tonight At Bell's Eccentric Cafe, Kalamazoo

Fats Domino

During His Career Domino Sold Over 65 Millions Records

Fats Domino

Antoine Dominique Domino, Jr - February 26, 1928 - October 24, 2017 (89)

Duke Robillard

New Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers

Highly Influential String Band From Randolph Country, NC With A Short-Lived Five-Year Recording Career Beginning In 1925 - The Band's Music Re-Energized During The 1960's Folk Revival

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Papa Celestin's New Orleans Band

New Orleans Cornetist Considered A Major Player In The Development Of Jazz - Founder Of The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 1910 - Final Recordings, 1954

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Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet

Catfish Keith

East Chicago, IN; Catfish's 16th Album

Old Time Country And Blues Revue

DK Kolars And Pete Norman, Known Collectively As The Old Time Country And Blues Revue Playing A Spot Reworking Of The 1916 Perennial Classic

Birds Of Chicago

Appearing: The Ann Arbor Folk Festival, 1/27 And To Grand Rapids On February 14th Supporting Valerie June At The Ladies Literary club

Tom Waits

Turning 67 In a Few Weeks - One Critic Describes Wait's Voice As Though "It Was Soaked In A Vat Of Bourbon, Left Hanging In The Smokehouse For A Few Months, And Then Taken Outside And Run Over With A Car"

Wanda Jackson

With Dave Alvin

Charley Patton

May 1,1891 Mississippi - April 28, 1934 Mississippi - The Most Important Figure In The Pioneering Era Of Delta Blues, Charley Patton Blazed A Trail As The Music's Preeminent Entertainer And Recording Artist During The First Third Of The 20th Century. An Accomplished And Inventive Guitarist And Lyricist, Patton Was Born In 1891 Mississippi And Over The Course Of Just Five Years Recorded A Profound Body Of Work. He Is Known As The First Great Delta Blues Man, And His Influence On Those Who Followed Is Immense. Charley Patton Passed On In 1934.

Bob Brookmeyer And Zoot Sims Octet

Al Cohn, Baritone Sax...Hank Jones, Piano...Freddie Green, Guitar...Charlie Persip, Drums...Harry "Sweets" Edison, Trumpet...Zoot Sims, Tenor Sax...Bob Brookmeyer, Valve Trombone

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Calexico

Tucson, AZ

The Sacred Shakers

First Time Spin On 'YCE

Wild Ponies

Currently On An Extensive European Tour

Malcolm Holcombe

Son Of The Blue Ridge Mountains Carries On The Tradition Of Bardic Singer-Songwriters; A Poet Troubadour Of Barrooms, Ragged Towns And Coal Miner Shacks

Ruth & Max Bloomquist

Appearing: Norton Shores Branch Library, 11/9...Felt Mansion Holland, 12/23

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