Traditions! Is A Weekly Two-Hour Presentation Following Musical Streams Passed Down Through Generations; Pathways Linked By A Sincere Appreciation And Acknowledgement Of The Influential Styles That Continue Shaping The Landscape Of American Roots Music: Early Influences - Pioneering Legends - Roots Revivalists - Indigenous Cultures. Thanks For Joining Us!
"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week
Street Date: 4/27 - A Blues Standard First Performed And Recorded By Pinetop Sparks With Henry Townsend On Guitar,1935 (St. Louis)
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers Are A Country Band With A Sneer, A Bite, And No Apologies; So Refreshing!
Fresh Music Into 'YCE
Jorma And Jack With Cindy Cashdollar Reworking What Is Considered The Most Famous Composition By American Folk Musician And One-Man Band, Jesse Fuller (1954)
Street Date: 5/11 - Appearing: The Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor 6/22
Producer: Ry Cooder - An Ensemble Of Cuban Musicians Established In 1996 To Revive The Music Of Pre-Revolutionary Cuba, Named The Group After The Homonymous Members' Club In The Buenavista Quarter Of Havana, A Popular Music Venue In The 1940's; Recruiting A Dozen Veteran Musicians, Many Of Whom Had Been Retired For Years
First Recording In 1932 By Ethel Merman, And Perhaps The Most Definitive Reading By Billy Holiday Seven Years Later; The Song Is A Jazz Standard
Down Home Swing From The Back Roads Of American Music
The Asch Recordings, Recorded In 1944 And 1945, Are Possibly The Most Famous Recordings Of Woody Guthrie, Conducted By Moe Asch In New York City (105 Songs)
Legendary Blue Ridge Mountains Singer & Educator Celebrating Number 78 In A Few Days
Big Bill Broonzy Was A John The Baptist Figure In The Scripture Of The Blues: A Charismatic Fore-Runner Of Greater Things To Come, Taking The Sound Of Early Chicago Blues Bands Out Of The Windy City Across The Country, And Eventually To Europe Where He Planted A Seed That Came Back In The British Invasion Of The 1960's To Revolutionize Popular Music In America And Around The World. Big Bill Was Born In 1893 Mississippi, And Passed On Sixty-Two Years Later (1958)
June 26,1903 Mississippi - August, 14, 1958 Illinois
Forty-Two Years Ago Bob Dylan Unleashed Desire, Arguably The Most Complicated Record Of His Career, Featuring The Same Caravan Of Musicians As The Acclaimed Rolling Thunder Revue Tours
Producer: T-Bone Burnett - Jim James, Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith And Rhiannon Giddens - The Recording Consists Of Tracks Based On Newly Uncovered Lyrics Handwritten By Bob Dylan In 1967
Detroit, MI - One Of The True Unsung Heroes Of American Music - Miss Dane Turns 91 In A Couple Of Weeks
Guests: Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm And Rubin Ramos & The Texas Revolution
An Award Winning Musician & Producer In The World's Blues And Roots Music Scene
Appearing: Centennial Hall, Grand Haven 4/27
Bill Jennings, Guitar...Jack McDuff, Hammond B-3...Tommy Potter, Bass...Alvin Johnson, Drums...Willis Jackson, Tenor Sax
No One Better At His Craft
Ralph & Carter, Vintage Bluegras
The Link Between Gid Tanner And Bill Monroe
Kris Hutson & Pearl Charles, Pocahontas, WV
