Baka Beyond
An GwirderEast To West 2002 via Narada
a note about this track
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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 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
Harpist For ZZ Top
GR Flavor
Guests Musicians: Red Hot Chili Peppers
One Of The True Unsung Heroes Of American Roots Music Joined Here By Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
Major R&B Singer Of The 1950's
Composer: Hoagy Carmichel, 1930
Memphis Minnie Shattered The 1920's Blues Diva Era Mould As A Guitarist, Singer And Songwriter As Steeped In Country Blues As Any Delta Songster And When She Moved To Chicago In 1930, She Made A Telling Contribution To The Blues' Urban Transformation.Minnie Cut Well Over 200 Tracks Before Her Failing Health Led To Her Retiring Back To Memphis In 1955, Passing On In 1973.
Lizzie Douglas, June 3, 1897 Louisiana - August 6, 1973; Tennessee; Ernest Lawlars, May 18, 1900 Arkansas - November 14, 1961 Tennessee; Wilbur McCoy, May 11, 1905 Mississippi - January 28, 1950 Illinois
Appearing: Buttermilk Jamboree, 6/16 (Saturday Show)
Levon On Vocals - An Outake Recorded For The "Music From Big Pink" Sessions, Re-Surfacing Seven Years Later On "The Basement Tapes"
Alison Russell & JT Nero Co-Producing Once Again With Luther Dickinson
Forbert's Third Release
Kalamazoo, MI; Appearing At the Buttermilk Jamboree, 6/16 (Delton, MI)
The Folk/Blues Revival Of The 50's Brought Many Original Blues Players To Prominence, Perhaps The Most Influential Of All Was Rev. Gary Davis, A Gruff Old 'Guitar Evangelist' Who Possessed A Fantastic Touch On The Guitar; A Sublime Harp Tone And A Repertoire Of Sacred And Secular Songs That Would Run To Several Volumes
John Lewis, Piano...Percy Heath, Bass...Kenny Clarke, Drums...Milt Jackson, Vibraphone
One Of GR's Finest!
Highly Influential Fiddler And Banjo Player From The Mount Airy Region Of North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains
Woody Guthrie, 1941