Luther Dickinson

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

Judy Roderick

Composer: Memphis Willie B. - Known For His Work With Jack Kelly's Jug Busters And The Memphis Jug Band - First Recorded At The Age Of 23 (1934) - Returned to Memphis After the War And Played with Little Son Joe, Will Shade & Joe Louis Hill - Abruptly Stopped Playing In The Late 1960's, And Little Was Heard Of Him Until His Death In 1993, At The Age Of 81

Davell Crawford

Guest Musicians: Donald Harrison, Dr. John & Big Freddia; Crawford Continues The New Orleans Piano Tradition Begun By Musicians Professor Longhair And James Booker

Motel Mirrors

Latest Project From Amy LaVere & John Paul Keith

Mudslide Charley

Missoula, MT Quintet

Tom Rigney

With Flambeau

Jay McShann

1920's Song that Became A Blues Standard; First Recording by The Original Memphis Five With Anna Meyers singing The Tune

Betty James

Baltimore, MD - The Original Written by Betty James And Writing Partner Edward Johnson

Duck Baker

New Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Often Known by The Nickname "Minstrel Of The Appalachians," Reminiscing Of A Time Near The Swannanoa Tunnel, An Eighteen Hundred Foot Railroad Tunnel Constructed By Convict Labor Between 1877-79

Reed Turchi & His Kudzu Choir

Composed In 1907

Doc & Richard Watson

Doc & Grandson Richard Revisiting A Song Covered By Doc & Merle In 1966 (Southbound)

Doc Watson

Performance Date: February 10. 1963 - Cambridge's Club 47 Was The Ultimate Folk-Music Venue, Watson Was Just Short Of Turning 40. Club 47 Is Now Known As Club Passim

Leftover Salmon

Appearing: Hoxeyville Music Festival 8/17; Wellston, MI (Manistee National Forest, 25 Miles West Of Cadillac)

Little Walter

Little Walter's Distorted And Fat Blowing Sound Came Out Of Louisiana On Its Way To Chicago Via Memphis During The Late 1940's, Taking The Humble Harmonica In Dazzling Amplified Directions That Were Unimaginable Prior to His Ascendancy As The King Of Post War Blues Harpists

Fink, Marxer, Gleaves

Composer:Tom Paxton - Long Running Folk And Old-Time Duo Cathy Fink And Marcy Marxer Hooked Up With Sam Gleaves During A Songwriting Camp A While Back, Thought The Sound Took On An Interesting Vibe Leading To The New Album "Shout And Shine" Due To Drop In A Couple Of Weeks

Leyla McCalla

The Former Carolina Chocolate Drops Cellist Pays Tribute To One Of Her Inspirations, Poet & Novelist Langston Hughes

Lawrence Laughing

Iroquois Musician

Mississippi John Hurt

Composer: John Smith Hurt, 1930 - When The Folk/Blues Revival Of The Early 60's Brought The Old Blues Players Out Of Obscurity And Onto The World Stage, Nobody's Obscurity Was Deeper Than Mississippi John Hurt's. Hurt Looked At Music As a Hobby, Recorded A Couple Of Sides In The Late 1920's With No Success, And With The Great Depression Looming, Stayed Close To Home To Sharecrop The Land. Thirty Five Years Would Pass Before Musicologist Tom Hoskins "Rediscovered," John In Avalon, MS; The 70 Year Old's Talents Perfectly Intact. A Series Of Concert And Recording Sessions Were Arranged. John Cut "Avalon Blues," In 1963, His First Time Back In A Studio Since 1928 Displaying A Style That Had Not Changed Much Since The 20's. John Smith Hurt Passed On Three Years Later At The Age O 74. His Collected Works Is Preserved In The Library Of Congress.

Johnny Hodges

Jimmy Woode, Bass...Harry Carny, Baritone Saxophone...Lawrence Browne, Trombone...Sam Woodyard, Drums...Billy Strayhorn, Piano...Jimmy Hamilton, Clarinet...Johnny Hodges, Alto Saxophone

Jimmie Rodgers

Vintage Rodgers! - Jimmie Recorded Thirteen variations Of Blues Yodel Between 1927 And His Passing 1933

The Del McCoury Band

Fresh 'Grass Into 'YCE

David Rawlings

Guests Musicians Putting The "Special," Into 'Poor David's Almanack,' Include Gillian Welch, Willie Watson, Ketch Secor And Brittany Haas

Pharis & Jason Romero

The Couple's Love Of Old Music Has Taken Them To "Sweet Old Religion" Wonderful New Album

Dom Flemons

Composer: Charley Willis, 1871 - A Skilled Cowhand Known For The Songs He Brought Back From The Trail

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