The Turbans

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

COMPILATIONS

Rick Danko, Vocals - The Band Keeps It True On This Dylan Gem From "The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964 - Of Note: The Band Back Dylan On the Live 1966 Tour; Danko Providing Harmony Vocals On "One Too Many Mornings.

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Van Morrison

Morrison's Fortieth Studio Album finds the Seventy-Three Year Old At The Top Of His Game; An Outstanding Album Continuing A Longtime Collaboration With Joey DeFrancesco

Honey Island Swamp Band

Online Stream Suggestion - Hurricane Katrina Displaced The Founding Members Leaving Them Marooned In San Francisco, Hooking With Two Other Crescent City Evacuees At John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room; Scoring The Weekly Sunday Night Slot; Soon A Favorite Of Bay Area Roots Music Lovers

Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers

Influential Jug Band Of The 1920's, Impacting Those That Followed In Its Wake - Created By The Commingling Of Two separate Groups Run By Jug Player Earl McDonald, And Fiddler Clifford Hayes

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Kay Starr

Joined By The Van Alexander Orchestra - One Of The Great 'Girl Singers' Of The Big Band Era, Kay Starr Was Blessed With A Husky, Saloon-Type Singing Style, And A Swagger That Crisscrossed Multiple Musical Genres; Starr could Swing With The Best Of them

Leroy Thomas And The Zydeco Roadrunners

Lake Charles, LA - Accompanied By Long-Time Band, "The Zydeco Roadrunners, Thomas Stirs Up A Spicy Gumbo Of Traditional Zydeco and Cajun With Sn Innovative Funky, Hard-Driving Sound

Greensky Bluegrass

Forthcoming Seventh Album 1/18/19 - The Kalamazoo 'Grassers Begin An Extensive U.S. Tour December 29th With A Two-Night Stand Scheduled For The Fillmore In Detroit 2/8&9

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The Lovin' Spoonful

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Honorees (2000) - Deep Roots In The Folk Music Scene Based In Greenwich Village In the Early 1960's - The Band's Name Was Inspired By a Few Lines In The Song "Coffee Blues" By Mississippi John Hurt

Luther Dickinson

Featuring The Rising Star Fife And Drum Band - Predating The American Civil War, The Song Is Known Under A Variety Of Titles; Recorded Seven Times Before 1930, Most Notably The Arizona Dranes,1927 And Blind Willie Johnson,1929

The Lucky Losers

Produced By Kid Anderson - Multi-Award Honorees Cathy Lemons & Phil Berkowitz With A Modern Day Twist On The Band That Was Highly Influential To Them, Dan Hicks And the Hot Licks

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John Doe & The Sadies

First Recorded By Patsy Cline In 1957 - Waylon Did it Nine Years Later And Haggard Three Years After That - Fast Forward Forty Years And Fine Reworking By John Doe And the Sadies

Cookie & the Cupcakes

Started Playing As The Boogie Ramblers In 1953, The Featured House Band At The Moulin Rouge Club In Lake Charles, LA - Toured with Jerry Lee Lewis And Fats Domino; Disbanding In 1965

Garmana

Founded, 1990 - Swedish Folk Rock Band Specializing In Mainly Old Scandinavian Ballads Played With Traditional Instruments

Nathan Kalish

New Tunes From Nathan's Latest Release Are Heard Here On 'YCE

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Surfer Joe And the Dreadrocks

Amsterdam BeatClub Is One Of The Prominent Organisations In The Netherlands For Promoting The Great 50's/60's Music. To Celebrate Fifteen Years Doing Just That Comes the Second Release In An Ongoing Series

Mulebone

Recorded In July During A Fourteen-Date Trip Through Michigan - Hugh Pool And John Ragusa Originally Formed In 1996 to Play A One-Time Festival On Nantucket island - Here, Mulebone Reworks Willie Cobbs (1960), Himself Adapting The Melody From A Bo Diddley Song

Rising Appalachia

Leah And Chloe Smith Bring A World Of Global Influences To Their Art Based Somewhere Between Southern appalachia And New Orleans

Pat Donohue

St. Paul, MN - National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion Songwriter, Performing On A Prairie Home Companion For Several Years

Leroy Dallas

Blues Spotlight: Born In Alabama, Leroy Dallas Travelled The South In The 30's And 40's, Teaming Up For A Time With Georgia Bluesman Frank Edwards, Sang On The Chicago Streets Before Relocating To New York City In 1943. The 1949 Recordings For Sittin' In With, Are In A Small Group Format With Brownie McGhee, and Big Chief Ellis; Bearing Little Sign Of Urbanization. 'Jump Little Children, Jump', Was a Favorite Among The Great Blues Shouters. By 1962, Leroy Dallas Had Ceased To Play Professionally; Passing On In 1967

Leroy Dallas

Blues Spotlight: December 24, 1909 Alabama - September ? 1967 New York

Steve Turre

'820' Jazz: Benny Green, Piano...Wynton Marsalis, Trumpet...Benny Golson, Tenor Sax...Billy Higgins, Drums...Andy Gonzalez, Bass...Steve Turre, Trombone

Charley Crockett

This Album Pays Tribute To Crockett's Busking Days, And Is Stocked With His Own Interpretations Of Old-School Country Songs And Half-Forgotten Blues Gems

Rhonda Vincent

Scheduled For The Milan Bluegrass Festival 8/3

Sons Of Ralph

Asheville, NC

Premo & Gustavsson

Jammie Award Honoree

Mike Seeger And Peggy Seeger

Appalachian Folk Song Passed Down Through Oral Tradition During The Early Part Of The 20th Century -

Dirk Powell

Considered One Of The World's Leading Experts On Traditional Appalachian Fiddle And Banjo Styles - Currently On Tour With Joan Baez